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These days there are literally hundreds of poker rooms operating in the market and as a new player it can be really confusing deciding on a poker room that’s both reputable and offers good value for players. Because of this, we always suggest doing some research about a poker room before signing up and risking any money on the site. One of the best ways to do this is by reading online poker reviews that give you a snapshot of the poker room and some information on what you expect as a player. This page lists various poker room reviews as well as explanations on different criteria that we look at when evaluating and ranking different poker site operators.
Poker Review Criteria
Below are the criteria that we cover in all of our poker room reviews and combined they are meant to give you an honest overview of what you can expect from each poker room. This criteria is updated occasionally as we find new metrics for evaluating the poker sites and publish new methods of keeping our visitors apprised of new features.
Site Background: The first thing we look at with any site is their history and background in the market including how long they’ve been in operation, any outstanding issues with the site and a general overview of their history since inception. This section is meant to introduce you to the poker site and give you a general idea of its quality so that you can make an accurate judgement as to whether the site suits your needs or not.
Sign Up Bonus: The next section in our reviews talks about the sign up bonus offered by the room to new players. Playing online is beneficial since it’s a very competitive market and operators tend to offer substantial bonuses as incentives for players to join their poker room over another. The sign up bonus section of our reviews talks about the amount of the bonus as well as what’s required to clear it into your real money account.
Other Important factors
Game Selection & Competition: Another factor that’s included in our reviews is the selection of games available and the general competition level at the sites. For games, depending on your preferences there may be specific sites that are better than others offering a wider selection of limits and online poker real money games. When it comes to competition, you’ll want to know how difficult a site is and this section covers that aspect of the sites.
Tournaments: Tournament selection is a huge factor for players and all of the big sites have hundreds of tournaments running each day including regular buy-ins, sit n go’s, guaranteed prize pools and many more. This portion of reviews highlights the major events that happen at the poker room each week and is a good indicator of tournament quality if that factor is important to you. If you are a serious tournament player it’s usually best to stick to the sites that have the most traffic since they are able to offer bigger and more frequent tournaments.
Depositing & Withdrawing: The last section that we cover in our poker reviews is the banking methods for depositing and withdrawing from the sites. While this isn’t a huge concern for European players, North American players will need to take this into consideration since some sites will not offer friendly deposit options. Because of this, we highlight the accepting deposit and withdrawal methods available for each operator.
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