Reader Question: Playing at PokerRoom.com

Posted Nov 4th 2005 6:02PM by Joanne Lutynec
Filed under: Ask Card Squad, Online Games

'LordOdie' submitted this question:

I have been playing on pokerroom for a while now. When I read all the different blogs, I see mentions of lots of different sites, but never pokerroom. They seem to have more tourney's and players, but if all the 'pros' stay clear, should I too?

There isn’t really a simple answer for this. I started playing at PokerRoom years ago, but only for play money, I never deposited real cash there. I moved over to Ultimate Bet for a while, mostly just due to the promotions they were running at the time.

Eventually I started playing on PokerStars, and that is where I prefer to play now, though I have accounts at more than five other sites.

I checked this afternoon, and PokerRoom had 17,000 players currently at tables, PokerStars had 44,000, and PartyPoker had 55,000. That is a big difference when you are looking for game selection and tournament options.

I will throw this question out to the masses though. Where do you play, and why? If you avoid a certain site (like PokerRoom, for example) what are your reasons?

If you have a question of your own, please feel free to submit them in comments or through this link. It may take a few days for a response, but we will answer as many as possible.

(Thanks, LordOdie)

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1. I too started at the PokerRoom play money tables (and accumulated it to 250,000 play money chips). Then I moved over to Party Poker for real money. Ever since then, I have played at a couple of different sites. This is mostly due to being a bonus whore. The order in which I prefer to play them goes,

1) Full Tilt
2) Poker Stars
3) Ultimate Bet
4) Bodog
5) Crypto network (Will Hill, Littlewoods, Poker Plex, UKBet, Totalbet)

The places that I refuse to play at are...

1) iPoker network (Noble, Titan, Kiwi Casino, CD Poker) - I can't stand their software and their game selection is terrible
2) Old Party skins (Multipoker, Intertops, Eurobet, Empire) - AWFUL support and rock garden.
3) PokerRoom - highest rake and I abhor their software

And lastly, I am indefferent about Party Poker. They have one of the worst customer services available, but their games are just too juicy for me to refuse to play there.

Posted at 7:00PM on Nov 4th 2005 by Wes

2. I'd like to play at PokerRoom, but they tell me that because I'm from Sweden it would be against some unspecified law... Go figure.

Posted at 11:02PM on Nov 4th 2005 by Urban Nilsson

3. I've recently started playing at PokerRoom, and thus far, at least at the lower limits, haven't seen much difference in the skill level between it and the other "major" sites. I'd say that any site that has more than about 10,000 players online at any given time will have enough fishy players to make playing there profitable for a reasonably good player.

Posted at 9:47PM on Nov 4th 2005 by Rod

4. Well, I started to play with play money on party poker, but when I started to play for real cash I thought I should head elsewhere (mostly due to bonus promotions at the time), so that's when I started to play with PokerStars and Titan Poker.

I already thought about getting more accounts with the likes of Full Tilt and/or UltimateBet, but I just don't have the money for holding up so many accounts ;-)

Posted at 6:27AM on Nov 5th 2005 by Ingoal

5. The advantage that pokerroom has over the other sites is that you can plan on Linux or Mac OS X through the java client. Last time I checked the other major sites only supported Windows.

Posted at 4:33PM on Nov 5th 2005 by Jamin Gray

Reader Question: Playing at PokerRoom.com

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