Pacific Poker Review

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Summary (7.48)

Due to US legislation to prevent credit-card companies from collecting payments for bets, Pacific Poker has determined to suspend all their real money gaming business with US residents.

Pacific Poker has become the favorite poker room for many Texas Hold'em players looking for very juicy high-action tables and frequent promotions. The No-Limit and Pot-Limit cash games are strongly recommended for players looking to have a good chance at winning. There are also many special promotions such as money added and freerolls.

Pacific Poker is part of the 888 group - the company behind the world's largest casino, Casino-on-Net - so there are many wild casino customers at the tables! At the Limit Hold'em games on Pacific Poker, the view flop percentage in full, ring games often is in the 60s and 70s - sometimes even up in the 80s! In addition, No-Limit games are also among the juiciest and loosest online.

The action and promotions are great, even though the Pacific Poker player base has taken a very heavy hit by losing almost 50% of their active players since the U.S. passed online gambling legislation. Real-money player statistics for Pacific Poker show 1,300-1,800 ring-game players at peak hours and 7,000-9,500 tournament players at peak hours.

Ring Game Traffic (6)

The traffic at Pacific Poker is good, but it is somewhat concentrated to fixed-limit Hold'em ring games and Hold'em tournaments. There are typically 1,300-1,800 players at peak hours, the largest portion of which plays in Hold'em ring games and tournaments. Most of the other traffic is in Omaha Hi-Lo and Seven-Card Stud Hi. In all, Pacific Poker is a site with decent traffic for the most popular games.

Game variety (7)

Pacific Poker has first-rate game variety. There is No-Limit and Limit Hold'em, Omaha Hi and Hi/Lo and Seven-Card stud Hi and Hi/Lo action at the poker room. There is also a good selection of tables offering heads-up play and six-, nine- and 10-handed games. There are micro-limit tables down to $0.05/$0.10 and the max limit at any table is $75/$150.

Soft competition (10)

Probably the most juicy games online! But the good-old crazy 85% view flop percentages at $15/$30 tables is down to maybe 65-70% in best case. Thanks to Casino-on-Net's operations, there are a lot of less experienced poker players, often with a sweet tooth for gambling... At peak hours you typically find one or two full ring games (10 players) with a view flop percentage in the 50-ies or 60-ies. If you are looking to make a profit the Omaha Hi-Lo tables are very good as well.

Loyalty bonus (7)

Every $10 bet on raked hands earns you 1 Bonus Point, 100 Bonus Points can be converted to $1. Whenever you play at Pacific Poker your comp points accumulate automatically. Each and every bet you place on raked hands, adds more points to your Comp Account. These points can be converted into cash and added to your Poker Bankroll anytime. Also you get a $50 bonus for each referred friend and the referral gets $25.

Support (9)

Great response times at the email support as well as live chat and phone.

24/7 support: Yes
Support Features: Email, Phone, Chat
Email confirmation/receipt: Yes
Speed: Fast
Knowledge: Ok
Avg. NETeller pay out time: 1-3 business days
Withdrawal smoothness: 70%

Deposit & withdrawal options (8)

Promt cash outs and no fees. Very secure transactions.
Deposit options:
VISA, MasterCard, NETeller, Citadel, FirePay, Wire Transfer, bank transfer, PaySafeC. Minimum deposit is $30.

Withdrawal options: NETeller, Wire Transfer (direct Bank Account Transfer) and Bank Draft (Cashier's Check). Withdrawels are paused for 3 days before processing and after you try to withdraw $5,000 in a month you need to verify your identity. At the $10,000 in a month mark you need to submit notarized documents.