27th November 2008, 12:00 am
At www.coralpocker.com, your first time deposit bonus is chosen by you as the player. This may sound great, but there is of course a catch, in that you must clear the amount of points necessary for your bonus to be activated. This is available up to an amount of $600. Reload bonuses are also on offer, and can be as much as $100 per month.
Satellites are running currently, giving players the chance to plot their path to a seat in the Aussie Millions 2009 event, which is something the serious poker players might be very interested in. The same applies to the Prague EPT event, which you can also win a seat to with Coral Poker.
As usual,coralpocker.com poker have their monthly $10,000 ‘Guest List’ freeroll running, with a new set of ways to win your seat whilst playing onsite.
Coral Poker offer a very good variety of games, with Stud, Omaha, Holdem, and Five Card Draw all being on offer here, which should ensure even those who are not overly keen on Holdem will be happy enough. If you are thinking of experimenting with new games onsite there are help sections offering advice and rules on how to play these games. Generally, I think Coral Poker should offer more diverse promotions, but for the most part they have a very reliable and decent poker room to play your poker at.
13th November 2008, 12:00 am
www.pacificpocker.com - Personally, it is my belief that playing with a regular group of people is better for your development as a player, than playing with different ones every week. Part of the reason for this, is that when you play with the same group of players, you will learn their individual styles of play over time if you pay attention. Once you have done this, most players tend to start thinking carefully about how they can outplay these specific types of players.
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In short, they adapt their play, and they experiment with new plays depending on the type of opponent they face. If however, you play against different people all the time, you can play your own style of play all the time and perhaps do quite well. Textbook poker can carry you far in this regard, but once you start sitting down with the same skilled players on a regular basis, you need to develop new sides to your game, or you will not succeed.
Of course there is a flip side to all this, and that is the point that if you play with the same group of people all the time, and never play against new players, your game can only improve so far. There will of course be a point where you could gain more benefits to your development by playing different players too.
I feel that to gain the greatest benefit to your play, you should have a regular game perhaps once or twice a week, and play online games when you have some time too, ensuring you have a balance of different players and type of game.
6th November 2008, 12:00 am
The first time deposit bonus at virginpocker stands at a decent amount of 100% in addition to the initial deposit which is around average for most poker rooms. The player traffic seems reasonably good also with tables looking quite full around peak hours.
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Help and Support runs twenty four hours a day and looks good, and there is a section on the homepage called ‘getting started’ which provides detailed instructions to new players onsite. Additional sections for the beginner can also be found, explaining the rules and regulations of the games onsite.
The points system in place here involves the earning of ‘V-ponts’ there is also a league for the players who earn the most points each month with cash prizes being paid out to these fortunate few. There are also freerolls going on at virginpocker.com to help the smaller bankrolls growth.
Also running is a ‘Beat the Bubble’ promotion where Virgin gives back the buy in of a player who bubbes in any guaranteed tournament.
The lobby at Virgin is eays enough to navigate and it appears fairly simple to use, as do the action buttons at the tables. I like the card designs myself although the table designs and backgrounds look plain in design and a bit loud colour wise. There are no U.S player at Virgin pocker which is not the fault of the site of course, and overall I think Virgin poker is reasonable in terms of what it offers. There are areas which can of course improve, but on the whole, fairly good.