888Poker - On-line Poker Room Review

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Overview

888 is one of the fastest growing online poker sites on the market. A recent major software upgrade has put them alongside the industry leaders and they are now ranked as one of the top 5 poker rooms in the world.

Rating: 35/50

Software

The lobby is easy to navigate with a really user friendly 'Favourites' tab. The filters in the lobby are slightly basic, rendering it hard to filter out unwanted games/stakes which wastes time looking for the games you want to play. The table software is excellent, user friendly and very clear for the user to operate. Multi-tabling is also quite simple with a queuing system, but this won't always work as well since it does on other poker sites.

Rating: 8/10

Customer support

The customer service is very good with 'Live Chat' in operation therefore you don't have to wait ages for an email response. Email is also available with standard reply times.

Rating: 9/10

Tournament Schedule

Their tournament schedule is good with mixed buy-ins that start regularly and they use synchronized breaks which supports multi-siting. Their Sit n Go's usually takes a while to fill up, especially at medium stakes and above. The poor standard of play definitely makes up for the little extra wait though. Their big weekly tournament is a $100, 000GTD 1 rebuy game with a $90 buy-in and an $82 re-buy available.

Rating: 8/10

Cash Game Traffic

Cash game traffic has much improved recently and they now offer webcam tables so you can not only play your opponents, but see them too, making it the absolute most real poker experience yet. They offer the most common wide selection of stakes but the large percentage of traffic is micro stakes with very few games running at high stakes.

Rating: 7/10

Rake

The rake is the only real downside to 888poker. Their cash rake is capped at $4 which is $1 above the industry standard so playing at 888poker is more expensive, however the lack of good players as a result of this reason accocunts for for that. Their Sit n Go rake is also slightly on the high side but 888poker remains a good site to play on also to make money on.

Rating: 3/10

Recommended Game

Multi-Table Tournaments

Games Offered

Texas Hold'em

Omaha

Omaha Hi/Lo

Seven Card Stud

Seven Card Hi/Lo

No Limit/Pot Limit Games

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