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COMISIÓN DE OPERATIVA DE MERCADOS Y SISTEMAS
You can’t go wrong if you select a poker site that has been in business for several years, uses established and accredited gaming software interfaces and has a record of paying big winners in a timely manner. We are not affiliated with any casino or group of casinos but being objective can be difficult. There are thousands of casinos with mew ones opening every day. Great player interfaces are a real attraction for players but in the end, if the casino doesn’t offer a multitude of tables and traffic and doesn’t pay off bets quickly, what’s the point?
Here is a list of casinos that have been in business for several years and are recognized widely as being fair and professional.
Party Poker
Party Poker is now the world’s largest online poker room. We have seen over 40,000 players online playing recently and the number is growing every day. The daily average of real money players is around 10,000. Party is presented by the same people that brought you CardPlayer Cruises, including Mike Sexton. They have a big multi‐table tournament every year called the Party Poker Million.
The rake at this site is stock standard ‐ 5 per cent capped at $3 for medium limit games. For lower limit games, a max of $1 for $1/$2 games and 50 cents for $0.5/$1 games is taken out of the pot. On high limit games Party Poker offers good value with significantly less than 5 per cent taken out of each pot. One feature missing that we would like to see is the % pre‐flop. The site does present the
average pot for the last 20 hands. The Customer Service at this site is first class and very professional.
Paradise Poker
Billed accurately as the ʺWorldʹs Premier Online Card roomʺ, Paradise offers the standard variety of games, including several tournaments. The site features lots of action every day of the week. Paradise has an excellent game interface with little extras that make things interesting. If you are concerned about security and credibility, Paradise posts card‐shuffling reviews by Price‐ waterhouse Coopers (the worldʹs largest professional services firm) on their site.
Ultimate Bet
UltimateBet features up to 7500 players playing during peak times, about 4000 structured games. Percentage pre‐flop’s can be found above 45% on regular occasions, which leads to good average pots. The games at Ultimate Bet can be quite profitable to the skilled player, particularly in games with $2/$5 and $1/$3 limits. Ultimate Bet has the backing of a number of big players including: Phil Hellmuth, Annie Duke, and Russ Hamilton.
Planet Poker
Planet Poker is one of the oldest online poker establishments (1998) and is endorsed by Mike Caro, a leading poker authority. Planet Poker is a medium to large poker site in terms of traffic (he site can have up to 500 people online at peak times). There is never trouble getting a game in your limit in Holdʹem. The rake is 5% capped at $3, but the actual rake taken for various limits and pots sizes varies due to rounding but is quite fair. Recent
software upgrades have made Planet Poker software much faster, more reliable and more pleasant to the eye than it use to be.
Jackpot Palace Casino
Jackpot Palace Casino uses software designed by Boss Media, the leading Internet casino software developer and provider. Boss Media started in spring 1997, since then the company has grown considerably, and by the end of 2003, the Group had just over 120 employees. The companyʹs head office is in Växjö, in southern Sweden. InterCasino Poker InterCasino has been operating since 1996 and has been voted Best Online Casino 2001 and 2002 by Top20 Casinos and Best Casino 2003. by Gambling Online Magazine. InterCasino has some of the highest limits on the net. Players can play real money games for $100/$200 in any of the currencies. For the smaller limit players $1/$2 games are the smallest that customers can play. Rake percentages are tough to discern ‐ about 25 cents on every $5 until the pot reaches $60, which is not particularly attractive. The site generally has from between 100 to 500 players playing and this number is likely to grow as the site becomes better known. Game play is excellent and the graphics are top‐notch. This site is one of the few sites that has voice options. Note: probably the fastest games on the net.
OmniCasino
One of the best casinos on the net. Licensed since November, 1997 in Curacao and audited by Pricewaterhouse. Gambling Online
magazine voted OmniCasino as Top Casino 2003 Honorable Mention and ʺBest Rewardsʺ and ʺQuickest Payoutsʺ three years in a row from 2001‐2‐‐3. They also won Casino Player Magazineʹs ʺBest Payout / E‐Cash Programʺ by readers themselves. One of the best features of Omni Casino is their COMP Program ‐ undeniably the best COMP Program in the business. It was voted ʺBest Rewards Programʺ for 2003 by the readers of Gambling Online Magazine. Poker Room Poker Room.com is one of the few sites that doesn’t require you to download their software. They use JAVA technology so you can get playing right away. The software runs very smoothly although JAVA style software does not have the gloss of its downloadable counterpart. Extra features that Poker Room offer include expected value statistics, whereby you can type in a starting hand and the software calculates the historical expected value of that hand over 6 million real time playing hands. The top 50 all time winners are given at the web site so you can avoid getting in a game with these players. Percentage pre‐flop games of above 40% are easy to find. The site can have upwards 100 to 800 real money players online. Tends to have many loose games.
Empire Poker
Another feature that is missing from this site is the % pre‐flop. However, the site does present the average pot for the last 20 hands, which is useful. Typically the games are first class here, with juicy average pots for all limits. For example it is common to see average pots for $3/$6 games over $40 and for $5/10 games over $70. The Customer Service at this site is first class and very