Pacific Poker Review

Pacific Poker belongs to the prestigious 888.com, the group behind the oldest online casino, Casino on Net. Pacific Poker offers a great software-package, some of the juiciest Holdem games online, great no download software for Linux and Mac compatibility and excellent promotions as well as satellites to big live events. On the downside, it does not accept US players and it doesn’t really feature enough action on non-Holdem tables.

Pacific poker is not part of any poker network. It is a standalone operation, using software developed in-house. The Pacific Poker software used to be a reasonably good one in the past, but several relatively recent updates have turned it into an industry leader. The graphics are superb and gameplay is smooth at all times. The software is available in a downloadable and a non-download format as well.

Multi tabling is only available at 4 tables unfortunately, but that should be more than enough for your everyday low limit grinder.

Software download size is 15.4 MB, so it should give you no problem download speed-wise.

Pacific Poker gets decent traffic. At the cash tables there are around 2,000 players at peak hours. Almost all of this traffic is focused on the Holdem tables though, with the Omaha and Stud ones only getting by on some residual traffic.

There are around 8,000 players at the tournament tables though, which makes for geat tournament action on almost all buy-in levels.

Pacific Poker has adopted a relatively unique sign-up bonus scheme. Newly signed up players receive a 25% match on their deposits upfront. This 25% goes up to a maximum of $100 and goes into players’ real money accounts right away. The remaining 75% is pending bonus. This 75% match has a maximum limit of $300. In order to redeem this bonus and to have it transferred to your real money account, you need to generate Bonus Points. You needs exactly 10 BPs for every bonus dollar.

The bonus is unlocked in $20 batches and there’s a live progress bar above your table which shows exactly where you stand as far as your bonus is concerned.

Pacific Poker’s promotion offer includes a Freeroll for first depositors. Players need to make a real money deposit and you’ll gain entry to no fewer than 7 daily $500 first depositors’ freerolls. That’s a total prize-pool of $3,500.

The frequent Player Point based loyalty system offers players alternative ways to make money.

There’s always some sort of bounty promotion running and players will be able to match poker skills with some A-list celebrities and professional poker players.

Pacific Poker also offers its players a whole range of online qualifiers for some of the most sought-after live events out there.

Pacific Poker’s support can be reached through email (response times are generally good) through phone or via live chat.