Power Poker Review

PowerPoker has only recently been launched but the combination of its general marketing approach and the fact that it accepts players from the EU as well as the US lends it huge potential.

PowerPoker’s software comes in a 12MB downloadable install kit. Download it, install it and you’ll remain perplexed. The room looks nothing like the other Cake network member sites. Its interface highly customized, it is a sleek mean-looking thing, with great graphics, colors and excellent stability even during large tournaments.

The software offers players a whole bunch of options to customize their cards, the able felt and just about anything they want to alter.

There’s a really neat option which allows you to color-code your opponents, depending on the level of threat they represent to your bankroll.

Being as new as it is, PowerPoker already gets a surprisingly high volume of traffic. There are about 9,000 players connected (that means both at the cash and the tournament tables) at peak hours. The low to medium limits attract the most interest, but the high stakes action is fairly healthy too. There’s $300/$600 NL action at several tables, quite often.

PowerPoker offers its players a rather generous bonus of 110% match on players’ first deposits, up to a maximum of $600. When you sign up and make your first deposit, the bonus lands in your pending bonus account. In order to unlock it, you’ll have to generate FPPs by playing in real money cash games or tournaments. If you play in a cash game, you’ll get 1FPP for every $1 the hand generates in rake.

For tournaments: you get 7 FPPs for every $1 you pay out in tournament fees.

You’ll have 90 days to redeem your PowerPoker bonus from the moment your bonus money lands in your pending bonus account.

Promotions-wise, PowerPoker is among the most interesting online poker rooms. There’s a gold cards and gold chips based loyalty program running, there’s a monthly $250,000 guaranteed event which takes the total money offered in guaranteed prize-pools per month to over $5 million.

In addition to all this, PowerPoker offers a Refer a Friend promotion and a regular rake races.

PowerPoker’s support is only reachable through email, but the response times are extremely small and the support staff is very efficient.

No Live chat or Phone support for the time being.