Pokerroom.com Review

PokerRoom.com Member Of Global Gambling Guidance Group

PokerRoom.com, a member of Global Gambling Guidance Group, first eCOGRA certified, is managed and operated by the famous Ongame Group having other renowned gambling sites under its folder as well like HoldemPoker, Holywood Poker and CasinoRoom.com which are managed by its sister concern. Ongame has headquarter in Sweden and generates annual revenue over 1 billion US dollars. It is also member of Australia based PokerNetwork, a well-known name in gambling world. Poker Room is working under the license of Canadian based authority, Kahnawake Gaming Commission. Being certified by eCOGRA PokerRoom.com is responsible to comply with eCOGRA's strict standards i.e. providing fair poker games, operating in an honest and responsible way and providing safe and secured financial deposits and timely payouts to players.

PokerRoom.com Software and Games plus Purchasing

PokerRoom.com is available to download in Flash modes and can be played on Mac and cell phones as well. The non-download version is available for Windows operating systems, Linux and Mac only whereas download version is available for Windows 98, 2000, XP and Me. Previous versions of Windows e.g. NT are not compatible with the download version. For cell phones, poker and blackjack can be played in the "Play Money" mode.

There is a tutorial available giving detail about navigating and downloading the software.
PokerRoom.com has a popular forum called POKAH in which players can create their own profile, chat with other players. Players also have the facility to use a search tool to check the status of their friends being logged into the software at that time.

Purchase

The Purchase is the amount of chips that a player needs to have when joining a table. Pot Limit and No Limit games have both minimum and maximum buy-ins which varies for different tables.

Poker Tutorial

Poker Room tutorial gives comprehensive guidelines for each player through which they come across the rules and methods of playing games on this site. Players have privileged to submit their own articles for approval to be published.

PokerRoom.com Secuity & Safety

Transactions made at PokerRoom.com are safe and secured by using Thawte Secure Socket Layer (SSL) Protocol. PokerRoom.com promises to have a responsible gaming policy that provides protections against underage and problem gambling, and also saves players with anti-collusion and unfair software protocols through IP address checking system. If any player is found guilty of cheating and fraud then he will be banned from the sites.

PokerRoom.com Deposit Bonus and Promotions

The best promotion activity found on the site is the first time deposit bonus giving players 20% extra of their initial deposit amount, up to $100 Free. Reload Bonuses are also given to returning players by simply subscribing to PokerRoom.com's newsletter. Refer-a-Friend bonuses scheme also gives $24 free to referrals and $50 free to referees. Players need to have a required amount of Player Points in order to cash out Bonuses. For the first time deposit bonus, $1 equals to 7 player points and for the reload bonuses, 1$ equals to 10 player points. For the refer-a-friend bonus, it needs 150 Player Points for both the referred player and the one making the referral to cash out the bonus. In addition, some other promotions include World Series of Poker qualifiers, races, Ongame sponsored tournaments, free spots to weekly welcome series tournaments, "Winner Takes All" daily tournaments etc.

PokerRoom.com Online Cashier

Players can access their funds by using a variety of services which suits them such as

• Click2Pay
• Debit and Credit Card
• EWallet Xpress
• ePassporte
• NETeller
• MoneyBookers
• FirePay
• InstaCash
• 900Pay and cash transfers.

Website provides the full details and guideline for opening accounts. After registering with the poker room, players can upgrade their account to a real-money account free of charge but with some deposit limits depending on the deposit method used. FirePay, MasterCard and Visa deposits are limited to $1,000 a day and $2,500 a week, while NETeller and Moneybookers have no deposit limits.

Gambling Structures, Rake Policy & Tournament Entry Fees

There is a minimum stake required for the first two betting rounds and the maximum stake for the last two betting rounds and a maximum combination of 4 bets and raises can be played in a single round which would amount to a bet, raise, re-raise and cap. For No Limit games, a bet or raise should be the higher value of either the minimum stake or last bet played with no limits to the number of raises in each round. Pot Limit games are played in the same way except that a bet or raise may not be higher than the value of the pot along with all bets at the table. The Tournament Entry Fees is generally not more than 10% the buy-in amount.

Online Support - Customer Services

Although PokerRoom.com provides a comprehensive guidelines in the website but still they like the customer to contact them in case of any difficulty or queries they make. Several customer support options are available such as the option of submitting an email through the internal mail server on the website.

Regular emails can be sent to support@pokerroom.com, while inquiries to the cashier can be sent to cashier@ pokerroom.com . Customer support team is always present once a player is log into web site.

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