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Absolute Poker Room Review

Basic Information

Attractive Features

Parent Company : Absolute Poker		Six Table Play

Country : Canada		Hot key buttons (Shortcut keys)

Established : 2003		Transfer cash between players

Software : Download free		Multi-table and private tournaments

Software size :4.68 Mb		Absolute Poker merchandise and poker products

Auditor : PWC		Statistical information is available

e-mail: support@AbsolutePoker.com		Create and upload an Absolute Poker Avatar image

Software and Graphics

Absolute Poker Room is supported with good software. On just gets the feeling that it looks fairly similar to that Empire Poker. The graphics are simple and attractive, and also the applications are pretty good. The table layouts are something exclusive for facilitating a good online poker experience. Poker seems to be particularly, resistant against the disconnection problems. However, the sound factor needs a bit of concern. Signup Now

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Games and Tournament Traffic

Financial security

Game variety

The game variety here is quite good. You can choose between Texas Holdem, Omaha High, Omaha Hi/Lo, Seven Card Stud, Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo. However, all of the action is mostly focused on the Texas Hold'em tables.

Tournament traffic

The tournaments at Absolute Poker attract quite a number of players. During peak time the number of players playing ranges between 4,000-5000 players.

Absolute Poker is very much secure in terms of financial security. It has a proven track record which creates confidence amongst the players. Since this is an online poker room with good reputation and having players in large numbers, rightly so, it has the fraud detection systems to spot all the deceptions.

Advantages

Disadvantages

Superb graphics and features
Various sized ring games
Supports note taking and hand history
Many promotions and loyalty programs
Find-a-player feature
Re-load bonus every week

Less high stakes games
Focused more on the Texas Hold'em tables
No live or telephone support
Less traffic

Brief review of Absolute Poker Room

Overview

Absolute Poker is relatively new to the Poker world. But, it was quick to establish and gain good reputation as reliable and trustworthy poker room. In fact, this room is considered to be one of the best poker rooms in today’s business in terms of giving bonuses, loyalty rewards to the players.

There are some great promotions for the players, good bonuses, and also some integrated loyalty bonus campaigns. The software is decent as you would expect, being a part of poker network. The traffic here is a bit on the lower side, but even then, it has a good traffic and is reckoned to be as one of the most promising poker rooms. Signup Now

Some games are anchored by Mark Seif, a seasoned poker pro, enabling the players the opportunity to pitch their skills and enhance their poker knowledge. It is also heading the tournaments in the right way. Nevertheless, it probably needs to focus a bit more on the game type besides Hold'em.

Tournament Types

The tournament variety is not great, but good enough to draw in many players attention. Absolute Poker has wide range of sit 'N' go tournaments, multi table tournaments and many more. The games include the Texas Hold'em, Omaha Hi/Lo, 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo, and also the exclusive WSOP tournaments with some great freerolls.

Game Information

This Poker revolves around the traditional competitions like the Texas Hold'em and tournaments of different kinds. Additionally, Hold'em games also include the Omaha, Omaha Hi/Lo, 7 Stud Card Hi/Lo, heads-ups etc. Fixed Limit is specifically found in Texas Hold'em, since it has a great variety.

Competition

The competition here is on the easier side and most of the traffic is in the micro-limits. The view flop percentage is in the range of 50% and 60%. This effectively means that the games are action packed and winnable games are available for the small stakes player. The games are on the tighter side for $2/$4 limit games and the view flop percentage is around 30% or less for these games. Simply because the games are easier you will also find a lot of professional players who regularly check out the new game in the market. Signup Now

Sign-up bonus

There are some good bonuses this rooms supports. There is an initial deposit bonus of 200% for using this room’s bonus code. Also it hosts the super bonus offer, which under normal days would go beyond the current promotions or bonus offer. Once the deposit is made, the calculations would be made as to how much you are entitled to receive, and how far you have made it to your bonus payout. For every $10, there’s a requirement of 100 Absolute Reward Points (ARP), and to avail one, you need to rake a minimum of $0.25 in $2/$4.

Loyalty bonus

Exciting loyalty bonus offers awaits all the players at the Absolute Poker Room. A player is entitled for Absolute Reward Points, otherwise called as ARP, which would depend on the stakes and rake backs you accumulate. To avail one point, you need to play at least with a limit of $2/$4 or lower, and not less than $0.25 rake collected. 2 ARP's can be had from $3/$6, and with a minimum of $0.25 rake collected. What’s more all these points can be used as freerolls for special and exclusive tournaments, they can also be redeemed for caps, t-shirts and other apparels. After laying nearly 500 raked hands, you could get an Absolute Reward Card via e-mail, where this card would facilitate you with VIP class category at this room’s live tournaments.

Fish

At Absolute Poker, you will find a lot of professional players who regularly check out the new game in the market. This tends to make competition easier in the small limit tables where the View Flop Percentage is more than 50%. However, the pot increases when the stakes increase and the competition becomes stiff. The players are not tight rather they tend to be timid. You can always take advantage of timid players. With any kind of hand you should try to raise from late position if they won't play back. You can get out of the hand if they suddenly re-raise you while playing tight. You should be careful of the potential draws and make your opponents pay if they're going to play them.

Ring game traffic

At Absolute Poker, the traffic has not reached its zenith but during peak hours, the ring game traffic attracts approximately 2,200-2,500 real players and Texas Holdem attracts maximum number of players. Signup Now

Customer and Technical Support

At Absolute Poker, there is no online and telephone support and so the customer service is only via e-mail. They have different mail ids for different kinds of problems and will, in most cases, respond quickly.

Promotions

Absolute Poker comes up trumps when it comes to promotions. You can win a trip for 2 to Costa Rica, including airfare, accommodations for 6 nights, Absolute Poker apparel, and $500 spending money if you are active on the site on the day the 300 millionth hand is dealt. They also offer pretty cool internship opportunities and have three internship spots available every quarter, starting this summer 2006. You can invite your friends to the college tournaments for the Rep-for-a-Day program. You have them register an account and enter your email address in the ‘referred by’ field, and for each friend that signs up and plays they will pay you $5.

If in any real money ring game you hold the Royal Flush you will become a part of Royal Flush Members and will be added to the Hall of Fame and receive a members only t-shirt commemorating the feat. Apart from this, you can use your Absolute Rewards Points for all kinds of top quality Absolute Poker merchandise and poker products. There are several loyalty bonus campaigns available at room. To start with, there is refer a friend bonus, where-in you would be entitled to receive $100 upon referring your friend. This amount would be directly credited in your account after a successful referral.

In order to avail such referral, your friend must deposit a minimum of $50 or more and play at least 100 raked hands. Secondly, there’s also a NETeller bonus, where you could get $10 extra to your account when you make a NETeller deposit or reload. Furthermore, there are also exciting freerolls, like WSOP freeroll etc

Cash-outs

The cash out options available are NETeller, FirePay, and Check.

Deposit facility

There are several deposit options like the Credit Card, NETeller, FirePay, CentralCoin, Electronic Check, etc.

Stakes

Absolute Poker is known for micro-limit tables, which is good for beginners wanting not to loose a lot of money initially. Absolute Poker offers a variety of real-money online poker games at limits ranging from 0.02/$0.04 to $75/$150.

Rake

Generally for Pot limit and NL, when the players are 2 to 3, then in such case, the rake would be around $0.05 and the maximum can be up to $1.00. But if the players are around 4 to 5, then the rake would be around $0.05 for every player, to a maximum of $2.00. Similarly, if the case is 6 players or more, then the rake is around $0.05 to a maximum of $3.00.

Suggestions

Normally, you will find loose games at small stake tables but invariably at times you will be playing against a table full of tight opponents. You need to pay attention to the cards they show down. You can safely fold your average hands against their raise if their hands are strong. Tight players will be observing you closely and so you should play in an unpredictable manner. For example, try raising with drawing hands like suited connectors at times. You will find lot of information before you decide which table to sit and play. Always check the view flop percentage and the average pot. It is normally seen that the flop occurs after several raises in case of low flop percentages and high pots. On the other hand, if the flop percentage runs into 50’s and 60’s and pots are small i.e. They are 25 to 30 times the Big Blind, you'll usually run into a lot of flops. Signup Now

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