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Fair Poker Room Review

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Fair Poker Room Review

Basic Information

Attractive Features

Parent Company : Intercontinental Online Gaming Ltd		3-Card Poker and Deuces Wild and Aces and Faces Video Poker

Country : Canada		Play Blackjack, Live chat support

Established : 2004		Buddy List

Software : Download free		Attractive promotions

Software size :223 KB		iPoints (Coming soon)

Auditor : PWC		Private tables

e-mail: support@fairpoker.com		Extremely small stakes tables

Software and Graphics

The software for Fair Poker Room is powered by PlayTech, which is one of the pioneers in on-line gaming. The software is instinctive, simple and also user-friendly. It is easy-to-use and the graphics are decent.
Another impressive aspect is that Fair Poker is the world's first and only poker site offering both popular viewing modes like the 'Birds Eye' top view and also the 3D side-view featuring animated. Its new multi-tabling application facilitates the players to watch around seven tables at a time. The option of hand history also allows for a more in-depth analysis for your play. Signup Now

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Games and Tournament Traffic

Financial security

Game varietyTalking about the game variety, it is really good and can be said that it is unlimited. Having said that, there are no Holdem games, and hence you need to be a bit cautious before getting here. However, they offer various tourneys with low buy-ins.

Tournament traffic
They offer good variety of tournaments but still the tournament traffic is average unless it is a large event. The traffic at the tournaments ranges between 2100-2600 players during peak hours.

Fair Poker is supported by one of most trusted names in the poker industry and so it should be very secure. They use true random number generators to ensure total game integrity and provide real-time on demand transaction and game histories. They secure and protect the privacy of all players with 128-bit SSL technology.

Advantages

Disadvantages

USD, GBP, and EUR currencies supported
Friend search feature
Full screen option
Real-time transaction history
Great number of tournaments
Bad Beat Jackpot bonus
Excellent customer support
Loose games

Limited number of high stakes games
Less traffic in high stake games
Slightly higher rake

Brief review of Fair Poker

Overview

Intercontinental Online Gaming Ltd, which is a very reputed name in the gaming industry, operates Fair Poker. The Government of Antigua regulates the fully licensed poker room Fair Poker. Fair Poker use software created by PlayTech software. The software is pretty good and offers above average features. They offer good mix of games and also provide basic rules to play them. Lot of tournaments to select and play on this site and promotions are extremely good. They have guaranteed prize tournaments, which are the attraction of the weekend. The players are average. The traffic is increasing, which till now has been hovering around 7000 players including tournament and ring games. Signup Now

Game variety

Fair Poker offers very less game variety. They have only Texas Holdem, Omaha, and Omaha Hi-Lo games to offer. All the games are offered in fixed-limit and pot-limit versions and Texas Holdem is available in no-limit version also. To make it interesting they have additional games including Blackjack, Poker Three, Aces & Faces and Deuces Wild.

Tournament Types

They offer average selection of tournaments. Fair Poker offers the following tournaments.

Single Table Tournaments - STT
Multi Table Tournaments - MTT
Satellite Tournaments

They also offer Weekly Guaranteed Prize Tournament. Most of the tournaments come with low buy-ins although they all have guaranteed prize pools.

Game Information

For players, Fair Poker offers average information for beginners and novices to learn. They list rules of all the games offered and some additional information. The site has a Glossary section and also provides the rank of hands with examples. On the flip side, they do not have the option of playing poker for free. They do not have audio or video library of poker lessons. Signup Now

Competition

Due to the traffic that Fair Poker receives from the parent company’s network the competition is quite soft. Not many high stakes games are available here and so if you are looking to make good profits, this is not the place. The view flop percentage at Fair Poker hovers between 40% and 60%.

Sign-up bonus

First deposit bonus offered at Fair Poker is 50% up to a maximum of $200. You need to earn Fair Poker Coins at ring games and tournaments in order to claim your first deposit bonus. Fair Poker will award “Coins” to you for playing in ring games for each hand in which you participate, as long as the hand is raked. Doesn’t make any difference, whether you have added to the pot or you have folded. In the end, it makes no value. But coming to the ring games, if the rake taken for each hand is $0.5 to $0.25, there’s every chance that you get 1 coin for each participating hand. Nevertheless, for every $1 paid, you would be eligible for 20 Coins, which would be given to you at tournaments.

Loyalty bonus

Fair Poker has introduced a unique frequent player points program known as the Fair Poker Coins. You can earn Fair Poker Coins at ring games depending on the rake that Fair Poker earns during each hand. You will, for example, receive 1 Coin if $0.50 is recovered in rake at a hand. This is irrespective of whether you contributed to the pot by placing a blind or a bet, or whether they folded. If Fair Poker recovers $3, which is the maximum rake, all the participating players receive 8 Coins. The good thing is that you can earn Fair Poker Coins for playing in tournaments also. Fair Poker gives 20 Coins for every $1 generated in tournament fee. They automatically give $10 for every 500 points earned. Signup Now

Fish

Since the site is promoted by one of biggest names in the online gaming industry, do not assume that most of the players would know a lot of things about poker. The truth is that only a few of them do. The ring games at Fair Poker are pretty soft. You will witness a lot of draws, weak hands, and less knowledgeable players. The game play at no-limit ring games is aggressive. So, from early position don't try to jump into a lot of pots. You might realize that for a flop you ended up folding or paying more than you wanted to.

Customer and Technical Support

Fair Poker provides email and telephone support along with chat with customer representatives. The response is pretty quick for emails.

Promotions

The promotions are a major attraction at Fair Poker. They have a special Weekly $25,000 Guaranteed tournament and you can participate in it in several ways. The buy-in is for $100+$9. The prize money for the other weekly guaranteed prize tournament is worth $7500, which is played at 16:00 every Saturday. The entry to the tournament stands at $30+$1.5 buy in and you be allowed 3 re-buys. If you are the winner of $2 + 0.40 "Dirty Dozen - Jackpot Sit ‘n’ Go" tournaments for four consecutive times, Fair Poker will give $2000 prize money. If you win the $5+$0.50 "Maui - Jackpot Sit 'N' Go" tournaments for 5 times on a trot, you can win the $15,000 Jackpot Prize.

Cash-outs

The cash-out options include NETeller, bank draft, FirePay, Moneybookers, wire transfer, Click2pay, EcoCard, and InstaDebit.

Deposit facility

The deposit options include NETeller, credit card, InstaCash, Moneybooker, Ondemandfunds, and FirePay.

Stakes

Stakes offered in the Fixed Limit are $.02-.04 up to 10/20. For No-Limit/Pot-Limit the stakes offered are $.01-.02 up to 10/20.

Rake

The rake at Fair Poker is around the industry average. They follow the "No Flop - No Drop" policy for hands not reaching the flop and do not charge any rake for micro-limit tables. The rake starts from $0.25/$0.50 games and the rake charge is $0.05 for every $1 up to a maximum of $3.

Suggestions

Most of the players at Fair Poker are from the mother company’s network. The style of their play is soft and they flop out at every second possibility available. You should stick to your own style of play. Let these aggressive players suffer especially when you have a strong hand. In case, you have a real unbeatable hand on the flop, you should play slow. Signup Now