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Party Poker News
Well I guess if you know anything about online poker, you’ll have heard about Party Poker. Hey even if you just watch TV you’ll have heard about Party Poker. Yes they are the biggest, yes they have great tournaments. So what’s the advantage at playing at Party Poker really? The answer quite simply is that there are more people at Party Poker than any were else. Is it all roses though? Like in anything Party Poker has it’s good and bad points.
Good points for Party Poker:
- Loads of tables and people
- Poker 24/7 with people 24/7
- Great tournaments
- It’s easy to find Partypoker.com
Bad points for Party Poker:
- Low limit tables start at $1 + $0.5
- Not as many freerolls and free money as some other poker rooms.
- Support is outsourced and may not see the world like most people out there.
- Your one of the mass and don’t get the individual attention that some other poker rooms afford some top players.
Party Poker Facts
Let’s face it Partypoker.com is a well known brand now in the world of online poker. They have been around for longer than most poker rooms and the url partypoker.com is known to almost everyone who’s ever stepped foot onto the internet and thought about poker.
Partypoker.com is like the godfather of poker rooms and boasts a market share of over 50% of all the poker out there. With 100 million people playing poker it’s making a lot of money too. They estimate that party poker made over $350 million dollars profit in 2004. That’s a lot of money in any ones books and the queen of party poker is none other than a woman and you thought that poker was a man’s game.
The fact is also that poker online at partypoker.com is played by an equal number of male to female players. Partypoker.com is registered in the British Virgin Islands. We do also know that party poker is looking for a listing in the near future and this will allow us to shed more light on the numbers behind this phenomenon in poker.
There is also speculation sometimes whether or not party may buy up smaller operators. Let’s face it partypoker has over 5 million signups already on their system. The overlap of their sign-ups is huge with all the other poker rooms. Buying other poker rooms doesn’t mean they will get more players. The fact is that some people just don’t like playing at party poker.
So they created a skin instead. The biggest affiliate for party poker is empire poker. Empire poker runs off the same back end as party poker and this means that they can leverage the same infrastructure.
This is just another reason why party poker has grown so much, because of these multiple layers.
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