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Party Poker
Party Pokerwww.partypoker.com
Established:     2001
Country:         Gibraltar
Auditor:          iTech Labs
Software size:  2.72 MB
Features:
The world's largest Poker Club with over 50% of the market although since the US Ban of online gambling, all US Credit Cards have been banned dropping the number of players dramatically.
Party Poker Table Shot
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Positives:
Great Graphics - easy to see & very user-friendly

PartyPoints Loyalty Scheme giving Freerolls to High-Stakes Tournaments and PartyPoker Merchandise

Live 24hr person will assist you via instant messaging
Not So Positives:
No Lobby information on Flop %

Statistics are fairly basic

Alot of the High Stakes Tournaments have disappeared since the US players have been banned.
Software & Graphics: The graphics are the easiest and most user-friendly as you can see how much someone has bet on the table as opposed to most other Poker Clubs which only list the bet in the chat window. There are figures seated in the chairs which makes for a better ambience than other Poker Clubs which just have an empty chair or a dark box. Female players can request a female persona which leads to conversation on the table. There can be a number of disconnections, maybe due to the sheer amount of players on the site.
Traffic: PartyPoker used to boast the largest amount of traffic over other Poker Clubs regularly getting over 50,000 users on the site at peak times but this has dropped off dramatically since they have banned US Players. If you're looking for Fixed Limit Tournaments - then PartyPoker probably holds over 70% of all the Online Tournaments in the world. Also plenty of 7 card stud Tournaments and Omaha.
Game Variety: Texas Hold'em - both No Limit and Fixed Limit; Omaha High & Hi-Lo; 7 Card Stud both High & Hi-Lo. PartyPoker does not offer Heads Up matches, Draw Poker or Crazy Pineapple although they have recently added BlackJack.
Rake: No-Limit & Pot-Limit: $.05 per $1 up to a Maximum of $3 - this applies to any size Buy-In and any number of players. Limit: This ranges from $.05 per $1 up to a Maximum of $1 on the lower limit tables up to $1 @ $100 then $.50 per $50 up to a Maximum of $5 on the high limit tables. Tournament Buy-In Entry Fees range from $1 on the $5 & $10 tables up to $50 & above on the $1,000 and above tables.