I've played for real money on several
online poker sites and Absolute Poker is my favorite
online poker site for numerous reasons.
As a frequent no-limit tournament player, AP's tournament
structures are by the far the best--each player starts
out with 1500 in chips instead of just the 800 that
they give you at Party Poker, or 1000 at Pokerroom.
The blinds go up much slower on AP tourneys than they
do on Party Poker's. These two factors combine to make
AP tournaments more favorable to the skillful players,
and less of an all-in luckfest, such as what is forced
on the players by Party Poker's single table tournament
structure (blinds go up every 10 hands!).
Another advantage to AP that is lacking on many other
sites is low-stakes games. This is very helpful to the
players who have just hit a bad streak but want to rebuild
their account back to higher stakes without re-depositing.
AP is very generous in their promotions, bonuses, and
freerolls. Party Poker has very few such promotions,
and very few freerolls. Pokerroom has one freeroll a
day but you have to line up like pigs at a trough to
register quickly enough. AP has numerous freerolls all
day long, and some good player-points freerolls throughout
the week.
AP's sounds and graphics are by far the best. Allowing
players to choose their own image to represent themselves
is a good idea. It also helps you remember your opponents
so that you can adjust your style of play for them in
future encounters.
I've cashed out $3900 from Absolute Poker in the last
several months--every check arrived promptly and cleared
my account with no problems or delays. My deposits via
Western Union were always credited to my AP account
within an hour of notifying them by email.
AP's floor traffic may be slower and lighter than Party
Poker or Pokerroom's--you can't just jump into a $100
single-table tournament at 3:00 AM like you can on the
big sites--but there are also many advantages to AP's
size--not all players are complete strangers to each
other, players tend to know each other better, look
in on each other's games, cheer each other on. When
the AP message board announces something about one of
their players, you often can remember playing against
those people and what they were like. ANOTHER ADVANTAGE
TO A SMALL SITE IS THAT THERE TEND TO BE MUCH FEWER
PLAYERS TO HAVE TO ELIMINATE IN MULTI-TABLE TOURNAMENTS,
SUCH AS THE WSOP SATELLITE THAT I WON. I only had to
beat 12 players to make it to the $110 satellie, and
only 160 after that to make it to the WSOP. On a larger
site, the odds against me would have been much more
daunting.
Another thing I like about AP are their WSOP satellites!
I can't believe I'm actually going to playing against
the world's biggest players and biggest wannabes! I
hope I play as an amazing a game as what I played in
the satellite. I would not have been able to get anywhere
near the WSOP without Absolute Poker providing such
a good venue.
Thanks AP and keep up the good, player-friendly work!
Alan Brech
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here to play now at Absolute Poker
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