Pacific Poker Texas Holdem Room Review

Texas Holdem Games At Pacific Poker – A Room Review For Texas Holdem Poker Players.

by The Poker Dog

Pacific Poker are a long running poker site who are connected to the world’s largest online casino – ‘casino-on-net’, also known as 888.com. The regular ‘gambling’ traffic from this casino to the poker tables give the games at Pacific Poker a well deserved reputation for being some of the ‘wildest’ online. Those with some understanding of poker play will be in a great position to make large profits from the Pacific Poker Texas Holdem Games.

While this site is famous for no-limit Texas Holdem cash games, there are actually several Texas Holdem poker variations to choose from. These include pot-limit and fixed-limit games, short-handed, heads-up, SNGs and tournaments (which in turn have several varieties).

Pacific Poker recently increased their initial sign-up bonus to 100% on your first deposit up to $400. Instead of a points collection or raked hand totals target the requirement for clearing this bonus is to ‘wager through’ 20 times the amount. This is quick to achieve, particularly in tournaments and no-limit games, making this one of the best bonuses available online.

Pacific Poker Texas Holdem Cash Game Selection

Cash games are where the wild and loose action can be found at Pacific – in particular at the no-limit Holdem cash game tables. With more than 10k players online simultaneously at peak times (EU evenings / weekends) there are a great selection of tables to choose from, especially at the lower to middle limits. Stakes at the cash game tables start as just 1c / 2c blinds and go right up to $50 / $100 No-Limit and $250 / $500 fixed limit.

While the lower and middle stakes tables are literally full of recreational ‘gamblers’ with only a small amount of poker knowledge – there are also profits to be made at the higher stakes at Pacific Poker. With many high-stakes gamers coming over from the large online casino areas and hitting the big-stakes tables making the games more profitable than elsewhere – definitely worth checking out for all non-US players.

Pacific Poker Texas Holdem Tournaments / SNGs Selection

Multi-table tournaments and SNGs are popular at Pacific Poker and also benefit from the inexperienced players who come in from the casino side of this operation. SNGs start at just 50c and include many variations - from ‘heads-up’ to 5-seats through to multi-table SNGs. The multi-table tournament schedule includes freerolls, satellite qualifiers and re-buys and focuses on the lower buy-in levels, many of the scheduled tournaments feature guaranteed prize pools.

Pacific Poker Software And Customer Service

For years the Pacific software client was ‘average’ for the industry. However, recent updates have seen players given a choice of views and introduced more configurability – bringing the software client more up to date. Navigation in the lobby uses the poker game types at the highest level. Instead of separate tabs for tournaments and Cash Games you first choose Texas Holdem and then select ring-games, SNGs or tournaments from the next level tabs.

Tables have a 3d side-on view, your perspective is over the shoulder of the player in the centre bottom of the screen. The recent software update enables players to choose a classic top down viewpoint or to simplify the view further by removing player icons.

One word of caution for new players at Pacific Poker – the call and fold buttons change places the instant it is your turn to act –it can be worth double checking your action before you click just to make sure. Some of the great features in the Pacific Poker software include the graphical re-play of all the hand histories and the ability to re-size the tables to suit your individual requirements.

Pacific Poker customer services are available 24/7 and can be contacted via ‘live chat’ (fastest for minor queries) or alternatively via telephone or e-mail. Staff at this well established poker site are both knowledgeable and friendly.

Pacific Poker Promotions And Bonus Offers

The $400 sign-up bonus offer for new players at Pacific Poker is actually divided into two separate parts. The first 25% (up to $100) is instantly credited to your account and can be used to meet the 140 times ‘wager through’ requirement for the remaining 75% (to $300). The wagering requirement includes the entire tournament entry and not just the 10% fee usually counted – meaning this bonus clears reasonably quickly.

Other bonuses and promotions include a large number of freeroll tournaments and a bad-beat jackpot. There are regular satellites to live events at Pacific Poker as well as a large number of unique promotions including a players club which allows points collected during real-money play to be converted directly to cash.

Pacific Poker – Final Overview

Recent software upgrades and improved sign-up bonus offers are already attracting new players to Pacific Poker. However the main reason for choosing this site should be the softest cash games around –due to large amounts of casino-traffic. This reason alone has been keeping poker fans loyal to this site for many years. Check out Pacific Poker for yourself today and give your poker bankroll a welcome boost!