Pacific offers all of the standard games you are used to seeing in online poker rooms, Hold'em, Stud, Omaha and tournaments. It can't be emphasized enough that Pacific's players are the worst in the world. Perhaps it's the promotion of the online casino properties? Pacific Poker is an online poker room where you can play with others globally. To make you get a feel of how it feels like to play online on this site, it offers a full Online Demo version of its software that allows you to play with a 1000 fake dollars that are replenished once you spend it all.

You can chat with other players during the play using the multiplayer tables. The team guarantees prompt help response that operates twenty-four hours a day for seven days a week. You can cash out using your credit card or NETeller account for fastest cash out. The site also accepts wire transfers and bank drafts for which it does not charge any extra fee as some other casinos do.

Pacific Poker is one of the favorite poker rooms on the net. Texas Hold’em players in particular prefer this poker site because of the frequent promotions offered and the juicy high-action tables available. Pacific Poker is part of the 888 group, the company behind Casino-on-Net, the largest online casino in the world. This poker room has a wide selection of games and the software offers decent graphics and is fast. Special promotions such as money-added tournaments and freerolls are available, though the site does not allow U.S. players.

Popularity: 7 of 10 - Good
Traffic at this poker room is decent for the most popular games. The site offers all variations of Texas Hold’em, Omaha, Omaha Hi/Lo, Seven Card Stud and Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo, varying between No Limit, Pot Limit, and Fixed Limit. The traffic is heavily concentrated on the Texas Hold’em ring games and tournaments.

Most of the rest of the traffic is on the Omaha Hi/Lo and Seven Card Stud tables. Full-table games, short-handed, and heads-up tables are available. Pacific Poker hosts many tournaments, the buy-ins vary between $1 and hundreds of dollars. The tournaments are usually well-populated and fast; play is relatively loose and juicy at any level. This poker room also runs plenty of freerolls with extremely loose play. At the time of this review, the peak ring-game traffic of this poker site is 2,600 real-money players.

Security: 9 of 10 - Excellent
Security at Pacific Poker is excellent. The 888 group is a well-established company, with years of experience as the mother company of Casino-on-Net and Pacific Poker. The financial reputation of this poker room is solid; the site maintains a safe, fun and fair gaming environment.

Player Competition: 10 of 10 - Excellent
Many of the players for this poker site include casino customers from Casino-on-Net. These less-experienced poker players enjoy gambling and may take a few more riskes than your regular poker player which provides for some loose action. The viewed-flop percentage at the $15/$30 tables can reach 65%-70%! The No Limit and Pot Limit cash games are strongly recommended for players who want to win on a regular basis.

Site Software: 9 of 10 - Excellent
The Pacific Poker software is privately developed; it offers decent graphics and functionality. The first thing I noticed is that the software at Pacific Poker is quite a bit behind the times. You cannot play multiple tables at PacificPoker.com at all, and the graphics and sounds just have a primitive feel to them, like you're playing on an older computer a few years ago. Playing poker at Pacific has a sort of "retro" feel, almost like playing an Atari 2600 for kicks.

Even the chat function is oddly hard to use, opening on a different screen that's appended to the edge of the poker table. I also didn't like that I received a generated password, and as far as I can tell, there is no way for me to change that to a password of my choosing.

This software is at once Pacific's biggest strength and it's biggest weakness. It's a weakness for obvious reasons (No one wants to play on lackluster software.), but it's a strength too, and here's why:

The software is weak enough that most of the better players are going to play elsewhere. Really good internet poker players maximize their hourly returns by playing multiple tables. They like good graphics and a pleasant poker experience. As a result of Pacific Poker's graphics and software being what they are, they've become what I like to think of as the biggest fish farm on the poker web.
The table functions are easy to learn and well-oriented on the table. The data and statistics functions allow players to take notes on their opponents during play. Hand histories are available through a replay of hands in a graphic interface; a nice tool for reviewing your play though is not exactly a user-friendly feature.

The lobby supplies all the vital table statistics, including viewed-flop percentage, average pot size, seated-player’s stack size and hands played per hour. This software is well-suited for multi-table play; it supports play up to five tables simultaneously; the tables are fixed size, there is no mini-view or other special multi-table functions. The Pacific Poker software comes in both a Java client and a downloadable version.

Customer Support: 7 of 10 – Good
Support at Pacific Poker is very good and is available via email, live chat and telephone. The support staff is knowledgeable and friendly. They reply in a promptly and accurate manner, the quality of the answers is good.

Company Ethics: 8 of 10 - Excellent
The 888 group is widely respected. Casino-on-Net is the largest online casino in the world and Pacific Poker benefits from this. The outstanding customer support and financial security provided by Pacific Poker is reflected on the loyal player base of the site.

Site Promotions: 8 of 10 - Excellent
This poker site offers great promotions, including a 25% Welcome Bonus up to $100, reload bonuses every month, and a good bonus point program for the loyal players. The sign-up bonus is released when the players wager 20 times the bonus amount.

Overall Review: 7.8 of 10 – Very Good
Pacific Poker is a very good choice for a site to play, especially if you like Texas Hold’em. The tournaments are well-structured and the software facilitates a good playing experience. Support is very good excellent and the game variety is excellent.

Final Result: We give Pacific Poker a final overall score of 8 out of 10.

Intersafe Global provides the dual key RSA encryption technology that keeps your data safe, encrypted behind a firewall on the sites server. Pacific poker also uses the latest MD5 random number generator as the ‘dealer' on the site for random results. You can view the online log by pressing the ‘Game History' button, which is also reviewed for testing by PriceWaterHouseCoopers, the international accounting firm.

The information you give is used only for contact purposes and is not used for any other purposes by Casino-on-Net or Pacific Poker. In addition, the information is not stored for longer than the purpose for which it was collected, that is until you are a member.
For whatever reason, if you are from anywhere but the United States, you can take plenty of chips down if you play a tight aggressive game.

Pacific Poker's software and bonuses would only make it a "C", but the number of weak players playing there is definitely worth an "A". So my overall grade for PacificPoker.com is a solid "B", which is simply an average of the two scores. In fact, I think that having a lot of good games (and by good I mean profitable games full of weak players) should probably be weighted more heavily than whether or not the software is glitzy.

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