Rating:
4,8 / 5
- Awesome action in both tournaments and cash games up to NL/PL40k
- 5% rake with $3 cap up to NL2K & PLO2K, $1 cap in HU tables.
- Games running 24/7 with peak traffic in evening time of Europe
- Great for players with all skill levels
General rates:
Available games and formats:
Holdem
MTT
Spins
MILLIONS online series
PLO
SNG
Fast Forward Poker
partypoker Review
partypoker is one of the oldest and most established poker sites available. Launched by PartyGaming in 2001, this site used to be the center of the online poker action until 2006 when partypoker left the US market due to UIGEA. Later in 2011, GVC Holdings acquired Partycasino as the merger of PartyGaming occurred. Other brands sharing the same network include Bwin, a brand mostly known for sports betting and a proud sponsor of Real Madrid soccer team.
Partypoker was leading the online poker market due their versatile advertising activities including television commercials and utilization of tournament poker early on. In fact, they ran their first million dollar guaranteed tournament already in 2002.
Although partypoker hasn’t been the market leader in the last few years, they have been making some great changes lately to liven up the games and their traffic has seen a steady growth. Some well-known ambassadors include Mike Sexton who hosts the WPT television show, Isaac Haxton, Jason Koon, Nikita Bodyakovskiy, ElkY, Timofey ‘Trueteller’ Kuznetsov and last but not least, our very own Joni Jouhkimainen.
Signing-up to partypoker is straightforward and easy – just follow these quick steps to get started:
Step 1. Delete cookies from your web browser.
Step 2. Visit the main page of their website by clicking here
Step 3. On the main page of partypoker, you will see a red button with text ‘Register now’. Click that button, fill your details and your account is ready.
Step 4. Go back to the main page of partypoker, click to red button DOWNLOAD and install the client to your computer. Use the details you filled for signing in, once the install is completed.
Step 5. Deposit using your preferred method and start playing!
As a new player, you’re being welcomed with a $10 free bonus. Besides the welcome bonus, you will benefit from the weekly cashback program that offers you generous rakeback up to 40%.
- Great promotions and rewards
- Action for all types of players and levels
- Smooth software
- None tables scanners or tracking tools for softer games
- Become millionaire overnight: SPINS
- Fast-paced cash game format: Fast Forward Poker
partypoker has put a lot of effort into developing their software, and the results are great: You have smooth flow of cards, the tables, stacks and nicknames are all very clear while playing, and you can even add hotkeys and bet-sliders with customizable sizings. Tables can be tiled or cascaded, and their size is easy to change. Finding a suitable game has never been easier, as you can choose multiple filter to show you the stakes and formats you’re interested in playing.
Whether you’re using a Mac or PC, partypoker has you covered as you can either download partypoker’s iOS or Windows client. Browser and mobile versions are also available, in case you like to play with your table, iPhone or Android smartphone.
In your lobby or home view, every active promotion and special tournament is updated once they go live, so make sure to check the promotions section regularly.
In case you are used to multitabling, partypoker client works smoothly for you to comfortably play between 8-12 tables simultaneously, depending on your screen size.
Traffic can climb up to several thousand players during the peak time, which occurs in the evening time of Europe. You can find both Texas Holdem and Omaha games running pretty much 24/7 in micro, low, mid and high stakes. You can find games from $0.01/0.02 up to $200/400 meaning every type of player will be accommodated on partypoker. There are also multi-table tournaments with all types of structures, not to mention the SPINS where you can become a millionaire by winning a three player SNG!
partypoker offers their own fast-paced Texas Holdem and PLO formats called Fast Forward poker, where you can jump immediately into action and get dealt the next as soon as you finish with your current one! partypoker is a global poker network, so you might play against opponents from pretty much every corner of the world where internet connection is available. The player pool on every stake level has usually tens of players at any time in stakes up to NL200, with the largest limit NL500 running with a bit smaller player pool. Because of the partypoker’s great rake race campaigns you can find action on Fast Forward poker almost 24/7. In PLO you can expect USD 0,125-0,25, 0,25-0,5 and 1-2 running basically always and 5-10 for tens of hours a day. If you play enough and remember to opt-in for the rake races, your RB% will actually climb a lot higher than 40%!
If you like to play in a game where you know the name of your opponent, we encourage you to try out the Real Name tables available in Cash section of the lobby.
partypoker has prevented table scanning software from seeing the player nicknames, as observing table is not available. Choosing a seat also happens randomly. In General, all 3rd party software aids are blocked on partypoker, and hand histories are not provided in written format. You can replay and share your hands through the MyGame app though. While this might be bad news for certain players who are used to using a HUD, this rule actually helps the games to stay soft in the long-run, translating into more profits for you!
The rake on partypoker is calculated with weighted-contributed 5%. If heads-up poker is your game, the rake cap for those is 1. All other ring games use the following rake structure:
| Blinds | Players | Rake | Cap |
| up to $0.05/$0.10 | 2-10 | $0.01 per $0.20 | $1 |
| $0.10/0.25 to $10/20 | 2 | $0.01 per $0.20 | $1 |
| 3-4 | $0.01 per $0.20 | $2 | |
| 5-10 | $0.01 per $0.20 | $3,00 | |
| $15/30 to $50/100 | 2-3 | $0.05 per $1.00 | $2 |
| 4-10 | $0.05 per $1.00 | $5 | |
| $200/$400 | 2 | $0.05 per $1.00 | $2 |
| 3-10 | $0.05 per $1.00 | $5 |
partypoker offers a weekly cashback program to all their players, where you can earn up to 40% rakeback. In the first few levels of the cashback program, the rakeback is around 20%, but it climbs quickly and you can easily reach the higher levels if you play regularly on partypoker. Once you have opted in to the cashback program, the weekly payment will be automatic, you can relax and see the rakeback added to your account balance each Monday!
You can estimate your weekly cashback through the table below, where 1 point is equal to 1 usd of rake:
| Points | Cashback USD | Cashback % |
| 25 | 5 | 20% |
| 50 | 10 | 20% |
| 75 | 15 | 20% |
| 100 | 20 | 20% |
| 150 | 37.5 | 25% |
| 200 | 50 | 25% |
| 250 | 62 | 25% |
| 300 | 75 | 25% |
| 350 | 87.5 | 25% |
| 400 | 100 | 25% |
| 450 | 112.5 | 25% |
| 500 | 125 | 25% |
| 600 | 180 | 30% |
| 700 | 210 | 30% |
| 800 | 240 | 30% |
| 900 | 270 | 30% |
| 1000 | 300 | 30% |
| 1200 | 480 | 40% |
| 1400 | 560 | 40% |
| 1600 | 640 | 40% |
| 1800 | 720 | 40% |
| 2000 | 800 | 40% |
While partypoker does accept players from pretty much most of the countries in the world, there are a few countries that are currently excluded from playing. Please see the list below of these excluded countries:
Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Serbia, South Korea and Vietnam.
As a first deposit bonus, all new players get up to $30 free play + 3x M4M tickets. The free play consists of free tickets and cash bonuses totaling $30. In addition to the FDB, partypoker has increased their efforts a lot in offering some of the biggest campaigns in online poker lately. In autumn 2019, they launched their leaderboards for Fast Forward tables in both No-Limit Holdem and Pot-Limit Omaha with weekly prizes of $91,000!
Besides their rewards program offering up to 40% cashback, partypoker runs different promotions likey their online tournaments series called MILLIONS, where the 2018 prize pool of a single tournament climbed up to $21,835,000 making it the largest tourney of online poker history! In 2019 MILLIONS online there will be a $20 million guaranteed event, and you can qualify even for free to the event that has a buyin of $10,300.
There are tons of different deposit and withdrawal methods available for you to start playing on partypoker. Deposits are processed instantly with most methods, and withdrawals are processed fast, sometimes within hours. If you wish to increase your daily deposit limit, please make sure your account is verified, after which you can set or amend your deposit limits in the Responsible Gambling section of Your Account.
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Pro’s comments
Special insights from Joni Jouhkimainen, Team Pro
I got contacted by partypoker couple of years ago and it was a dream come true. Party is a company that I trusted and wanted to represent. They take great care of their players, and online poker in its entirety.
Now when it comes to games, I might be biased but I believe we have pretty much anything an online player could hope for. Tournaments from micros to highrollers (we even had one with $20 million GTD) and cash games running from micros to all the way up to the $200/400. If you find tournaments or regular cash games too slow for your taste, you can try your luck at SPINS or FastForward-poker. Also, no matter how you do with your games, you’re sure to get cashback from your efforts. Giving good deals for players is a must for the poker-economy and Party has addressed it with cashback up to 40% and regularly changing promotions.
