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Size of the Titan Poker software is: 22.75Mb

Titan poker uses the software from iPoker Network, so it might be recognized by experienced online poker players.

As Titan Poker wants ot become a global poker brand they constantly adding new languages to their support list. Currently Titan Poker’s software available in 12 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Polish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Russian and Dutch

Type of poker bonus: First deposit poker bonus

Expert-level: Mainly mid-class poker players, but you can find many beginners playing rebuy tournaments as well.

Bonus at Titan Poker

100%, up to $500

How to sign up and how to get the bonus

-First clean your cookies to ensure that the sing up process to Titan Poker will run smoothly (you can do it in the Tools menu of your browser)

-Click on this link to download the software

-While registering enter the code “HOPCOM” to secure your poker bonus!

-If you enter the HOPCOM code, you will be offered a $200 reload bonus on a regular bonus and you’ll be eligible to participate in Titan Poker’s weekly $1000 depositors freeroll.

-Please remember, that it might take long time to clear this bonus! You’ll have to earn 600 points for each $5 dollars of the bonus.
Pros:

-More than $25 million in guaranteed prizes every month!

-Very nice first deposit poker bonus!

-High quality Customer Support

-$20.000 welcome freeroll
Cons:

-The software is not 100% on some machines, might freeze. Many players doesn’t like the interface!

-Titan Poker do not offer mixed games
Ranking: 9.2/10

Payment-methods available: Credit card, ClickandBuy, PaySafeCard, iDEAL, EcoCard, UseMyBank, Yandex, Giroplay, Moneybookers, INSTADEBIT, Ukash, Przelewy24, Webmoney, Moneta, Entropay, Nordea, NETeller, Click2Pay, Bank Transfer, POLI, myCitadel, Dankort, Enets.

Customer-support:

Customer support at Titan Poker is considered to be well-above the industry avarage. It is available via e-mail, phone, and through the poker software’s live chat. The reponses are promt and not only standard phrases, solving most issues within hours. Titan Poker won the Gambling Online Magazine’s “The Best Online Poker Customer Service” award.
Offered games:

Titan Poker is concentrating on the most popular variations of online poker, you barely find obscure poker games.

Tournaments at Titan Poker

This is Titan Poker’s strongest side, this online pokerroom offers up to $25.000 in guaranteed prizes each month! There’re many possibilities to get a ticket for their major online poker freerolls, satellites to major events (e.g. Aussie Million, World Poker Tour). Buy-ins start from $1 up to $50 (for Multi Table poker tournaments).

Texas Hold’em, Omaha Hi-Lo, Omaha, 5-Card Draw

Ring Games at Titan Poker

Texas Hold’em, Omaha Hi-Lo, Omaha, , 7-Card Stud, 7-Card Stud Hi-Lo 5-Card Stud

Titan Poker doesn’t have too many high stake tables, but offering a wide variety of micro stakes starting from $0.02 for Limit, No-Limit and Pot-Limit Holdem.

General information:

Titan poker is the biggest room in the iPoker network, with a very traffic rate. At peak hours you can find over 10.000 ring game players and approx 55.000 poker tournament players, which is quite an impressing figure.

Many poker pros don’t like the design of the Titan Poker software, this keep them away from the room, which might be a useful information for beginners and mid-class poker players. When playing at Titan’s, you’ll have more time to think about your next step, as the game slower, the software gives you more time. Some poker pros are annoyed by this, but if you’re not that experienced it might be an advantage!

PHIL IVEY

Phil Ivey was born in 1979 in Riverside, California, currently residing in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

In oppinion of many experts he’s the best poker player at the moment. Some are somewhat sceptical regarding he’s skills, but Phil Ivey seem to constantly improve his skills in addition to his unmatched talent.

Currently he focuses on cash games, but in the past he was the only player in the history, who managed to win three WSOP bracelets in one year (World series of Poker 2002). In total he has five WSOP bracelets.

Some other bracelets he won:

2000- Pot limit Omaha

2002- 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo

2002- S.H.O.E.

2002- 7 Card Stud

2005- Pot Limit Omaha

He won the first prize ($1.000.000) at the 2005 Monte Carlo Millions tournament The very next day he also finished first at the “The FullTiltPoker.Net Invitational Live from Monte Carlo”, cashing $600.000 for this victory.

He finished 7th at the first EPT in London, back in 2006.

Played for the group called “The Corporation” against the texas billionaire Andy Beal, winning $16.000.000 .

And these are only some examples!

Currently Phil Ivey is playing for the Full Tilt Poker Team, where he’s playing online poker regularly at high stakes (cash games with $500-$1000 no-limit and $2000-$4000 limit). He’s nickname is very obvious at Full Tilt: Phil Ivey

Bwin

+ Big player base + Secure software + Decent loyalty programme + Regular promotions + OnlinePoker for Mac/Apple available

up to: $500

Size of the bwin poker software is: 36.9 Mb, it supports Windows, Mac and Linux. Available in both downloadable and instant play (Java) version. Bwin’s poker software is nice and clear, no useless graphics, reliable, well-functioning.

Type of poker bonus: Claim bonus

Expert-level: You can find all types of players here, the average level is getting better and better, but it’s still a room for mainly casual players.
Type of bonus: Claim bonus up to $500. This poker bonus was designed exactly for their player base (casual/mid-level online poker players) and we consider it as one of the best offers in the world of online poker.

Bonus at bwin poker

bwin is offering 3 very attractive bonuses:

100, 250 and 500 dollars (STAN100, STAN250 and STAN500 bonus codes). The bonus is non dependant on the amount of the first deposit (10 or 20 Euro depending on your payment method), but on your skills only! All you have to do is to collect the necessary amount of points during a limited timeframe (1000, 2000, 4000 points at 60, 90, 90 days accordingly). We would suggest to start with the 100 dollars bonus, as you can claim them one after another! The another good argument in favor of bwin poker.

How to sign up and how to get the bonus

-First clean your cookies to ensure that the sing up process to bwin poker will run smoothly (you can do it in the Tools menu of your browser)

-Click on this link to get to the bwin poker page.

-After a successful registration at bwin poker go to the “My account” tab and enter the code STAN100 (or STAN250, STAN500).

-Now you have 60 (or 90 days in case of STAN250-500) to collect the necessary amount of points!-Good luck and play for real!-

Once you’ve signed up through house-of-poker you’re entitled to get a ticket to bwin poker ’s Welcome freeroll! You can find the further details in the loyalty programme (under the “My Account” tab)
Pros:

-Very good bonuses (STAN100, STAN250, STAN500)!

-Big player base

-Fair good software

-Decent loyalty programme (don’t forget to join the b’inside!)

-Regular cool promotions
Cons:

-Too few regular tournaments

-No other bonuses than STAN ones
Ranking: 8.9/10

Payment-methods available: NETeller, Moneybookers, Visa, Mastercard, Maestro, Diners Club, Western Union, Webmoney, Clickand Buy, Paysafecard and wire transfer.

Customer-support:

As it’s one of the major players in the world of online gambling (sportsbook, poker, casino and games) bwin built a large customer service department, which is -in our opinion- quite reliable and competent. The email and phone support worked well here, but we miss a fully-functional online chat/messenger support. Another lack is, that their support is not available 24/7!

Offered games:

It doesn’t matter if you prefer small stakes or if you a high roller: stakes start at $0.1/0.2 and up to $1000/2000!

Tournaments at bwin poker

Texas Hold’em, Omaha Hi-Lo, Omaha, 7-Card Stud, 5-Card Draw

Ring Games at bwin poker

Games:
Texas Hold’em, Omaha Hi-Lo, Omaha, 7-Stud, 7-Stud Hi-Lo, 5-Card Draw

General information:

Bwin is world’s largest gambling provider, owner of the whole Ongame Network, main sponsor of football clubs AC Milan and Real Madrid. Because of the strong brand there’re quite a lot of poker players at peak hours. Up to 9.000 real money players at the same time…

The site is in 22 languages and you can maintain your online poker account in 18 different currencies, which is unrivalled in the world of online poker!

The Italian version of bwin poker allows the poker players to play only online poker tournaments.
Special about bwin poker:
Europe’s online poker room! As bwin is trying to become a well-known and fashionable online poker brand they constantly run different promotions, both for poker pro’s (EPT, WSOP related poker promotions) and for casual players using their strong sports betting brand. They built an outstanding loyalty program, good customer service team, nice, reliable and safe software and gained a huge player base of online poker players by purchasing the Ongame network. Bwin also introduced attractive online poker bonuses. What else would they need? We think they have a good basis for becoming on of the leading rooms. Good job bwin poker!

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Fulltilt

+ statistic-tools + download hand history + highest stakes poker tournaments + Software for Mac/Apple available

up to: 600€

Size of the Full Tilt poker software is: 16.2Mb It’s available only in a download version, no instant play! Supports Windows and Mac.

Expert-level: Definitely a pro’s poker room

Type of bonus: First deposit bonus.

FullTilt offers a very nice 100% up to $600 first deposit bonus. It makes sense, as they position themselves as the room for pro poker players.

This is generous bonus offer, but only for high stake players! If you’re a beginner it will take ages for you to work it off!
But once you cleared it FullTilt will send you reload bonus offers from time to time. Typically it’s a 50% up to $300 bonus, which will be placed at a secure side account until you work it off.

Pros:
-$8 million guaranteed weekly in prize money!!!
-A chance to meet some famous poker players
-Decent bonus
-Nice software with a possibility to export your hand history

Cons:
-No instant play software
- Too tough competition on higher levels

Ranking: 8.5/10
Payment-methods available: NETeller, Moneybookers, Visa, Mastercard, Maestro, ClickandBuy, Paysafecard, Click2Pay

Customer-support: Their Customer Service provides support only via email, what might be disappointing for some, but according our experience this only available method works pretty well, most likely you’ll get an answer within one hour.

Offered games:
FullTilt offers Hold’em (Limit, No Limit, and Pot Limit), Omaha H/L, Omaha Hi, Stud H/L, Stud, Razz and a brand new variaty of Mixed Games. These mixed games are: HA (Hold’em, Omaha Hi), HO (Hold’em, Omaha H/L), HORSE (Hold’em, Omaha H/L, Razz, Stud, Stud H/L), and HOSE (Hold’em, Omaha H/L, Stud, Stud H/L). Full Tilt also provides daily tournaments. Buy-ins ranging from $1 to $1,000, as well as freerolls.
The ring game limits are from 25/50cents to $1,000/$2,000 for limit games and 5/10cents to $500/$1,000 for no limit games.
Sit’n'go is also very popular at FullTilt, thousands of them are running simultaneously! FullTilt offers Regular, 6max, turbo, and heads-up for each type of game!

General information:
FullTilt poker was launched back in 2004, so it’s not the oldest brand in the industry of online poker, but due to it’s aggressive strategy it quickly became a well known brand among the online  players.

It has a team of more than 40 poker pros, including Phil Ivey, Allen Cunningham, Gus Hansen and Chris “Jesus” Ferguson who regularly play at their site, so players can compare their skills against them.

As it was created by pro poker players for pro poker players it has sophisticated tools. It allows you to download hand history, it is Mac compatible and you can also use Poker Tracker software. It’s possible to play at 8 tables simultaneously.

Their player base of online poker players is constantly growing, playing poker there is getting easier. At the early years of existence of FullTilt it had a reputation of a room of poker pros.
During peak hours Full Tilt will have over 60,000 real money players online.

Special about Full Tilt poker:
FullTilt is the second room in terms of number of tournaments, but it’s definitely the leader in high stake online poker tournaments!
The biggest tables at FullTilt poker run at a stake up to $600-$100! You can find their poker pros there, fighting to win the pot! You can challenge them!
Each week there’s a $5million prize pool, their major poker event is the weekly $750.000 guaranteed FullTilt tournament, where the buy-in is $200+16.

Partypoker

+ Big player base + Secure software + Decent loyalty programme + Regular promotions + Poker for Mac/Apple available

up to:500€

One of the biggest poker rooms on the in internet! And the fishiest…
It used to be by far the biggest place to play online poker, but due to changes in U.S. legislation (which now makes difficult for U.S. residents to make a deposit at an online poker room) it lost the big majority of it’s players.
Since then the biggest volume of players online is at European peak hours.
They’re both strong in ring games and poker tournaments.
It’s worth mentioning, that there’s always some kind of poker promotions running. Satellites to major on and offline poker events held all around the globe. But the big bang was theit Million Dollars Guaranteed.
PartyPoker’s loyalty program is called Player’s Club, where you can accumulate points by playing raked poker hands and then exchange these points for various poker tournaments (like Player’s Club Freeroll), PartyPoker merchandising, etc. You can earn additonal points by making addtional deposits or playing at a certain time: between 11:00 PM and 9:00 AM GMT

Bonus offered by PartyPoker

This room offers an attractive 100% up to $500 first deposit bonus for players of house-of-poker.com, which is going to be released in five increments. For each bonus dollar you have to collect 5 Party points. Their loyal players can expect regular reload bonus offers.
The minimum deposit is $25.
All new poker signups are able to play the $5000 New Players Tournament.

Tournaments at PartyPoker

Approximately 60.000 tournament players are online at peak hours at PartyPoker!
Games:
Single- and Multi-table Fixed-limit Holdem, NL/PL Holdem, Fixed Omaha hi-lo, PL Omaha hi-lo, Fixed 7-stud (single-table only). They also have sit-n-go multi-table tournaments.
Single-Table: $3 to $350
Multi-Table: $1 to $1,000

Ring Games at PartyPoker

There are 10 poker players at the tables and the first three places are winning the prize pool, splitting it by 50%-30%-20%.You might also want to try out their special sit-n-go tournaments to win seats into various multi-table satellites.
Games:
Texas Hold’em, Omaha Hi-Lo, Omaha, 7 Stud, 7 Stud Hi-Lo

Fixed Limits: $.05-$.10 to $250-$500
NL & PL Blinds: $.02-$.04 to $25-$50

PartyPoker’s software

… is not earth-shaking, but above average, quite decent. The lobby is easy to navigate, avatars are changeable as well as the colour of the table. It also allows you to automatically export your hand history. A bit disappointing thought, that only the Average pot size is displayed. The size of the sotware is 13,5Mb and it supports Windows, Mac and Linux.

The tournament will combine the legacy of the World Poker Tour and the location of the Casinò di Venezia. The event is scheduled to take place May 6 through May 10 and will be filmed for broadcast via Web-TV on bwin.com.

“We are delighted to be working with WPT Enterprises on this spectacular tournament, which brings the World Poker Tour to Europe for the first time. It combines the excitement and interactivity that only bwin can offer - people will be able to bet on the players of the final table while following the action on their screen” said Manfred Bodner, Co-CEO of bwin.

The winner will receive an official WPT Venice^TM bracelet and a 25,000 seat in the 2010 World Poker Tour Championship. Plus there is a prize pool of more than US$ 1million that players are competing for. Cash games and side events will be available throughout the tournament.

“We’re thrilled to launch our first ever brick-and-mortar WPT tournament offering in Italy,” said WPT Founder, President and CEO, Steve Lipscomb. “bwin is a strong partner with the right market position in the region. We look forward to working with them to bring this event and the WPT brand to poker players in Italy and Europe.”

For those who cannot be at the event in person, the WPT Venice^TM, powered by bwin, will be covered online at www.bwin.com. The bwin bookmakers will be calculating the odds for competing players, and customers not only can follow the tournament on their PCs but become part of the action by placing bets during the event.

The buy-in for the main event is EUR 4,400. bwin also offers over 100 prize packages through a variety of different qualifiers, satellites or freerolls. Qualifier tournaments are already under way at bwin.com.

bwin, the world’s leading provider of online gaming entertainment, is placed prominently in the new “Poker Face” video by Lady GaGa, highlighting its No. 1 position in the online poker industry.

Lady GaGa’s music video for her new song “Poker Face” was shot on bwin’s poker resort  PokerIsland. With “I’ll get him hot, show him what I’ve got”, she flips her cards onto the table in the poker video.

While Rolling Stone magazine has already predicted that the singer from New York will certainly make it to the top of the hit list, the new “Poker Face” hit single is storming the charts, making its way to the top in Australia, Canada, Sweden and Norway. Even on Youtube, the music video has been downloaded nearly 12 million times.

A new video game has been produced along with the new song, which is now available at www.ladygagagame.com. Players of the “PokerIsland Quest” game need to get past the paparazzi and security guards, using their poker skills to reach the footlights of the Lady GaGa concert. For a successful score, players receive a bonus of $50 at bwin.

The results from the first ever epidemiological analysis of the actual gaming behavior evidenced by a large sample of 3,445 online poker players over the span of 2 years are about to be published.  The study was conducted by the Division on Addictions, Cambridge Health Alliance, a Harvard Medical School teaching affiliate. This collaboration reflects the longstanding partnership with bwin, the world’s leading online gaming provider.
The partnership between bwin and the Division on Addictions was established in 2005 to provide a scientific basis for the assessment of conspicuous gaming behavior and its consequences for responsible gaming. Two key findings beginning to emerge from the research initiative are:

1. The myth of online gaming as a powerful seductive force has been empirically refuted.  Online gaming has no greater problem potential than offline gaming.
2. Responsible gaming measures show effect.

The current research, which analyzes the behavior of Internet poker players over the course of two years, is the world’s largest longitudinal and the first ever epidemiological study of its kind.
Individuals exhibit rational behavior
“In this research we provide additional evidence in support of our previous research showing that most subscribers who gamble on the Internet do so moderately.  In fact, correlation analyses indicated that as Percent Lost increased, Duration, Total Gambling Sessions, and Total Amount Wagered all decreased, suggesting that individuals moderated their behavior based on their wins and their losses - exhibiting “rational” betting behavior.” says Howard Shaffer, PH.D., Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School, Director, Division on Addictions, The Cambridge Health Alliance, a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School.

• The average age of the cohort (sample) was 27.9 years and almost 95% were male. The typical poker player was an active poker player for a median duration of six and a half months and participated in a median of one poker session every three days. The median Euros per session gambled was €13 and the median cost of playing poker was €1.80 per session.
• The gaming behaviors of the most involved poker players show that this group, representing 5% of all players, was active for a duration of 18.5 months and participated in ten sessions per week.
• This 5% subgroup had a smaller percentage lost than the sample majority, suggesting that skill is a factor in poker play and that players are able to improve their performance compared with chance.
• When examining the most involved poker players who devoted more time and money to this activity, the study found that like the rest of the sample, they reduced Euros per session and reduced Total Wagered as Percent Loss increased.

“In our intention to replace speculation with scientific evidence, this study takes us a big step closer towards understanding the behavior of online poker players. Ultimately we are interested in developing algorithms capable of identifying behavioral patterns or identifying risk patterns associated with disordered gaming.” says Manfred Bodner, Co-CEO of bwin.

For further information about the study please visit www.divisiononaddictions.org