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Pacific Poker Review

Here at Canada’s Poker Forum, we have run several of our poker league games at Pacific Poker, so we are quite familiar with the site.

Pacific Poker is owned by 888 Holdings Plc., a publicly traded company on the London Stock Exchange. Pacific Poker is one of the more popular poker sites for Canadians because they have been around for so long, and have many promotions targeted to Canadians. Known for their loose competition and bad players, it is probably one of the sites where a decent poker player stands to make the most money.

Pacific does not have the same traffic levels of sites like PokerStars, but there are still quite a few games going on in their Holdem sections. They do have an Omaha section and there is some action at the cash tables with stakes below 2/4 PLO, but not much else. Because the site is not as busy, their big tournaments bring out a smaller field, which means an easier chance to come in first, and quite often some good tournament overlays.

The software at Pacific is the biggest problem. There are some features missing that would be nice to have such as viewing hand histories (including your opponent’s mucked cards), and showing your cards after someone folds. Also, another thing I don’t like is you can’t chat to people at tables that you aren’t involved on. Probably a small thing, but when we run our league games this is a little annoying.

If you can live without the software features above, you can stand to make some good money feeding on their fish. So, if your looking for a site with a ton of bad players and a great signup bonus (part of which is 25% instant), Pacific might be the one for you!

Competition at Pacific Poker

As mentioned above, Pacific is probably the easiest poker site on the internet. The site attracts a lot of bad poker players, and a lot of gamblers crossing over from their casino (which is one of the largest online casinos). Most of these players are quite novice, so with enough patience and basic poker strategy you should be able to do well.

Pacific Poker Tournaments

Pacific Poker has some great tournaments for people that don’t want to sit around playing 12 hour + tournaments at sites like Full Tilt and Pokerstars. Here are some of their bigger tournaments:
$80,000 Guaranteed – Every Sunday at 15:35 PPT with a buy-in of $132 (Micro satellites as low as $0.66!)
$20,000 Guaranteed – Every day at 15:35 PPT with a buy-in of $55 (Most of the time there are under 400 players, which means OVERLAY!)

Poker Promotions

888 Poker Open – Players can win a package to play in a televised event with a $648,000 guaranteed prize pool in England.
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Poker Games

Texas Hold'em, Omaha, Omaha Hi-Lo, Seven-Card Stud, Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo. Tournaments are only offered for Texas Holdem
 

Poker Client Software

As mentioned above, Pacific Poker’s software is pretty basic. It has all the features required to play the game, but doesn’t really have some of the cool features that other sites have. The graphics are very nice, and the tables are re-sizeable, but not being able to see mucked hands and show your hand after your opponent folds are kind of annoying.

Here are some screenshots:

Payment Options

Deposit/Withdrawal Options: Credit Card, Debit Card, ACTeCASH, ePassporte, Firepay, NETELLER, Citadel, Check, Immediate Check / e-Check, Instadebit, Bank Transfer, Wire Transfer, Paysafe Card and Moneybookers.

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The Good

- Tons of bad players
- Tournaments with overlays
- Good offline events that are easy to qualify for
- 25% of your first deposit is an instant bonus

The Bad

- After getting the first 25% of the bonus, the rest is difficult to clear at stakes under .50/$1 PL/NL
- Software missing several nice features



  

Pacific Poker References:
888 Parent Company Wiki Page

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