Pacific Poker is a site that seems designed for the newbie’s of poker. Maybe this makes Pacific Poker good, maybe it makes the competition a little softer.

Pacific Poker offers the standard fare in games, Texas Holdem of course, as well as Omaha, Omaha 8 or better, Stud and Stud 8 or better. Limits range from $0.5/$0.10 to $75/$150. They have short handed games at most limits.

Pacific Poker tournaments range from 50 cent buy-ins to around $65.00. Pacific Poker has sit and go tournaments, single and multi tables. Pacific Poker has pretty standard multi table tournaments, did not see any thing like rebuy and add-on tournaments. Lots of free rolls at Pacific Poker .

Pacific Poker does not offer play money games but when I signed up they gave me $5.00 no strings attached to play with.

Over all the software is decent. The game is not confusing to play and it has chat as about the only extra. I did not see player notes or statistics.

Pacific Poker traffic is OK for cash games but not enough to support really great tournaments and fast starting sit and goes. There were about 2200 players online late on a Thursday evening.

Pacific Poker also offers bonus deposits of 50% up to $100.00 and jackpots with a caveat of a jackpot drop that you can opt into.

Pacific Poker has telephone and email tech support.

Pacific Poker recently made multi table play available. That’s a good thing but kind of late in coming.

Pacific Poker is a part of a long established gaming company, 888 Holdings Public Limited Company.

Pacific Poker is getting better, I looked at Pacific Poker when they were a new product and thought they were one of the worst poker room game clients I had ever looked at

Pacific Poker had no details about their shuffle security just the usual assurances that they are serious about it.Read why this is bad

Promotions are sorely lacking. Deposit bonuses are below par, the web site did not have a promotions page listing the things that were going on, perhaps because there is nothing going on of any real value.

Pacific Poker software is poorly designed. It is just like driving a cheap car, it gets you there, but there is not anything special about the ride. The Pacific Poker lobby is cluttered and to busy. Things are hard to find, the colors used in the fonts on the lists is obnoxious at times. It just seems like a software package thrown together by an online casino place to get in on a little piece of the online poker boom. There is good things at Pacific Poker like are listed, but there is nothing that is innovative or original.

Posted on the 888.com site, Pacific Poker is owned by 888

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