Pacific Poker
May 5th, 2010
Pacific Poker is part of the 888 Holdings group, the company behind the world’s largest online casino. As you can imagine, this means a lot of wild casino customers at the poker tables. Combined with lots of promotions, that also means a lot of Texas Hold’em players come to Pacific Poker for juicy high-action tables and good bonuses.
The No-Limit and Pot-Limit cash games are strongly recommended for players looking to make a profit. Viewed-flop percentages are often in the high 50s and 60s – sometimes even up in the 70s – which is pretty ludicrous. No-Limit games are easilyamong the juiciest and loosest online.
The upgraded Pacific Poker software offers players a lot: great graphics and functionality, improved search functions and layout, nice looking 3-D avatars, integrated casino and bingo play, an always-visible cashier and improved multi-tabling abilities – up to 16 tables can now be tiled or cascaded at one time (8 cash and 8 tourneys).
Other nice functions that stand out are the password-protected SNGs and the hand histories, which now support writing on your hard drive and importing to the major hand analysis software tools.
Pacific Poker has also introduced a no-download client for Mac and Linux users. The new software is very sleek and competent and offers most of the functionality of the download version, although some 3D functionality and a few cosmetic features have been left out to keep the client light and quick.
All variations of Texas Hold’em, Omaha, Omaha Hi-Lo, Seven-Card Stud and Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo are available. Real-money player statistics as of May 2010 show 2000 ring-game players at peak hours and 8000 tournament players at peak hours.