Evaluating online poker websites

Review of Pure Play Poker

In the past few years a number of online poker rooms. They fall into these three categories;

1. Free poker sites where you play for fun and bragging rights

2. Those sites that allow players to deposit and play cash (these are affected by the online gaming ban that halted Americans gambling online in Oct2006 and are technically illeagal for U.S residents though their acceptance of U.S. players persists.)

3. The third type of online poker room is the legal, membership or poker “club” site that offer players both cash value tournaments and poker point tournaments, which enable the player to win points that they may then use to play tournaments and tables with a higher prize purse.

There are a great many of these three poker room type sites springing up on the World Wide Web with more launching every day it seems. Americans truly have a love affair going with Texas Holdem’ and Omaha Hi Low poker. I joined several online poker rooms and clubs in order to compare and contrast the different popular sites. I compared Full Tilt.com, Poker.com, BoDogs.com, and Pokertime.com for over a month as the test beds for my review. By far the best site, in my opinion, is PurePlay.com.

Pure Play is one of the membership/club format sites. They feature over $125 thousand dollars in total tournament prize money in addition to the “Freeroll” and Poker point tournaments, and the Free Play tables for novice players who are just learning the game or who are honing their skills before they venture into the cast competitions. It is not the amount of money that they give away each month that makes Pure Play a preferable choice for online poker entertainment, they have many strong attributes that attract players to this membership site. The first of which is the 1 month trial that they offer to all new members for a cost of $1. This is a no limitations trial which enables players to really test drive the software and get to use the site before they have to decide whether or not they like the site, the software, or the available tables and multi-table tournaments.

Regular membership is $19.95 per month, they do give players discounts if they buy a term membership package such as the 6 months or 1 year membership options. They also have special premium membership options for those players who are addicted to playing in online poker tournaments. Pure Play also offers some very attractive prizes in addition to the cash payouts for winning games and