jek187
05-03-2003, 07:06 PM
Absolute Poker is the home to the world's sweetest 1st time deposit bonus. The terms are $150 max, 35%, 100 hands to cashout. The one catch is that you have leave your deposit + bonus on site for 30 days. However, you are free to cash-out your winnings at any time.
However, the bonus is the best thing about the site. The traffic is low, usually one 4-8 handed game at the 1/2 or 3/6 level during US primetime hours. The players there are poor to average. There's a couple very nicely bankrolled fish that play shorthanded...not sure if they're still there or not.
At first glance, the software looks to be a copy of Stars. I had thought for the first little bit that Stars had licensed it's software like Poker.com. The stats, chat, and graphics look the same from both Absolute Poker (AP) to PStars. You can even have your own little picture like at Stars. However, this illusion was shattered when I sat down to play. 1st off, for some reason this relatively simple software put a huge drain on my computer's resources. Everything else was incredibly slow while running the AP client. Even AP was slow, trying to type in chat was like trying to type in Pacific's chat...if not worse. Even more maddening is the floating chat AP uses...it covers your cards when you're in a hand.
If you advance action the fold command, and go off to do something else, AP pops up to show your cards folding. Irritating. The BB also has no advance action buttons except fold (why just fold of all buttons? weird huh?) Also, if you precheck the 'bet' button and someone bets into you, you automatically call. Same thing if you check raise (not raise any, just raise) if someone raises in front of you, you just call 2 cold. Absolutely maddening. And costly. So beware of that situation.
I cleared my bonus in 4.39 hours of play...over 90% of it at the 3/6 level. I cashed out my winnings, and it hit in Neteller in 2 days. I would consider going back and playing there again, once they work out the majority of the aforementioned bugs.
Late Update: I just went onto AP one last time to review what limits they offered, and I had to DL a large update. So, some of the bugs I've mentioned may be fixed. Also, they have scrapped the 1/2 and added a 2/4 instead.
However, the bonus is the best thing about the site. The traffic is low, usually one 4-8 handed game at the 1/2 or 3/6 level during US primetime hours. The players there are poor to average. There's a couple very nicely bankrolled fish that play shorthanded...not sure if they're still there or not.
At first glance, the software looks to be a copy of Stars. I had thought for the first little bit that Stars had licensed it's software like Poker.com. The stats, chat, and graphics look the same from both Absolute Poker (AP) to PStars. You can even have your own little picture like at Stars. However, this illusion was shattered when I sat down to play. 1st off, for some reason this relatively simple software put a huge drain on my computer's resources. Everything else was incredibly slow while running the AP client. Even AP was slow, trying to type in chat was like trying to type in Pacific's chat...if not worse. Even more maddening is the floating chat AP uses...it covers your cards when you're in a hand.
If you advance action the fold command, and go off to do something else, AP pops up to show your cards folding. Irritating. The BB also has no advance action buttons except fold (why just fold of all buttons? weird huh?) Also, if you precheck the 'bet' button and someone bets into you, you automatically call. Same thing if you check raise (not raise any, just raise) if someone raises in front of you, you just call 2 cold. Absolutely maddening. And costly. So beware of that situation.
I cleared my bonus in 4.39 hours of play...over 90% of it at the 3/6 level. I cashed out my winnings, and it hit in Neteller in 2 days. I would consider going back and playing there again, once they work out the majority of the aforementioned bugs.
Late Update: I just went onto AP one last time to review what limits they offered, and I had to DL a large update. So, some of the bugs I've mentioned may be fixed. Also, they have scrapped the 1/2 and added a 2/4 instead.