Virtual City Poker is part of the Prima Poker Network. You can read the Prima Poker Network review by following this link.

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Royal Vegas Poker is part of the Prima Poker Network. You can read the Prima Poker Network review by following this link.

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Poker Time is part of the Prima Poker Network. You can read the Prima Poker Network review by following this link.

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Poker Rewards is part of the Prima Poker Network. You can read the Prima Poker Network review by following this link.

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Take your pick. Royal Vegas Poker, Poker Rewards, Poker Time, and Virtual City Poker for the most part, are the same poker room. They are all part of the Prima Poker Network and all sites share the same tables. So if you are on Royal Vegas Poker, you may be playing against players from the other sites. That, of course, begs the question, which site should you choose. Molly’s Poker suggests that you look at the current bonus offers and player rewards programs and pick the one that offers you the most for your situation. Still can’t decide? Perhaps you should download them all and pick the one with the skin you like the best.

The beauty of the Prima Poker rooms is in their simplicity. Nothing fancy to distract you from what you’re there to do in the first place, play some serious poker. The tables are simple looking, no obnoxious avatars (Full Tilt), characters (Party/Empire), or baby pictures (Poker Stars). The player notes feature is useful, but Molly’s Poker wishes it were similar to Party’s player notes, which display a small icon on the player’s nameplate when you have notes for the player. The only way to tell on Prima Poker, without actually opening up the notepad, is by holding your cursor over the player’s nameplate for about 10 seconds at which point the notepad will be displayed. The only other complaint is that the next move buttons, although placed very well, are a little buggy and don’t always show the correct possible moves. In this case the player just needs to wait for the live button to appear.

If you like micro limit table, the Prima Poker rooms offer a variety of micro limit tables. The 5¢/10¢ no/pot limit and 10¢/20¢ fixed limit are an excellent place to park if your bankroll is light, you’re a beginner, or you’re honing your skills before moving up to higher limits. The 5¢/10¢ no limit games have a maximum buy in of only $2, which isn’t going to break you and it gives you a great idea who the skilled players are when you see someone with a stack of $10 or more. For you high rollers out there the biggest limit tables are $100/$200.

The action at the low limits is good on the Omaha, 7-Stud, and 5-Stud tables. As expected there is more than enough action on the low limit Hold ‘Em tables, and it’s not unusual to be 3rd or 4th on the waiting list for micro limit Hold ‘Em table. The action at the higher limits on the non-Hold ‘Em tables is light. Higher limit Hold ‘Em tables have some action. Molly’s Poker suggests that high rollers should download one of the sites and observe the action for the kind of game that floats your boat. If the action is not good enough for your tastes then give Party Poker or Empire Poker a try where the action is always good no matter which game or limit you prefer.

Of course, like every other poker room, the Prima Poker rooms have the tournament games as well. However, the Prima Poker rooms have something on the order of eight multi-table freeroll tournaments every day. Generally they are open to players who have had a minimum number of raked hands in the past day or two, but there are some that are open to all. At present they have $1000 freerolls for players who have had 50 raked hands in the past 24 hours and $200 freerolls open to all players. In addition there are low buy-in tournaments ($1+$0) and up.

So, to wrap this review up, the Prima Poker rooms are perfect for the micro limit players with their variety of micro limit tables, games, and low buy-in tournaments. Mid and high rollers may be better served elsewhere, but download the site and see if you like or dislike what you find.

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Review Date: March 20, 2005

The thing I like best about Pacific Poker is the very crisp and clean table view. No stupid avatars like the nonsense on Full Tilt Poker, no goofy player characters ala Empire and Party Poker. (Yes, I know you can turn those things off.) The Pacific Poker table view is just a standard 10 player table, empty chairs, and a deck of cards with unique graphics that I find appealing. A player notes feature has been added recently as well as a hand playback feature. Finally, there is no annoying chat window unless you want it, but be careful of the chat window as there is reported a problem that if you’re typing when the action is on you, when the hot key are live, the keystroke you intend for chat could be interpreted as a hot key. My advise is to lay off the chat when you are in a hand.

Playability is pretty standard. You are given the standard set of “sit out”, “auto muck hands”, and “auto post blinds/ante” buttons. (Why is it that there are so many players who won’t check the “auto post”?) The “auto muck” button works as expected, unlike Gaming Club Poker which, even though you’ve checked “auto muck”, still asks if you want to show or muck uncalled hands. You also get the standard set of play-ahead buttons, which are too close to where the live play buttons will appear for my comfort. Raise your hand if you’ve experienced the thrill of playing on a sluggish server and just as you go to click the play-ahead “check” button someone if front bets and your “check” click turns into a “call” with a gutshot straight draw? Pacific Poker has the same drawback that almost all site have, it only updates the pot size when the betting round is over. That means I have to pay attention and count the bets and do math to figure the pot size during the betting round. Call me lazy, but Gaming Club Poker, for one, updates the pot size during the betting round.

Table limits range from $0.05/$0.10 to $20/$40 with many choices in between. With a couple thousand players online, finding a Texas Hold ‘Em game is easy. The other games are not as popular here so finding the right table may be a chore.

Single table tournament buy-ins starts at $2.50+$0.25 and goes up to $200+$15 with a few heads up tables thrown into the mix. Multi-table tournament buy-ins starts at $2.50+$0.25 and go up to $100+$9.

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