Paradise Poker has one of the best software around and boasts very high traffic in both cash games and tournaments. Paradise Poker was the pioneer in online poker and its software has served as model for the entire industry. Paradise Poker has great game variation with almost all games, as well good sit'n'go tournament coverage and plenty of heads-up games. Security and email support is good as well. There are a few drawbacks ; low bonus offers, few promotions and very tight games.

Bonus

As a new customer, you can get a 25% deposit bonus, up to a $200 deposit. You have to play 500 raked hands for the bonus to be released.

Loyalty bonus

Paradise Poker offers a refer-a-friend program where the referrer gets a $50 bonus and the referral also gets $50 bonus (minimum deposit is $50).

Software and graphics

Paradise Poker is widely regarded as a poker software leader (together with Poker Stars and Ultimate Bet) with its clean, sleek and reliable graphics and software. The platform is one of the most quick and stable in the industry. Paradise Poker supports notes on other players and has good statistics functions. The precise pot size is not provided numerically, unless you run the cursor over the pot. Some players have complained that the software can get a little messy, if the computer does not support all needed plug-ins etc, mentioning problems with the interface and some functionality. Most people praise the software though.

Soft competition

If you are looking to make easy money - you have come to the wrong place! Paradise Poker is notorious for the quality of the players and the tightness of the games, where full mid-stakes Holdem games rarely has a view flop percentage over 40%. In fact, you often see it creep down under 30% and even 25% in the higher stakes games. But on the other hand, to be a consistent winner at Paradise Poker after paying the rakes is a sure ego booster!

Customer Service

They only have customer service via e-mail, which disappoints me. A site of this size should offer live support and phone customer service in my opinion. However, they respond very quickly via email, almost always within 15 minutes.

Deposit & withdrawal options

Deposit options:
VISA, MasterCard, NETeller, FirePay, wire transfer, bank draft.

Cash out options:
VISA, NETeller, FirePay and check.

They are very quick about cashouts. I generally get my cashout to Neteller within 24 hours.

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