Party Poker is by far the largest poker room on the internet. Party Poker has over 10,000 real-money players playing during peak hours. When you include play-money players, they have over 60,000 players during peak hours. There are plenty of ring games, single-table tournaments, and multi-table tournaments. Their most notable multi-table tournament is their Party Poker Million competition, where you can win a trip on a cruise and play in a tournament with over a million dollar prize pool. Party poker constantly offer promotions to new players in terms of beginner's tables and freerolls, while still catering to bigger players with big tournament satellites and guaranteed tournaments.

Bonus

• Use the bonus code SONGP25 to get a $25 bonus on any size deposit.
• Use the bonus code SONGP100 to get 20% bonus up to $100. So if you deposit $200, you get $40, if you deposit $500, you get $100.

Basically, if you are interested in just a cash bonus, use SONGP100 if you are depositing $125 or more. Otherwise, SONGP25 is the best bonus code for you. The freeroll is played out during the second week of the following month after the sign-up. On top of that, expect to get surprise re-load bonuses on a regular basis.

Loyalty bonus

It gets better and better, now there are both a big frequent player points program as well as numerous re-deposit promotions in which you get 15%-25% up to $100 maximum.

Software

PartyPoker's software is quite good, with a number of upgrades during both 2003, early 2004, October 2005 and February 2006. With its phenomenal growth, Party Poker has added servers and increased bandwidth in order to secure full relability at 100,000 simultaneous players. Overall though, Party Poker has very good quality nowadays, in line with or better than most competitors.A nice feature is the very smooth table resizing option (which is especially good if you play on a lap top or other small screen). You have the option to "auto resize" all open tables meaning will resize and spread out evenly on the screen by the click of your finger. In sum, the software is good today after improvements to support the record-braking traffic.

Soft Competition

The competition is somewhat soft at Party Poker. There are tens of thousands of players at this site. Many are beginners or casual players, but some are seasoned professionals. The games here are easier than at most sites. Even at "middle limit online games" this holds true - you can typically find very soft games even up to $2/$4 in no-limit and $5/$10 in fixed limit, whereas on most other poker rooms these stakes will give you rather tough opposition.

Customer Service

The customer service is since late 2004 much better at Party Poker, in particular the 24/7 telephone support now often responds in under a minute! The support is nowadays very knowledgable on promotions and other trickier issues. Email has worked OK, even though the response times were a bit long.

Deposit Methods

NETeller, Firepay, checking accounts, major credit cards, and wire transfers.

Cashouts

This place is great about cashouts. The first one may take a bit longer, but afterwards, the process is very quick (generally 24-48 hours through Neteller). If you have the highest level of player status, cashouts to Neteller routinely come within 6 hours.