PlayersOnly Poker

PlayersOnly Poker opened in 2006 on the Cake poker network, joining a small but growing group of poker sites accepting U.S. players and U.S. credit card deposits. The poker room has, in an extremely short period of time, grown very quickly and offers some of the loosest and juiciest games available online.

A lot of the player base comes right through the sportsbook and casino, so a large portion of the players are rookies and very easy to beat.

The software and graphics are quite nice, but thankfully not at the expense of functionality. The site was developed by a group of poker players looking to "reinvent" online poker and keep things geared towards the player, so functionality was also kept a priority. Subsequently the software offers everything poker players need - table stats, quick play, multi-table ability for over 10 tables simultaneously and lots more great support features.

Games offered are all variations of Texas Hold'em, Omaha, Omaha Hi-Lo, Seven-Card Stud and Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo. Games, as per usual, are heavily concentrated in No-Limit Hold'em, especially at the small and middle limits, but at peak hours players can be found at most limits and games.

PlayersOnly Poker also offers a decent amount of tournaments in both Omaha and Texas Hold'em. Traffic volume overall is in the lower segment of the industry, but it is growing. Real-money player statistics as of March 2010 show 1700 ring-game players at peak hours and 6000 tournament players at peak hours.

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Bonus Code and Promotions (7)

All players who sign up from a PokerListings.com link are eligible for an exclusive up to $650.00 sign-up bonus at 125% match.

Exclusive PlayersOnly bonus code for PokerListings players: Plist125

Bonus Clearing: For each $1 raked in a ring game where a player is dealt cards, the player earns one Frequent Player Point (FPP). Each FPP is worth 6¢ towards your pending bonus. Once a player earns $10 in bonus money, the funds are removed from his pending bonus account and added to his regular PlayersOnly Poker balance.

For each $1 in tournament fees, a player earns seven FPPs. Please note players only have 90 days from the creation of the pending bonus account to earn the complete bonus.

Loyalty Program

PlayersOnly Poker offers a loyalty system based on frequent player points with "Gold Chips" and "Gold Cards" available. Whenever you play at real-money games or pay tournament fees, you earn Frequent Player Points which fill in your "Gold Chip Meter."

Once your meter is full, you get a Gold Chip that is yours to spend in the Players Rewards store on everything from tournament tickets to DVDs and books and more. Once you've earned your first Gold Chip, you'll also earn your next with less FPPs, and so on.

Players earn Gold Cards at real-money ring games when a certain amount of rake is collected. Once you've hit the amount at your table, a Gold Card will be randomly selected from the Vault and displayed at the end of the hand.

If the Gold Card matches one of your hole cards you win that Gold Card, even if you folded your cards during the hand. Once you've won a Gold Card, you have four ways to win with a daily lottery, weekly races, guaranteed cash prizes and a grand prize.

> Sign up through a PokerListings link and receive a $1000 bonus at 125% deposit match

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Tournaments and Freerolls (8)

PlayersOnly Poker host quite a lot of tournaments. Buy-ins can be as small as 25¢ and the largest buy-in is usually arond $200. The tournaments are faily busy and have a good structure. As opposed to most sites, PlayersOnly Poker also run a decent amount of tournaments in forms of poker other than Hold'em.

PlayersOnly Poker also runs a few guaranteed tournaments - the largest weekly tournament is the $50,000 Sunday guarantee, while the $100.000 monthly guaranteed tournament is the largest overall.

The overall spread of freerolls is pretty weak, with $100 or $200 freerolls open to all players offered every now and then, but this is compensated for this year by the massive $1 million freeroll series now running.

Each month a $100,000 guaranteed freeroll is played where the winner takes home $75,000 and the runners-up share $25,000. The freeroll series runs for ten months and awards a total of $1 million in free tournament prizes. Both freeroll and cash qualifiers for the monthly $100,000 finals run daily.

There are also plenty of tournaments that can be entered using PlayersOnly Poker tickets, and those multi-table and sit-and-go tournaments are usually quite large. In fact, it is not unusual for the prize pools to be in the thousands of dollars.

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Software and Graphics (9)

The PlayersOnly Poker software is fast and smooth with good playability. All the normal functions are there including notes during play and vital table stats like viewed-flop percentage, average pot and hands played per hour in the lobby.

During play, you can also see your own stats right at the table, like how often you see the flop, your win percentage and more. On the negative side, the note-taking function is a little difficult to use (players are chosen in a scroll-down list instead of being clicked on) and the software offers no mini view or other multi-table help function.

Overall though, the software is very playable, offers nice graphics and makes for a good playing experience. One particularly nice function is the hand history also saves the player chat, useful when trying to "figure out" a player.

The latest version of the PlayersOnly Poker software supports play at 10 tables simultaneously and allows you to sit at any position. Players can also view an unlimited number of tables and multi-table play is easy and smooth and works well with the stats tools.

Extra-appreciated are the in-game stats and the immediate hand-histories. The avatars are also nice with quite a few to choose from.

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Soft Competition (8)

The traffic is busiest at the lower stakes where the games vary from relatively loose to very loose - often showing a viewed-flop percentage upwards of 50%-60% at full tables, which is pretty sick. This translates to juicy and loose games for the small- to middle-stakes player.

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Support (9)

PlayersOnly Poker offers telephone, e-mail and live chat support. Responses are quite fast and answers are of good quality.

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Deposit Withdrawal Options (8)

Deposit options: Visa, MasterCard and cash transfer

Withdrawal options: Visa, MasterCard and check.

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