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Empire Poker Summary |
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Empire Poker is a fairly old poker room and were sister site to Party Poker. Empire used to boast up to 70,000 players as they had a shared player base with Party poker. September 2005 saw Party Poker move their player base onto their own platform and with them took about 80% of their players. Empire still boasts more traffic than most sites online and do offer good promotions and sign up incentives to attract new players. The site offers a good number of freerolls, a refer a friend program and in addition have excellent software and graphics which adds to the appeal of the site.
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Site Popularity |
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Empire Poker is still a leading online card room. They have very good traffic and attract many new customers with good promotions. They offer plenty of feeder tournaments to big land based tournaments, in particular WPT events and the WSOP. At peak hours the site sees approximately 2000-2500 real money players in ring games and anywhere up to 4000 real money tournament players. Empire still however shars its player base with Multi Poker, Eurobet/Coral and Intertops so they are sure to continue to build in these statistics. |
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Software / Graphics |
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The software has very good functionality and the playablity excellent. The software is pretty good but a few steps behind some sites like Titan Poker. The software is the same as that used by Party Poker. The lobby is very easy to navigate around but their are ommissions in functionality. the site does not support view flop percentages and in addition the statistics see the ommission of hands played per hour. The software has seen 3 upgrades in the last 2 years which has made huge improvements. You can take player notes and you can see the average pot size which is based on the last 20 hands played at that given table. You also have a "My Favorites" button which allows you to keep table names as favorites. |
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Promotions Rating |
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The site has a good number of promotions. There are a good number of freerolls and money added tournaments which are offered for free by playing a certain amount of raked hands. In addition there is a player referal program. Refer your friends to the site and you will be payed $50 and your friends will get $25 each! With over 2 Million in guarenteed prizes, the site is a good choice for any poker player. |
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Games on Offer |
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The site offers Texas Holdem, Omaha, Omaha Hi/Lo and 7-Card-Stud High and Hi-Lo. Limits offered $0.50/$1 up to $100/$200 (fixed limit), in Omaha $0.50/$1 up to $15/$30 and in the 7 Card Stud games $0.50/$1 up to $20/$40. Empire doesn't offer heads-up matches, draw poker, crazy pineapple and there is no pot limit games in 7-Card-Stud or Omaha High games. |
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Customer Service / Support |
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The customer support is not great and response times are fairly slow but the staff are very knowledgable about the game and do provide good support when they get back to you. With the recent loss of Party Poker player base there is no excuse (having 70,000 players) and this is an area that they need to focus on as there is room for improvement. |
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Methods to Deposit |
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You can deposit by VISA, FirePay, MasterCard, NETeller, ePassporte, Citadel, cashier's check, eChecks, bank draft, money order and inter-account transfers all available. |
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Methods to Withdraw |
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You can withdraw your money by EChecks, NETeller, wire transfer and check. |
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