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On-line since 2003, Absolute Poker is an independent poker room that has gathered significant popularity over the last year thanks to a new version of their own poker software and better marketing efforts. Michael ‘The Grinder’ Mizrachi, who was named Player of the Year in 2006, is affiliated with this Costa Rican poker room. Poker Pro Mark Seif has also been involved with Absolute Poker for many years. Absolute Poker offers various games, with Texas Hold’em being the most popular and drawing as many as 20,000 players at peak times. They recently acquired UltimateBet.
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Absolute Poker Games
AbsolutePoker.com offers the following games: Texas Holdem No-Pot-Limit, Omaha Hi, Omaha Hi/Lo 8 or better, 7 Card Stud, 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo 8 or better.
Absolute Poker Promotions
Absolute Poker is known for good first time deposit bonuses and for it's frequent reload bonuses. Like most poker rooms, promotions offered by Absolute Poker are numerous and change over time. Currently, Absolute Poker is offering the following:
100% First Time Deposit BONUS up to $500
Fat Saturday - $150,000 GUARANTEED tournament every week
Absolute Assasins - Slay your way to the WSOP in this bounty tournament
Win a seat to a 500K turnament in Las Vegas - Every day, from May 19 to June 15, Absolute Poker will host three tournaments at 6PM, 8PM, and 10PM (all times ET).
Play the Triple Header every Monday, at 20:30 ET, to win your way into our three juiciest guaranteed tournaments: the $150K Weekly, the $75K Weekly, and the $100K Pro Bounty
Bad Beat Jackpots
Frequent Reload Bonuses! Every month, Absolute Poker offers various reload bonuses opportunities ranging from 15% to 100%. Expect to see 6 or 7 reload bonuses EACH month at Absolute Poker.
Refer-A-Friend and score $75 for you and $50 for your friend
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Absolute Poker Software
The software was updated in September 2007 and this upgrade resulted in significant improved system performance. It provides features such as hand history, stat retrieval, player notes, chat, player search, and resizable tables. In the past, Absolute's software has always been their weak spot but since the updgrade last September, the software is par with other poker rooms.
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Absolute Poker Rake
There is a standard 5% rake which is collected in increments up to $5 at the highest stakes, but most tables have a rate cap of $3 or less depending on the stakes and number of players.
Absolute Poker Traffic
The traffic of Absolute Poker is good, with up to 18,000 players at peak times. Finding a poker table for the majority of stakes offered is usually not a problem.
Absolute Poker Withdraw/Deposit Options
AbsolutePoker.com offers many options to Deposit funds: NETeller, FirePay, CentralCoin, VISA, MasterCard, ePassporte, PinBill, CLICK2PAY, Electronic check, Bank Draft and Wire Transfer.
Withdrawal options include NETeller, FirePay and Check.
Absolute Poker Support
There is no a live-chat function (from the poker software) and no e-mail support options available. Absolute Poker offers e-mail support with average response time. Feel free to use one of the following methods to contact Absolute Poker:
E-mail Contacts
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Conclusion: Absolute Poker has come a long way over the years it's been operating, with a significant jump in traffic in the last year. Absolute offers frequent reload bonuses because they want to keep their players. You can expect to see multiple reload offers each month. In addition to a nice sign up bonuses, Absolute has a wode range of appealing promotions. With a newly designed poker software, Absolute Poker is making it it much more fun to play at their tables. The traffic is above average and finding a table is easy at all hours. Rake is standard and deposit options are numerous. However, withdrawal methods are limited.
Good traffic
US Players accepted
Frequent reload bonuses
Above Average sign up bonus
No telephone support
Limited withdrawal options
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