888 Poker Review

888 Poker Summary

With the current state of the online poker industry, we have decide to partner with only fully licensed and respectable brands, and we seem to have found a very good and trustworthy online poker room to promote in 888 Poker.

Not only have they offered us an enhanced first deposit bonus, they also offer new members a no deposit bonus of $8 - a perfect match for a site like Poker For Free.

888 Poker is a brand with lots of history, as it's one of the longest existing brands to offer online poker. They are obviously well know, from sponsorship deals in the Premier League Football, as well as commercials on television. Caesars Entertainment, 888's mother company, is the largest of its kind in the world, not only known from their land based casinos, but also from numerous of online casinos, poker rooms, and bingo sites. For one, Ceasars Entertainment is the company behind the World Series of Poker (WSOP), the most important poker event of the year.

The poker room has been revamped completely in the year 2010, including a name change from Pacific Poker to 888 Poker, to fully profit from the brand's popularity. Their software has really become much better, and nowadays they can easily compete with any other big name poker brand out there.

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In the following part of our 888 Poker review you can read in-depth information about 888 Poker's client, website, security & integrity, traffic & games, bonuses & promotions and support.

Poker Client

888 Poker's client is available for download for Windows computers only, however, Mac users or users with other operating systems such as Ubuntu, Fedora, and other Linux distros, can make use of the 888 Poker instant play version, which can be found on the 888Poker.com website (you literary can't miss it). Any modern computer should be able to run the 888 Poker software without hesitations.

The downloadable client can be customized just the way you like. You can choose your own table, as well as your own card decks. Especially the cards are different than you are probably used to. Instead of standard four color decks, you can now give each individual card a custom color.

Like any modern online poker room, 888 Poker also offers different filtering options which are created to help you find the games, or tables that suits you best.

Players interested in bonuses will love the feature which 888 Poker integrated in the top left corner of their real money poker table. This feature, the 888 Poker bonus progress bar, tells you exactly how many points are still needed before the next increment of your bonus will be released, as well as how many points are needed untile the full bonus is cleared.

888 Poker First Deposit Bonus and Promotions

The fist deposit bonus regularly advertised by 888 Poker is slightly above average, however, here at Poker For Free we managed to get an enhanced bonus offer. Our 888 Poker bonus is 100% up to $600, which is $200 more than their standard offer. The only restriction to be eligible for our offer is using our links which lead to the 888 Poker website, as these links contain a special tracking code which enable the bonus.

Furthermore, 888 Poker offers new members a no deposit bonus of $8. So there you go, some money to give them a try playing free poker - and best of all, you can keep your winnings. Just sign-up, again make sure to do so using our links, and get the $8 credited to your bankroll instantly.

We will discuss the restrictions for both the above laid out bonuses in depth on our 888 Poker bonus page.

• Read our in-depth review about the 888 Poker First Deposit Bonus

There are several interesting promotions to be found at 888 Poker, but one that really stands out is their Big Deal promotion. This promotion rewards players with added bonus offers, freeroll tokens, shopping coupons, and more. Every day 888 Poker lets you choose between three Big Deals offers. To name a few examples, a $100 deposit, or playing three Sit 'n Gos (buy-in of $10 or more) a day, grants you a $3,000 freeroll ticket. Or what about some additional free poker money? Play online poker between 11:00 GMT and 15:00 GMT - the happy hours - and 888 Poker credits your poker bankroll with $5 for free.

Players making their first deposit will also receive tickets to enter five different First Depositors' Freeroll, each with a price pool of $500. On top of that they will be given one ticket to enter a First Depositors' Freeroll with a price pool of $1,000.

Since 888 Poker's mother company, Ceasars Entertainment, is the owner and organizer of the World Series of Poker, this is also the site to pick for WSOP qualifications. Make sure to pay them a visit early 2012 when the first WSOP satellites of the year will be offered at 888 Poker.

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Security and Integrity

888 Poker, registered as Cassava Enterprises, is licensed on Gibraltar, a UK white list jurisdiction - which ensures that their systems, and gaming operations are properly controlled. In other words, playing at 888 Poker is fair, safe and secure.

Certifications a plenty at 888, as the poker room is fully certified. Interactive Gaming Council (ICG), Remote Gambling Association (RGA), ITECH Lab, GamCare, eCOGRA, and TRUSTe, just to point them out individually.

The payment platform developed by 888, and used for depositing to 888 Poker, guarantees secure transactions of all types.

Just like any other respected online poker room, 888 Poker maintains a zero-tolerance when players are caught acting unethically. Several algorithms are in place to monitor players' behavior, and alarm bells will ring the minute things seem out of balance.