Absolute Poker is a new poker room but has since their start somewhat more than a year ago grown to a poker room with great action both in regular ring games and in tournaments. Today more than 2 000 players are joining in to play there. The site features the most common poker games and single- and multi-table tournaments. Their freerolls are a good start for new players to learn more about playing poker tournaments.
Promotions
The deposit bonus featured is quite good with a 20% bonus up to $100. They also have regular redeposit bonuses for existing players. FreeRolls are run on a daily basis where the winners qualifies for a weekly final. Currently Absolute Poker is one of the hottest Poker Rooms in terms of promotions. The only disadvantage is that they in some cases requires users to keep their initial deposit + bonus in their account for approx. 30 days.
Software
The software and server are stable and the graphics is good. You can choose your own picture representing you at the table in order to create your own table image. Note taking and hand histories is available. A good thing with the hand histories feature is that you can sort your hands arbitrary and request hands from the last X hours or X hands. In some forums we have seen people complaining about the Absolute Poker software but we haven’t had any problems with it at all.
Players
The player base is growing for each day. Ok it isn’t big compared to the giants online (Party + Skins) but there will be good games going here most of the time. The quality of players varies, we have been playing against both very skilled players and loose players. We have howerver been on the positive side and made money at this site. The site actively cooperates with some community sites which brings a lot of new players into the site each day.
Deposits/Withdrawals
Absolute Poker processes their own payments. We used Neteller to deposit and it took somewhat longer than expected. The funds where taken from our account but didn’t show up in our Absolute Poker account. After one hour the payment was through. After contacting the Absolute Poker support we were told there was a temporaly delay in Neteller deposits at the time so this shouldn’t be an issue anymore. The cashier interface is easy to navigate and deposit and withdrawal options were good presented. The cash out was fast, we had our payment within an hour. The financial security is important when considering a new poker room. Our impression is that this is a safe room (but as allways this is just our opinion!). The room has been arround for a year and has grown tremendously the last months.
Support
Upon our contact with the support staff the service has been fast and to our satisfaction, we contacted their cashier support when we had our deposit problem and everything was sorted out.
Security
All transactions are made through encrypted communication making it hard for hackers to read the data between your computer and the servers at Absolute Poker.
Conclusion
Personalised pictures and good chats at the tables makes this a fun and amusing place to play online poker. The games are also good and the promotions offered are good especially since they have regular redeposit bonuses. Our recommendation, try them out, they are worth it.
