Absolute Poker Review

Overall Review
Absolute Poker claims to be one of the major online poker rooms in the world, with literally millions of people having participated in online poker game play at their site.

If you are hesitant to join the Absolute Poker vast group of players because you don’t even know how to play poker, take heart – they have poker tables online where you can play for free as you get to know the ins and outs of online poker. This free service is especially helpful to those who have limited experience in poker play and want to hone their skills and raise their confidence level further. This prepares you for the real games where you play for real cash wagers under real game conditions.

The Absolute Poker website is owned by Tokwiro Enterprises Enrg, located within the Mohawk Territory of Kahnawake along the banks of the St. Lawrence River, in Quebec, Canada. (The Mohawk Territory is itself property of the Mohawk Nation.) This is why the Tokwiro Enterprises Enrg is also a property of the Mohawk Nation.

Absolute Poker strives to become one of the safest online poker rooms you could ever do gaming with, especially since they make it a point to pay all their winners what are due them. At the same time, they try to assure the highest standards of fair play in the world of online poker game play. This is why Absolute Poker makes it a point to continuously inspect their systems while identifying any potential problem areas that need to be checked out and perhaps amended so that the highest levels of customer service are sustained.

Absolute Poker also is waging a daily battle to fight against those who would compromise the integrity of the Absolute Poker online poker systems through different ways of possibly defrauding both players and the website itself.

This means using segregated accounts at a top European financial services company to keep player funds secure. It also means keeping the funds of Absolute Poker meant for operational expenses separate from the money owned by its poker players. Thus, if you wanted to withdraw your winnings at any point, you can with no questions asked. This keeps poker players satisfied and protects Absolute Poker from any legal liabilities arising over the security of player funds.

At the same time, Absolute Poker tries to keep its poker room as user-friendly as possible – and that means player-friendly to you.

Graphics and Software
Like many other online poker sites, Absolute Poker will require new potential players to first download the special Absolute Poker software. The people behind Absolute Poker say their software is excellent (maybe even superior to those on other poker room sites.) Well, this gives you a chance to see if they’re right or wrong.

You can either download the Absolute Poker software using Internet Explorer as your browser, or maybe some other Net browser. If you rely on Internet Explorer for the software download, the software being downloaded is verifiable by Internet Explorer using the Thawte certificate and the special key. If another browser is used, the downloading process is verified based on the Thawte server certificate and a 1024-bit RSA key that will assure safety of the Absolute Poker HTPPS web server and the download.

By using special technology, Absolute Poker prevents you and their site from being victimized by collusion between poker players, invasion by hackers, and other forms of unfair play. Of special interest is the card shuffling technology adopted by Absolute Poker that is secure enough to give secret yet fair chances to each player to get the best hand he can at online poker 100% of the time.

Traffic
To keep players interested in being long-term Absolute Poker member players, the Absolute Poker team has developed the Absolute Rewards Program (ARP) – a system which allows member players to keep earning points every time they play a hand or pay a “buy-in fee” for tournaments they want to participate in.

Tournaments
There are many tournaments you can join while being a member player of Absolute Poker. You can take part in a single-table tournament or a multiple table tournament, as you see fit.

The Private Tournament set-up will allow you to create a personalized poker tournament where only people you personally know can play with you.

If you like the challenge of a Satellite Tournament, then pay the buy-in fee. If you win, you then qualify for the major buy-in tournaments of Absolute Poker as your prize for the more minor Satellite Tournament.

However if the Satellite Tournament lacks enough players to make the prize money equivalent to the expected buy-in fee of the major tourney, you simply get a cash prize instead.

Cash Games
Before you can participate in a cash game where real money is wagered, you need to have formally set up an account with Absolute Poker. You should have also put up a deposit into that account. It should be clear to all players though that no player competes with the Absolute Player system – rather, you play online poker against other Absolute Poker member players.

Absolute Poker does earn a “rake” or type of commission for every poker hand played in an actual game. Absolute Poker then requires would-be participants in tournaments to pay a “buy-in fee” so they can get to play – this helps Absolute Poker with expenses incurred.

Support
The Absolute Poker site has a Frequently Asked Questions page where you can browse through categories like the Common Questions, the Technical Questions, the Support Questions, the Promotions Questions, the Cashier Questions and other categories included. If you really need to contact the support representatives, you can use the support email provided on the site.

Deposit and Withdrawl Options
The nice part about signing up with Absolute Poker for the first time is that you get their special 100% poker deposit bonus – meaning, you can receive as much as 500 US dollars simply for the privilege of signing up with this online poker room site.

You get to choose from twelve deposit payment systems for depositing into your Absolute Poker account. American players are allowed to make deposits either via Money Transfer, or via their VISA or MasterCard credit cards. The other deposit payment systems accorded to players are Moneybookers, ClickandBuy, paysafecard, UKash, checks sent via mail, bank wire, UK debit cards, or Neteller.