poker rooms

Poker has always been very popular and its popularity has even increased since the appearance of the Internet and online poker rooms. At present online poker industry is one of the most profitable spheres on the internet. Many investors have already realized its profitability and started investing into poker rooms. At the same time software developers create high quality state-of-the-art customized software packages. But choosing the right and the best software can be a very challenging task where many things should be considered.

Poker is probably the most exciting game that has captivated millions of people all over the world. About 2 million people spend Wednesday nights watching poker on ESPN and then, inspired by great earnings of poker players, rush to their computers to give it a try and become poker gurus themselves. The poker industry is the most profitable online business at present. The biggest online poker rooms get about $1 mln dollars daily. And the number of poker players who play for real money is growing steadily from year to year.

If you are considering the possibility to invest money into this industry and open your own poker room, first of all, you have to purchase online poker software. The booming market is packed with loads of multi-player fully customized solutions with licenses and sets of management tools.

Software development companies have provided their clients with the software packages that can be customized according to their preferences and needs. The most popular ways of customization are the following: placing a company’s logo on poker tables, changing the color schemes (as well as avatars, shapes of poker tables) and the look of the lobby and navigation tabs and buttons, using several languages (English, Portuguese, Italian, German, Chinese, French, Hebrew, Russian, Korean, and Japanese) and so on. Since most players don’t want to waste time downloading and installing poker software on their computers, many poker rooms and online casinos offer instant Java poker games to play.

The top notch online casino software development companies create their products using high quality software which ensures advanced 3D graphics for realistic animation and play. Moreover, players can get detailed statistics to make the right estimations and necessary calculations during the game. There are players who prefer chatting in the course of the game, thus, some poker software packages have chat rooms. You can even play four games simultaneously which can be rather exciting and challenging.

But playing online poker is not only fun – you can earn money because most poker software has the possibility of playing for real money, which will attract more players to your poker room.

Poker players have many poker rooms to choose between when they want to play poker. The most familiar online poker rooms are Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars, PKR and PartyPoker, but you can find smaller poker rooms such as LuckyAcePoker, Doyle’s Room and William Hill Poker. The disadvantage with the smaller poker rooms is also the advantage: The smaller rooms have fewer players, and the chance to meet the same players more than once is bigger than if you play at e.g. PokerStars. That makes the note function in the small poker rooms very important, since you can take notes about a player and when you meet him again, you know exactly how he plays.

Of course, the note function is also a great tool in the bigger rooms, but the chance of meeting someone you have written a note about is small and if you don’t play online poker every day or maybe just one or two times a month, you should consider not using the note function. This is a basic rule about the poker rooms.

The User Interface

The bigger poker rooms are all different. Full Tilt Poker has a beautiful user interface and if I should choose to play at a poker room, based on the user interface only I would definitely choose to play at Full Tilt Poker. The user interface at PokerStars is very old looking and I actually don’t like it. It somehow reminds me of parchment paper from the time of Leonardo Da Vinci, which has nothing to do with poker. PKR is very unique when it comes to user interface, which of course is because it’s in 3D and you can interact with your avatar, but many find it frivolous and I think the average age of PKR’s players is low.

The Prize Money

Poker would be a whole other game, if it wasn’t for the money. The different online poker rooms arrange tournaments and actually a lot of tournaments daily. Not only is the main prize a percentage of the user’s buy-in to the tournament, it’s often prize money that the online poker room gives away. When it comes to prize money, PokerStars turns out to be the best. You can always find a tournament with a huge money prize. Full Tilt Poker is also good, but they have too many satellite tournaments. PKR’s tournaments are fun, but the amount of prize money is incredibly low.

The Amount of Players

The amount of players on an online poker room is actually very important. If there are few players (below 10,000) it tells something about the difficulty, and the basic rules are if the prize money is low the difficulty of the poker room is also low, because good players will never play low stakes poker. According to numbers, PokerStars has far more players than any other online poker room, and it is all time of the day. The reason to this could be the fact that PokerStars runs commercials on many different channels. Full Tilt Poker has almost as many players as PokerStars, but PokerStars still has the most. Real poker players will not choose PKR, because they play for the money, not for the experience.

Overall rating

Of course there are many factors why a poker room is better than another, but there three factors are relevant to all poker rooms. PokerStars tops two out of three with Full Tilt Poker as follow-up. That’s actually funny, because they offer the same bonus when you sign up.