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Party Poker

Party Poker is currently the runaway market leader, recently floating on the London Stock Exchange. The float will be the largest the exchange has seen in nearly four years. Party Gaming, the owners, will float about 23 per cent of the company, leaving 77 per cent in the hands of the founders and original stockholders. The valuation of the float is estimated to be somewhere near $1.8bn, leaving the full valuation of the company at just under $8bn. Party Poker has been growing rapidly since its opening in 2001, and is associated with poker professional Mike Sexton. Its success is due in no small part to a wide variety of poker games and tournaments, good graphics, and fun software.

Party Poker offers everything - low limit games, high limit poker games, and lots of poker tournaments. And it was the first online poker room to mount an aggressive marketing campaign, which has seen it notch up an estimated 51 per cent market share. Party Poker is the sponsor for the Party Poker Million, an annual poker tournament that is also a televised event on the World Poker Tour with an estimated prize pool of over $7m. Party Poker's games include Texas Hold ’em, 7 Card Stud Hi and Hi-Lo, Omaha Hi and Hi-Lo, Single Table Poker Tournaments, Multi-Table Poker Tournaments. PartyPoker has one of the widest selections of table stakes options with tables beginning at $0.50/$1 and going up to $30/$60.This is one of the best poker rooms for high stakes poker. Neteller, MasterCard, Visa, iGM-Pay, Western Union, FirePay, Citadel, bank and wire transfers and cheques are all accepted payment methods. Party Poker rewards its regular players with free entries in money poker tournaments as well as deposit bonuses. PartyPoker freeroll tournaments are usually offered on a weekly and/or monthly basis. PartyPoker also has one of the best Players Clubs of any poker room in which players earn points that can be redeemed for merchandise, tournament entries, and other special events and promotions. Party Poker offers poker players a daily variety of single and multi-table poker tournaments to choose from. The buy-in ranges from $5 to more than $200. Tournament poker games include Texas Hold 'em , Omaha, Seven Card Stud, Stud 8 or Better and more, including Limit, Pot Limit, and No Limit tournaments. The site also holds regular monthly poker tournaments with a guaranteed $1m in prize money, and weekly $250,000 poker tournaments.

www.partypoker.com