Survey - What is important to you when choosing an online poker site?

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We would like to know what you look for when searching for a poker site to play at. What is important to you and what matters the most?

Let us know - we are anxious to hear what you have to say! It would be cool if you list them in order of priority.

I want to play poker
 
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1. That it has some player base, that it is kinda known and not too small, that you don't need to fear it is closing soon.
2. And mabye also the promos that are given to this room, including other sites, who promote the room about advertising and "giveaways" as well.
3. About the games, that they offer
 
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What payment systems work in poker rooms: pokerstars; 888 Poker; Americas Cardroom; partypoker; intertops; BOL; SportBetting

Where mandatory Deposit.

If possible, list everything.

Take screenshots of payment systems in each poker room and place in this thread or open a special theme.

It's laborious work but it's worth it. Many will be grateful to you.
 
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To me, it's all about the traffic. Am I going to have to sit around for 15 minutes for a sit & go to start or will I be able to go right when I register.
 
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trustworthiness
traffic
software
games available
fees/rakeback
customer service
ease of withdrawal

and most importantly...can I play there
 
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Many deposit/withdrawal options, including different ewallets, like skrill and neteller.

Fast payouts.

Have promotions for tournament and cash table players.

Good traffic.

Good and accessible custumer servies, live Live Chat Support.
 
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Expectationally
It has become apparent to me that my highest priority when signing up for a new site is “prevalence of CardsChat freerolls”. When I joined CC three or four months ago, I was already registered at PokerStars, party poker, and Full Tilt (defunct in canada for over a year). I am now also playing at 888, Sports Betting, Bet Online, and America’s Card Room – all because of CC FR’s. I consider Black Chip Poker to be a virtual duplicate of ACR – so I won’t be signing up there.

In a general sense, after playing at all these sites, I have recognized a number of advantages and disadvantages. But to answer the primary question of: “what (do) you look for when searching for a poker site to play at. What is important to you and what matters the most?“, the answer is simply CC Freerolls.

This has led me to consider Intertops and Titan as well. Intertops only has one CC FR per week, so I’m sure I’ll sign up eventually, but there’s no rush. Titan requires a deposit and seems to go down a lot in the middle of the monthly tourney, so I’m not so sure about that one.

Experientially

Once I have played at a site, I gain an appreciation/hatred of their various features. Software interface is my primary criterion for enjoyment of play. I would list software features in the following order:


Overall Functionality- no lagging, glitching, crashing – if this becomes a factor, I would leave the site

Replay – very important to me – ACR replay might well as not exist, it is so useless. PP replay is just workable enough that sometimes I can fool myself into thinking it’s worth a try – mistake.

Overall “Look” – Can I customize the table so that I can easily see and understand the cards, whose action it is, what the bets/pot(s) are, etc. I never seem to know when it’s my action on ACR.

Chat – not very important, but when it doesn’t work (hello PP black chat box of death) it’s really annoying.

Multiple Site Interaction – I often find myself multi-tabling tourneys on multiple sites. SB and BOL do not play well with others. If either of these sites is open with any other site, one or more lose sound. Sometimes (rarely) SB or BOL lose sound and PS, PP, 888, or ACR is/are OK, but 95% of the time SB or BOL have sound, and every other site is silent. This leads to missing action when alerts are off and one site simply dominates the other and the “weaker” one doesn’t pop to the fore.

Because of the nature of my micro grinding Freeroll ways (5Dimes Nick would call me "Freeroll Scum"), I’m not overly concerned with ease of deposit, ease of withdrawal, Player to Player transfers, and the like. Apparently I can deposit to 888 via paypal – that is amazing. I can deposit/withdraw from PP at my local cardroom (Playground Poker Club) – also fantastic. If I was judging a site on ease of deposit/withdrawal, I would search for a site that allows easy withdrawal without the use of cryptocurrencies, and the impossible dream of an account to which I can deposit, play, and withdraw in USD with no transfer or conversion fees. Even in the old pre-Black Friday days, my FT account was in US dollars and withdrawals were put in my CAD account (after conversion at a crappy rate) despite the fact that I had a USD account at the same bank. Nowadays when I wish to deposit via Playground, I have to give them CAD which PP then converts (crappy rate again) to USD – if I’m holding USD, Playground will convert to CAD (crappy rate), deposit, and then PP will convert back to USD (crappy rate). I get crapped on twice!
 
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Well, as a "newbie" that was lead to "easy sign up" to almost all existing pokersites, the most important thing for me is that I don't find myself playing with myself ;)

I'm happy though, that most of the sites detect multiple entries in more valuable tournaments.
Best solution I haven't found yet, it would be: "We're sorry, but you already signed up to our NETWORK through..., you may choose the skin to play from!"


My software and everything here in mexico lags a bit behind, so the software has to be kept small and nice... just working fine, you know! I love freerolls at the beach on fullscreen, nice avatars to remember me and stuff.
Some I just can't play, because the monitor driver sets out from time to time. (IMAGINE!!!)


A full color note system, these small notes in the corner are only for young ppl, that use HUD's anyway. BTW, for the honor of the game it would be nice to show this to players from 3rd world or just elder ppl. WHEN THEY SIGN UP!!! I couldn't have imagined this is allowed!!!


Most important besides entertainment, whenever I can afford it, Is the possibility to always win some pennies for free and get back on the horse again.


And I love to be a worshiped client, so I understood your deposit offer, but is that all, you've got???


Where is my present, gift, ticket, to show up in your traffic everyday?
So a decent loyalty program makes the difference.


I could tell you why I have a ranking from 1-4, and how Nr. 4 could easily be No.2,
if this is what you want to find out, but that would be too detailed 4 NOW!


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Rakeback is the most important given the volume I put in. If it wasn't for rakback I'd be a breakeven playing at 20nl
 
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1.Functional software. Software that is glitch free that is playable with no lag.

2.Large player base.


3.Guaranteed prize pool tournaments.


4.Reasonable rake on tables and tournaments.


5.Security. Site makes every effort to root out multi accounts, colluding, bots and any other form of cheating.


6. Cash outs are made in reasonable time via a variety of methods. Same for deposits.


7. 24/7 customer support.


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For me, the most important thing when choosing a poker room is:
This is the withdrawal of funds! Time through which the money will be in my account.
Efficiency and adequacy of the support service. I am enraged to wait for 3-6 weeks that they would answer me, with what bot who will reply with a template and in any way not solving my problem !!!
Having a service that fights poker bots. Since in our time this is a very urgent problem. I would even say poker bots, it's a scourge of online poker.
 
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traffick, omaha,omaha hi lo, free tournaments, rake back, terms of this poker room, poker soft
 
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1. Software2. Support
3. Traffic
4. Variety of Games
5. Tracked by Online Tracking Sites
 
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Sorry, it's me again :)I have forgotten the MOST important thing you have to do:


Whenever you loose my connection (yeah, it's obvious you, my dear pokerrroom, because it happens often, and all other connections keep stable :p ), so whatever you are doing over there, I obligue you to find me immediately, hold the hand when I have my CHIPS ON THE TABLE, and bring me back to my hand to play it, not only watch my chips die without being able to act!!!


That happens once with MONEY on the table, and I'm gone and never come back, I swear!!!
 
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When i started playing poker on Stars it was the nice looking software^^ I literally couldnt play on any other site because I thought the software looked awefull. Imo Stars stills has the best, but nowadays its not as important for me anymore. Money is Money I guess :D
Most important is the Playerbase and Rake/Rakeback. As I play cashgames this really makes a difference in netwins at the end of the session.
I never had any trouble with withdraws, most sites offer PayPal or/and Skrill wich makes it quite easy. Alltough I never tried those really small/ unknown sites. But i guess it would bother me quite much not being able to withdraw money fast. So I would agree with Syltan.
 
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I don`t ask for much.
1:Trust
2:Freerolls
3;Fast withdrawl process
4:Variety of games
5Decent software
 
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What does #5 mean?

I mean that you can get on sharkscope and see your stats.

When i started playing poker on Stars it was the nice looking software^^ I literally couldnt play on any other site because I thought the software looked awefull. Imo Stars stills has the best, but nowadays its not as important for me anymore. Money is Money I guess :D

I meant software the runs well not just looking pretty.
 
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Survey - What is important to you when choosing a poker site?

1-. first that has a good prestige
2-. understandable and easy to use lobby
3-. good promotions for new players and for depositors 4-. Good freerolls that give you the opportunity to create a good bankroll
5-. that when you withdraw the money from your earnings are very serious
6- excellent casino games with lots of variety
7- Games in all varieties of poker, Holden, Stud, Omaha, etc. etc.
8-. sports betting 24 hours a day
9-. Support team is effective
10-. online chat with support


Well, I put a little bit of each point that I would like to see in a poker room, but the important thing is the first point, that they have a good reputation throughout their career
 
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firstly it is an opportunity to quickly and simply withdraw the won money, secondly this number of players online
 
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1-Functional software. Software that is glitch free

.2-,,vast games availablity,/selection,,traffic
3-Guaranteed prize pool .promotions for tournaments
4-Efficient/fast response support service[FONT=NotoSans, Lato, arial, sans-serif]
[/FONT]5--Many deposit/withdrawal options


color note system
Security.
 
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1.for me i have to know if the site has players on it
2.can i trust the site
3.deposit methods
4.withdrawl time frame less than week
5.tournmnet sizes
 
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1. Country of operation and regulation by authorities2. Clear Terms and Conditions
3. Fast and clear account verification process
4. Good and fast enough communication between the poker room and me
5. Is the poker room somehow promoted by forums like CardsChat ? (sometimes, I don't have to check 1-4 above, if CC made the check before me)
6. Promotions and perks for EXISTING players - all rooms try to attract new players, but most of them s*ck at customer retention marketing !
 
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The most important factors that I choose for a site are the pay-out record. The software. And its really good to find BCP. Then I became involved with cardschat, years ago...
Cardschat has been a positive force to continue my poker skills. And the staff have always been there to assist as needed...
Ms. Dakota-xx was very helpful when I was getting signed up for the freerolls. I was not very proficient on my pc. However, Ms. Dakota, spent additional time to assist with my difficulties. I appreciate and respect the staff on cardschat.
I believe that the staff at Cardschat will only be involved in a good program. So, get involved an have some fun!!!
See ya all, at the tables.....
 
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