<tr><td class="tcat"><center><h1 style="font-size: 14px;">Inter Poker </h1>
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<strong>General Information: </strong> Interpoker is a member of a poker network commonly called the cryptologic network. Other members include William Hill, Caribbean Sun, Littlewoods, The Ritz Club London, Betfair, ukbetting poker, Total Bet Poker, Poker Plex, and Classic Poker. This network is of average size generally placing in the lower top 10 traffic wise. Interpoker is very popular with players primarily interested in taking advantage of their standard monthly deposit bonus, more on this later. They have many High stakes games. Interpoker allows play with 3 currency types British Pounds, Euro, and Dollars. Good idea to keep up on exchange rates as their rake is unfavorable but especially in anything but dollars. Detailed Review below <br>
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</center> <br> <b>Software and Graphics:</b> The software is functional and relatively easy on the eyes. The graphics are average for online poker but still, this is the 21st century, come on guys! I do have more disconnections than I would like, but not excessive. There are a couple of things I think should be improved, annoyances more than problems. First there is no button to simply login, you have to click on a game or whatever else you need to do at the time and you get a window informing you, you need to login, then you type in your login information. I have no idea why such a simple thing is not in the software. When you open a game window it doesn't fit properly on the screen and you can't get the window to automatically fit, so you have to drag the window up to be able to see the bottom of the screen. The bottom has the autopost and chat boxes. Hand history is easy to accessed big plus. Although they should add a Raked Hand counter, they say they are soon. <br>
<strong>Score: </strong> 5/10 <br><br> <center> <a href="http://www.cardschat.com/ppplay.jpg"><img src="ppplays.jpg" style="margin: 4px;" align="right" height="275" width="350"></a> </center><br> <b>Freerolls:</b> 1 daily freeroll advertised that requires player points to enter. Occasional specials. Not a freeroller friendly site. <br>
<strong>Score: </strong> 1/10 <br>
<br> <br> <b>Sit and Gos (SNG):</b> Mostly Hold'em but also Omaha and 7stud games available. Many short handed and full table games. Buy'ins from $1 upto $500. Need more traffic in this area though. <br>
<strong>Score: </strong> 5/10 only because of the game variety would be lower otherwise <br><br><br> <b>Competition:</b> The competition can be soft but alot of time you will run into tables, especially at the middle limits, where the action is the tightest you will find. The reason these games have tightened up so much is because of the players who are there to only get bonus money and they succeed in doing this by seeing about 6 percent of the flops! The new low limit tables are very loose because none of the action on these tables counts toward your bonuses. This site is all about game selection much more so than other sites. You get on the right table you will get action, pick the wrong one and you may not see 5 flops an hour! Although the lower NL tables are very profitable! <br>
<strong>Score: </strong> 6/10 Average but watch a table before you join it! <br><br><br> <center><a href="http://www.cardschat.com/sites/8.php"><img src="http://www.cardschat.com/pp468.gif"></a></center> <br><br> <b>Traffic:</b>
Average to slightly below average traffic. Ring Games are very easy to find a game. Tournaments can be challenging. <br>
<strong>Score: </strong> 6/10 <br><br> <b>Tournaments:</b> Run a lot of varied buy-in tournaments. The problem is low traffic many tournaments get cancelled due to lack of players. <br>
<strong>Score: </strong> 4/10 Really annoying when tourneys gets cancelled <br> <br><center><a href="http://www.cardschat.com/pplobby.jpg"><img src="pplobbys.jpg" style="margin: 4px;" align="left" height="275" width="350"></a> </center> <br> <b>Deposit:</b> <strong></strong>Minimum is $20. Options include: Basic 900pay, Certified Cheque,Cheque,Citadel,Credit Cards,ECP,FirePay,Money Order, Neteller,TeleBuy,and Wire Transfer. <br>
<strong>Score </strong>: 10/10 <br><br> <b>Withdraw:</b> Minimum $20. Options same as above. Neteller withdrawals hit in 24-48 hours usually closer to 48. Checks are supposed to arrive with 7 working days. <br>
<strong>Special Withdrawal info: </strong> To withdraw money you must first make a deposit and then wait for them to send you a PIN number in the mail, mine took almost 2 weeks to arrive. You can not withdrawal money from your account without your PIN and they ONLY send it via regular mail. They also charge for every withdrawal, appears to be a dollar for any kind of transaction. There is a work around when you put in your withdrawal amount add .01 to it they round up and you end up getting the extra dollar sent to you. This still works but it is your choice if you want to try it or not. <br>
<strong>Score: </strong> 3/10 I really hate them charging you to withdrawal and the PIN can be a major pain if you lose it. You WILL get your money if you follow the rules though <br><br> <b>Promotions:</b> They do run a minimum of 1 deposit bonus every month. Usually 100% upto $90 requires 8 times the bonus in raked hands to get the bonus released to you and a hand must be raked at least $0.25. Which means the minimum rake in hands you played in, on a $50 deposit would be $100. Obviously I simplified the numbers. There is a strategy online for playing this site solely for profiting from this site's bonuses, it works but it is not for an inexperienced player! I personally cleared a deposit bonus there and made money in the process but it was NOT easy. The site recently kicked up their raked hand requirements by 3x. Alot of information online says this is one of the best deals around. That might have been true before they increased their raked hand requirements and the games tightened up so much, but IMHO only try their bonuses if you can play a disciplined tight aggressive style of play! It is not for everyone! You also must keep track of your raked hand count unless you CALL support or trust a counter that can be found online. <br>
<strong>Score: </strong> 7/10 If you can clear the bonuses they are above average <br><br> <b>Support:</b> Don't waste your time on their email support. I really don't know why they even say they have email support I got 1 email out of 10 replied to. Pick up the phone they at least answer it eventually. <br>
<strong>Score </strong>: 3/10 If I hadn't called them a couple time they would get a 0. <br><br><br> <font color="red"><b>Conclusion:</b></font> If you like relatively higher and tight middle stakes games you will like Interpoker. They have good promotions but read up and use good judgment if you want to try their deposit bonuses. They really need to attract more tournament players. The software needs the tweaks, I mentioned earlier, taken care of. They need a raked hand counter easily accessed. Overall I think Inter is an average online poker room that could be a very good one. Wouldn't recommend they be your first poker room though. <br></td> </tr>