Poker Host Review

Ring games at Poker Host are extremely soft. The Microgaming Network has lot's of newbie players, with poor poker skills. Player / flop percentages are very high, and action is loose throughout the low-middle limits. High-stakes is a bit more solid, but not by much. Experienced players should do well here.

Tournaments are quite loose as well. Fish are everywhere, so be careful when you bluff. Exploit bad players by betting more than you might at other, tighter rooms. Players are more likely to pay you off when you make a huge hand, so don't be too afraid of scaring away your opponents - in general terms. Go after big pots when you have big hands. Keep smaller, made hands more often, but keep the pots small.

1/ The big, obvious promotion Poker Host is running right now is their huge signup bonus of 100% up to $2,000. There are 2 ways players can clear this bonus, both have fairly easy clearing requirements. With that said, we want players to read our Poker Host Bonus page before they register. The bonus is flat out huge, but there are a couple of things to know before signing up.

2/ WPT Boot Camp - Win a 7 night, all expenses paid trip to the Bahamas, learn from top pro's, then compete for a $210,000 package that includes buy-ins for 10 - $10,000 WPT Main Event buy-ins. Plus, the winner will also get travel expenses, hotel, and everything else paidd for as well! A cool promotion.

Poker Host typically runs 8 freerolls per day. Prize pools are $200 - $500 and generally start with around 12,000 players. Yes, that's twelve thousand players. If you're a freeroll whore, this may not be the best poker room for you. Try Pokerstars for better freerolls.

PokerHost.com runs some good guaranteed tournaments. $179,000 worth of guaranteed tournaments are offered daily, in the $1,200 - $15,000 range, with buy-in from $3 - $38.

Sunday Showdown - $175,000 guaranteed. 2:00 pm EST. $65 direct buy-in or qualify through satellites for $6.50. Satellites are run 7 times per day, 600 max. players, with the top 10% making it into the main event.

Saturday Extreme Stack - $65,000 guaranteed. 2:00pm EST. $215 direct buy-in or qualify through satellites for either $11 or $22. $11 satellites run 4 times daily, 600 player max, top 5% makes it to the main event. $22 satellites run 2 times daily, top 10% makes it in.

Poker Host Lobby - The lobby at PokerHost.com has 3 different optional screens, that all do essentially the same thing - find you a table or tournament. The second screen however is very trick, take a look at our screenshot and see what we mean. to the right of the lobby screenshot, we point out some key features.

Poker Host Table - Simple, clean design. Everything is easy to find & use. Layout is more basic than other rooms, but easy on the eyes. Changing graphics allow following the action very simple, and the purposeful sound effects enhance that even more. cards are big and clear, buttons are simple to use. No avatars.

Microgaming has built a nice poker software package. Disconnects are glitches are rare. With dozens of online poker rooms relying on this network, Microgaming couldn't survive if the software didn't work as well as it does. This is their business, and they do it well.

Earn PH Points for who knows what? After finding no information on the website or in the lobby, we talked with LiveChat support to get some info.. As it turns out, that part of their website is "not working" right now, but they're currently working on it. When asked for a ballpark idea of when this information would be posted, they replied "there is no time frame".

24/7 Email - support@pokerhost.com

After signing up and making your first deposit, you must contact support@pokerhost.com and tell them how much bonus you want to go after. For example: You deposit $500 and want to get a full $500 bonus, you must tell them this because apparently they have to manually note this in your account. Your bonus will then be paid in one lump sum, once you've cleared it entirely. You must clear 10 qualifying hands per dollar in bonus. So, if you deposit $100, you will need to play 1,000 qualifying hands. A qualifying hand is based on the following requirements. Qualifying raked hands must be played at minimum $.25/.50 Pot Limit/No Limit or $1/$2 Fixed Limit tables. Then, the pot must be at least $5, and you must have contributed to the pot.

This means that players who play micro-limits will not have any qualifying hands, thus no bonus. If you play the required stakes, but play very tight and don't enter many pots, you will accumulate points slowly. If you play big enough stakes to hit the $5 pot often, and play a decent number of hands or multi-table, then this is a great bonus for you. If you do, you can sign up here - PokerHost.com.