Party Poker
To play Party Poker right now, click here. To read some background information about Party Poker, see below.
Online since 2001
Licensed and regulated
Easy, safe and secure
Prompt payouts
Lots of games & limits
No credit card needed
PartyPoker.com is the world's largest poker room. With more than 70,000 simultaneous players and 8,000 tables during peak traffic time each day, PartyPoker.com is larger than all other poker rooms in the world combined. That is no insignificant achievement considering the site only launched in August 2001.
Known for its highly innovative marketing strategies that attract both new and experienced poker players, PartyPoker.com is the blockbuster success story of online gaming. A recent report by the River City Group estimates that there were approximately 600,000 real-money online poker players globally as of May 2003 and, by August of that year, it had doubled to 1.2 million. The same report estimates that the annual revenue for online poker is increasing by 16 per cent each month.
Through a combination of aggressive marketing and robust technology, PartyPoker.com has managed to garner more than 50 per cent of the global online poker market share. Players at the PartyPoker.com site have in excess of 8,000 tables to choose from every day, plus large-scale tournaments that are held on the site weekly. Currently, the weekly tournament prize pools run to more than $20 million. A key to the companys growth has been the creation of the simplest user interface in poker, designed to be appealing to even the most technology-challenged individuals. PartyPoker.com offers 24/7 customer care by phone, email and instant messaging.
Vikrant Bhargava, Group Marketing Director, likens PartyPoker.com to other major online brands like Amazon and eBay: "Our customers want to come onto the PartyPoker website and get access to a variety of games, tables and tournaments quickly. The sheer numbers of people playing poker on PartyPoker.com means that there is always something of interest for our players. The integrity and security we bring to our games through our systems means players can transact with us and other players with huge levels of confidence. It is the power of liquidity and integrity that have been the hallmarks of success for Amazon and eBay - and now also for Party Poker.com."
Right from the very beginning, PartyPoker.com has been a major success. The company is managed by alumni from top business and technology schools. Ironically, none of them come from a poker background, but they have applied their skills to build a highly successful e-commerce operation. The management team takes its poker input from a panel of experienced consultants from the poker world. That panel includes World Poker Tour commentator Mike Sexton and Linda Johnson, the First Lady of Poker, a highly-respected poker player and successful businesswoman, and other poker experts.
In March 2002, PartyPoker.com staged its first major offline tournament, bringing together many of its leading players who had won their way into the event via satellite tournaments. The first PartyPoker.com Million was held on a cruise ship and paved the way for an annual event. The inaugural tournament guaranteed a first prize of $1 million, making it larger than any other limit tournament in the world. The tournament also made history in another way when it became the first major to be won by a woman poker player, Kathy Liebert.
PartyPoker.com has come a long way since the first PartyPoker.com Million.
PartyPoker.com Million IV will shatter the record set in the PartyPoker.com Million III last year - a tournament that had a $3.82 million prize pool and attracted 546 players. PartyPoker.com has chartered the Holland Americas MS Oosterdam cruise ship to host this years mega $7 million dollar prize-pool event. The ship sails on March 19 2005.
The PartyPoker.com Million V will take place in March 2006.
PartyPoker.com is licensed and regulated by the Government of Gibraltar. The companys software is audited and certified by iTech Labs, a leading independent tester of gaming and wagering systems.
