If you are just a starter, you can receive $5 for free when you earn a single PKR point. You will need to use the bonus code welcome5 when you make your deposit. You will need to deposit a minimum of $10.

If you are a moderate poker player, then choose the Intermediate bonus by using the bonus code welcome150. You will earn up to $150 (you will be matched on your deposit) and you will receive this in 5% increments as you accumulate PKR points. There is a minimum deposit of $25 in order to use this code.

The Advanced bonus is for use by regular poker players who play at least 4 hours a day on average. This bonus is a 125% match worth up to $500 (max bonus when you deposit $400). In order to receive this bonus, you must use the code welcome500 when you are making your first deposit. You will earn the bonus 10% at a time as you earn PKR points. You will need to deposit a minimum of $150 in order to use this code.

PKR points are awarded in one of two basic ways: rake collected and tournament entry fees. The rake is the portion of the pot that goes towards the poker room operators in cash games. The tournament entry fees are collected before you enter a Sit N Go (SNG) or a Multi Table Tournament (MTT). The amount of tournament entry fee is 10% of the cost to enter the tournament.

Most players who are serious about making money in the Advanced bonus are going to go the route of playing in Raked hands. This is often a much faster way of accumulating points. However, if you are better suited for the single table sit n gos, you may find that you will make more money overall and the bonus money will come when it does.

Added Free Gifts

There are a couple of other things that you will receive regardless of what you deposit. This includes a free ticket to the $20,000 GTD Mini Masters ($6 cash value), a free entry into the next $2,500 depositors freeroll (held on the 2nd and 4th Sunday of the month), and 1,000 free PKR points to spend on your Avatar or on the Premium Freerolls.

The Poker Room Features at good poker rooms:

3D Avatars: Superior animation and design provides exceptionally human-like avatars which move, show facial expressions, speak certain words, and even appear to be checking cards when a player does so from his computer.

Personal Imaging: An option which allows for players to pick a picture on their own, whether by scanning an image onto their computer or choosing one from the internet. They may then use the picture as their representation during the game.

Floating Chat Options: Chat messages appear next to each player at the table throughout the game.

Hints: Prompts with pieces of advice pop up to help the player use the poker room’s devices and make the correct decisions throughout the game.

Easy Switch from Play Money to Real Money: This is done instantly with a very simple and efficient conversion program.

Cashing Out: Easy option to remove winnings from the poker room at any time.

Player Lists: A list of all the poker room users to let the player know precisely who is online.

Ping Time: A visible feature which displays the amount of time it takes for a message to go from a player’s computer and back. This assists in making a proper analysis of a player who may be taking a long time to make his bet, but only due to the slowness of his connection.

4 Color Decks: Assigns each suit a different color to help players identify them more easily.

Realistic Audio Sounds: Betting around the table varies in sound according to the location of the player placing the bet. The greater the distance, the softer the sound, whereas players situated closest to you will generate louder sounds.

Chat Logs: Lets you keep track of all your conversations with the different players.

Play Logs: A tool which lets you monitor your playing and your hand history by taking notes as you play as well as monitoring other players and keeping tabs on them (includes gathering player statistics).

Multi-Table Viewing Option: Facilitates the playing of multiple games at once.

Visible Chips: Allows players to see each others chips in addition to the amount in the pot.

Find Player Option: A search tool to find if a specific player is in one of the poker rooms.

Ranking: A feature which ranks all real-money players according to winnings.

It might seem weird since I still have 5Dimes on this website even though they no longer use 3D Poker software. 5Dimes also accepts American poker players, but they are now part of the Winning Poker Network (formerly Yahtahay).

In any event, I would like to tell you about a poker site that I just started to play at called PokerView. This is listed as one of the easiest poker sites to play at.

Easy Poker Sites

How can I tell that a poker site is “easy”? This is a good question. There are obviously different answers for different types of poker players. There are a couple of key factors, however:

1) Size of website/Number of players/Stakes – This is going to be the key. Pros are going to gravitate to where the most players are playing because this is where the largest number of inexperienced players are going to be. This can either be good or bad depending on what type of player you are and what type of stakes that you are wagering.

Most of the poker players that are trying to make a living off the game will tend to avoid lower stakes games. But, you have to be aware that a lot of people play hyper-aggressively at the Free and very low limit poker games. You want to find a happy medium and that tends to be around $10 – $20 tournaments and $1/$2 to $2/$4 ring games.

Some poker rooms will be kind of sparsely populated. I’m thinking of the websites that offer more than just poker; sites that focus their attention on Sports betting or casino games. These sites tend to have some inexperienced players that are more comfortable betting on sports or playing blackjack, etc.

2) Ease of playing poker at multiple tables – Some sites don’t offer the best software like you might think of PokerStars and many other sites. That might make it difficult to play at 4 tables at the same time. It might not be convenient to poker professionals, but that is exactly the point.

People who try to make a living off of online poker will not be able to play just 1 or 2 tables at a time. Most pros will have at least 4 windows open and I’ve even known some people to have up to 8 games going on simultaneously.

If you like to concentrate on one game at a time, it’s easier to beat like-minded people who are only playing 1 game at a time. When I’ve tried 4 poker tables at the same time, you end up having to make split-second decisions often because each game is competing for your attention.

PokerView

PokerView has everything that you would normally want at a poker room. A variety of poker games: Texas Hold’em, 7 Card Stud, Omaha and Omaha Hi/Lo. All of these games can be played with Fixed, Pot and No Limit.

PokerView also has special Webcam poker rooms where you can actually see the other online players. I wouldn’t personally play with a webcam, but everyone has their own opinion.

You can also receive a special bonus when you make your first deposit at the casino: get up to $750 when you make a deposit of up to $500. That is a 150% bonus (minimum deposit $30) that can be earned by playing at PokerView’s ring table and tournaments.

The bonus is earned in 20 stages. If you deposited $500, you will receive $30 each time you complete another stage. For every 10 poker points you get, you will earn $1 of bonus. That means you will need to earn 3,000 points before you receive your first bonus.

If you play more often, you can opt out of the bonus and contact PokerView to receive 35% rakeback daily. This is obviously intended for people who average at very least 20 hours of poker per week.