Preferred poker sites?

fundiver199 said:

888 Poker is a pretty soft site, if you play micro or low stakes games, and the software is also good. It used to regularly crash for no apparent reason, but it seems like, they have gotten this sorted out completely, and it now run even smoother than the software of PokerStars. However this is unfortunately where the good news end, because there are at least 3 problems with 888 Poker, that people need to know about before deciding to make deposits or spend significant time playing there.

Activity/volume is very limited
There is not much activity on the site. Even if you play 2NL or 5NL cash games, you might find, that no more than a few tables are running. There are also no SnGs and not that many MTTs either.

Withdrawals are often delayed for no good reason
When people request a withdrawal, they are commonly asked to reverify their account, even though the account was already fully verified years ago, and this can be nothing less than a bureaucratic nightmare. Reportedly people living in countries, where the official language is spanish, are asked to send documents issued in english.

And for me they send me an email translated so poorly into swedish, that it request, that I send them a picture of my "account statement problems" and other similar nonsense. They also asked me to upload this on a site, which I can not log on to, because in Sweden we dont have a traditional username and password log-in. Instead we use a personal digital ID called Bank-ID, and this does not work on the site, where they want me to upload documents.

Security is likely among the worst in the business
From when I played there regularly back in 2020-2021 I know, that they take basically no action against multiaccounters, and from recent experience cash games from 20NL and above are infected with scripts users. A script is a program, which identify, when a "weak" player has sat down at a cash table and then instantly seat the script user at the same table or put him on the waiting list. This mean, that weak players are being relentlessly bumhunted, and if you are not using a script yourself, you will never get to play with them.

You will probably be fine, if you play micro or low stakes games, but I would be very hesitant playing mid or high stakes games on 888 Poker. I think, there is a very high risk, you will get cheated in some way by multiaccounters, colluders, RTA users and what not. The issue is, there is so little activity on 888 Poker, that they cant afford to have much staff. They obviously dont have anyone, who speak spanish or swedish, and likely the security team is either one guy on his way to retirement, or it has been sacked completely to save money.

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wushibala said:

I've never had any problems with this site. I should mention that I mostly play freerolls, and this poker room has more freerolls than any other site I know of. That's why it's the best site for me. But if you're looking to play mid- and high-stakes games, then GGpoker is probably a better choice.

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GarotoMaroto said:

Pokerstars and WPTGlobal definitely
like Party poker a little, I guess they just need a little better layout.
Don't like GGpoker and 888poker LOL (banned me forever for stupid reasons)
God bless

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