Site Review: Party Gaming

About Party Gaming and Party Casino

PartyGaming was founded in 1997 and is now the world’s leading listed online gaming company. Licensed and regulated by the Government of Gibraltar, The Group offers a variety of games through an integrated Party-branded platform and through a number of secondary brands. These consist of their main sites PartyPoker.com launched in 2001 and now one of the biggest poker sites in the world; and PartyCasino.com, another world leading gaming site.

PartyPoker.com was launched in August 2001 and is the Group’s most success brand, available in 12 different languages. Since party poker was launched the number of players attracted has grown rapidly due to a number of factors: the increase of broadband penetration, increasing popularity of gambling; and the marketing efforts of online gaming companies. Plus, the significant growth of interest in poker and online poker sites due to televised coverage of poker tournaments.

PartyPoker has successfully maintained its position as one of the most popular and reputable online poker rooms in the world largely attributable among others to their relatively loose games, special events and tournaments (the yearly PartyPoker Million week-long cruise is a hugely popular attraction), loyalty programmes and promotional bonuses. With PartyPoker you can choose your favourite tournament and play in the poker room of your choice whether it be Texas Hold’em, Omaha, Omaha High-Low Seven Card Stud or Seven Card Stud Low with possibility of choosing between Limit and No-Limit. It supports about 10,000 ring game real money players and up to 60,000 real money tournament players during the peak hours and free poker games, multi table poker play, free card game and more, read review in full.

The company was floated on the London Stock Exchange in 2005, at an incredible total value of £4.5 billion and is now one of the biggest poker sites in the world with over 1.2m unique active players.

In 2006 PartyGaming launched Party Casino, Party Gammon, and party poker of course, and Party Bingo which enabled players to be able to move between hundreds of games using the same user account and the same cash account.

Party Poker Software

All games are powered by the PartyGaming system which is tested by iTech Labs. As an independent tester of gaming and wagering devices, iTech Labs ensures that the system is both reliable, resilient and operates to the highest standards of software integrity thereby ensuring that all games are fair, operate correctly and their outcomes are not predictable.

The software used in Party Poker’s online poker sites comes in both downloadable and onsite versions for PC, Mac and Linux systems. It’s fairly easy to use and reasonably fast, but nothing earth-shattering – players may experience some delays when loading the lobby screens and game play tables. Customer support is offered by email and phone support, but is a little below par considering the stature of a company, such as PartyPoker.