Best Poker Rooms: Planet Poker (Review)

Positive January 1, 1998, Planet Poker became the world's first real money internet poker card-room. October 15, 1999 Planet Poker teamed up with Mike Caro alias "The Mad Genius of Poker" - a world wide known poker expert. They have a Bad Beat Jackpot of about US $30,000 (Thirty Thousand US Dollar): When a player gets beaten with a full house of Aces full of Kings (A,A,A,K,K) or better he will win 50% - 100% of the Bad Beat jackpot. Finance Planet Poker uses P$eCash to handle all money matters. There are no fees to make a deposit using P$e-Cash. Deposits: Credit Cards - min./max. deposit is $20 / $600. Fire Pay - min./max. deposit is $20 / $600. Pay Pal, Check and Money Order. Withdrawals: As above. License Established in September, 1997. Operating and licensed in Costa Rica. Software Planet Poker runs on Windows NT computers using RAID5 fault tolerance with full security implemented. Game play is backed up every 2 hours. The SQL database implementation allows them to recover all data up to the moment of any crash which may occur (they haven't had any yet). Contact email: Support@Planetpoker.com // They offer a lot of information on their home page.
Texas Hold 'Em Hold 'em, also known as "Texas Hold 'em", is a poker game in which each player receives 2 cards dealt face down, while 5 cards are dealt face up on the table. All players play with their best 5 cards in any combination of their 2 down cards and the 5 common cards on the table. The best five-card poker hand wins. Play	Five Card Draw There is an ante and two betting rounds: Each player is dealt 5 cards face down and pays the ante. After this first round of betting, a player can draw up to 5 new cards or choose to hold 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, or all his cards. A button is used to indicate the dealer. The action starts clockwise from the button throughout the hand. Play
Omaha High Omaha is a poker game in which each player receives 4 cards dealt face down, while 5 cards are dealt face up on the table. All players play with their best 5 cards but they must use 2 of their cards in combination with 3 of the cards exposed on the table. There are a greater variety of possible hands because each player has 4 down cards and this usually results in lots of action. Play	Omaha Hi-Lo Hi-Lo simply means that the pot gets split between the best high hand and the best low hand where the low hand must be an 8 or better to qualify. Otherwise it is played exactly like Omaha Hi: Each player receives 4 cards dealt face down, while 5 cards are dealt face up on the table. All players play with their best 5 cards, using 2 of their own cards in combination with 3 of the cards exposed on the table. Play
Seven Card Stud Seven Card Stud is played like this: There is an ante and five betting rounds. Each player is dealt 2 cards face down, then one round after another 4 cards face up and a final card face down. The player with the lowest exposed card starts betting a minimum of one-half the lower limit. You will always have the option of betting either half the lower limit or the lower limit for the table designated. After this first round of betting, all future betting starts with the player holding the highest hand. Play	Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Hi-Lo simply means that the pot gets split between the best high hand and the best low hand where the low hand must be an 8 or better to qualify. Otherwise it is played exactly as Seven Card Stud: There is an ante and five betting rounds: Each player is dealt 2 cards face down, then one round after another 4 cards face up and a final card face down. The player with the lowest exposed card starts betting either half the lower limit or the lower limit. After this first round of betting, all future betting starts with the player holding the highest hand. Play