Welcome To OnlyPoker.com

Overall, this is another average poker site that is either going to rise or fall to the online poker industry very soon. OnlyPoker is in the stage of its growth cycle where the next months are going to be critical to its long term success. As of now, the software is average as well as the player base. The sites claim to fame is that it is a site dedicated to poker and only poker, thus its name. The site offers almost every variety of poker game and offers a bonus package that is extremely generous. The tournament schedule is a bit above average for a site of OnlyPoker's age and there are many nice features to take advantage of. For novice to intermediate players, this site could be a great place to play, but might not fulfill the poker needs of the more serious players.

Features
OnlyPoker runs a promotion that is becoming very popular in the online poker community called the Gold Card race. While playing on the site, players who play very frequently will earn gold cards. The site has a leader board that is started anew every month and lists which players have earned the most gold cards in that particular month. The top 50 gold card earners each month will be able to receive free cash prizes, up to a maximum of $500. Aside from this promotion, the site also runs an extensive freeroll program, where players can play in freerolls that either offer a guaranteed prize pool or play in freerolls that gives away seats into the biggest weekly guaranteed tournaments.

Sign Up Bonus
This is probably the strongest aspect of OnlyPoker. The site will match the first deposit of any player by 110% up to a maximum amount of $600 when you use our Only Poker Signup Code "HREVIEW". This means that players can maximize there bonus by depositing about $547. In order to receive the bonus, players must earn points on the site by playing in real money games. After players receive a certain amount of points, they will receive the bonus $10's at a time. Players have a total of 3 months to clear the entire bonus, but since points are relatively easy to earn on OnlyPoker, players will have no problems in earning the entire bonus. The site does not offer rakeback at this time.

Tournaments
In terms of tournaments, this site has a little bit of everything so it can attract players of all different levels. Unfortunately for the most serious players, the bulk of the tournament schedule is aimed at players with smaller bankrolls. On a daily basis, most tournaments offer guaranteed prize pools between $5k and $25k. Once per day, the site holds a $100,000 guaranteed tournament that gives away about $20,000 for first place. The biggest weekly tournament is held on Sundays and that tournament gives away a Quarter of a Million dollars in guaranteed money to the field, no matter how many people decide to play. The winner of that tournament can walk away with at least $40k. The site also offers satellites into a few major live tournaments.

Traffic
This is where OnlyPoker needs to improve. Based on the next few months, the site will see its true potential based on how many new players in can attract. Currently, the site has just under 3000 players at the busiest hours of business, which is way under the industry average. Although this is due to the young age of the site, OnlyPoker needs to build a bigger player base quickly if it wants a chance to rise to the top of the industry. At the lower stakes, most of games are always running, but players could have a hard time finding higher stakes games running.

Software
The software package on the site is about average. OnlyPoker opted to sacrifice graphics for game speed and quality. Based on the player, this may or may not appeal to a player. In terms of graphics, the site uses the basic table appearance that is used on sites like PokerRoom or Pacific Poker. The player characters are nicely detailed, but besides that, everything else is pretty plain. As stated, since the graphics are pretty below average, the speed of the games are very fast and smooth. Multi tabling is very easy on this site as players will almost never experience delays or game interruptions, something that sites with better graphics may experience more often. As well, navigating through the lobby and the rest of the site is very easy due to the convenient layout.

Support
The lack of live chat means that players will not be able directly speak with the staff over the computer. Instead, players will have to email support and wait for support to get back to them, which can take up to a few hours. For problems that need more immediate responses, players can opt to call the online poker site can get help over the phone.