Welcome To PlayersOnly.com

This site, which is also a part of the Cake Poker network, was made in response to the lack of sites that accepted players from the United States. Most of the player base is in fact from the United States and the site has grown pretty quickly. The competition is still pretty bad, so above average players will find this site as a great place to play. The software package is very good as well as the tournament schedule and the bonus package. Depositing onto the site and withdrawing money off the site, things that players often become frustrated with on other online poker sites, is relatively easy on Players Only Poker. In terms of cash games, the site offers No Limit Hold Em, Omaha High, Omaha Hi/Lo, Seven Card Stud and Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo. Despite the fast growth of the site, Players Only could still afford to attract a few more players to really compete with the top sites.

Features
Players Only does not offer many unique features for its players. The main feature is used by many other sites, such as OnlyPoker. This feature is of course, the gold card race. When players play in real money games and earn points, they will also earn gold cards or gold chips. After winning these things, players can trade them in for merchandise or decide to not trade them in and instead be eligible to win cash bonuses or tournament entries. Besides for this feature, the site also gives its players great options in terms of odds calculators to help them while they play, and the hand replayer is also known to be quite good.

Sign Up Bonus
The best bonus package available for Players Only Poker is a 125% match up to a maximum amount of $1000 for players who are depositing real money onto Players Only Poker for the very first time. Like on any other site, players will have to earn points in order to receive the bonus. The site will release the bonus to its players $10 at a time. The good part about this package is that players will only need to deposit about $880 to receive the whole bonus of $1k. Players will really receive a lot of value if they deposit a lot of money on their first deposit. To make the bonus package even more appealing, players are also able to receive rakeback on the site. With a maximum offer of 33% rakeback rate in addition to the huge bonus, players will have no problems keeping their bankrolls very high.

Tournaments
The tournament selection on this site is geared towards the poker player with a decent sized bankroll. While the guaranteed prize pools are not that big, the buy ins are somewhat large comparatively. This means that the fields in most tournaments will not be very large, a quality that is often very hard to find on larger sites with so many players. For example, one of the larger tournaments on a daily basis only has a $20k guaranteed prize pool, but the buy in is $100.

This means that on average, the field is going to be only about 200 players. This holds true for the $10k daily guaranteed tournament which asks for a $50 buy in. Many players will love this about the tournaments, since they will not last for 10+ hours like tournaments on big sites. The biggest tournament offered by the site is a $100,000 prize pool tournament, which is held once per month. The biggest tournament on a weekly basis has a prize pool of $50,000. Both of those tournaments require a buy in of $150.

Traffic
There are approximately 7.7k players playing on this site at the same time during the very busiest hours. Most of the players, about 6k of them, will be involved in poker tournaments while the rest of the player base will be involved in cash games. While these numbers are good relative to the age of the site, more players are still needed for the site to rise to the top.

Software
Players Only provides its players with above average graphics with smooth and fast gameplay. While many sites sacrifice graphics in order to be very fast, Players Only has found a nice balance between the 2 areas of its software. Players can play up to 10 tables at once without having any gaming delays. The avatars used are detailed and the backgrounds are visually appealing. Overall, players should be pleased.

Support
Players have almost every support option available to them on the site, everything except fax. Players with gaming issues can choose to either speak with the support staff live over the computer, over the telephone or via email. No matter what method they choose, the staff will answer questions in a friendly, quick and accurate way.