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VC POKER REVIEW |
| VC POKER REVIEW |
VC Poker is one of the UK and Europe's biggest poker rooms, and is powered by leading independent gaming company and bookmaker Victor Chandler. At VCPoker, you will find a large range of stakes ($.01 - $.02 up to $100 - $200) for their games. They have a decent variety, including; limit, pot-limit, and no-limit Hold’em, limit and pot-limit Omaha and Omaha Hi/Lo, 7 Card Stud, and 5 Card Stud. As with other iPoker skins, you can expect the cash games to have a ton of people. This is one of the most popular networks for ring play, and it's a shame they don't accept US players! During their peak times you can expect over 1000 active tables. Of course most of these are addicted to the no-limit hold'em variety, but you can usually find a game of Omaha or even Stud but your table selection will be limited. |
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| 1. Bonuses and Promotion |
VC Poker offers a really good bonus - $35 free! Use Promotion Code of "FreeMoney" (use our link to arrive to VC Poker's free money landing page) and receive $35 without even making a deposit! To clear the promotional bonus, you must earn action points. After you enter the bonus code, you will receive $10 cash in your account. In order to earn the remaining $25, you must generate 1500 Action Points, and $5 will be released every 300 Action Points. So if you have earned 923 Action Points, you would have earned $15 of the bonus. Prior to this change, it was much harder to earn this bonus. It is now easier then ever to claim your $35 free! This poker promotion can be combine with first time deposit bonus promotion: First Time Deposit Bonus 300% up to $600 Match your first deposit by 300% all the way up to a massive $600 FREE exclusive for Pokerallied.com visitors. Minimum deposit of $25 required, bonus released in $5 increments for each 300 Action points accumulated. Follow this link and sign up with VC Poker and they’ll match your deposit amount dollar for dollar up to a whopping six hundred bucks! Ship it! 300% Match Bonus (up to $600) Minimum Deposit: $25 BONUS CODE: VALUE600 Regular Reload Bonus up to $3,000 per annum Minimum Deposit: $10 Receive up to $250 each and every month with our Regular Reload Bonus! Simply enter the relevant code (you can find this code under promotion tab in VC poker site) in conjunction with one of your monthly deposits and you will receive a generous 25% bonus on that deposit amount. |
| 2. Sofware |
VC Poker uses software from Playtech, so it’s robust and easy to use. It has all the features you’d expect (notes, search, statistics, chat and multi-table). VC Poker offer a software package which is regarded to be one of the best in the industry. The graphics are appealing, bright and very clear. In fact, it could very well be the most good-looking graphical 2D table and lobby of all online rooms. But there’s more under the shell. A lot of functionality is built in and you can change the visuals and miscellaneous settings to make your client act like you want it to. Player notes are supported, buddy lists as well, but first and foremost, a very nice hand history playback feature. The only disability would be the way you sort rooms in terms of stakes, but taking that aside, this is a solid package. Apart from poker, VC Poker also offers real-money casino and black jack games fully integrated in the poker software, an addition for players wanting a break from the poker tables. The latest version of VC Poker's software supports play at eight tables simultaneously and multi-table play runs smoothly and problem-free. VC Poker also offers a mini view function that allows four tables tiled at standard resolution to help players compete at multiple tables. The tables are relatively small and easy to grasp and overall well suited for multi-table play. The VC Poker software has a few useful special features not available on all poker sites. One of the nice special functions is the hand history, presented in a graphic interface, which is especially nice for the beginner that wants to get an idea of how they are playing. |
| 3. Games |
VC Poker offers a variety of cash games if you like Holdem, Omaha, and Omaha Hi/Lo; but there's no Seven-card Stud. For Texas Holdem, VC Poker offers fun/play money tables in addition to Limit, No Limit, Pot-Limit, Turbo, and Heads Up. VC Poker offers micro limits in Texas Holdem for as little as $0.02 and $0.04 tables. They also offer short-handed and full tables. The highest limits are $10/$20 followed These tables are available for Limit, No Limit, and Pot-Limit Holdem. VC Poker doesn’t have too many high stakes tables, this is part of the reason not too many sharks play on VC. It seems the rooms are geared for beginner and low limit players. One of the VC poker room advantages is low level of players in low-limit games. VC poker is best choice for low limit Texas Hold'em and you can find great Omaha Hi-Lo tournaments at times. VC Poker is part of the iPoker online poker network and therefore shares its traffic with several other online poker rooms. Real-money player statistics as of May 2008 show 10,000 ring-game players at peak hours, and 55,000 tournament players at peak hours |
| 4. Competition |
VC Poker poker may not have the numbers of some of the largest sites yet but it is improving. Despite this there are many calling stations, passive, loose players at most games and levels. Even at 100 NL a plentiful supply of fish can be found swimming and unlike some sites where certain levels of the game have become very rocky that is not really the case here. Tables typically consist of a few rocks and the rest fish with a few good players pushed in. Often it is the post flop play of many players at this site that is poor not their preflop play. Most players at this site can be found at the micro limit Sit & Go tables and Ring Game tables especially Hold’em but there are almost always active tables for all games and at all but the very highest stakes. A player can open up as many new tables as they wish and games don’t take too long to fill up. The small stakes Multi-table tournaments and freerolls attract large numbers of people. |
| 5. Tournament |
There are lots of exclusive guaranteed tournaments and freerolls that run daily, as well as qualifying satellites for major online and offline tournaments. They're also offering an interesting proposition for players of Sit and Go's (SNG's) in their Jackpot Promotion. By winning 4-6 Sit and Go's in a row you could scoop big prizes, see below:
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| 6. Banking |
All major cards are accepted:
You may also wire funds to VCPoker. Contact the Customer Service department on +350 49542 for more information |
| 7. Support |
VC Poker support staff are on hand 24/7 to make sure that you're never more than an email or phone call away from a helping hand. If you need to get in touch, you can:
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