Throughout the poker boom, Party Poker has consistently been the internet home for some of poker's fishiest players. Dwarfing other online rooms in terms of sheer size, Party has boasted the internet's largest player base since its inception in 2001, with more than 15,000 ring game and 80,000 tournament players logged in at any given time. With a wide variety of cash game, multi-table tournament, and sit-n-go options, Party has a game for everyone from rank amateurs to high-limit pros.

Action rules the day in Party Poker's cash games. They're among the loosest on the internet and juicy tables are plentiful even at limits as high as $30-$60. No-limit hold'em, pot-limit hold'em, limit hold'em, limit Omaha hi and hi-lo, pot-limit Omaha hi and hi-lo, and 7-card stud hi and hi-lo are all spread at limits ranging from $0.50- $1 to $100-$200. Players have a choice between full 10-handed ring games and shorthanded "6-max" tables. Play at the full ring tables is a bit tighter than the often wild but substantially profitable 6-max games. Many an internet pro has cut their teeth and built a bankroll on Party's $3-$6 and $5-$10 shorthanded limit hold'em tables. For true poker novices just getting their start online, Party offers "beginners" tables with limits as low as $0.02-$0.04 for new real money players.

Party Poker spreads round-the-clock SNGs with buyins ranging from $6 to $530. For players who want to take a small investment and attempt to run it up to the thousands, the Party "Steps" are a perfect choice. Players can buy into a Step 1 tournament for only $12 and by winning their SNG, can advance to the next level ($55), concluding in the $1065 Step 5 SNG in which the winner takes home $4500. Party also offers "Mini-Steps" that begin at a $6 buyin as well as the "Step Higher" series, where the buyins start at $33. Party's high traffic and massive player base (17 million and growing) ensures that players won't have to wait long for their SNG to fill. Party's "Big Sunday" tournament just got richer, with a prize pool of $1 million guaranteed every weekend. At least 750 players are guaranteed to cash in this $200+15 event, with the winner taking home a sixfigure payday. A $200,000 guarantee tournament is offered every Saturday, also with a $215 buyin. MTT and SNG satellites to these events are offered at virtually every buyin level.

Party's $109 and $22 buyin $40K guaranteed tournaments are offered nightly, their large fields sending the prize pools soaring over the published guarantee. In my opinion, the $22 buyin $40K guarantee is one of the best low-buyin MTTs on the internet, its winner typically taking home close to $10,000. Party Poker also hosts the world's largest limit hold'em tournament- the annual Party Poker Million-- which takes place aboard a luxury cruise liner in the Mexican Riviera. Its past winners and final table participants read like a who's who of the poker world. Kathy Liebert, Howard Lederer, Erick Lindgren, and Michael Gracz all claimed victory over the last five years, while Chris Ferguson, Phil Hellmuth, Daniel Negreanu, Scotty Nguyen, John Juanda, and Barry Greenstein have all landed at the final table. Party also runs a multitude of World Series of Poker qualifiers each year. In 2006, over 1000 players won their way into the Main Event via Party Poker satellites. Launched just this month, Party Poker's "Monster" tournament is just that.

Promising to be the largest and most lucrative freeroll in internet poker history, Party is offering their players 8 monthly $1 million freerolls as well as 32 weekly $100,000 freerolls.

SNG and MTT qualifiers to the $100K freerolls start at only $6. Once players qualify for a $100K weekly freeroll, they need to place in the top 2000 of that tournament to move on to the $1M monthly freeroll.

From each $1M monthly freeroll, the top 1000 players advance to the Monster Grand Final in which a massive jackpot is at stake. Seeded with $5 million to start, the Monster jackpot is growing by the minute, currently standing at over $7.5 million... and there are still 8 months to go.

Do yourself and your bankroll a favor and give the games at Party Poker a whirl. Unless you're prone to calling three bets cold with 3-4 offsuit, I guarantee that it'll be worth your while.

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