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24h Poker - Many online poker players enjoy playing at rooms with high traffic.
Thanks to the sheer number of players they have a greater game selection,
they usually offer a wider variety of limits, and their tournaments pay off
more. While those benefits aren't to be ignored, sometimes it pays to wander
off the beaten path in search of a smaller room. Among those smaller rooms
is 24h Poker, the poker arm of a small-scale online casino and sportsbook.
Here's a quick overview of the poker room.
24h Poker's setup is most certainly not pretty, but it is thankfully much
easier on the eyes than sites like
Party Poker thanks to its blue-and-white
color scheme. The lobby is about as bare-bones as you can get. Four tabs
along the side provide links to tournaments, game rules, the all-important
cashier, and 24h's own online casino. The bulk of the screen is taken up
with a window listing the cash games currently running, and across the top
of this window are tabs that take you to different games. The only truly
awkward part of this is that unlike most other online poker rooms, the
tournament listings open up in a separate window from the cash games. This
isn't a major issue, but it is unnecessary and unusual.
The selection of cash games at 24h Poker is surprisingly diverse. The
stand-by games of online poker - limit hold'em, no-limit hold'em, Omaha, and
Omaha hi-lo - are all available here. Also available are five-card draw,
deuce-to-seven triple draw, seven-card stud, seven-card stud hi-lo, and Soko.
For those unfamiliar with the game, Soko is a variant of five-card stud
where four cards to a flush and four cards to a straight both make hands -
the complete rules of the game are available here. While the player base is
not huge, this wide variety of cash games is one of the best things to
recommend about 24h. There are usually at least a couple of tables running
at different limits, so finding a game to your liking isn't too difficult.
24h also hosts a wide variety of tournaments. Satellites to many medium- to
large-scale tournaments at casinos across Europe, such as European Poker
Tour events and the Amsterdam Poker Masters, run on a regular basis. The
room also hosts its own guaranteed prize pool events, ranging from 1,000
euros all the way up to 60,000 euros. All of these guaranteed prize pool
tourneys can be entered either through a direct buy-in or through winning a
feeder satellite. Also worth noting is that tournaments are run in every
game that 24h makes available as a cash game - so if you've ever wanted to
play in a five-card draw tournament, this is one of the few places online
where you can do it. Finally, 24h runs freerolls constantly. Every day
brings a different game with real cash prizes to the top finishers. These
tournaments can be quite crazy, as the blinds progress quickly, but they're
also a lot of fun to play. One word of warning if you decide to play a
tournament here: the software doesn't always properly balance tables, so you
may end up stuck at a 4-handed table when you should be playing at a full
table.
While the software isn't pretty, the game selection at 24h is usually decent
and the players are known for being hyper-aggressive. This can lead to a lot
of easy money if you're patient and can wait for a real hand. There is also
a bad beat jackpot available which is hit on a pretty consistent basis, and
is available for all the games spread in the card room - full details are
available here. If you're looking for a place where you can play different
games or where you can play against a different pool of players, and you
don't mind sub-par software, 24h Poker is worth checking out.
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