Pacific Poker
Part of 888.com which also owns CasinoOnNet.com, PacificPoker is an established and respected poker website.

Getting Started -  (Go to the PacificPoker Site)
Players can either play a Java version of their games (playing directly through their web browser) or with a software download. While the software does appear to load in Internet Explorer with some slight display errors, it doesn't appear to work with Firefox. Installing the software is easy although some complaints have been heard about the speed in which the software downloads.

Games
Pacific offers a small mix of games including:

• Texas Hold'em
• Omaha
• Omaha Hi / Low
• 7 Card Stud
• 7 Card Stud Hi / Low

Tournaments/Events
Pacific offers a decent variety of tournaments both as major monthly events and smaller daily satellites.

Promotions
Besides offering a bonus with your first cash deposit, Pacific also pays bonuses when you refer others to play at their site. There is little chance that you'll forget this as a popup window reminds you every time you close their playing software.

Rake/Pricing
As do other poker sites, Pacific rakes a fee off of every pot that is played. This amount ranges from between $0.03 and $5.00 depending on the number of players, table limit and pot size. Tournament fees are also collected and are posted on their website for each tournament they offer.

Gameplay
Graphics are somewhat simple and small and don't show any players but rather just empty chairs. The game does move at a good speed. One of the reasons for this is that each player has a bar above or below their name which indicates how much time they have to make a play. There is also a countdown clock at the top of the screen showing this same information.

At the top of the window is an annoying scrolling message which advertises a tournament, promotion or other advertisement. It also scrolls in the Windows taskbar at the bottom of the screen. These ads are both distracting and annoying.

To chat with other players, you need to enable the feature by clicking on a chat button. This will open a popup window but since this isn't the default, most players don't do it. You can therefore expect little or no chatter between players which you may or may not think is a good thing.

When purchasing casino credit, the process of being approved can take from a couple to several minutes. When you open an account, you are assigned a password. Moments later an email will arrive confirming your user name and telling you that another email will be arriving momentarily with your password. During the opening of our test account the second email never arrived.