Golden Palace Poker Review

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Name Golden Palace Poker Country Antigua and Barbuda Network iPoker Established 1997 Support email support Telephone 1-888-217-5648

Overall Rating 4.10 Software/Interface 5.0 Ring Games 4.6 Tournaments 4.6 Game Variety 3.9 Soft Competition 4.5 Signup Bonus 4.3 Frequent Player 3.4 Promotions 3.5 Customer Support 4.3 Deposit & Cashout 3.3

Golden Palace Poker began as an offshoot of GoldenPalace.com, one of the most visible online casinos, which has been in existence since 1997. The folks at Golden Palace Poker are famous (or shall we say notorious?) for their marketing techniques: they have been known to plaster their logo on athletes and to purchase bizarre items (such as a grilled cheese sandwich displaying the face of the Virgin Mary!) all with the goal of spreading the Golden Palace name.

Like many other sites these days, most of the action at Golden Palace Poker seems to spread between Texas Hold’em and Omaha (high and high/low). They also offer 5 Card and 7 Card Stud as well, but action at those tables is very limited at stakes above $0.50/$1.00. Golden Palace Poker is now one of the larger poker rooms with 25,000 plus players at peak times, so there is plenty of action at the Hold’em tables. You can get your Omaha and Omaha Hi/Lo fix, too, but only if you play Pot Limit - Fixed Limit Omaha is pretty much non-existent. Much of the play in the Texas Hold’em games is at the short handed 6-max tables at the lower stakes; full ring games (10-player) can be found more easily at peak times.

Sit-and-Go tournaments are plentiful, but they aren’t the greatest for the tight player, as blinds tend to escalate fairly quickly (the 2,000 starting chip stack is deceiving). The time for each level is not too short (8 minutes), but the blinds take rather large jumps in every level. Golden Palace Poker has added “extended” tournaments with 12 minute levels, which may work better for some people.

Golden Palace Poker’s Multi-Table tournaments have everything covered: low stakes, high stakes, bonus point freerolls, re-buy, freezeout – they have it all.

They offer ‘Beginners Tables’ for all of their games with stakes as low as $0.01/$0.02. These games are extremely popular and you may have to wait for a seat at any time of day.

You can also find plenty of Heads Up action with stakes from $0.25/$0.50 up to $25/$50. All their games, Hold'em, Omaha and Stud, are available in this format as well.

Golden Palace Poker typically offers a first deposit bonus of 25% up to $100 with reload bonuses every so often, particularly if you haven’t played there in a while.

The tables at Golden Palace Poker are very attractive and run extremely fast. They offer short handed 6-seat table (which are very popular) along with their 10-seat full table. The cards are big and bold, making them easy to see if you are playing multiple tables (4 max). In fact, all of the colors at the table are vivid, from the chips to the cards to the player avatars.

Speaking of avatars, Golden Palace Poker has stock pictures that players can use to represent themselves at the table, but they have to be some of the worst looking avatars in the industry. While the look isn’t as “cartoonish” as Full Tilt, the avatars are definitely silly looking. Fortunately, they aren’t really a distraction and can be turned off.

As mentioned above, the game play is fast and smooth, although like many online poker rooms it can get a little bogged down when playing multiple tables. Overall, though, it is a very pleasant game experience and it is easy to follow the action. The sound effects are distinct and loud, also contributing to the solid poker atmosphere.

A very handy feature is the mini table option: you can shrink the table to ¼ size, which is nice if you are multi tabling or multi tasking while playing.

The main lobby at Golden Palace Poker is very clean and easy to navigate through. For ring games, all the necessary information is displayed: game type, stakes, average pot size, players/flop, hands/hour, players per table and players waiting. You can sort each column and there are filters to each main game category such Fixed-Limit, No-Limit and Pot-Limit. Similarly, it is easy to sort through the Sit-and-Go tournament and Multi Table tourney listings to find open tables for the game you want.

The note-taking feature is excellent at Golden Palace Poker, and while you can’t write as much as you want about a player, there is plenty of room. The note window displays when you created the note and when it was last updated, which helps you know if your notes are still applicable on a player. Additionally, when the note window is open, it lists all the players on which you have notes, so you can flip through them, as well. You can even make your own custom notes, not specific to any player, if you just want to remember something.

The chat feature works well, too, and can be detached from the table window if you want it on the screen, yet out of the way.

Golden Palace Poker has a good hand history feature built in that give you all the important action stats and money wagered as well. This is of course very useful for the more serious poker players. While it is not quite Poker Tracker, it provides the essentials for some personal play analysis.

Golden Palace Poker offers e-mail customer support as well as live online chat and a toll free phone number. E-mail queries are generally answered quickly and accurately.

Golden Palace Poker uses 128-bit encryption, and according to the company, “a range of other measures we can't disclose.” Golden Palace Poker considers security its number one priority. Customer information is never sold and is only used for operational, accounting, and security purposes.

The Cashier functions are easily accessible from the main lobby with a single click. While the Cashier opens in the main lobby window, any functions you access from within the Cashier (deposit, withdraw, etc.) open in a new window.