Absolute poker is an independent poker room that offers its members quality software and an excellent signup bonus. And what makes it even better is the soft games that can be very profitable. They have a good traffic volume and have recently joined with ultimate bet so there is always action at the tables.

This medium sized online poker room is not part of a network so players are all Absolute members. Even though they have joined forces with Ultimate Bet, making it easy to transfer from one site to the other, it is still considered an independent poker site as they keep separate player base.Absolute poker offers a good selection of cash games and tournament that include the illusive Razz and H.O.R.S.E games. Most of the poker action at Absolute is found at the low and mid level Holdem tables. The software is one of the best and following the controversy, where a former employee used a super access account to cheat, Absolute exposed him and has taken measures to tighten security and ensure this can never happen again. There have been no incidences like this since.If you are new to poker online then Absolute is the best choice because their games are beatable and the sign up bonus is one of the best on the net.

The signup bonus for Absolute poker is one of the best in the industry. They offer a 100% deposit match for new players up to $500. Absolute also has the ever popular refer a friend promo where you can earn $75 for every friend you send to Absolute. After they have played 200 raked hands they will receive a $50 bonus and you get you referral bonus added to your account.Absolute poker has a VIP program that loyal players can benefit from in many ways. They do have a habit of taking care of their members and that’s great. Reload bonuses are almost always available, and they range from 15% to 100% deposit match.Absolute poker tournament schedule has plenty of freerols and satellites including freeroll satellites to events such as the World Series of Poker.

At the cash game tables you will find plenty of low to mid limit games with loose players. High stakes games take a while to get going during off peek times but there is action there. They may not have a very high traffic volume at all times but during peak hours you will find around 2000 players at the tables. The seven card stud games and Omaha games do not have much movement but Omaha is growing more and more.Absolutes main traffic is in the tournament area and during peak times there are as many as 10,000 players.

With years of experience and being an independent poker site, Absolute has a poker client they can be proud of. Their software is one of the top in the online poker industry, with decent graphics and sounds. Glitches are very rare and to our knowledge, no downtime has been reported. The overall look of the software is a little disappointing, but the functionality and game overview is easy and offers everything a player needs. So if look don’t bother you then your fine. There are a number of great features that include the player notes, search, hand history and statistics. You can adjust the table size and use the mini view feature and you can cascade the tables. This is all good stuff for multi table players.Absolute has a private table feature for players to set up and invite friends. This is great if you have friends who play poker online or if you like to run office games as we do.Apart from the look there are some other little bits that we did not like when reviewing Absolute poker and we hope they will fix then in time. The first being the animations cant be turned off and if your system is slow it will slow the game play. The sound effects can be turned off but the warnings also get locked off. That’s all really but we do hope Absolute will take a look at it sometime soon.

Absolute poker offers a decent selection of games with Texas Holdem being the dominant game. You can play full rings, shorthanded games and heads up games. They do offer Omaha, Omaha hi-lo, Seven card stud and Razz games but these will only be busy around peak hours.Absolute offers the usual pot-limit, limit and no-limit games for all of their poker games. The limits games range from 2cent – 4cent games all the way up to $150 - $300, and the no-limit Holdem games from 5cent – 10cent games up to $5 - $10.