Hollywood Poker was released in 2004 and took the approach of letting players play against celebrities which is seen in the Celebrity Poker Tournaments. The poker room uses the OnGame Network and offers a great selection of tournaments for beginners and the more experienced player. Hollywood Poker does focus on live events and you can except to see frequent promotions for these including the Canadian Poker Tour. Other features include slick software program with top speed and a choice in multiple bonuses.
HollywoodPoker bonuses are geared towards providing players with value. The sign up bonus is a 200% match up to a 1000% match capped at $5000. Each of the bonuses available are catered to your playing needs. All of the bonuses have a clearance rate which means while you are playing in real money games you will receive FPP's and in turn will begin to unlock the bonus. The rate of accumulation is 9 points for every $1 in rake. Other promotions include winning tournament tickets, iPod nanos and a refer-a-friend program.
With the attached network, Hollywood Poker is able to offer a fully active poker room with over 20,000 real money players during peak hours. This means that almost all of the games supported such as Texas Holdem, Omaha , and Stud will offer a table for you within your bankroll. The stakes begin at $0.10/$0.20 up to $50/$100. Each of the games offers by Hollywood Poker is available in Pot Limit, No Limit and Fixed Limit. A 5% rake will be taken from each pot up to a maximum of $3 per hand. Hollywood Poker supports a no flop no drop rule.
The tournament selection is complete with re-buys, freezeouts, guarantees and of course turbo games with plenty of high stake buyins available le. Tournaments start as low as $1 and can increase as high as a thousand or more. The biggest featured event is the celebrity tournaments, which offers a $200,000 guarantee and is hosted by Hollywood celebrities. This game supports bounties which are placed on each of the celebrities' heads. These bounties can reach as high as $2,000 depending on the player involved. In this tournament alone, Hollywood Poker has given away more than $300,000 just in bounties to player. Each Saturday the poker room is hosting a WSOP Weekly Qualifier Freeroll where players can enter with no restrictions placed and win their seat into the Weekly Grand Final. There are over 6 promotions going on right now awarding player's seats to the 2008 WSOP.
The software is supported by the OnGame Network, which is one of the largest networks for online players. It offers top notch speed, easy to use user face and solid graphics. The lobby is very easy to navigate and features chat rooms for you to use while waiting for a tournament to start. The statistics are available although you will need to select each table and view them separately. Multi-tabling is available for up to four games at once in full view mode only. Other options available include; four colour decks, note taking, hand histories and dealer voice.
If you need customer support you can contact Hollywood Poker any time of the day by email or using one of the toll free numbers located on the HollywoodPoker.com website. The team is quick to respond and standard wait times average 2-3 hours.
Payment methods include; Visa, MasterCard, Neteller, Click2Pay, Instacash and Firepay.
