Sun Poker is one of the oldest poker room's still available and is a well known European company. With over 10 years of experience the Sun Group offers a full poker room, utilized by Cryptologic software along with an in-house casino. The Sun Poker room has a reputation for going all out when it comes to tournament promotions featuring huge prize pools along with seats to live events. They are currently running a great promo for the 2008 WSOP as well as a new sign up bonus for first time players which features an instant cash offer. Sun Poker does not accept players from the US.
Sun Poker is offering a great new bonus for players with a 100% match up to $500. This bonus works slightly different in that your first $200 will be cleared based on MPP's awarded during game play, followed by an extra $300 instant offer once you have earned 5,000 MPP's during your first 30 days of becoming a real money player at Sun Poker. The release rate for this bonus is 8pts for every $1 in bonus rewards. In addition to this you can also qualify for the new depositors freerolls by playing in the real money games. The monthly freeroll is a special invitation only tournament and is a guaranteed $10,000.
Sun Poker's level of players range from your first time novice to the more advanced although typically these players are found at the high limits than mid to low limit tables. Player's attention is directed more at Texas Holdem than any other game seeing a viewed flop percentage of 55%.
Table games available include; Texas Holdem, Omaha, Omaha Hi Lo, 7 Card Stud Fixed with No Limit, Pot Limit and Fixed Limit supported. Overall the room boasts a player base of 2,000 real money players during peak hours and although this is considered to be a small to medium sized room you can still find enough action in Omaha8 and No Limit/Pot Limit Holdem. Stud games are few and far between. Sun Poker takes a 5% rake from each pot up to a maximum of $3 per hand.
The biggest promotion right now is for the 2008 WSOP with Sun Poker hosting a $300K WSOP Freeroll. To win your seat into this freeroll all you need to do is qualify by earning the required amount of MPP's during any given week. In total 100 players will be receiving their $12,000 WSOP package from Sun Poker. The poker room guarantees over $4 million dollars in tournaments with buy-ins starting as low as $1 up to a couple hundred. The room also supports Sit and Go tournaments with a wide range of buyins. The only difficulty you may have is waiting a bit longer for these games to begin than other rooms.
Sun Poker is using Cryptologic software and the attached network which means the poker room shares a player base with other rooms on the same skin. The benefit to this is the ability to have enough traffic to sustain a wide range in activity across the room. Overall the software performs well, and although it does not offer anything above the fold it does cater to what a players needs are. The Sun Poker software features statistics which are available in the lobby menu and while seated at a table. The in lobby stats represent the number of players who see the flop, average pot size and hands played per hour. Your table stats will provide your own game stats and win/lose ratio. Hand history and note taking is available and the poker room does support multi-table play with up to four games at once. Other features available are the ability to play in US dollars, Pounds or Euros along with support in various languages.
The customer support department provided by Sun Poker is excellent. We have never had any issues with them and you can expect a response in a timely manner. Currently the poker room provides email, live chat and phone support although you should be able to find all the information about the poker room on the Sun Poker website.
