Party Poker Cash Games

The General Features

• 1 on 1 (heads-up)
• Standard number of seats are 2 player heads up and 6, 9 and 10
• If you dont play a flop on party – NO rake whatsoever is taken.
• 5% Rake
• Rake capped to $5
• Disconnect protection unless the table has “no DP” specified
  

Time Banks

25 sec Fixed limit
35 sec No limit & pot limit
0-60 sec No DP (Disconnect time bank)

Special Party Poker Features

• Beginner tables
  These tables where only recently signed up players who have may play
• The Bad Beat Jackpot
  This is a main feature of Party Poker. They have over a hundred active tables with Bad Beat Jackpot where 50 cents of each raked pot is collected for their Bad Beat Jackpot. This jackpot is paid out when somebody at these tables loses a such a rare showdown as when holding quads of eights or higher and also both pocket cards have to be part of the bad beat hand for it to qualify. 70 per cent of the Jackpot is paid to the players and 20% is is kept for next Bad Beat Jackpot. The final 10 per cent is claimed by the Party Poker. Half of the payout goes to the loser, A fourth to the winner and the remaining fourth is split between the other players that were in the show down. You can see the jackpot growing in real time at the Party Poker lobby. So far the biggest jackpot at the time of writing hit at an amazing $1,013,381 on a 0.50/1 Limit Hold’em table on the September 11th 2008. No other poker rooms come close to these Bad Beat Jackpots at Party Poker.

No Limit Hold’em Stakes

9 seats Fullring: $0.01 / $0.02 to $25 / $50
6 seats 6-max: $0.02 / $0.04 to $25 / $50
2 seats Heads-up: $0.25 / $0.50 to $5 / $10

Fixed Limit Hold’em Stakes

10 seats Fullring: $0.02 / $0.04 to $100 / $200
6 seats 6-max: $0.05 / $0.10 to $250 / $500
2 seats Heads-up: $1 / $2 to $20 / $40

Lobby Info

• Average number of players per flop
• Average pot size
• Average number of hands / hour