One of the oldest poker sites on the internet, Paradise Poker was also a major player in the market during the early years of the online poker industry. No longer able to offer online poker services to players based in the United States, Paradise Poker continues to provide excellent online gaming services to much of the world.

Now a member of the tremendously popular International Poker Network, Paradise Poker players have access to huge guaranteed online poker tournaments and promotions, as well as opportunities to attend live poker event in Europe and North America. Though IPN, and subsequently Paradise Poker, is closed to the United States gaming market until international trade laws can be renegotiated, online player traffic is strong, and the online poker game selection features hard-to-find European favorites such as Soko.

Paradise Poker's customer service staff is knowledgeable and friendly, with reasonably a rapid response time. A sufficient number of instant, online deposit options are available, allowing online poker players to get started at Paradise Poker's real money online poker games quickly and easily. Overall, Paradise Poker is a solid online poker room with exceptional gaming software, a rewarding loyalty program, numerous online poker promotions, a formidable tournament schedule, and a huge 200% welcome bonus for first-time depositors.

The 200% first deposit bonus, up to €1.000, offered by Paradise Poker is available to all online poker players who have never made a deposit into a Paradise Poker online poker room account. This includes those who have sports betting accounts at Paradise Poker, but have not yet funded a poker account with Paradise Poker. The Paradise Poker bonus is released in €10 increments for every 200 Frequent Player Points earned. Players have 60 days to clear the entire Paradise Poker bonus.

The Paradise Players Club allows players to turn the Frequent Player Points they earn playing real money ring games into cash, use the points to enter Players Club freeroll tournaments, or purchase merchandise from the Players Club Shop. Players will need to choose whether to collect their Paradise Poker Players Club rewards automatically as cash bonuses, or as points that can be used in the shop or to buy into daily and weekly Players Club freerolls. Players who participate in 1,500 raked hands at Paradise Poker gain entry to the €10,000 Players Club online poker freeroll hosted by Paradise Poker every month.

Online poker players will not be disappointed by the IPN powered online poker promotions and tournaments available at Paradise Poker. Jackpot Single-Table Tournaments (STTs) award €10,000 to players who win 6 of the designated Sit and Go tournaments in a row. The Paradise Poker Bad Beat Jackpot continues to grow until a qualifying monster hand gets taken down by an even bigger monster hand at one of the indicated bad beat Texas Hold'em online poker tables.

Each month, Paradise Poker guarantees over €3.4 million in online poker prizes. Players will find daily deep stack, turbo, re-buy and freezeout tournaments with buy-ins ranging from €1 to €400. The €10,000 Guaranteed Head Hunter tournament runs every Sunday, with qualifiers starting at €3. Paradise Poker also offers online poker satellites to exciting live poker events, including the World Series of Poker and the relatively new Paradise Poker Tour.

Developed and supplied by the Boss Media-owned International Poker Network (IPN), the Paradise Poker online poker software provides stability and functionality, with an attractive graphical interface. The navigational scheme and table options are well organized and user-friendly. Regular updates ensure reliable security, and an instant-play flash poker client furnishes accessibility to Mac and Linux users, or those connecting from a remote system.

Seasoned online poker players will find all of the features they have come to expect; including in-game statistics, re-sizable tables, timebanks, instant top-up, and late-registration for multi-table tournaments. Paradise Poker also allows straddle bets, and provides a network health indicator that relays real-time information about the quality of the player's connection to the Paradise Poker game server. Rare game game lovers can participate in online poker tournaments for Omaha Hi and Hi/Lo, 5 Card Stud, 5 Card Draw, 7 Card Stud, Americana, and Soko.

As a partner of one of the world's largest online poker networks, Paradise Poker is privileged to an enormous player pool; the end result of which is a reliable, though fluctuating, stream of online poker action. Because IPN is closed to the US poker market, online poker player traffic peaks in the European evenings, and traffic numbers tend to dwindle a bit when the European players log off for the night.

The level of player competition at Paradise Poker tends to run parallel to the size of the stakes involved. The micro-limit cash games offer the softest opposition, however, turning a noticeable profit at those levels is a challenge in and of itself. With each step up to the next rung in the online poker stakes ladder, the skill-set and poker strategy of the players improve. The higher stakes are predominately populated with experienced, formidable poker veterans.

In addition to a Frequently Asked Questions section, Paradise Poker employs a 24 hour support crew that may be contacted via email, telephone, or live chat. To email queries to customer support, use the online submission form provided on the Paradise Poker website. Those who wish to call customer support should have their Paradise Poker username and user ID on hand, and may call toll free from the UK, Germany, Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Turkey, Thailand, and Singapore.