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Absolute Poker, home of the insane advertising stunt and owners of amongst other things the pope’s car and William Shatner's kidney stone, now brings you their contribution to the world of online poker – the aptly named Absolute Poker. Powered by Ipoker, Playtech's own online poker network, a visit to the Absolute Poker site gives no clue to the owner’s weird and wacky promotional activities, revealing a rather plain looking site, albeit it very professionally turned out.

I downloaded the poker client and was surprised to find a very slick interface, with stunning graphics and a choice of 3D and 2D views. The software is very user friendly with easy to navigate expandable menus, and a good selection of ring games, sit and goes and tournaments. Poker games on offer are Texas Holdem, Omaha, Omaha Hi Lo, 7 card Stud and 5 card Stud, with stakes between $0.02/$0.04 through to $200/$400. The site is reasonably well subscribed; even in off peak times it is easy to find low and medium stakes games, although as with many site, high stakes games are few and far between off peak. The site also offers a limited choice of Playtech casino games – Holdem, roulette, blackjack and multi line Aces and Faces, plus the popular slots Win a Million Dollars and A Night Out.

The software has a number of useful features to enhance your playing including a quick search facility to allow you to easily find both ring games and free tournaments, and the My Tournaments button which shows all the tournaments for which you are registered. There is also a bubble chat feature, a choice of avatars, hand strength analysis plus turbo games, heads up games and beginners tables.

Absolute Poker also holds satellites for many of the main events, plus in house tournaments with prizes of up to $500,000. Also available are jackpot sit and go games where you collect several thousand dollars for winnings several games in a row. Consolation prizes are also on offer for six consecutive top two finishes. Free rolls run several times per day and new players are invited to try out the daily $50 and $100 beginner free rolls.

New players get a sign up bonus of 25% on their first deposit and you can open accounts in US Dollar, Euros or GB pounds, although all tournaments are played in US Dollars.

Absolute Poker accepts deposits by Visa, MasterCard, Visa Electron, Switch, Solo, Delta, Firepay, Click2Pay, Moneybookers, My Citadel and Neteller. Withdrawals can be made by Bank Draft, Bank Draft Express, Wire Transfer, Firepay, 900 Pay and My Citadel.