Tonight I started playing the Empire Poker tables. I’ve had a very, very good experience at Paradise and a so-so experience at Party (nothing to do with Party, it was totally my run of cards) but my move was motivated by just a touch by greed. I was recently contacted by someone from Empire who offered me an excellent opportunity to help them promote the Empire site. You’ll be seeing some links to Empire going up on the site over the next few days as I get around to it but bottom line is that you’ll still get accurate reports regardless of where I play. If Empire sucks, I’ll drop them. I don’t run this site with the intention of making a profit so I’m not beholden to any advertiser.
Just to give you the quick and dirty after my first evening on Empire. The word on the street (I consult Huggy-Bear whenever I can) is that Party and Empire run on the same network. If you play Party you’re likely to be playing against people who are signed in from Empire too. Not surprisingly they have similar software. I’ve never been a big fan of the avatar approach to playing poker which is what both Party and Empire use but diffent people like different things so it’s not a ding against either one. I just get distracted when my avatar doesn’t have a cool goatee like me 🙂
Overall I found it to be just as fishy as any other online spot. I cleared close to 40BB in 3 hours and 250 hands of play.
If you don’t have an Empire account, allow me to do my part as an Empire whore and offer you a 20% bonus up to $100 on your first deposit. Just follow this link and when asked for a promotion code give them HOLDEM162 as your promotion code.
Hope to take your money soon!
Bill