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basics of our gaming site rating

Introduction and our rating policy

It is not easy to find a good place to play poker on the internet. Every site praises some gambling sites as the best ones - but you do not know why. Other sites say that other gambling sites are the best. So you do not know what is true. Irritated by this we decided to create a gambling directory where all gambling sites we know are listed and rated as well. To get and offer some objective ratings, each gambling site is rated by the same rating sceme developed by play globe Ltd, which is the operator of this site. All points that influence the rating can be fixed in an objective way. The question is always the same. Either the gamblingsite fulfills a certain condition, or not. If yes, it is positive, if no, it is negative. This procedure is the same for all gamblingsites! Only in this way we can guarantee that the ratings are objective. All special offers we got for our members like special boni or better rakebacks do not influence any rating. On the contrary, we try to get some special deals with the top rated gamblingsites.

rating criteria

games

we just rate the number of different games a gaming site offers, having a guaranteed variety in mind. For poker rooms sidegames like blackjack, roulette and so on count only as one game, because we think a poker room should offer its users different poker variants in the first place.

information on homepage

informations on gaming site homepages are rated as following:

  1. imprint
  2. license
  3. overall impression
  4. contact details
  5. auditor
  6. payment methods

payment methods

we just count the number of different payment methods a gaming site is offering to its users. What you see on the detailed rating page is the rating for the country where you are while browsing our site (except for when you disable the country preference)

players

we store the number of players for nearly all listed poker rooms and other sites where players play against other players. What you see is a rating of the average number of players for the selected gaming site. Therefore our rating scale is 500 to 5,000. It makes no difference if a pokerroom attracts 5,000 or 20,000 players on average. Both are the highest rating. The same applies to the lowest rating, with up to 500 pokerplayers on average.

player protection

As there exists a small if not huge number of gamblers who play over the level they can afford we think it is the gaming operators's liability to limit this problem of gambling addiction. Their efforts are rated as following:

  1. obligatory notification of a monthly limit when purchasing first time
  2. obligatory notification of a weekly limit when purchasing first time
  3. obligatory notification of a daily limit when purchasing first time
  4. 3 payments / day
  5. possible notification of a monthly limit when purchasing first time
  6. possible notification of a weekly limit when purchasing first time
  7. possible notification of a daily limit when purchasing first time
  8. 5 payments / day
  9. no protection

ring games at poker

we check how many different stakes are offered in the following three stake categories for the sections TexasHoldem, Omaha, Stud and Draw.

  1. stakes up to .50$ / 1$
  2. stakes up to 5$ / 10$
  3. stakes over 5$ / 10$

support

we rate the availability of different support options as follows

  1. livechat
  2. 24 / 7
  3. tollfree phone
  4. phone
  5. email

tournaments (if site offers tournaments)

we check the number or availability of different tournament options as follows:

  1. variety
  2. sit'n'go
  3. freerolls for all players
  4. special freerolls for active players
  5. private tournaments available
  6. tournaments with small buyin
  7. tournaments with big buyin

these points and some others like jurisdiction and auditor generate our rating. How each different point is ranked within the rating would be too complicated to explain here. Perhaps this should be our secret anyway. But we can assure you that this ranking is the same for all gaming sites, without any exceptions. To complete an overall rating, we offer a user rating option as well. Here all those points are handled which we cannot evaluate, like payout times, server stability and so on. We do not tell how these points are ranked, as people would then be able to calculate how their rating will be counted.