Stan James Poker - Review

Stan James Poker is the new product of one of the highly established bookmakers in the UK. As expected they bring a stylish looking, highly playable poker room using the Microgaming network. They have an easily achieved $100 matched sign-up bonus, plus they offer great monthly bonuses and have major tournament prizes. The look and playability of the site is excellent, and the high levels of player traffic can't be argued with. You'll never be short of a game at Stan James Poker. This is great site using a single wallet account, so if you have a sportsbook account you can transfer funds across making it even easier to start playing.

Stan James Poker is on the Prima network, which uses the Microgaming software (also provide the skin for 32Red Poker). Prima are one of the top five networks for playing poker on the internet.

The microgaming software has given Stan James Poker a simplistic feel. The poker tables are dark green and no avatars are used for players. This minimalist approach lets you focus more on the poker.

More good points of Stan James Poker include the ability to access real time players stats from the table, which tells you how you are doing in comparison to your opponents. Also it's very easy to access the lobby from your game and to switch between tables you may have open. The only negative point associated with playability is that bets are shown in terms of staggered denomination of chips. Personally I would have liked to see the figure amount next to a stack of chips when a bet is made, like most other sites.

The lobby of Stan James Poker is uncluttered and clean looking. All the menus are quickly filterable and the tree/branch type layout works particularly well I think, better than other Prima network sites. There is the choice to venture into their "new lobby" which has even more filters, but I tend to find it more fiddly to navigate.

Overall Stan James' Poker software gets an above average mark.

The traffic at Stan James Poker is pretty decent. At peak times there are around 3,000 cash games players, and 15,000 tournament players.

As with most sites the most popular game at Stan James Poker is no limit Texas Hold'em, followed by the fixed limit version, then pot-limit Omaha.

At no peak times you'll be able to find both no-limit hold'em an Omaha games from micro-limits up to $10/$20. At peak times you'll be able to play for much higher stakes, with regular games of $100/$200 for hold’em.

The most dominant format for the games are 6-max, but there are a small selection of full ring games.

The NL Hold'em games are quite soft up until the $2/$4 level, with flop percentages in the 50%'s not uncommon. The softness could well be down to the a lot of users coming from Stan James' Sportsbook and Casino products.

There are also 7 card stud, 5 card stud, and 5 card draw games available, although these receive a small amount of traffic.