Celeb Poker Celeb Poker, as a real money poker site, has closed. Celeb Poker Review (3.5 out of 5) Thread Celeb Poker Review (3.5 out of 5) Celeb Poker Review (3.5 out of 5) Celeb Poker is a growing poker site on a popular network with terrible competition all the way up to the higher limits. While they have plenty of U.S. Dollar tables, this site is a good choice for international players because of the number of Euro, Pound, and other currency tables. The "Celeb" part of their name ties in with their theme of sponsoring semi-celebrity-status actors and sports professionals - mostly from Europe. Their software is unique and they are also introducing a large deposit bonus for new players. However, the best draw from this site is the huge amount of bad players who regularly risk their money on mediocre cards. Fish: Not only is the competition extremely loose at Celeb Poker, but they're probably some of the worst online. I mostly attribute this to the large amount of sportsbook players on the network from other sites. Flop percentages typically hover around 45-60% at the higher limits! It's absolutely amazing how poor the play is from many of these players with a sizeable bankroll. If you can protect against the regular draws, you can expect to build your bankroll pretty quickly against this competition. Since you usually want to be playing the opposite style of the rest of the table, you should tighten up and play strong cards from the proper position. As pots usually grow quickly, you can play at a smaller blind-level, play less hands, and still expect a sizeable hourly win rate. I recommend that you start out at a smaller game than you typically would in order to get used to the wild style of play. Overall, the poor competition is one of the main reasons to play here. Tournaments: The best part of the tournaments is the wide range in buy-ins, which helps to give beginners or limited bankrolls a shot at playing multi-table events. Because they're on a large sportsbook network, the traffic is pretty good. Most of the Celeb Poker tournaments fill up well with at least 80-100 entrants for popular events at mid-level buy-ins. They also host some nice guaranteed events daily with $10, $20, and $30 buy-ins. They've also begun to offer more satellite tourneys for big live events. Since the traffic is still growing on this network, you can benefit from the lack of competition in the satellite events. Finally, CP has started hosting weekly $250 and $1,000 freerolls for qualifiers of their daily events. It's an interesting freeroll structure, which rewards players for repeat performances. Software: While the lobby can become easily cluttered, I give Celeb Poker credit for creating an original software package. The table and background graphics are sharp yet feel somewhat awkward. They do give a visual timer for each player's actions in order to speed up the games but game speed usually only averages about 40-55 hands per hour. You also won't find much in term of hand statistics and history. While it lacks advanced features, overall the software is pretty playable and it does feel different than most of the generic software out right now. Draw poker players will find those wild international players willing to play some pot-limit 5-card-draw. Player Traffic Again, Celeb Poker is on a fairly popular network mostly built around international sportsbooks so the traffic is pretty high at all times of the day. They have multiple currencies for international players but the U.S. Dollar tables seem to fill up most. Tournament traffic is also middle of the pack. Game Selection: Hold 'em, Stud, 5 Card Draw Limits: 5c/10c up to $50/$100 Artist/Author: Beat the Fish     April 14, 2007 earlier  Thread Online Poker Rooms