Virgin Games Poker Room, which operates at the recently-launched Virgin Games website, is a snug poker destination catering for players who are searching for high-quality entertainment without risking too much money

Virgin Games Poker

Virgin Games poker room is a creation of a gaming project conducted by a powerful company Virgin.com vested in various activities including travel, communicatios, etc. Poker is one of many casino games available at the recently-launched Virgin Games website, which operates its casino service under Alderney license.

UK-headquartered company Virgin.com built the website in partnership with U.S. software company WagerWorks in July, 2004. The company concentrates its gaming initiative on an entertainment angle, rather than a purely financial focus. Therefore, Virgin Games poker room provides cosy environment catering for players who are searching for fun without risking too much money.

Thus, poker aficionados may enjoy lucrative rewards at Virgin Games poker room such as £50 sign-up bonus, draws for free flights to Las Vegas with Virgin Atlantic and a week on Richard Branson's Caribbean island. The company has minimum bet sizes as low as £5 to encourage new users online to play for cash.

Virgin Games poker gamblers may play either for free or for cash. There is a variety of poker games and table limits to suit your poker skill level. Here you may indulge in playing Texas Hold’em, Omaha, Omaha Hi Lo, Seven Card Stud and Seven Card Stud Hi Lo poker games in constantly refreshed range of Freeroll, Sit and Go and Cash tournaments. By the way, Virgin Games allows its users to play at more than one table at the same time. However, the company notes that this is at its sole discretion.

You may also enjoy a chat feature at all poker tables. The system automatically generates chat messages that track play, indicating which player wins the hand and the size of the pot. Any logged in player may participate in table chat. All cash poker tables are raked. Rake is a small percentage of the pot that is charged by the poker room as a fee. The size of the rake is displayed adjacent to the pot size on all poker tables.

Virgin Games has developed a special offering for users who entered its poker rooms just in the last couple of weeks. The operator runs regular multiplayer tables especially to enable first time players to flex their skills and experience the thrill of a live cash tournament - all for free. Players receive a £20 token to enter.Virgin Games plans to launch the service allowing players to play multiple poker tables in the near future.

Besides, Virgin Games has introduced a reward for their loyal players who may play for poker points every time they play a hand on real money tables. Once you have built up a nice stack of points these can be redeemed for entry into freeroll tournaments or used to purchase tokens towards any series tournaments that Virgin Games is planning to run in the future. From March 17 all players at Virgin Games will be able to convert their loyalty points into air miles as well as cash. This unique bonus offer will be started with all the current players being awarded an initial "prize" of bonus points.

Virgin Games has also developed Red room providing an exclusive way of rewarding all its VIP players with Virgin Experience days, prizes, trips on Virgin Atlantic to a number of locations as well as special deposit bonus days and days of % payback of losses.

In online limit poker if a player loses his connection during the play of a hand then he will be regarded as having gone all-in and he will compete for the sidepot without taking any further part in the hand. This is known as a 'disconnect all-in'. However, the number of disconnect all-ins may be restricted and closely supervised to prevent abuse.

In addition to poker gambling you may try some other casino games ranging from Multihand Blackjack, Double Bonus Spin Roulette, Fixed Odds games like Funopoly, and the Desert Orchid Racing Classic, to slots games such as Price is Right, and the brand new addition Dangermouse.

Licensing country: Regulated by The Gambling Control Commission in Alderney

Software provider: WagerWorks

Legal age for participation: 18 years, if it is legal for the jurisdiction from where the player is connecting.

Supported language: English

Game versions: Texas Hold’em, Omaha, Omaha Hi Lo, Seven Card Stud, Seven Card Stud Hi Lo. Poker games are available with high wagering limits, and players at every skill level can choose from No Limit, Pot Limit and Limit versions. Poker client is downloadable. All Casino/Fixed Odds Games are Flash.

Poker Tournaments: Tournaments take place every day according to the schedule. Virgin Games offers No Limit games almost every hour. However, you can also participate in Pot Limit and Limit games that usually start at 4 p.m.  Besides, the operator provides Sit & Go Single-Table Poker tournaments in a variety of games.

Gaming Rules: Generally accepted poker rules. However, some games have slight changing.

Minimum account deposit: £5 or ˆ10, it should be made by a debit card or credit card.

Customer withdrawal and deposit via Credit card: Laser, MasterCard, Solo, Switch, Visa, Visa Delta.

Customer Service: Dedicated customer service team can be reached by phone and email 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

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