5Dimes Poker Review
Professional Rakeback 5Dimes review - detailed look at 5Dimes rakeback, poker, payouts, cash games, tournaments, and much more.
5Dimes Poker Review
5Dimes is best known as a sportsbook devoted to online sports betting. They are one of the most successful online books because they take virtually all bettors, recreational or professional. They also offer very competitive lines in their "reduced juice" sportsbook. They have parlayed this success as a sb into other ventures. For example they offer online casino, live casino, skill games, poker, and more. What we wish to concern ourselves with now is the fact that they offer a poker room with incentives like no other.
Grand Poker Network
First and foremost, the network that 5Dimes poker room resides on is called the Grand Poker Network. It is a group of poker rooms who all share their players and run the same games in order to increase the amount of viable games on the network. 5Dimes is not only a part of this network, they own and operate it as well. That is one of the perks of playing via 5Dimes, in that you can never be screwed over by network decisions that negatively affect your poker room... these guys are the network and the poker room! There are many attractive features about 5Dimes poker, but lets start off with the rewards, because that is what most of you are concerened with, and 5Dimes Poker delivers!
Rakeback
5Dimes Poker offers 50% rakeback minimum via special Sit and Go tournaments. These tournaments, dubbed "Advance to Go" tournaments (we presume a reference to Monopoly), are a one of a kind promotion that no other online poker site is offering. All participants in an ATG tournament recieve 50% rakeback on their player points, except the sit and go winner, who gets 100% rakeback equivalent on the points used to enter the SNG. It's a different sort of system that requires an extra little bit of work to convert the rakeback, but the payout percentage is huge and well worth it!
On top of the awesome rakeback deal that Professional Rakeback can provide you here, it is important to consider the actual rake schedule. If the rake is $100 a hand, even if we offer you a 95% rakeback deal, you'd still drown in rake fees, and make no mistake, there are some online poker sites that do this sort of trickery (though maybe not quite as extreme as our example). However, 5Dimes Poker is the exact opposite. The rake here is the best among all US-friendly offshore poker sites overall. We've done a thorough analysis and rake comparison that you should check out if you want more details, but if you're not up for reading it all, just know that 5Dimes won over half of the categories when compared to half a dozen other poker sites in this market.
Software
With regard to software, this place goes all out. Grand Poker Network has native downloadable Windows and Mac compatible poker clients that are smooth, efficient, and deliver a decent number of hands per hour. Grand Poker also works on virtually every other operating system with a browser based flash client "Instant Play" solution. On top of that, they also have fully functional mobile poker clients for both iOS and Android. You will be hard pressed to find a device that you can't use to play 5Dimes poker.
Games
If there is a weakness to 5Dimes poker room, it is that the room does not have a ton of traffic. There are often cash games running in micro stakes up to $200 buy-in levels for No Limit Texas Holdem. For Pot Limit Omaha the cash games tend to be randomly spaced out between micros and 2/5 stakes. But even at peak times, there are rarely more than two dozen cash game tables occupied accross all levels. If you like small community card rooms where you can get to know the players, this is advantageous to you. On the other hand, if you are the type of player who wants to play 10 tables at a time of only one or two stakes, this site will not fullfill your needs.
Along with the low cash game count, there is very little sit and go or multi-table tournament action. The highest guaranteed tournament that runs is a $1,000 guaranteed R/A NLHE tourney on Sundays. All the tournaments that do run, though low stakes, are insanely soft and often overlay providing extra value. The tournaments here are good for bankroll building if you are the type to build a roll up from scratch, as they also run $500 freerolls that have far fewer runners than larger sites.
Step 1: Clear Cookies in your web browser. If you need help with clearing the cookies in your web browser, click the appropriate icon below and a pop-up window will detail the process for you. This step is MANDATORY or you may not receive your initial deposit bonus at this US poker site!
Step 2: Click Here to create your 5Dimes account - here for a SportBet poker account.
Step 3: Fill out the sign up form and limit your password to 10 characters in length or less.
Step 4: Send your PIN (it's used as a username) and Registered Email Address to us for verification
Step 5: Deposit and begin playing.
5Dimes Country and USA State Restrictions
Online Poker UK players will rejoice at the fact that despite the recent legal changes and challenges in the UK poker market, they are allowed to create accounts and participate in the online poker games that GPN has to offer. GPN is also a US friendly real money poker site offering some soft and juicy micro and small stakes poker action for our pro grinders to enjoy.
Grand Poker is open to residents of all 50 US states, even those that are traditionally excluded such as Washington, Missouri, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Nevada, Kentucky, Maryland, and Louisiana. GPN is also open to all countries with the exception of France. Sorry France, you got 1 outered!