Noble Poker Review

Overall 92 Ease of Competition 87 Tournaments 85 Customer Service 82 Software 93

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Please note: Noble Poker does not accept real-money players from the United States.

Overview
Noble Poker is a skin on the large iPoker Network. They are offering PokerTips readers a free $25 for creating an account, no deposit necessary. For players who do deposit, they offer a nice bonus of 100% up to $500.

Since Noble Poker is on a large network, there are always plenty of cash games and tournaments to choose from.

Bonus
Noble Poker is offering PokerTips readers $25 free for creating an account. Please visit our free $25 promotion landing page for complete information on how to receive this free money.

If you choose to deposit, Noble Poker offers a 100% deposit bonus up to $500. This bonus is released in $10 increments and takes a while to clear. After 90 days, any uncleared bonus money expires.

Promotions
Aside from the free $25 promotion, which is very cool, Noble Poker could do a better job when it comes to offering enticing promotions.

They regularly send players to major live poker tournaments around the world. Their jackpot sit-'n'-go tournaments are unique in the online poker industry, although a major ripoff in terms of value.

Tournaments
This site's scheduled tournaments are littered with satellites and small buy-in tournaments with guaranteed prize pools. A strong selection of sit-n-gos are available, including jackpot tournaments that award big payouts to players who win a certain number of tournaments in a row. For example, there is a $25,000 jackpot to anyone who wins 6 consecutive $20+$3.50 6-max tournaments. Notice that the increased entry fee for these jackpot sit-n-gos render them a bad investment for players of nearly every skill ability.

In 2010, Noble Poker is starting a monthly $1,000,000 guaranteed tournament with a buy-in of $500+$35. It appears these events will take place on the second Sunday of each month.

Software
iPoker's software is very solid and the Noble color-theme is nice. They offer a nice game filter and an acceptable number of table statistics to aid in game selection.

Competition Level
As the iPoker Network as maintained strong growth over the past few years, the games have gradually gotten a little tougher. This site is home to a lot of multi-table grinders that tend to make the games a bit on the challenging side. With that being said, the competition at the smaller stakes is very beatable. The tournament competition is also pretty soft since this site doesn't exactly attract tournament-only grinders as well as some other sites do.

Customer Service
Noble Poker's support team is available by phone, email, fax and chat. This is way above industry average in terms of customer support mediums offered.

Ring Games Offered
Hold'em, Omaha, Omaha Hi/Lo, 5 Card Stud, 7 Card Stud

Fixed Limits: $0.02-$0.04 to $300-$600
NL & PL Blinds: $0.01-$0.02 to $200-$400

Tournaments Offered
Hold'em (fixed-limit, PL and NL) and Omaha

Heads-Up: $1.05 to $5100
Single-Table: $1.05 to $5200
Multi-Table: $0.55 to $535

Minimum Deposit
$20