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Established in 2004, CDPoker (also known as Club Dice Poker and CD Poker) is part of the iPoker network of online poker rooms which includes, among others, Noble Poker. iPoker's slogan is "The Next Big Thing In Online Poker," and they certainly have the potential, but still have a long way to go.

CD Poker serves up three poker games (Texas Hold'em, Omaha and Omaha Hi-Lo) and some other casino games including Blackjack and a few video poker-type games, all of which can be played for real money. CDPoker does not, however, offer 7-Card Stud. Compared to most other poker rooms, CDPoker has smaller ring game stakes that range from penny stakes to just $5/$10 max for no-limit and $10/$20 max for limit. CD Poker also has MTTs that frequently attract 50-100 players (or 500 for their daily freerolls), 6 and 10-player sit & gos, as well as heads-up tourneys. The MTTs start with $2000 in chips for each player and the sit & gos start with $1000.

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CDPoker No Limit Texas Hold'em Table Top View

CD Poker No Limit Texas Hold'em Table Side View

CDPoker Software Interface/Usability

CDPoker has the unique option of allowing the player to view the tables in either the typical bird's-eye Top View or in the seated player's point-of-view called Side View. Both look nice, but the Side View is especially neat. It has 3D animated avatars that actually move. And their actions are spoken by the characters. If you haven't seen this before, it's worth a look.

The CDPoker table window is a bit large and in the default Side Chat mode, the added chat window makes it especially bulky. CDPoker offers a Table Chat mode that gets rid of the extra side chat window and instead gives you a small, floating chat window that may be moved around within the table window, but curiously, this mode doesn't allow you to type anything into the chat.

With CD Poker's graphical hand histories showing images of all the cards, the histories look pretty, but functionally, I found them to be awkward to read and use. And, at this time, CDPoker offers no simple way to request specific hand histories via email like other poker rooms, although the CDPoker site claims you can request your complete game history by writing to customer support.

Notes regarding multi-tabling:

Only Top View allows for playing more than one table at a time. And CDPoker allows for up to 3 tables to be opened. However, CD Poker has effectively ruined the usefulness of this ability by not allowing all the tables to be viewed at once (or even overlapped on average-size monitors). Instead, you are still limited to one table window but there is a tab in the upper-left corner of the window for each open table (see Top View screenshot above). Switching tables is done by clicking its tab, but since you may only view one table at a time, this makes multi-tabling nearly impossible. Just playing two tables, I found myself often caught in two different hands on two tables struggling to make quick decisions as I did not know what was on the board or what had taken place until I clicked the appropriate tab to a table.

CDPoker Room Action:

Being relatively new, CDPoker does not have a whole lot of action yet. The sample number of players of 421 cited above, however, seems awfully small. Certainly, there is some action to be found -- more so than you would find in an online poker room with only 400 players. I believe the reason for this may be that the 421 is only a count of players logged in via CDPoker. Much like the relationship between Party Poker and Empire Poker, CDPoker shares skins and the same tables with the other iPoker network poker rooms. Currently with 7 iPoker network partners, an average of 400 players logged in at each room would effectively make the total player pool 2,800. And that is about what the action feels like here at CD Poker -- not the constant circus-like action of Party Poker with its 50,000+ players, but quite playable. I could usually get a seat at a 6-max $0.50/$1.00 no-limit table and there are always filled tables at the smaller stakes. The tournaments have a fair bit of action and you will usually see the tables at the most common stakes fill up without waiting for too long. They do have plenty of empty tables, though, and CDPoker has some growing to do before you could log in and sit down to active tables without ever having to wait.

CDPoker Customer and Technical Support:

CDPoker has numerous email addresses for support, but the main one is support@cdpoker.com. They also have a toll free support number, 877-297-4554, that is advertised as being available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. I personally do not have any experience dealing with their support team, though. Also, there is an Online Support button in their Lobby window that will offer "live online support," but it is currently still under development.

Ease of Game, Ease of Making Money, Fish Rating:

CDPoker has a fair mix of poor and good players. There is the usual set of fishy, passive call stations, but also some solid players setting traps and slow-playing in the ring games. The tourneys are fun. I played in a 68-player MTT and placed 2nd. I'm not a regular MTT player and I wasn't getting golden cards, so this indicates relatively moderate competition. As a matter of fact, it wasn't very tough until it got down to the final 6 players. And we 6 lasted for over an hour just swapping chips back-and-forth with everyone commenting how rare it was to have such good competition. You can find good games at CDPoker if you're patient and don't mind waiting for a bit. CD Poker just needs more time to build a bigger player base.

One nice thing is that CDPoker offers daily freerolls that fill up to full 500-player capacity.

CD Poker Bonuses and Promotions

Currently, CDPoker offers a 150% first deposit bonus up to $500.00 Free coming from PokerBonusListings.com! Earning the bonus sounds relatively simple. Just play 10 times the bonus amount in raked hands. The only trick is that the session stats reset each time you log out and there is no way of checking your cumulative raked hands played. No such account info is available right now, so you don't know how many more hands you need to play to earn the bonus.

Regarding their player points system, iPoints (still under development), CDPoker's website has this to say: "iPoints are CDPoker's unique player reward program – players will accumulate iPoints as they play in ring tables and in tournaments and will be able to exchange them for tournament entries and other exciting prizes."

CD Poker has potential. The animated, talking 3D avatars are a fun change of pace from the norm and the action isn't completely lacking, but CDPoker still needs to finish what they've started. Once CD Poker completes the features that are still under development (and rethink their multi-tabling convention -- a different window for each table, for pete's sake!), perhaps they could attract a larger and more loyal player base.

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