The Skinny about Mansion Poker
MansionPoker.com
is high quality, high class online poker
room started by the hugely successful
Mansion.com
casino and sports exchange.
You may remember the Mansion Poker
Dome Challenge on tv. It was the
speed poker series at the Mansion.net
poker dome in Las Vegas.
The Poker Dome is no longer operational
as Mansion exited the USA poker market,
but there is still plenty of action
at Mansion Poker as they have migrated
over to the Ongame network, with other
sites like Pokerroom.com.
*If you are a USA Poker Player, I recommend
Sportsbook
Poker as the new "Mansion Poker"
for USA Players due to the huge swarms
of fish.
So, just who is Mansion Poker?
Mansion
Poker is the sister site of mega huge
European focused sportsbook and casino,
Mansion.com. Mansion is one of the largest
online sportsbooks / casino /
sports exchanges in the world.
Although many U. S. players may not be
familiar with them, they have a huge market
and brand recognition in the European
and British market.
MansionPoker.com has very deep marketing
pockets and they want their piece
of the online poker pie. There are some
incredible incentives offered
by the folks at Mansion Poker.net to to
get you to give MansionPoker.com
a try.
Mansion rewards the people who play in
the card room with truly kick-ass incentives
that typically change every month. Many
include bounties with upwards of $1,000
on the line.
MansionPoker is spending money to keep
you playing online On top of that, they
offer one of the sickest deposit bonus
plans online... I'll get into the Mansion
Poker deposit bonus more in a
little bit, let's just say it kicks ass.
Mansion Poker Accepts U.S. Citizens
Mansion Poker.com has nice, clean
software.
We'll start by revewing the 'playing
field' at Mansion Poker... I'm talking
about the virtual Mansion
Poker Table.
I really like how clean and easy
to use the software is at Mansion.
The table is very laid out nicely and
it is easy to read. It is not 'flashy'
or full of graphical interface like
Full
Tilt Poker, nor does it have the
silly avatars of a PokerRoom, but that
is preferrable to me.
The MansionPoker cards are easy to see
and they have all the standard options
to pre-select your actions whenever
necessary.
All the right buttons are in the right
spots, and you have all of your pre-select
options such as 'fold in turn, call
in turn, etc... You can also auto post
your blinds, the standard run of actions
and buttons and it is easy to understand.
The size of the cards are also plenty
big enough to see easily. Here is a
full
sized screenshot of the Mansion
Poker Table to give you an idea of how
everything is laid out.
The bet amounts are displayed as well
as the total amount of the pot. I really
like this feature and it is easy to
read the bet amounts and also to see
the complete size of the pot.
The pace of play reminds me of Poker
Stars, a smooth yet brisk pace. You
do not normally feel rushed to make
decisions, although I have wanted a
bit more time making big decisions in
some tourneys.
They get new hands out quickly, but
not as fast as some of the other sites
that are focused on raw speed, like
bodog
poker. If you want speed poker,
Mansion has a lot of speed poker tournaments
and challenges, tied into the Poker
Dome Challenge, which is 'speed poker'
in it's structure.
The lobby at Mansion is very easy to
navigate and find your way to the game
you want to play. You can sort your
options by game type, stakes, table
size etc.
The average pot size and % seeing the
flop is clearly displayed in the lobby
Mansion Poker.net is a "stand
alone" poker room, not 'skin'.
Mansion Poker.net is building their own
poker room base of players from the ground
up.They are not like most of the start
up sites that are essentially just a skin
of a large poker network.
Mansion Poker.net is following the general
strategy launched by Bodog Poker, opening
a poker room based off of their current
player base in their online casino and
advertising a lot of poker.net stuff on
the TV.
Mansion Poker is following a similar business
market that Bodog
Poker.com capitalized on back in 2004
by expanding their offerings from a primarily
sports book and casino into a self-sustained
online poker room. Mansion Poker is tapping
into the the huge base of online sports
bettors and casino players.
It has been the experience of this author
that whenever a poker room opens that
is heavily marketed to a base of casino
players and sports bettors that you will
find a room ripe with some of the juiciest
fish on the net. Seriously bad players
giving their $$ away.
Mansion Poker.net opened their poker room
virtual doors in June of 2006. I was probably
one of the first players to play at Mansion
Poker as they requested that I review
their room and get it up here on KickAssPoker.com.
When I first started, I was lucky to see
maybe 4-5 tables going of real money,
and maybe 20-30 tables of play money playing.
Traffic is growing significantly. Even
during off peak times there are a solid
handful of tables running at most of the
lower stakes no limit tables, up to around
$2/4 no limit down through the .10c/.20c.
NL.
Poker Games and Tournaments
at MansionPoker
MansionPoker offers the poker games, Texas
Holdem, both limit and no limit, Omaha,
Omaha Hi / Lo, 7 card stud and 7 card
stud Hi /Lo.
Mansion has 9 handed tables, 6 handed
game tables and heads up ring game tables
both in the ring cash games and in the
single table tournaments (sit-n-go's).
.
Tournament variety is building at Mansion.
One of the most popular tournaments is
the daily multi table tournament with
$500 added and $.01 to play, The
buy in is 1 penny and they are adding
$500 to the prize pool. This is virtually
a free-roll for anyone who has a real
money account at Mansion.
The fewer the players, the better chance
you have of winning. (play
now)
This tournament is probably the best
value on the web right now for
lower stakes multi table tournaments.
Typical Starting Chips: $1500
Rounds typically 12 Minutes until 1st
break, 15 minutes there after
Blinds: start at 10/20
Mansion Poker.com featured Promo
- $100k Guaranteed.
Holy sh*t this is a sick promotion! MansionPoker.com
is offering a $100 buyin tournament that
guarantees a $100k prize pool. There have
been around 490-540 players in the first
weeks of these! SIIIIICK Overlay. Here
is the schedule as posted on Mansion.com
11/29/06
*satellites available for these events
daily. Freerolls, guaranteed seats and
plenty of ways to quality.
Remember, these are money
added events. No matter
how many or how few people show up to
play in this event they will be adding
huge sums of extra money.
If you are a multi-tabler and are looking
for extra value for your tournament buy
in then these events are for you.
Another plus, Mansion still has sparse
traffic relatively speaking.
For quick example I played in a $30+3
Aussie Millions qualifier that guaranteed
two of the $320+30 Aussie Millions Seats
where they are guaranteeing 7 or 8 $14,000
aussie millions trips, anyway, there were
only 15 players! I got really unlucky
in a bad beat, but it was easily beatable.
Not much traffic, huge overlays in these
events. Get in on them now. Only at Mansion
Poker.
Another cool tourney for new players
1 penny buy in with $500 added.
A virtual freeroll.
This is a great table to 'cut your multi-table
teeth' on. If you make the late stages
of this tournament, it will give you tons
of experience in playing large field tournaments!
I like this 'freeroll' because it virtually
is for anyone who has funds on MansionPoker
and there are not as many players as some
of the others sites offering similar sized
free rolls.
Virtually all of the sites have freerolls
and money added tournaments, but the difference
is that Mansion is still a brand new poker
room and the the lack of players means
that you have much less competition in
this tournament compared to other events.
Good poker players can get in now and
take advantage of everything they have
to offer by getting in early. Including
first dibs at the fish that are starting
to swim in from the Mansion online casino
and sports exchange. Download
Mansion Poker - quick and easy.
Get in while the getting is good at Mansion!
If you are a good tournament player, or
aspiring to become one, these tourneys
are excellent value. +EV if you will.
Even if you do not have that large of
a bankroll, the money added tournaments
at Mansion are probably the best value
on the internet right now.
Many of the big online poker portals,
are now talking about Mansion Poker and
the juicy tournaments found there.
Player traffic is starting to grow rapidly,
but it is still really early in their
marketing plan. The sooner you sign up
to play poker at Mansion Poker, the better
off. get in the better.
Mansion
Poker.net play money tables play more
like real money tables.
You
only get $1000 in play money poker chips
per 24 hour period at Mansion net Poker.
This little feature is actually VERY
rare for online poker rooms. Most online
poker rooms let play money poker players
re-load their chips whenever the lose
them. They hit the cashier, hit the
'reload button' and they have more play
money chips. At Mansion Poker, these
'play money' chips actually have some
percieved value to most of the players.
This makes it play much more like actual
'poker' than the typical play money
tables.
You only get
$1000 free chips per day. Use
up those play money chips and you are
done playing for the next 24 hours.
This makes most players actually value
their free chips and not play like total
idiots.
I played a play money table for about
15 minutes to get used to the software
before depositing and people were showing
down legitimate hands. The idiots were
quickly culled from the table and it
was real poker, you could even bluff.
So, if you're looking for a place to
test your skills completely for free,
I recommend the play money tables at
Mansion! There is pretty good traffic
and you can actually find a good game.
Click
here and play for free right now.
This is the only online site that offers
this feature that I know of, I haven't
played at the play money tables at sites
I have a real money account at in forever.
Things I didn't like about MansionPoker.
There
were a few things I didn't like about
Mansion, which should be no suprise as
I try to look with a critical eye.
There isn't a ton of traffic yet over
in the "Mansion" although they
have room for plenty. This is temporary
as is steadily on the rise. Let's hope
the Mansion Poker.net advertising on the
Poker Dome Challenge will bring in a lot
of new fish, err I mean players.
I know traffic will continue to improve.
That means that the game selection isn't
as good as it is as the other major rooms.
I did catch this screenshot
of a high stakes no limit cash game
going around noon the other day.
If you were wondering, luckexpress folded
to the $2,000 river bet.
I wish you had about 5 seconds more time
to make a decision, or some sort of time
bank you can dip into similar to what
PokerStars uses in their tournaments.
You get a decent amount of time, but I
wouldn't ming a slightly longer time bank
for a tough decision.
Another thing that kind of pissed me off
initially is it was a little bit difficult
for me to find my way over to the play
money tables for the 1st time. For the
life of me I could not find the poker
lobby on my initial setup when I created
my account, and I couldn't easily find
the button that let me shut down the cashier
screen easily.
This seems obviously designed to drive
me to go ahead and make a deposit, so
it was a bit of a pain in the ass. I will
never deposit at a new poker room until
I test the software first and play around
in the play money tables to get a feel
for the software. I also like to read
a few reviews and find a good / informative
affiliate to sign up through (like us
here at Kick Ass Poker).
To get to the play money tables the first
time I had to shut down the software by
right clicking the mansion poker.com icon
and 'ending now'. Then I double clicked
the cool looking desktop "M"
Icon and opened up the poker software.
it allowed me to log in and get to the
play money tables right away.
You can not search for a particular player.
Not a huge deal and they can probably
add this feature later.
The last thing that initially I didn't
at first realize that the "All-In"
button doesn't automatically make you
go 'all-in' when you click it. . I assume
this is a safety feature to avoid mis-clicks,
but you have to hit the all-in button
which sizes your bet amount to 'all of
your chips' and then you have to click
the 'bet' button. The first time it happened
I was at a play money table and hit 'All-In'
and nothing happened and I timed out.
I didn't realize that I still had to click
the 'bet' button. If this woulda been
a $$ game I woulda been initially pissed.
It was play money so I didn't care.
No biggie, and I actually like this feature
now that I think about it. It avoid mis-clicking
the all-in button and putting yourself
all in with a 2 outer when you clicked
the wrong button.
Things
I like about Mansion Poker
I
really like the poker software and play
interface. Clean, smooth and easy to use.
Since I have started playing there (June
of 2006) they have constantly offered
some truly kick ass promotions! Freerolls
with huge bounties, money added touranaments
and just cool and innovative rewards for
it's players. I've been impressed.
The customer service is high quality.
Well trained, english fluent individuals
as well as live online chat, which I have
used twice. Once to inquire about my bonus
amount that was not released as I was
not properly tracked. They resolved it
and my bonus money was added to my account.
I like the money added multi table tournaments.
This is some of the best tournament value
on the net right now for medium and lower
stakes tourney players. My favorite is
the daily one penny $500 added tourney.
Only 280 players on a prime time Friday
a while back. Other sites would have fields
of 2000+
The
Poker Dome Challenge Kicks Ass!
- Get on TV and win a pile of cash. Realistic
shot at qualifying for this event as the
ONLY players in the Poker Dome Challenge
qualify online at Mansion Poker.
The KAP
Blogger won a seat in the Poker Dome
for 1 CENT. She only had to beat
out abour 400 or so other people. The
trip she won was worth ~ $7k by itself!
She tells it better than we did, read
about how
she won a seat in the mansion poker dome
challenge. Good luck Haley (*Haley
didn't win her poker dome challenge, but
she did have a blast in Vegas!)
Mansion has excellent support, both toll
free on the phone and via email and live
chat. I've called them twice to test out
the Mansion Support and both times they
have been most helpful.
The short handed NL, low limit cash tables
are weak. Easy pickings for me since I
have started. I suggest you give them
a try if you enjoy lower limit NL ring
games.
For you play money guys, this i virtually
the only site I know of that has 'realistic'
poker play at most of the play money tables.
They sure as hell play a lot closer than
the other tables, and this is because
the play money tables at sites like MansionPoker.net
only allow you to get $1,000 in play money
per day. The play money tables played
closer to real money tables. I don't play
a lot of play money poker anymore (ok,
not at all except when I'm reviewing a
new room) but I like the strategy.
I understand that a lot of people just
don't want to deposit money online...
that's fine. At least play at a place
that plays somewhat like 'real poker'.
You'll only $1000 in free chips per 24
hours at Mansion Poker. If you donk all
of those off you don't get anymore until
24 hours later. It's one of the cool things
seperating Mansion
Poker.net from the competition.
Fun casino with no download required.
Just log in and play the games. Also they
have worldwide sports betting exchange.
All in all, MansionPoker is an excellent
choice for both new online poker
players and experienced online poker players
looking for a quality poker room with
tons of perks and incentives.
Mansion
Poker offers a kick-ass deposit bonus!
New Players - 100%
of your 1st deposit matched up to $1,000.
In addition you will also recieve 50%
of your 2nd deposit matched up to $600
and 50% of your 3rd deposit matched up
to $600.
Yes, you have to play poker to release
the bonus (or wager in the casino) but
the bonus is released similar to the other
major online poker rooms. Here are the
Mansion
Poker Bonus details.
Use any link on this site or just enter
bonus code: KICKASS
Mansion
Poker is the sister site of mega huge
European focused sportsbook and casino,
Mansion.com. Mansion is one of the largest
online sportsbooks / casino /
sports exchanges in the world. 
You
only get $1000 in play money poker chips
per 24 hour period at Mansion net Poker.
This little feature is actually VERY
rare for online poker rooms. Most online
poker rooms let play money poker players
re-load their chips whenever the lose
them. They hit the cashier, hit the
'reload button' and they have more play
money chips. At Mansion Poker, these
'play money' chips actually have some
percieved value to most of the players.
This makes it play much more like actual
'poker' than the typical play money
tables. 
There
were a few things I didn't like about
Mansion, which should be no suprise as
I try to look with a critical eye. 
I
really like the poker software and play
interface. Clean, smooth and easy to use.
In addition you will also recieve 50%
of your 2nd deposit matched up to $600
and 50% of your 3rd deposit matched up
to $600.
