May 19, 2008 - We recently reported on the new
partnership between Cryptologic and Maharajah Club, in which
Cryptologic will be powering an online casino and poker room
for the all-in-one betting site, Maharajah Club. Popular
with the Southeast Asian sector, Maharajah Club has
certainly taken their betting package to another level and
will now be sitting side by side with some of the best
Cryptologic casinos on the Web, including the UK
favorite, InterCasino. In addition to their new casino games
and poker room, Maharajah Club offers sports betting, which
is no doubt largely popular with many European players.
While the online casino platform only offers fifty games
(Flash version at least for now), Maharajah Club's new poker
room is fully loaded. And I'm not just talking about
software features, tournaments and games. Most importantly,
the Maharajah Club poker room has players. I just checked
(it's Monday evening), and there were over 30,000 players
online.
With this many people playing, it's easy to see how
Maharajah Club can guarantee at least $2 Million in payouts
every month. In addition to a streaming list of daily and
special tournaments, every week there is a $65,000
guaranteed tournament, while every month is capped off with
a $140,000 guaranteed tournament. Maharajah Club also offers
online satellite tournaments to the largest, high profile
tournaments in the world, including the WSOP and Asian Poker
Tour.
In fact, a player who had only been active at the
Maharajah Club poker room for only five months, finished in
third place at this year's Asian Poker Tour. That's no
guarantee you'll do the same, but it's at least nice to
know, right? The player wasn't necessarily schooled at
Maharajah Club, but you can definitely say they got in their
practice. And Maharajah Club is going to make that and even
greater priority with a free poker school scheduled to open
any day now.
One last thing worth mentioning for all you non-U.S.
poker players out there is Maharajah Club's very generous
one-time welcome bonus. As I've said in the past, it's
always a good idea to open an account at a new poker room
with respectable credentials. They almost always give away
better-than-average bonuses as a way of getting the word
out, and Maharajah's 100% poker bonus up to $600 free, is
certainly one of the best. For every $50 raked, $10 is
released to be cashed out. Oh, and I don't believe their
open to U.S. players...err...actually, come to think of it,
now that they are powered by Cryptologic, they most
certainly are not. Oh well. That may very well change in the
near future.
Originally published:
May, 2008 | Categories:
Online Poker
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