Hollywood Poker Review
Hollywood Poker is one of the more trafficked poker rooms on the OnGame poker network. Hollywood Poker took a hit with the Ongame poker network?s decision not to accept American players after the adoption of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. That having been said, you will still find plenty of traffic all day with over 15,000 players online at peak hours. One of the many benefits of being a skin on the Ongame poker network is that Hollywood Poker is able to offer a ?no download? java client version of their software allowing for you to play from any computer, including Macs and Linux driven PCs.

Hollywood Poker has been operating since 2004 and is endorsed by a number of celebrity players, James Woods and Vince Van Patten most prominent among them. There are a number of great promotional tournaments running on Hollywood Poker; amongst them are their celebrity bounty tournaments where you can earn extra money by sending celebrity participants to the rails. Celebrities don?t just play at Hollywood Poker, they also contribute to the Hollywood Poker online magazine ?The Green Room.?

Marketing and promotions aside, Hollywood Poker offers a very nice piece of software with excellent graphics and good functionality. The software can be quite weighty, but it is customizable so you can make adjustments if you find that your computer or your internet connection cannot handle it.

The Action
While Hollywood Poker offers a reasonably good variety of games, the vast majority of the action revolves around the lower stakes of the Texas Hold?em tables, specifically the $2/$4 No Limit and $5/$10 Limit games with the traffic being at its peak during the European afternoon.

The play is fairly poor at the lower limits and can be fairly profitable. Once into the middle stakes games; however, the level of play rises dramatically with many experienced grinders looking to clear the bonuses that Hollywood Poker frequently of