Full review of World Poker Exchange

World Poker Exchange
www.worldpokerexchange.com 
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Software size 5.33 MB

Special Features
Real Money Backgammon

Total score (out of 10) 5.0

 Sign-up bonus in $ $100
Deposit bonus in % 20%
Referral bonus per friend $50

Hits
Bad beat jackpot and high-hand bonus
Live customer support
Note taking support
Lobby information is detailed, with view flop percentage
Good promotions

Misses
Not that many tournament players
Summary
World Poker Exchange is managed by the leading offshore sports book WSEX (this room was formerly WSEX Poker). This provides an advantage both in allowed deposit levels as well as an inexperienced customer base from the main portal. Often there are quite nice promotions. The traffic is decent, where the action is concentrated to the limit Texas Holdem tables. The software is OK, with a nice interface. Worldpokerexchange offers Backgammon play for real money as a special feature.

Software and graphics
The software has gone through some changes and have nice graphics and good playability. Hand history is available as HTML page and via email. The graphics are nice.

Ring game traffic
WSEX ring game traffic is decent, with 300-400 players at peak times.

Tournament traffic
The tournament traffic has grown lately, with 500-700 players at peak hours.

Game variety
WSEX has the standard games (hold'em, Omaha Hi/Lo and seven-card stud). Stakes vary from $.10-$.20 to $30-$60 fixed limit and $10 to $400 no limit tables.

Rake
The rake is OK. The $20/$40 games are raked at $1 at $40, $70 and $100. The tournaments fees from $10 to $50 have charges at 10%, with 9% for the $100 and above fees.

Soft competition
We have yet to assess this first hand, but it is said to be juicy games in particular when there are poker promotions at WSEX sports betting portal.

Sign up bonus
20% deposit match up to maximum $100. Play 500 raked hands ("contributed raked hands") within any time limit to get $100 (equals 5 contributed raked pots per dollar).

Loyalty bonus
Worldpokerexchange has a frequent player point system. The points can be used to for tournament buy-ins..etc.

Promotions
There is a wide range of smaller and larger promotions. Currently $50 referral bonus is awarded for each referral depositing a minimum of $300 and playing more than 5 hours during the month. A WSEX Virtual Challenge was organized in 2002 and now again in 2003, in which entries to large offline tournaments are won.

Support
There is live support online, as well as telephone and e-mail support.

Financial security
Should be clearly secure, as the mother company is a quite well established player. High score.

Deposit & withdrawal options
Deposit options:
VISA, MasterCard, American Express, Western Union, NETeller, wire transfer, check.
Cash out options:
NETeller, check, credit card. (From information on site, it seems to be possible to get more than initial deposit paid directly to credit card, by request).