The online poker room, , was once part of the world's largest poker room, advertising over 50,000 players online actively playing. This is because EmpirePoker.com shared players and tables with Party Poker. This changed in early October 2005, when Party Poker split off from the rest of their "skins" onto their own network. EmpirePoker.com no longer shares the same poker room/network as PartyPoker, but they use the same software interface. They also each have different marketing entities promoting each poker room differently.
Like PartyPoker, EmpirePoker.com is licensed and regulated by the Kahnawake Gaming Commission, is easy, safe and secure, offers prompt payouts and lots of games (Holdem, Omaha, Omaha Hi/Lo, 7 Card Stud, 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo) at many different limits. You may make your deposit via money transfer, wire transfer, Neteller, FirePay, Visa, MasterCard, EmpirePoker's own affiliate IGM-Pay/Pay-Pro, or Citadel Commerce, so you have plenty of options.
EmpirePoker.com's cashouts can be via check, IGM-PAY, which performs a direct deposit into your checking or savings account, or Neteller. EmpirePoker.com does not charge for deposits or withdrawals, but the financial service (i.e. - your credit card) may charge you service fees.
So depositing and withdrawing is very quick and simple. I personally make my deposit with my Visa debit card and make my withdrawals using IGM-Pay, directly depositing back into that same checking account.
So offers Limit, Pot-Limit, and No-Limit Texas Holdem games. The stakes for pot-limit and no-limit range from a $25 max buy-in, up to $200. The limit Texas holdem games have a range of $0.5/1 up to $30/60, with plenty of players at just about all stakes.