Absolute Poker, the world's fourth largest online poker site, has announced it has exceeded the 300 million hands dealt mark and introduced new features to ensure repeat visits.

The online casino said that more than 300 million hands have now been dealt on its website since its foundation in 2003.

Mike Edwards, marketing manager for Absolute Poker, said: "We're one of the fastest growing poker sites on the web today and we're really excited about dealing over 300 million hands to our players."

But in order to ensure gamblers keep returning to the site, Absolute Poker has also announced the introduction of several new features to the site.

A number of technology updates are intended to improve the performance of the site as well as the gamer's online experience, such as the freedom to customise table skins.

Mr Edwards added: "We're pretty passionate about ensuring our players have the best possible experience when they're playing online at AbsolutePoker.com so we've recently given them the option to easily customise their tables and we've also made some back-end technical improvements."