Here are some miscellaneous Party Poker tips and tricks that are related just to the actual Party Poker site.

PartyPoker Games Tips

 Add fish to your Buddy List
This is a very popular tip used by many of the sharks in Party Poker. Check your buddy list off and on, and you can see when your favorite partypoker fishes are logging on to play. Though you are unable to see exactly which table they are seated at, you can manually search through the tables to look for your fish-buddy.

This tip is mainly useful if you are adding maniacs to your buddy list, as maniacs tend to create table dynamics that are much better for you than say, a calling station. With a maniac at the table and five calling stations for example, there will be serious pots being generated, so you can score big if you hit your cards. At the same token however, with so many drawers in the pot, your chances for getting outdrawn are very high. Bear that in mind.

 Switch between game tabs to refresh your table listings
This trick is useful mainly for S&G (sit and go / single table) tournaments, which are notoriously quick to fill up. Many times, you'll see "Wtng for 6 players" as the table status, but when you click on the game, it will have already started. This is due to the table status not updating quickly enough, which you can force by clicking between tabs. Of note however, is that Party Poker has recently upped the refresh rate of the tables substantially, so this isn't a major issue like it used to be. 

 Keep track of players by writing notes on your opponents
This is extremely important! While you always want to be paying attention to how people are playing, in online poker, players are always coming and going, which doesn't give you time to feel them out. Taking notes cam help you when you play these opponents again. Even if you aren't going to play this person it again, taking notes makes it much easier to keep a mental track of how each player plays and what to expect from them. The big things to note are: smart or stupid, aggressive or passive, tight or loose, straight up or bluffs, bets out a draw or not and what kind of hands do they play or pre-flop raise with. Yes, this is a lot of information to note, but it will help you in the long run.

 Use a four color deck
This tip applies not only to Party Poker but many other poker rooms out there too. There's a reason poker sites offer four color decks, because they are quite popular and for good reason. If you play poker long enough, you're going to make mistakes. Everyone who has played long enough has probably misread their cards at some point or another (usually after a long stretch), especially flushes. Using a four colored deck makes it much easier to identify flushes (and more importantly flush draw threats) and enables you to use your brain powers elsewhere. 

 Get hand histories when players don't show their cards at the river
Great Party Poker trick that I'm sure many people have figured out. Many times on the river, only the winning hand is shown - but you are very interested in seeing what the loser was holding too. Simply click on the hand number at the top right of the screen and request the hand history for that game via email. Depending on how busy Party Poker is at the moment, you should get an email with the history in a matter of minutes.

Scroll to the bottom of the history and you can instantly find out what the other player was holding. Do this in conjunction with player notes, to get an idea of what a player is willing to play with on a river. Showdown information is always the most critical, as you can analyze their decision making process from the ground up.

 Wait a full table rotation before posting the Big Blind 
This tip is probably debatable by many of the players out there. In my opinion, unless you know what you are doing, this tactic will save you money in the long run by letting you not only get mentally prepared for the game, but also gives you invalable time to evaluate your opponents. The worst thing that can happen is to get dealt a strong hand early and then get caught in a massive raising war between two players you don't know. They could be two maniacs for sure, but what if one of them is a maniac and the other player is super-tight? Most likely, that super tight player is holding the nuts while you are bumbling by with top pair or two pair. Not a good move. So be patient, take notes in the meanwhile and save money in the long run.

 Turn on your sound, turn down the music - concentrate! 
It's no secret that us humans work better using more of our senses, otherwise we wouldn't have been born the way we are. Yes, it may get annoying to hear the dinks, beeps and chip sounds of the game after awhile, but hearing those audible cues are vital to your play. You are much less prone to make mistakes when you can hear and see what people are doing, as opposed to just seeing it. For me, I notice it helps my timing when I am trying to figure out if I am onto a online tell or not, based on the delay during the other person's actions.

 Show the avatars (people in chairs), but don't stereotype them
This is probably the most debatable tip I'm offering, because if you've turned them off, you probably really don't like the avatars to begin with. And if you do like avatars, well, they're probably on already. I just want to get my two cents in about this Party Poker tip by saying that even though avatars are computer graphics, it's again human nature to easily identify faces. That means we can more easily associate a personality to a face, so it makes it easier to remember how someone is playing when we can attach a face to a playing style.

 Learn to leave the table
This is really just a general poker tip, but it still nabs even the poker pros at times. At PartyPoker, if you find that you are being outplayed, outclassed or just unlucky at the table, it's ok to leave. Don't think about getting your money back or getting revenge on the bastard that rivered you again. If you are losing money at your table, you do NOT have good table image no matter what you might think. Not only are you not in a good mood, which puts you on tilt, but other players will be more likely to make plays against you. This makes your game harder in more ways than you want. With so many tables at Party Poker, just get up and go, it's that easy.

If the game gets short-handed (6 or less players) and you are not familiar with short-handed play. This is an easy way to lose a lot of cash if you don't know what you are doing. This happens all the time, when a table breaks up and you're stuck with two solid players and three guys who don't realize they are about to get run over. Don't be road kill when all it takes is a single click.

 Buy-in more than necessary at the poker table
If you've been doing your homework, you'll know that you should always sit in with at minimum 20 times the big blind at any poker table. In the realities of online poker, this should be more along the lines of at least 40 times the BB. However, you should consider entering with x60+ BB. Why? First, don't ever be in the position of holding the nuts and not having enough money to raise the pot. I've seen this happen too many times, where a guy will have flopped a full house in a $3/6 game, but only have $12 in his bankroll. He could have made a killing if it weren't for the fact he was playing with a small stack.

 DON'T LET THIS HAPPEN TO YOU! 
If you are worried about losing your money, you should stop playing poker, switch tables or take a break. Second reason to buy more than is necessary, is for intimidation factor. Opinions may differ, but faced off against a big stack, my feelings are that a good amount of players (but not all) show a bit more respect and will play accordingly - which is to your benefit. Now, don't read this as buying in for $1,000 in a $1/2 game, because then people will think you are just nuts, but $400... now we're talking.

 Move out of the $5 tournaments ASAP
This isn't as much a trick as it is advice. The $5 sit and go tournaments on Party Poker are cheap, but at a price. With a $1 entry fee, this amounts to a 20% rake, which is no light task to beat. If you are good enough to win enough $5 tournaments that you can beat this rake, you are good enough to be playing at the $10 tournaments. There really is no difference between the two; and in my opinion, the $10 tournaments might even be easier because you don't get filled out tables of nothing but calling stations. Try as you might and throw the book of poker at me, but there almost nothing humanly possible you can do at an entire table of maniacs or calling stations. The game makes more sense at $10 and even more sense at $30.

 Protect your computer!
This may sound like some paranoid or strange advice, but it never hurts to take extra precautions when it comes to protecting your computer and poker information. Anti-virus software of course is nice, but in reality isn't as much a threat as spyware or trojans. I recommend getting Ad-Aware 6, which is a very popular (and free!) spyware killer that will thouroughly clean your system out of tracking junk on your computer. Firewall software is great too and highly recommended. Windows XP SP2 comes built in with it's own firewall that you can enable. Chances are nobody will be coming after you for your poker passwords, but why chance it?