Regarded as being one of the world's leading sports exchanges UK licensed Betfair offers a trustworthy gambling platform. Betfair is a completely independent poker room unusual in the fact that it has developed in its own top quality software,
Most of the players are either from the UK and main land Europe, as the site does not accept players from the U.S.
Promotions and Bonus Information
Betfair are known for the generosity of their promotions. To begin with they offer a pretty generous $1,000 sign-up bonus, which players can clear in units of $10 for each 400 Betfair Poker points that can be accumulated in ring games and tournaments alike. The difference being that at ring games, points are awarded based on the entire table rake, instead of part of the rake.
as well as loads of ongoing bonus offers for their regular players. Betfair's multi-table tournaments are always well attended with their guaranteed prize pools offering outstanding value.
Customer Service
Betfair poker offer 24/7 customer service, which at this point is confined to e-mail responses only.
Deposit Options:
Betfair Poker offer a wide range of payment options from credit card,web wallets including NetTeller and Click2Pay, and Bank Transfer,
Poker Traffic
As an independent, Betfair has lower player traffic than as the largest sites and networks, which many players prefer. However the site still enjoys a significant amount of traffic at all buy in levels, not just at Holdem Poker but at the other poker variations on offer.
At peak hours, the number of seated cash-game players can exceed be more than a thousand with most of the action taking place at the low to medium stakes Holdem tables. There are usually a few high-stakes games to be found. Sit-and-go tournaments are always well subscribed as well as the multi-table tournaments attract plenty of traffic, with Betfair's excellent promotions scheme always drawing crowds.
Software & Graphics
Betfair's poker software has been designed and produced in-house staff with all that that entails, with some early teething problems now long since ironed out. Whilst a little less dazzling than the software found on some of the huge international poker rooms, but it has its share of pluses. To begin with, at Betfair it is possible to re-size the poker tables independently, which not all of the other poker rooms have on offer, meaning that a player can view and play on up to 15 tables simultaneously, .In addition, all of the usual functions such as table statistics and note-taking support are available.
Game Variety
While most visitors to the Betfair Poker site prefer to play Holdem Poker, the game variety is pretty wide. There is also Omaha, Stud and Draw on offer in high-low format. In general, players can choose from fixed limit, no limit and pot limit tables, Stakes start at 0.1 cents-0.2 cents blinds and can reach as $500- $1,000.
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