Betfair Poker Review

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Betfair Poker is one of the leading UK online poker sites in the market and has been delivering quality online poker games and tournaments to players for over 5 years.  Betfair Poker uses the Chartwell poker software to power its games and offers a number of popular poker games to players including Texas Hold'em and Omaha in both limit, pot-limit and no-limit versions.  New Betfair Poker players will also automatically qualify for a 100% up to €600 free poker bonus when they sign up and create their first real money account.  The bonus will be credited to your account after you have made a successful real money deposit and you can then start earning poker points to release the money from your bonus account to your real money account.  Below you will find more important details about the Betfair Poker room listed in our Betfair Poker review including games, tournaments and banking info.

Betfair Poker Bonus

For new players that join the Betfair Poker room, the site offers a 100% up to €600 welcome bonus on your first deposit.  To receive the maximum bonus, players should deposit €600 or more on their initial deposit to ensure that they receive the maximum bonus available.  Players will have a total of 60 days from their first deposit to meet the clearing requirements for the bonus to convert the bonus funds into their real money accounts.  Payments are made in increments of €10 which are paid each Wednesday and for every 400 Betfair Poker points that you earn you will convert €10 in bonus money.  Betfair points are earned by participating in both real money ring games and real money poker tournaments on the site.  Players will earn one Betfair point for every €0.10 paid in rake so for example a player joining a €25 + €2.50 sit and go tournament would receive 25 Betfair points for that particular game.  Overall, the Betfair Poker bonus is quite comprehensive and is relatively easy to clear for regular players who have converted the entire bonus in under 20 days playing normal limits.

Betfair Poker Games & Tournaments

Betfair Poker offers its players a wide range of both poker games and tournaments which run on the website 24 hours a day.  Table games include Texas Hold'em, Omaha Hi, Omaha Hi-Lo, Seven-Card Stud Hi, and Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo in both limit, pot-limit and no-limit forms.  Player traffic is decent on the site and during peak hours you can expect to find both full ring games and tournaments running on the site.  The only downside to Betfair Poker's games and tournaments is that during non-peak hours there tends to be a smaller amount of players on the site in comparison to larger sites.

In terms of tournaments, Betfair Poker hosts of a number of daily tournaments including regular buy-in tournaments, guaranteed tournaments as well as freerolls for their players.  The biggest tournaments currently offered on Betfair Poker include an €11,000 daily, a €16,000 weekly and a €50,000 monthly guaranteed tournaments.  Betfair also offers a number of satellite tournaments to major land based events throughout the UK as well as States side such as the WSOP and WPT.

Betfair Poker Software

The software at Betfair Poker was developed in-house and is entirely proprietary meaning you won't find it at any other poker sites.  The plus side of this is that when playing at Betfair you will have a totally unique gaming experience since they have custom designed their software for players.  The obvious downside is that since it isn't part of a network the amount of both games and players is reduced somewhat in comparison to the larger network linked sites.  That being said, the actual software itself is quite impressive and after a major upgrade in 2007 the company improved graphics and functionality for players (including multi-tabling up to 15 tables).  Betfair Poker's software also includes the regular stats you would expect such as hand histories, game information and opponent notes and overall the software platform is quite reliable and safe for all players on the site.

Betfair Poker Banking & Support

To deposit at Betfair Poker, players may use a number of options including credit cards (Visa, MasterCard, Delta Maestro) Visa Electron, Paypal (UK only), Neteller, Moneybookers, ClickandBuy, Bank Transfer, Western Union and Cheques.  Payers may withdraw via all of these methods where applicable and one of the positives about Betfair is the speed of all withdrawals from their website.

For players looking for support, Betfair offers 24 hour 365 day a year support to all of its members via telephone and email.  For email support please send your query to info@betfair.com along with your account information if the email is account related.  For telephone service, dial 0844 871 0000 from the UK and see the website for the list of country specific support telephone numbers.