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BetFair Poker Room Review

Latest News at Bet Fair Poker Room

Huge Sit n Go Promotions

Until December 31st 2006, BetFair Poker will be refunding 50% of your Sit n Go Tournament fees back into your BetFair Poker Accounts.

Bet Fair Poker Room Review

Basic Information

Attractive Features

Parent Company: N/A		Loose and Juicy games

Country: U.K.		Proposition player program

Established : 2001		Telephone and email support

Software : Cryptologic

Software size :6.98 MB

Auditor : PWC

Contact e-mail: pokerinfo@betfair.com

Software and Graphics

The BetFair's software is backed by Cryptologic Network. It also shares the player's database with several other sites including William Hill Poker, Caribbean, Sun Poker, etc. The software is not really attractive and also lacks a few basic functionalities. Also, a few sophisticated buttons are missing thereby making multi-table play really difficult to play. The Holdem games have 6 player and 10 player tables, including heads up. The clock prompts the players to play quickly, which is relishable for players who like fast games.

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Games and Tournament Traffic

Financial security

The traffic during the tournaments has grown in huge, particularly in the last six months or so. Presently, there are more than 6,000 players engaged during the busy hours.

Regarding the financial security, it should be reasonable, secured, and protected for the simple reason that the parent company is already well-established sportsbook.

Brief review of Betfair Poker

Overview

BetFair Poker is one of the reputed poker rooms in the industry. Ever since it was established in the year 2004, it has grown very quickly. This poker room further gained popularity and momentum upon the introduction of NL and pot-limit games. It is a part of Cryptologic Network, which is one of the reasons for its gaining popularity. Its parent company is in fact the best online sportsbetting exchange. This poker room is ideal for all the players who are about to begin their poker career, and as such the traffic during the peak hours I expected to be around 2000 ring game players. The competition is also high considering the fact that it has several easy-to-win games, and is also one of the reasons to introduce N/L and pot-limit tournaments.

Promotions

As a part of a standard promotional campaign, players are part of a prop player incentive scheme wherein they get an opportunity to earn around $10-$20 per hour. The specified table only would pay for a maximum of 2 hours. BetFair has also come up with Asian poker tour, and the eligibility for this would be through satellite tourneys or sometimes may be even by earning a decent rake. All in all, nearly $28,000 will be given away in the form of prizes every month.

Sign-up Bonus

Initial sign up bonus include payment for $300, using bonus code "MPP300". Later you can receive $100 of bonus for every 500 player points. Also, you can earn 4,000 points to clear the entire $800 bonus, which expires within 1 month.

Competition

This room encourages good competition. Since there are several sites using this Cryptologic network, there are also few subsites to big online casinos, which tend to draw in both beginners and experienced players. Having said that, there is ample of scope for the fast and aggressive players to increase their revenue.

Rake

Here, we can say that the prevailing rake in this room is comparatively not great than the existing industry standards.

Game Variety

There are some traditional and normal games including the Hold’em, Omaha Hi Lo, Seven Card Stud games, and NLH games that can be played in various currencies viz. dollars, euro, pounds, etc. Also you can witness some high limit tables with stake ranging from 100, and there are also some smaller stake games starting from $0.50/$1 for pot-limit and no-limit games.

Deposit Facility

Like all other poker rooms, this room supports VISA, MasterCard, UK debit cards LaserCard, Visa Electron, Cheque, Bank transfer, Western Union, Moneybookers, and NETeller.