Betfair Poker

Context Index Betfair Poker

• Review
• Promotions and Rakeback Deal
• Traffic
• Software
• Registration
• Summary

Betfair Poker Review 

Betfair Poker belongs to the iPoker Network, where you can find players from WilliamHill, Bet365, Titan Poker, Bet-At-Home and Winner Poker. In addition to online poker, Betfair offers sports betting, a betting exchange, casino, Bingo, Football Jackpots, and Virtual Sports. Since February 2016, Paddy Power PLC and Betfair PLC joined forces to create one of the world's largest gambling companies. This makes for one of Betfair Poker's strongest points, which is the trust that players have in this company's reputation and that they are financially secure. Betfair Poker has plentiful cash games running around the clock, with many poker tournaments taking place regularly, a good amount of them being freerolls. The site also offers a good amount of promotions and a nice Rakeback deal. Betfair software is quick to download and smooth to play. It uses the iPoker platform.

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Betfair Poker Bonus and Promotions

Betfair Poker Welcome Bonus

New players at Betfair Poker receive a Welcome Bonus of 200% the value of their first deposit, up to €200. This sign-up bonus, also called matched bonus in other poker rooms, means that if you deposit €50 you get an added €100 as a Welcome Bonus (for example). This is only available for new customers at Betfair Poker. The Welcome Bonus is released in increments of €10 for every 1250 Status Points earned by the player. To earn Status Points the player must pay rake by playing cash games: for every €1 paid in rake by the player at Betfair Poker tables, the player earns 25 Status Points. In other words, the First Deposit Bonus on Betfair Poker is roughly equivalent to a 20% Rakeback offer.

Two things about this Welcome Bonus put Betfair Poker ahead of other poker rooms with similar offers: first, the fact that Betfair offers 200% when most other poker sites offer only up to 100%. Second, terms and conditions at Betfair are very favorable: the player gets up to 90 days to fully collect the bonus. The only conditions are that the deposit must be of at least € 10 and the First Deposit Bonus must be requested for your Welcome Bonus within 30 days of opening a new Betfair Poker account. There is also another Bonus: new customers at Betfair Poker receive some freeroll tickets! Those are two tournament tickets, worth €25 each, for the Sunday Freeroll tournament held by Betfair! Just make sure to spend both of them before they expire, after 60 days.

Betfair Poker Rakeback

The Rakeback system adopted by Betfair Poker involves Status Points that advance the player in a VIP scheme, very similar to other rooms in the iPoker Network.

Betfair Poker Loyalty Club

Betfair Poker Bonus Rakeback depends on the player's current Loyalty Level: no benefit for Bronze, 20% Rakeback for Silver, and 35% for Gold. To improve your level at the Betfair Poker Loyalty Club, the player must generate rake by playing cash games: for every €1 in rake, the player receives 25-30 Status Points. The required amount of Status Points for Silver are 1250 (around €50 rake) and 12500 for Gold (around €500 rake). All three Loyalty Levels are monthly

Betfair Poker Loyalty Club Summary:

Bronze - no bonus

Silver - 20% Rakeback - 1250 Status Points

Gold - 35% Rakeback - 12500 Status Points

• Cashback 35%
• €100k Exclusive Betfair Promotions
• €80k Exclusive Rake Races (4x €20k weekly from Monday to Sunday)
• €10k Exclusive Micro Cash Races (2x €5k Races running 1st  - 15th & 16th - until the end of the month)
• €5k Exclusive Micro Twister Races (2x €2,5K Races running 1st - 15th & 16th until the end of the month)

Betfair Poker Games and Traffic

As most online poker rooms which offer gambling activities besides poker games (such as Sports Betting, Betfair Betting Exchange, Betfair Casino Games and so on), the level of play for their cash games is really loose. Weak players often come from other real money games offered by Paddy Power (Betfair parent company) to try their luck at Betfair Poker tables. Since Betfair Poker is part of the iPoker Network, it has access to a large player pool and you will find decent action around the clock, especially micro and low stakes (from €0.01/0.02 to €5/10). However, being a European poker room, the best time to play is definitely between 18:00 to 00:00 CET, with a few thousand players connected during peak traffic.

Betfair Poker Cash Games

Betfair Poker has a wide selection of games, including staples such as Texas Hold'em and Pot Limit Omaham multi-table tournaments, SnGs (with Regular, Turbo and Hyper-Turbo Speed - the speed being the increase of blinds and antes), Speed Poker (aka Fast Fold Zoom Poker) and a format unique to Betfair Poker called Twister Poker. Most of the traffic in this poker room is at No Limit Hold'em, but if you prefer to play poker variants such as 6-Card Pot Limit Omaha you will also find plenty.

Betfair Twister Poker

Betfair Poker offers this unique format called Twister Poker. Twister Poker is a type of SnG tournament with three players with a hyper-turbo blind structure. The prize pool is randomly selected at the start of the tournament, anywhere between twice and 1000 times the buy-in!

Betfair Speed Poker

Betfair Poker has this variant, present in other online poker rooms with the name of Fast Fold or sometimes Zoom. Speed poker tables are capped at 5 players and every time you fold you are instantly moved to a new table and dealt a new hand (no need to wait for the hand to play out).

• Online players: up to 8000 players
• Game types and stakes:

   

  NLH Betfair Poker (6-max, shorthanded):

  • MICRO

  • LOW

  • MID

  • HIGH

   

  NLH Betfair Poker (heads-up):

  • MICRO

  • LOW

  • MID

  • HIGH

   

  PLO Betfair Poker (6-max, shorthanded):

  • MICRO

  • LOW

  • MID

  • HIGH

   

  PLO Betfair Poker (heads-up):

  • MICRO

  • LOW

  • MID

  • HIGH

• available tables full ring up to NL20, many tables 20-50bb
• other cash games: No Limit 6+ Holdem
• Speed (Zoom): up to NL200, action up to NL20
• MTT for: micro/mid
• SNG from 0.10 € to 180€, HU SNG from 0.50€ to 5000€
• Twister (Spin & Go): from €1 to €100

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Software, support, and payment methods Betfair

Betfair Poker Software

Betfair Poker is available for both PC and mobile devices (Android and iOS operational systems). This way you can play poker cash games anytime, anywhere, you just have to pull out your phone. When you create a Betfair Poker account, the same wallet is connected to other Betfair services such as sportsbooks and casino games. The same app gives you access to all of those, but there are dedicated versions for each of them as well. As part of the iPoker Network, one of the biggest online poker brands in Europe, Betfair Poker has a solid reputation for reliability and compliance with gambling laws and regulations. It is licensed by the United Kingdom Gambling Commission (UKGC) and the Malta Gaming Authority (MGA). Its parent company is also licensed in the state of New Jersey (United States), although that poker room is no longer active. Paddy Power, Betfair's parent company, is listed on the London stock exchange, which increases the trustworthiness of Betfair Poker even more. The software used by Betfair Poker was developed by Playtech and uses the renowned iPoker platform. This software is famous for being very stable, being able to handle thousands of poker players online at the same time with no problems. From the client you can search for poker tournaments, cash games, handle deposit & withdrawal, and so on, all divided into appropriate sections, making it easy to navigate. Other useful features offered by Betfair Poker software include multi-table, decent graphics, and so on. An upside of the Betfair Poker software for grinders is that HUD is available.

Betfair Poker Deposit & Withdrawal

Betfair Poker is highly reputable and part of one of the biggest gambling brands in the world. All poker players at Betfair Poker can rest assured that they are financially secure. Payments are processed quickly, usually within one to a few days, and there are plenty of deposit & withdrawal options available. The minimum deposit at Betfair Poker is €5 and the minimum cashout of €10.

Software language: approximately 20 language versions available

Rake: up to 5%, CAP up to €4

Currency: EUR

HUD: yes

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Payment methods (depending on the country may vary): Skrill, Neteller, Paypal, Visa, Mastercard, Paysafecard, Ecopayz, Webmoney

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Registration and installation Betfair

If you want to make sure your registration will be successful or if you are worried that your place of residence disallows you to play at Betfair, we encourage you have a chat with us, we may be able to help you out. 

Betfair Poker Review Summary

Betfair Poker offers numerous advantages that distinguish it from most of its competitors: lucrative promotions, software licensed by the United Kingdom Gambling Commission and Malta Gaming Authority, and the possibility to use the Betfair Poker account to access other services provided by Betfair, such as betting exchange, sportsbook and casino games. Our Betfair Poker Review concludes with a very positive recommendation to all players with access to this which is one of the largest poker rooms in Europe.