Betfair Poker Summary

Betfair Poker is owned and operated by Betfair, the world’s largest sports betting exchange. Since 2006, the London-based online betting and gaming giant has had its own independent software, which is not shared with other sites.
 
The poker room has a really good selection of tournaments for players of all skill players. They’ve introduced the $100k Sunday online tournament, which is a $555 buy-in deep stack tournament. In the ring games lobby, the heads up games seem to be the popular attraction.
 
Even though Betfair Poker has never accepted customers from the United States, the online poker room still receives a high volume of traffic. Ring game traffic is approximately 1,500 players a day and there are about 4,000 tournament players a day regularly playing on the site.
 
These traffic numbers are definitely higher then average, so players don’t typically have to wait a very long time to find action for ring games, multi-table tournaments or sit-and-go tables to fill up.
 
In fact, since Betfair’s operations always dealt outside of the U.S. market, Betfar Poker wasn’t really impacted by the DoJ indictments at all.

Betfair Poker Bonus

Betfair is known for offering fantastic poker bonuses for its players. New players get to receive a welcome bonus of up to $1000 if you use the Betfair Poker bonus code when signing up for a new account.
 
If you deposit at least $20 you will be eligible for the deposit bonus, and as you play in any real money games you will earn Betfair Poker Points (BFPs). For every 400 points that you accumulate, you will release $10 of the bonus. You have 60 days to collect the full first deposit poker bonus on Betfair and players who may have an account with Betfair Sportsbook or Betfair Casino can still take advantage of the offer.

Betfair Poker Support

The Betfair Poker customer support is excellent and available 24/7 around the clock, offering phone support and e-mail support options for all players.
 
The telephone support is toll free and support is available at all times of the day, which is especially helpful for new players who may have some issues.

Betfair Poker Software

The Betfair Poker software and poker client had a complete overhaul in 2007, which added multi-tabling functionality and a host of other new features for players. Multi-tablers would be pleased to know that tables can be easy resized to suit your preferred viewing.
 
The graphics are fairly good and the software update also fixed multiple bug fixes in the software to make for a better playing experience.
 
Novice players would be advised to check out Betfair Poker's mini tutorial inside the poker client called Hold'em or Fold’em, which will help to improve your game.
 
Just like you would expect on any popular online poker room, players have table statistics available to them in the games lobby and there is player notes functionality to add notes on opponents.