Betfair Poker

Betfair Poker

Summary
Betfair Poker is owned and operated by the largest sporting exchange in the world, The Sporting Exchange Ltd. They are licensed by Lotteries and Gaming Authority. They isn’t part of a big poker network, since they prefer to operate independent. They do however not accept players from the United States. Betfair Poker has become one of the largest online poker rooms in Europe, considering it’s a medium sized poker room.
Betfair Poker has a good variety of games and excellent tournaments including over seventy tournaments where there is some guaranteed prizes every single day. Their customer support is great and helpful, together with the functional and reliable software. Betfair Poker is a worthwhile poker room to try.

Software
The software that is used by Betfair Poker has been privately developed. It got an huge upgrade in 2007 with many addition features. The graphics are now clear and bright. It offers perfect playability and thrilling functions that makes it fun to play. You can play up to fifteen tables at once and thanks to their excellent mini view function. You can also take notes, add friends, see hand histories and replay hands. The lobby also gives you a clean view of statistics for every table.

Traffic
Betfair Poker is a middle size online poker room in the teams of size. They have around 1,200 ring game players and around 4,000 more tournament player during peak hours. Mostly all of the players can be found at low to medium stakes in limit and no limit Texas Hold’em. Betfair Poker sees a constant influx of sports exchange customers and this leads to many loose games.

Available Games and Stakes
Betfair Poker offers a selection of games, counting Texas Hold'em, Omaha, Omaha Hi-Lo, Seven Card Stud and Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo. These are accessible in no limit, fixed limit and pot limit games.

Betfair Poker offers a brilliant mixture of tournaments, including freerolls, sit and go's, guaranteed prize pool tournaments and satellites to major live poker events. They feature $20,000 in guaranteed prizes every day. Betfair also offers the unique "Threedom Pass Tournament" which allows players the opportunity to win free buy-ins to live poker tournaments for three years.

Stakes for games vary from $0.10/$0.20 to $250/$500 in fixed limit games and $0.05/$0.10 to $250/$500 in no limit and pot limit blinds. High roller games are available with table limits as high as $1,000/$2,000.

Support and Money Payment Options
If you got any problems when playing at Betfair Poker, they recommend you to try their FAQ section of their website before contacting them. Although if you are unable to find the answer do not hesitate to contact the Betfair customer service team via email, telephone or instant live chat. Customer service personnel are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to assist customers.

There are a number of safe and convenient payment methods available for players who wish to make deposits into their Betfair account. These include VISA, Master Card, Maestro, Delta, Solo, PayPal, Moneybookers, ClickandBuy, bank transfer and check.