Betfair Poker Review

Special Features
Established European brand
Big satellites to live tournaments
Endorsed by top European professionals
High stakes cash games

Summary
Betfair Poker is one of Europes leading sports exchange sites and are only of the most established betting sites in the world. Since they launched their poker site they have enjoyed great success, particularly in the past few years. They have placed great emphasis on providing players with great bonuses and rewards as well as fantastic tournaments including seats in some of the biggest poker tournaments in the world most notably the WSOP events. Betfair Poker do not accept U.S players.

Software
With the huge growth of Betfair Poker in recent years, they have placed a lot of emphasis on creating good software and maintaining it. In 2007 they completely revamped the software and to this day it continues to be clean, fast and of high-quality. The software allows for up to 15 tables to be multi-tabled at once which is great.

Game Variety
Betfair Poker offers the standard poker games from low stakes to high stakes. The most popular game is Texas Hold'em where you will find games around the clock at the lower stakes, however there is growing popularity for the Omaha games (most players are beginners so if you are an average Omaha player you could clean up). Despite there being a lack of mixed-games we expect that to change soon.

Ring Game Traffic
There are usually a few thousand cash-game players at Betfair Poker, with most action concentrated to the lower-mid stakes. As we said above, most action is at the Hold'em tables, however there is growing popularity for Omaha. Some well known Europeans play at the high stake cash games on Betfair, however action up to mid-stakes is pretty loose with most players being beginners to poker finding it through the Betfair Sportsbook.

Tournaments
Betfair Poker offer quite a good tournament schedule with over 20 guaranteed tournaments per day, as well as freerolls and qualifiers. Buy-ins vary from small buy-ins to higher stake buy-ins for big events and big qualifiers, however in a recent promotion, Betfair Poker gave away $1million to a winner of several freeroll tournaments. Players will also have the opportunity to qualify for big live events such as WSOP and WSOPE, WPT, EPT and more.

Soft Competition
Good poker players could clean up at Betfair Poker with games being loose-passive even up to the mid stake cash games. With most players coming from BetFairs sportsbook, a lot don't have much experience playing poker and will pay you off with virtually anything.

Customer Support
Betfair Poker support is excellent, which is expected from such an established company. They offer an FAQ guide on their website, but if that doesn't help they offer both phone and e-mail support.

Deposit and Withdrawal Options
Deposit Options = Visa, MasterCard, Delta, Moneybookers, Neteller, Bank Transfer, checks, ClickandBuy. Withdrawal Options = Credit Cards, Neteller, Moneybookers, Checks and Bank Transfer.