Betfair Poker has built a great reputation and a large player base that continues to grow daily. They offer excellent promotions and stable software. Players who visit Betfair automatically gain access to a vast amount of sports exchange customers. Betfair is currently attempting to establish itself as one of Europe’s top online poker rooms on the market. Due to recent changes made to the US legislation that now makes it impossible for credit card companies to collect for gambling transaction, Betfair poker is no longer able to provide real-money games to US residents. Betfair is the current presenting sponsor of the WSOP Europe, and happens to be the only place to qualify on line. This represents an extra-exclusive freeroll for players.
Description
Licenced under “The Sporting Exchange Ltd”, Betfair is an independent poker site that is not affiliated with any poker network. Betfair games are considered loose with low to medium stakes in both Limit and No-Limit Texas Hold’em games. Players will also find tournaments and free-rolls with lower buy-ins. Betfair games vary between Texas Hold’em, Omaha Hi and Omaha Hi-Lo but most games are at the Texas Hold’em tables. Betfair Poker offers No-limit, Limit and Pot-limits in the Hold’em games and Limit and Pot-limit in Omaha games. The competition at Betfair is passive with easy wins for more experienced players. They host monthly private freerolls and offer reload bonuses, loyalty bonuses, sign-up bonuses and Bonus payouts as typically expected.
Software and Graphics
Betfair Poker operates it’s own software privately. The software is highly functional and stable and includes, player notes, statistics, ability to play 15 tables simultaneously and awesome mini-views. With its “player buddy” program players can review previous hands and even replay them making it an excellent tool to help players improve their game play. The software also includes the unique “Threedom Pass tournament” program where players are able to win up to three years of free entry to live tournaments. This is the first time this type of feature has ever been offered in online poker. This top notch software is updated frequently, with little downtime, with safety and stability remaining a key focus.
Tournament Traffic
The traffic at Betfair is in the mid-range of the market. During peak playing times, studies indicate up to 12,000 ring-game players and roughly 4,000 tournament players as of July 2008.
The ring-game traffic is somewhat lower and mainly found in No-limit and Limit Hold’em games, with the traffic at the Omaha tables increasing daily.
