Bet365 Poker Review
Bet365 have become one of the world’s most recognisable sports betting companies over the last few years. Now they have now increased their services to off a wide range of casino games and a poker room that uses the i-Poker software.
Players signing up for any one of these services will immediately have access to the full range of Bet365’s products from one account, which offers new users a high level of flexibility which is sadly missing from those companies looking to rival Bet365.
The poker offering from Bet365 shouldn’t just be seen as an add on to the sportsbetting though. On the contrary, it offers a very competitive bonus, a large amount of traffic and some great tournaments. This is certainly my favourite room on the i-Poker network.
The poker offering from Bet365 shouldn’t just be seen as an add on to the sportsbetting though. On the contrary, it offers a very competitive bonus, a large amount of traffic and some great tournaments. This is certainly my favourite room on the i-Poker network.
Games available
Bet365 may not offer their players the wide range of games that some of their more established rivals do, but they certainly cover the main bases well offering Texas Hold’Em, Omaha, Omaha Hi-Lo, Seven Card Stud and Five Card Stud in both Limit and Pot Limit and No Limit versions.
Stakes start from as little as $0.05/$0.10 and go as high as $100/200 with multi-tabling options for those who prefer to play more than one game at a time.
Bet365 Poker Bonus
The Bet365 bonus offers all players depositing for the first time a 100% match bonus up to a maximum of $1000. In order to gain the full deposit, players must deposit $1000. No bonus code is required in order to activate this bonus. Instead readers should just click through to Bet365 and register a new account.
New players will also gain entry into two freeroll tournaments with guaranteed prize pools of $2,500.
To read more about how the bonus works and the clearance rates needed, please check out our Bet365 Poker Bonus page.
Bet365 Poker Tournaments
The tournament structure on Bet365 is phenominal and is a great draw for new players. A guaranteed $20m is given away every week in prize money via a number of MTT’s, SnG’s and this number is growing due to the large amount of traffic that Bet365 has on their network.
Cash Tournaments:
Bet365 Poker run ten big-money tournaments every day with cash prizes ranging from $1,250 to $40,000. Their flagship tournament (a $20k Guaranteed Freezeout) is held every Sunday except for the first Sunday of the month when that prize pool jumps to an impressive $250k and allow players to re-buy.
Buy-ins for the big tournaments are $60 + $5 (for the weekly freezeout) and $150 + $10 for the monthly re-buy although qualifiers run daily meaning that players can enter these tournaments for as little $6.50 (for the freezeout) and $15 + $1 (for the re-buy).
Freerolls
Those looking for Freeroll poker tournaments will be equally pleased with what Bet365 has to offer. Every day sees eight new freerolls being run with prizes starting from $200. Every Sunday sees $1k Freeroll being held and the biggest freeroll of the lot (worth $150,000) is hosted every Saturday.
Both of these last tournaments require players to have been involved in 10 raked hands over the previous week in order to qualify.
Deposit/Withdrawal Options
Bet365 offers a wide range of payment options through which their players can deposit or withdraw:
Deposit: – Visa, MasterCard, Maestro, Switch, Solo, MoneyBookers, 1-Pay, Asia365, Bank Wire, Click2Pay, Bank Transfer, Federal Express, FirePay, InstaDebit, NETeller, PaySafeCard, Stone-Pay, Ukash, EntroPay, PostePay and Western Union.
Withdraw: – Visa, MasterCard, Maestro, Switch, Solo, 1-Pay, MoneyBookers, Bank Wire, Click2Pay, Bank Transfer, Check by Mail, Fire Pay, InstaDebit, MoneyTT, NETeller, PostePay and Stone-Pay.
Competition/Traffic
There’s absolutely no need to worry about not being able to find a game at Bet365. At the time of writing, they had the third largest amount of traffic in the online poker industry. At peak times, almost 5,500 players can be expected in ring games and 45,000 are usually involved in tournament play across a wide range of levels.
The lower stake games don’t offer a whole lot in terms of competition with flops being seen more than 60% of the time. Higher levels do attract a good quality of player (due to the prizes on offer), meaning that Bet365 is a very good option for those who are perhaps new to the game but looking to develop their skills and work their way up the poker ladder.
Support
Bet365 offers a wide range of ways for players to report any problems that they may have. Emails are responded to clearly and in a timely manner and a telephone number is made available to anyone who would like to talk to someone personally.
Perhaps the most useful form of communiciation though is their ‘live chat’ box which allows you to speak directly with a member of the Bet365 team in a Messenger style window. Although more complicated queries can take a bit longer to sort out, I’ve always found the support team to be friendly and accurate with any problems that I’ve had.
Ready to play at Bet365?
Having read all that, it's now time to head on over to Bet365 and start playing. You don't need a bonus code to receive an excellent 100% match bonus up to $1000 and that gives you access to both the casino and the sportsbook as well.
