Bet365 Review

Bet365 is one of the biggest gambling companies in the world and is publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange. The company was established in 1974, but they didn’t open up their online poker room until 2001. Bet365 is apart of the iPoker Network and uses the PlayTech software to run their poker room. Traffic levels aren’t that high in the poker room, but they’re definitely high enough to support a 24/7 poker room. One of the reasons why the traffic levels are lower is because Bet365 Poker doesn’t allow any players from the USA although that could change if poker becomes legal in the country. Since most the players at Bet365 are European, the poker room is available in 10 different languages so that the majority of people aren’t left out. Like most European brands, Bet365 Poker is licensed and regulated in Gibraltar.

Bonus

When you sign-up for your account at Bet365 you’ll automatically receive a 100% sign-up bonus worth up to $500. The bonus will be credited to your account in $10 installments. In order to earn the $10 you simply need to play poker and earn merit points. For every 1200 merit points that you earn, $10 of the bonus will be released. Players will have a total of sixty days to earn the full amount of the bonus before it expires, but that’s plenty of time for the majority of players to earn the full $500. When you make your first deposit you’ll also receive a free ticket to a $100 freeroll.

Promotions

Although Bet365 Poker isn’t the biggest poker site on the market they still have tons of wonderful promotions. One of the very best promotions at Bet365 is the bonus tables that they offer. When you play on one of the bonus tables you’ll earn more merit points then normal, which you can then use to purchase cash bonuses or tournament tokens. You can check out all of the promotions on the Bet365 Poker site as they change often. There are generally promos running where you can earn a seat into major live events such as the WSOP or EPT.

Games

Whether you’re looking to play Texas Holdem, 7 Card Stud, Omaha, 5 Card Stud or Omaha Hi/Lo you’ll be able to when you join Bet365 Poker. You can find tournaments and cash games running around the clock in a variety of stakes and limits. Bet365 offers no limit, fixed limit and pot limit action in their poker room with stakes ranging from $.05/$.10 to $100/$200. You won’t find a lot of high stake poker action here, but if you’re looking for low – medium stakes you’ll love Bet365 Poker. With a lot of the poker players at Bet365 coming from their sportsbook the average level of competition is on the weaker side. You should be able to find plenty of cash games with loose players. If you can trap the loose players into paying off your big hands you should have no problem leaving your session with a profit.

Tournaments

Bet365 Poker doesn’t provide players with the best tournament atmosphere due to the lower levels of traffic, but if you’re just looking to play small sit and go tournaments there are plenty available. You can find daily freeroll tournaments and events with fairly large guaranteed prize pools. Bet365 also runs a poker tournament league where you’ll have the chance to walk away with a grand prize of $50K if you win the league. You won’t find tons of MTT’s running here at Bet365, but they have tons of smaller tourneys everyday in a variety of stakes.

Support

One of the things I like most about Bet365 is the fact you can contact them anytime of the day and they’ll be available to help you out right away. The easiest way to contact Bet365 Poker support is by using the instant chat system, but you can also contact them using email, telephone, fax or snail mail if you’d like. Bet365 even has a callback feature that allows players to submit a time that they’d like Bet365 to contact them so that you can sort out any problems or questions you may have.

Banking

Bet365 Poker has a lot of different deposit options depending on the country you live in. If you visit the Bet365 site you can learn about each of the banking options open to players from your country. There are some great deposit options such as credit cards, debit cards, bank transfers and e-wallets. The minimum deposits are very low at Bet365 Poker and the maximum deposits vary based on the deposit option you decide to utilize.