BetOnline Review

Since Texas Holdem is the most popular form of poker the world over, you would expect this game to be the top featured offering at all online poker sites. BetOnline is certainly no exception to this rule. In addition, you can find Omaha and Omaha Hi Lo games, which is generally considered to be the second most popular type of online poker offering (it is really a more loose version of Holdem, with extra cards).

Another nice thing about the BetOnline poker rooms is that they have a few extra game offerings. These include 7-Card Stud and even 5-Card Stud. To be very honest, our reviewers felt the inclusion of 5-Card Stud was quite a coupe for such poker sites. After all, there are even many of the best websites out there that could not be bothered to offer 5-Card Stud. Very strong move. On top of everything else, they include the game of 2-7 Draw, which is a form of Lowball poker and a fairly specialized game. Most of these games can be played in a variety of formats such as no limit, pot limit, and fixed limit.

BetOnline is also becoming well-known for their tournament offerings. This website spreads around at least $250,000 in guaranteed tournaments each and every week. This includes all types of freerolls as well as real cash buy-in and other events. The smaller sit and go tournaments start at pennies and go up to $11 or more, running nearly 24 hours a days. There are other guaranteed prize money tournaments which run on weekly and / or monthly time schedules.

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At the moment, the main focus of newer online poker sites like BetOnline (especially those who are now accepting US players) is to build up their brand and their player traffic. Obviously, this takes time. Current cash and tournament traffic on the BetOnline poker rooms is around 2,000 during their peak traffic periods. This works out to be around 500 at the cash games and 1,500 playing tournaments. This is fairly common among newer online poker rooms, and it should be noted that their traffic numbers are beginning to grow as more poker sites become better known in the US.

This also spells opportunity, especially for more skilled online poker players. Certainly, this is not a gigantic pool of players, so you should be able to take down some nice prizes at their open tournaments. It is definitely going to be much easier dealing with a tournament of field of one to two hundred, rather than two thousand...as you would see at some of the other best, top rated online poker websites. Even with the cash games, there is a nice opportunity here as the level of competition is very weak and exploitable.

It is also very easy to reach customer service here at the BetOnline poker rooms. You can search the thorough FAQ pages or even look at some of the various game rule pages for more basic questions or concerns. Then, if that still does not satisfy, feel free to send an email to the service staff, who should respond within a few hours. Customer agents are very friendly, helpful, and knowledgeable.

For quicker responses you could give the company a phone call or even engage them in an online chat session. The phone call might require a slight delay, especially depending on the timing of the call (less staff are on hand during the early morning hours for example). By pushing the live chat button, you should be connected to someone almost instantly...a great way this poker site helps to resolve any concerns players might have.

One area in which BetOnline really outshines its competition at this juncture is with their bonus offerings. Among all other online poker sites, this might be the best. With an offer of 200%, up to $2,500 real cash, this is certainly near the top of all poker rooms' current bonus offers.

Most online poker rooms release their bonuses in miserly small increments, usually along the lines of $5 or $10 at a time. However, BetOnline has chosen to do things in a slightly different manner. They release your bonus in five different installments. This is based on how many real money hands you have played and how much rake (or house commission) those hands have generated for their websites. The specific formula is a bit complicated, but it will be paid out in roughly 20% installments as you reach certain 'rake levels'.

Players have 120 days to complete this bonus clearance process at the BetOnline online poker rooms. This should be pretty easy to do, as long as you are a consistent real cash player. It might be more difficult if you only focus on playing in tournament games, since this will entail a different formula that calls for a much higher number of hands.

As with most other online poker sites, BetOnline will offer a number of different banking options. These methods will include your major credit cards and debit cards along with a number of popular e-wallets like NeTeller (for international players) and Skrill (this is open for US players in most locations). Or, you may deposit via a direct bank transfer, wire transfer, and electronic check, or even a service like Western Union. This certainly gives you a lot of options for getting real money into the poker rooms. Plus, they have a very high credit card acceptance rate, which has always been a problem for poker sites.

In terms of getting your money out of this poker room, most of the above listed options will also work. However, they do vary in terms of speed. You will find that the e-wallet systems are usually the fastest, processing within about 48 hours and showing up in your accounts more or less immediately after that. If you would like a check by mail, that will take around three weeks. Even a courier service could take between 10-14 business days. Money transfer services like Western Union are very fast, taking between 12 and 36 hours. Also bear in mind there are minimum and maximums associated with most payout methods and there might also be some associated fees.

BetOnline does have a generally good reputation among online poker sites. Of course, there is great excitement about any such poker rooms that have been looking to open to US players since the laws started changing in 2014. This site does have some decent variety of games (even some specialized varieties) and that should help to keep some of the more skilled players happy as the traffic continues to grow. The future of online poker at BetOnline does look very bright, especially if they stay committed to the US market and are a bit aggressive in their promotion.