Bet365 Poker Review

Overall 81 Ease of Competition 75 Tournaments 79 Customer Service 63 Software 85

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Please note: Bet365 Poker does not accept real-money players from the United States.

Overview
Bet365 Poker is a medium-sized poker room. Overall, it is a good site, especially for lower-stakes no-limit games.

Bonus
Bet365 Poker offers a bonus of up to $500 to any player that makes a first deposit of $10 or more. Bet365 Poker's bonus clears very quickly. For every 100 loyalty points a player earns, he or she receives $5 in bonus money.

Promotions
In addition to sign up bonuses, Bet365 Poker has several promotions. They have a bad beat jackpot as well as magic hand bonus. There are several daily freerolls, as well as a weekly $5,000 freeroll. They also have Rounders tournaments, which are similar to the Party Poker Steps tournaments.

Tournaments
There seems to be some lack of creativity with regard to this site's scheduled tournament offerings. Outside of small no-limit freezeouts, not much is available. This isn't a site where you can log on and boot up 3-4 varying tournaments over the course of an hour and have a great evening of poker ahead. For it's faults in the scheduled tournaments department, Bet365 is a great place to find popular sit-n-gos with a quality structure.

Software
Bet365 Poker also has very nice software. The games are fast, and the software is easy to use. One nice feature of this software is that when playing multiple games, the tables can be toggled within one window as opposed having a separate window for every open table. Unfortunately, Bet365 Poker's software provider, Prima Poker, can be a pest. Prima Poker tends to have very tight security measures that can sometimes annoy a player. These security measures have also resulted in some people unfairly having their accounts closed.

Competition Level
The competition is about average. The games used to be very soft here, but they have gotten considerably harder recently. No-limit is a lot more popular at this site than limit is. There are many no-limit games to choose from with blinds of $1-$2 or lower.

Customer Service
Bet365 Poker has fairly decent customer support. They answer their phone lines quickly and are generally very helpful. However, since it is on the Prima Poker network, you may have to deal with Prima Poker support, which is horrible. Bet365 Poker handles most basic account issues (such as cashouts or bonuses), but Prima Poker controls the software and has final control over a player's account.

Editor's Unique History with Prima Poker
While I have a lot of respect for Bet365 Poker, I am very upset with their software provider, Prima Poker. In November 2003, Prima Poker unfairly banned me from playing on their network. When they closed my account, they sent me all the money I had in my account. Thus, they did not seize any of my funds; they only disallowed me from playing on the network. This still angered me very much, because I was winning a considerable amount of money at the Prima Poker tables at the time.

Two years later, they decided to unban my account. So currently, I am able to play at Prima Poker.

Ring Games Offered
Texas Hold'em, Omaha, 7 Stud, 5 Stud

Fixed Limits: $0.05-$0.10 to $100-$200
NL & PL Blinds: $0.05-$0.10 to $100-$200

Tournaments Offered
Texas Hold'em, Omaha, Omaha hi-lo

Single-Table: $.75 to $100
Multi-Table: $1 to $1,000

Minimum Deposit
$20