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888 Poker Bonuses
No Deposit Bonus – $88 Free
Brand new players signing up to 888 Poker during this promotion will receive $88 in free poker chips to check out the site with. This bonus offer is only available to one person per household and can only be claimed once per computer. So, if you tell your buddy about the free chips, make sure he goes home, then comes back to THIS page, and then goes to 888 and signs up for his own account.
Depending on the player’s location, the free poker chips may be in the form of playable real money, or in the form of tournament buy-ins.
Games at 888 Poker
888 Poker offers all of the major and most common poker games that are generally played online. The point has been made however that the site is missing the more exciting and newly popular mixed games such as H.O.R.S.E, H.O.S.E, and H.O. that are available at some competing sites.
- Texas Hold’em
- Omaha
- Seven-Card Stud
- Omaha 8-or-Better
- Seven-Card Stud 8-or-Better
Rake at 888 Poker
888 Doesn’t have the charge the highest per-hand fee, there are rooms that charge 5% up to $5, they also don’t charge the least, with sites like PokerStars capping the rake at $2.5 per hand after recent rake decreases. The 5% rake at 888 is currently capped at $4 per hand.
So it’s a dollar, not a tremendous difference it would seem, but if you break it down, especially if you’re a volume player, and compare rake paid during a week at each site, especially at say the $1/$2 level,. it actually does make quite a difference to the bottom line of a serious player.
Rakeback at 888 Poker
There are no rakeback deals at 888 poker nor are they allowed by the company. This is pretty much becoming the norm across board for the poker industry as poker rooms like 888 move away from the old rakeback format and move toward stronger VIP and loyalty programs.
888 Poker Banking
888 Poker has been in the online poker industry for several years, and therefore the company has had, and taken advantage of ample time and opportunity to build relationships with several payment processing companies. As a result, 888 offers quite an extensive list of both deposit and withdrawal options.
888 Poker Deposit Methods:
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Paypal is only a viable deposit option for 888 players located in Austria, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and in the Unighted Kingdom. Nordea online bank accounts are only available options for players located in Sweden and Finland.
888 Poker Withdrawal Options:
- Visa (Where possible)
- MasterCard (Where possible)
- Debit Cards
- Neteller
- Skrill
- PayPal
- Wire transfer (direct bank account transfer)
- Cashier’s Check
888 Poker holds all withdrawal requests for three days before processing them
Software Languages Available
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Mobile Poker at 888
888 can be accessed using Android mobile devices as well as any device using the Apple iOS, including the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. There really isn’t much difference between the Android app and the iOS app. Players using either app will have access to real money ring games starting at .01/.02 micro stakes and up to $3/$6.
Players are also able to participate in Sit N Go tournaments with buy ins ranging from $1+fee to $55+fee.
888 Poker Licensing and Legalities
Over the last few years the gambling industry has seen tumultuous changes in the legality of online poker all over the globe. 888 has been a diligent in becoming a legally operating virtual gambling location in every jurisdiction that will allow the company a license.
888 Poker Support
The staff at 888 Poker provide customer support via email, live chat and telephone. To contact 888’s support team, which is available 24 hours a day, every day of the week, visit the site, (888.com) and click the help link toward the top of the site. From there you’ll be directed to a page with various help options that will eventually lead to the customer service telephone number, or email address, for the region and issue you are having.