Betfair Poker Bonuses

All new players at the Betfair poker site are eligible to claim a 200% deposit bonus when they make their first deposit into their real money poker account on the site. Players can claim a bonus of up to $2000.00 so long as the bonus is claimed when making their 1^st deposit, not after.

Here’s how it works. If you’ve never made a deposit to or had money transferred to a Betfair account, you qualify, so click on any link to Betfair from this site to get too started. Follow the onscreen directions and get your new account set up on the site. Then, decide how much you’d like to start your Betfair bankroll with. Players can choose to deposit as little as $25 or as much as $2000.00 to take advantage of this offer.

Players making the minimum deposit of $25 will in turn receive $50 free in bonus chips. There are some strings attached to the offer of course, so keep reading, we’ll break it down for you below. Players looking to cash in on the maximum bonus offered can make a $1000.00 deposit and receive a $2000.00 bonus.

Clearing a Betfair Bonus

When you first make your deposit, after you’ve opened your new account and gotten the software all set up on your computer, you’ll going to realize that the bonus isn’t in your account balance. The money that you actually deposited will be there, but the bonus money we’ve been talking about is going to be missing from your balance. To get your hands on these bonus chips you’ll have to ‘clear the bonus’. That’s a fancy way of saying you’re going to have to play some poker to get that money moved from your bonus money account to your real money bankroll at the site.

As you play poker, rake is taken from the pots by the poker site. As you play in raked hands, you accumulate status points, as you accumulate those status points, chunks of your bonus are released into your real money account. Every $1 in rake or tournament fees earns players 20 status points.

Any bonus that is left uncleared 3 months (or more specifically, 90 days) from the day that the player first signs up for a Betfair nickname (notice that it’s not from the date that the player made their deposit, so really, if you’ve been playing free games on Betfair for a few months before you deposit, you could get screwed here…

Games at Betfair Poker

• No Limit Hold’em
• Pot Limit Hold’em
• Limit Hold’em
• Pot Limit Omaha

Of the above games, only No Limit Holdem, Pot Limit Holdem and Limit Holdem games are available using the Betfair mobile poker app, Pot Limit Omaha isn’t available for play on the mobile site.

Rake at Betfair Poker

We’ve seen rake rates going up across several poker sites throughout recent months, with the average cap quickly becoming $5 per hand where we’re used to paying $3. In reality, anything above about $1 is ridiculous isn’t it? It’s not like we’ve got a dealers wages to cover, or a casino lights that need to keep aglow, at any rate… Betfair’s currently beating the average charging 5% capped at $3 per hand.

There are sites however that cap at $1 or $2 in at microstakes levels, some even cap them at .50, so be sure to compare the rake at the level that you’re playing to keep as many of the chips on the table as possible, and as few going into the rake.

The max heads up rake at Betfair is $1. The maximum tournament rake is 10% and, as is the case at most poker sites online, Betfair employs a ‘no flop no drop’ policy, so if no flop is dealt, no rake is taken.

Betfair Poker Banking

Betfair pretty much accepts all of the most common industry tools for processing real money poker deposits and withdrawals including all of the options listed below:

• Delta
• Solo
• Maestro
• Visa
• MasterCard (U.K.)
• Visa Electron
• PayPal
• NETELLER
• Skrill
• ClickandBuy
• Bank Transfer – Express
• Bank Transfer
• Western Union
• Cheque