SPORTSBOOK POKER REVIEW

Sportsbook Poker Review

Although the poker room at Sportsbook.com is relatively new, the casino and award-winning sportsbook which is also available to registered users has been around since 1997.

Sportsbook poker initially launched on the Cake Poker Network in 2006 and grew rapidly. A move to the Merge Network in early 2010 instantly improved traffic levels further and today, the room has cash games running around the clock and an excellent tournament schedule.

Sportsbook Poker is continuing to grow rapidly thanks to excellent customer support, a very strong bonus and a player base which predominantly comes from the casino and sportsbook operation, resulting in plenty of fish which are easy to beat.

Sportsbook Poker Bonus

All new depositors at Sportsbook poker can take advantage of an excellent bonus consisting of a 100% match up to $1,000, meaning that Sportsbook will match every dollar of your first deposit up to $1,000.

It should be noted that the standard welcome bonus at Sportsbook Poker is $650. However, we have negotiated an improved welcome offer for all of our readers. To take advantage of this exlusive offer, players simply need to visit www.Sportsbook.com and enter the bonus code BONUS1000PK when you make your first deposit.

This bonus is well above the industry average and can be cleared at a rate of 75 VIP points for every $1 of bonus cash. These bonus funds are cleared in $10 increments which are transferred automatically from your bonus account into your real money account as you accumulate the necessary VIP points.

Players will have 90 days in which to clear their bonus - another term which is much more generous than many of Sportsbook.com's competitors.

Sportsbook Poker Games Available

There is a lot of variety in the games to be found at Sportsbook Poker. Texas Holdem, Omaha and Omaha Hi/Lo can be found along with 7 Card Stud, 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo, 5 Card Stud, Razz and Draw. There is also Badugi and a variety of other mixed games.

Despite all this variety though, players should be aware that most of the action is to be found in the Holdem and Omaha games. It can be difficult to find players in the less common games, which can be disappointing.

Sportsbook Poker Tournaments

The tournament structure at Sportsbook.com is strong. Buy-ins range from $1 all the way up to a few hundred and all of them are well organised and well populated any time of the day or night.

The lower staked tournaments usually get around 500-600 players on a daily basis, while the higher stake tournaments (i.e. those over $50) pick up around 200 players.

Flagship tournaments include a weekly $100,000 guaranteed and $50,000 guaranteed as well as a huge monthly $250,000 guaranteed.

Aside from the regular MTTs, there are also a number of satellites to some of the world's largest tournaments as well as a number of unique games such as Kamikaze Sit n Go (whereby all players are forced to go all in on every hand) and Double Up (where the top five players double their prize money at the expense of the other five).

Those of you who are interested in freerolls may be slightly disappointed as there aren't may included in the tournament schedule. However, those freerolls which do run are certainly worth getting involved in. Every month Sportsbook organise a $100k freeroll event in which the overall winner walks away with $75,000 and the reamining $25k is shared out amongst the runners up. When it comes to online freerolls, it doesn't get a whole lot better than that!

Sportsbook Poker Deposit/Withdrawal methods

Sportsbook is one of a very small number of poker rooms which accepts almost all US credit card transactions, as well as Wire Transfer. The minimum deposit is set at a very reasonable $20, which makes a nice change from most other US friendly poker rooms who require at least $50 to be deposited at a time.

The room allows players to deposit as much as $10,000 in a single 24 hour time period.

Deposit options include: Visa, Mastercard, Visa Election, Moneybookers, Diners Club and Visa Delta.

Sportsbook Poker Support

If you have any questions about Sportsbook.com, its software or anything else for that matter, you can contact the Sportsbook Customer Service team via Email, phone or a live Chat client which is built into the software. There are dedicated phone numbers for both UK and US players - both of which are toll free. There is a phone number for members based elsewhere in the world as well as various fax numbers which are monitored on a 24 hour basis.

Traffic Levels:

The graph below shows the number of unique visitors to Sportsbook.com over the last 12 months. It is a good indicator of the number of players that you can expect to find online there. The figures will update automatically.