Bet Online Poker Review

Bet Online is a new online poker room that is accepting sign ups from the United States.  This is not a new online start up though, they have been in operation since 1991 and began their online presence soon after that.  They are more known as a quality sportsbook that pays their sports bettors on time, but seem to have a problem with running a proper online poker operation.
    Before I continue on with this review, I want to let you know that this is not a replacement for Poker Stars or Party Poker.  You will need to adjust your expectations on how playing online poker in the U.S. is going to be like, or you will always end up being disappointed with a poker room.
    Right now, Bet Online Poker is one of only four poker rooms that have the ability to make a decent online poker room for Americans to play at.  They have a wide range of deposit options that can be used by anybody, and they are looking for new online poker players from the U.S., which is becoming more and more of a rarity.  Bet Online has solid history when it comes to treating their sports bettors professionally, but management has made some mistakes along the way when it comes to understanding poker players.  One thing to keep in mind is this is a sportsbook first, an online casino, then an online poker room.  The new player promotions are not all that great for poker players, but this does create a great opportunity for easy fishing in the poker room.
    Traffic at the poker tables is currently low, but there are only a few poker rooms that have the ability and the willingness to accept an inflow of American poker players.  Bottom line, if you are planning of playing online poker in the U.S., this might just be an option that you may want to check out.  You can sign up today and get a 25% bonus at the sportsbook and $40 worth of tournament entries at Bet Online Poker.

Bet Online Poker Promotions

The Bet Online poker room has some unique bonus promotions.  You will be able to get a 25% free play bonus up to $900, that you can use in their sportsbook and online casino.
    In the poker room you will be able to get free poker promo bucks.  For each $50 deposited you will be able to get 200 promo bucks up to a maximum of 4000 promo bucks.  Each promo buck is worth $0.01, which will work out to a 4% instant poker bonus.  To get the maximum ($40 instant tournament bonus) you will need to make a deposit of $1000 or more.  The promo bucks can be used in many of the guaranteed pot tournaments in the Bet Online poker room.  This might seem like a mediocre bonus, but this is a bigger bonus than what most poker players will actually earn at another poker room.  What good is a $1000 poker bonus, when you typically end up only earning $10 of that bonus, before the rest of the bonus expires worthless.
    Both the poker bucks promo and the 25% deposit bonus promo are optional, and will require you to email your account number, deposit amount, the date and time of your deposit to freeplay@betonline.com within 24 hours of making your deposit.
    You will also earn POP (Player Option Points) points at the rate of 1 point for every $0.10 you pay in rake.  You will also earn 10 points for every $1 you pay in tournament fees.  You can use your POP points to enter in POP tournaments and to play the $500 POP2Cash tournaments.  These daily tournaments have an entry fee of 100 POP and a prize pool of $500.

Bet Online Poker Freerolls

One thing that is always great when a new online poker room opens up, are the poker freerolls.  It takes a lot to add liquidity to an online poker room, and one way to do it is to offer frequent freerolls, which helps to keep players logged into the poker room.  On every hour, there is at least one free poker tournament at the Bet Online poker room.  Prize pools vary from $10 to $200 and sometimes pay out Player Option Points.  The ratio between the prize pool to amount of players is good, and worthwhile playing for if you are typically a micro limit poker player.

Poker Tables

If you are planning of playing at the poker tables here, then you better be prepared to play micro or low limit Texas Holdem.  There are Omaha Poker and Omaha H/L tables, but there is usually no more than two tables with action.  At the Texas Holdem tables, there are 200 to 300 poker players playing during the majority of the day.  Most of the play is at the micro stakes, but there are a few tables open for the $0.50/$1.00 and the $1.50/$3.00 Texas Holdem tables.

Poker Tournaments

There isn't much for the high stakes poker player here, but this will be an okay place to play micro and low limit poker tournaments.  You will not be playing in many large poker tournaments, but the Bet Online poker room does a decent job of creating their poker schedule to accommodate the player traffic that they do have.