Ladbrokes Poker

Ladbrokes Poker is one of Europe’s most popular online poker rooms, offering great promotions, strong game variety, good graphics and playability. Now operating on the Microgaming network, Ladbrokes Poker is a part of one of the largest sports betting operations in the world and with over 100 years of experience in the gambling world Ladbrokes Poker has no trouble providing high traffic volume, loose tables and an extensive range of table limits for its punters.

Games offered are Texas Hold'em, Omaha, Omaha Hi-Lo, Seven-Card Stud, Five-Card Draw and Five-Card Stud. Besides the regular poker action players can also entertain themselves and win money playing casino games and the innovative betting game "Poker Bet," all without leaving the Ladbrokes Poker client.

The large number of shorthanded and turbo tables creates loose and juicy games as well as quick playability - sometimes seeing more than 120 hands played per hour. Although there are always details that can be improved, the software has proven to be very functional, fast and reliable and it's available in both a download and a no-download flash version.

of late, Ladbrokes seems to be investing more energy into building its poker profile beyond the U.K., sponsoring several pro players, providing a blog and video coverage during the 2009 WSOP and generally pushing out a lot more new promotions and value-added features to its players.

The effort's been recognized, as traffic is on the rise. Real-money player stats show 1400 ring-game players at peak hours and 5000 tournament players at peak hours.

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Bonus Code and Promotions (8)

All newplayers who sign up at Ladbrokes through a PokerListings link are eligible for a world-best $$0.00 bonus at 2000% deposit match.

Exclusive Ladbrokes Poker bonus code for PokerListings players: No code required. Anyone who signs up via PokerListings download link will be eligible.

Bonus Payout: Ladbrokes Poker's bonus clearing requirements are very generous in comparison to industry standard. To receive your full bonus you need to accumulate 10 times the number of Player Points in relation to you initial deposit (minimum $50).

The bonus must be cleared within 45 days of activation. Once cleared, you need to submit a claim, after which you will receive your bonus within three business days.

Loyalty Program/Promotions

Ladbrokes Poker offers players a standard VIP program where they can earn points playing real-money cash games and tournaments.

Once a player reaches 10,000+ points in one month they are elevated to VIP status and can begin earning points quicker and accessing more bonuses and freerolls. Points earned lead to cash back, clearing bonuses, events or they can be used to enter special freerolls.

Promotions at Ladbrokes Poker are also generally very strong. Regular satellites are offered for major live tournaments, including the Monte Carlo Millions and the EPT and overall, Ladbrokes Poker offers a pretty attractive mix for all players along with bonus clearing requirements quite generous compared to industry standard.

Ladbrokes Poker offers reload bonuses almost monthly. The bonuses are usually of relatively low value and generally in the $25-$100 range, with a deposit match of 25-50%.

> Sign up through a PokerListings link and receive a $1000 bonus at 2000% deposit match

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Tournaments and Freerolls (7)

Ladbrokes Poker hosts a wide selection of tournaments with buy-ins from $1 to the low hundreds. Tournaments are generally well-populated and fast, and play is usually somewhat loose thansk to the sportsbook customers dropping over for a quick SNG or two. Also because many of the tournaments are re-buy events, play in the early stages is often extremely loose - be sure to note the type of tournament before joining.

Ladbrokes Poker also runs monthly $150,000 and $250,000 tournaments that draw some massive fields. Daily qualifiers run for these tournaments with buy-ins as low as $5.50. They also offer some qualifiers to big live events, like the Monte Carlo Millions and the European Poker Tour

As for freerolls, Ladbrokes Poker offers a decent amount of free or almost-free tournaments - mainly large No-limit Hold’em tournaments. Ladbrokes Poker runs $100 guaranteed freerolls daily and with 2,500 player points or more massive $25,000 freerolls can be entered.

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Software and Graphics (7)

Ladbrokes Poker runs on Microgaming software which is fast, smooth and offers very good playability. During any game you can see stats for your own play, such as how often you see the flop, your win percentage and more and there's also a graphic replay of hands that is very useful when analyzing past games.

Graphics are clean and sharp and the fact the software does not use avatars makes for a clean and easily viewable table.

The hand history works well in the software and exports smoothly to the local computer for analysis, but does not list hands played in a session. One function useful when clearing bonuses is the lobby counts raked hands, making it easy for a player to keep track of how much he has played.

The latest version of the Ladbrokes Poker software supports up to eight tables of simultaneous play and, if used with the mini-table size option, five tables can be viewed at the same time. The tables are a little cluttered though and the chat and other information dialogs take up a little too much space. Hole cards can also be hard to distinguish.

For a direct and free Ladbrokes Poker download, click the download link above.

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Soft Competition (8)

Ladbrokes Poker offers loose and juicy games - you just have to know where to find them.

The short-handed (six players max.) tables and turbo games produce wild games with viewed-flopped percentages upwards of 55%. The average viewed-flop percentage for full 10-player tables is just under 40%.

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Support (8)

With an extensive infrastructure from the sports betting operation, Ladbrokes Poker offers fantastic support with telephone and e-mail options. The support staff is knowledgeable and friendly.

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Deposit Withdrawal Options (7)

Deposit options:Visa, Mastercard, Delta, Maestro/Switch/Solo, Money Orders, Bank Drafts, Cashier Checks, Personal Checks, Bank Wire Transfer, Western Union, Neteller, ukash, eNETS.

Withdrawal options: Debit/Credit cards, check, Neteller, Bacs/Chaps (U.K. only), Low value international transfer, Western Union and wire transfer.

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