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Score

7.4/10
Software & Graphics
9
Ring Game Traffic
8
Tournament Traffic
7
Rake
8
Soft Competition
9
Game Variety
8
Sign-Up Bonus
8
Loyalty Bonus
9
Promotions
9
Support
9
Financial Security
9
Deposit & Withdrawal
9

Game Selection / Volume

4/10
Cash Game
1,700
Player Volume Peak
7,700
Tournament Volume
6,000
7 Card Stud Hi-Lo
5
Tournaments
6,000
7 Card Stud Hi
5
Heads-Up Poker
75
Omaha
120
Limit Texas Hold'em
500
Omaha Hi-Lo
60
Texas Holdem
1,700
Omaha Hi
60
No-limit Texas Hold'em
1,200
7 Card Stud
10

Support Quality

9/10
24/7 Support
Yes
Web site FAQ
No
Support Features
Email and Phone
E-Mail Confirmation
Yes
Speed
Very fast
Knowledge
Friendliness
70%
NETeller Payout Time
48 Hours
Withdrawal Smoothness
75%

Support

Sportsbook Poker offers e-mail, live chat and a 24/7 support phone number. Response time and friendliness is top notch and answers are accurate.

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Full Review

Sportsbook.com is a sportsbook, poker room and casino that has been in business since 1997. The poker room opened in 2006 on the Cake Poker network and recently moved to the Merge network.

Unlike most poker rooms, Sportsbook Poker is available exclusively to U.S. and Canadian players. The poker room has grown very quickly and offers maybe the loosest and juiciest games available online today. Most of the player base comes through the sportsbook and casino, which makes a large portion of the players beginners and very easy to beat.

The software features nice graphics and functionality as it was developed by a group of poker players looking to "re-invent" the online poker world. Game play is very good and offers basically everything most poker players need, with good table stats, fast action, 10 tables for multi-tabling and great support features.

Game selection is also decent, with all variations of Texas Hold'em plus Omaha and Omaha Hi-Lo. Games are definitely concentrated in No-Limit Hold'em, and especially at the small and middle limits, but at peak hours players can be found at pretty much any limit and game.

Sportsbook Poker offers a decent amount of tournaments with the traffic volume overall in the lower segment of the industry but growing fast. Sportsbook Poker also offers monthly massive-value $100,000 freerolls.

Real-money player statistics as of May 2012 show 1700 ring-game players at peak hours, and 6000 tournament players at peak hours.

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Bonus Code and Promotions

Sign up through a PL.com link and get a $1,000

At 125%

Exclusive $1000 first-deposit bonus at 125% match for new players who sign up at Sportsbook Poker through a Pokerlistings link.

Sportsbook Poker bonus code for PokerListings players: LISTINGSPK

Bonus Clearing: When Sportsbook Poker users play real money on the site they earn VIP Points. For every 75 VIP points, players earn $1 of their bonus. Once a player has earned $5 that money is transferred to their account. This continues until the pending bonus account reaches $0.

Loyalty Program

Sportsbook Poker players have access to one of the most lucrative rewards programs in online poker.

The Play Aces VIP program offers numerous incentives for both hardcore grinders and casual players.

The program is simple, players earn VIP points by playing real cash game tables or real money tournaments or Sit & Goes on Sportsbook Poker. VIP points can be spent in the online Sportsbook Poker store for various merchandise or straight up cash.

Players who generate a high volume of points will quickly move up the five status levels of green, bronze, silver, gold and platinum.

The rake system on Sportsbook Poker is very simple with players earning one point for every 10 cents of rake they contribute, whether its cash games or tournaments.

> Sign up through a PokerListings link and receive a $1,000 bonus at 125% deposit match

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Bonus Details

Max Bonus $1,000
Regular Bonus $650
Match Bonus 100%

Tournaments and Freerolls

Tournament buy-ins range from as little as $1 all the way to a few hundred. Tournaments arebusy and fast with a good structure. Daily tournaments usually get around 5-600 players for low stakes and around 200 for high stakes ($50 and above). Weekly tournaments get up to 3,000 players for low stakes and 1,000+ for the major Sunday tournaments.

Daily guaranteed tournaments range from the $1,500 ($1 buy-in plus rebuys) to the $20,000 ($100 buy-in). There are also usually two Pot-Limit Omaha guarantees. The cheaper one guarantees $1,500 ($5 buy-in plus rebuys) while the big one offers $3,000 ($10 buy-in plus rebuys).

Weekly tournaments include a $100,000 guaranteed and a $50,000 guaranteed. Once a month there is a giant $250,000 guaranteed event.

Sportsbook Poker also offers a regular satellites to major live tournaments around the world plus unique events like Kamikaze sit and gos, where everyone is all-in every hand, and Double-ups, where the top five of 10 get double their money.

Sportsbook Poker offers relatively few freerolls on a daily basis, but the ones they do offer are usually massive. Each month a $100,000 guaranteed freeroll is played where the winner takes home $75,000 and the runners-up share $25,000. Online, it doesn't get any better than that.

The overall freeroll series runs for 10 months and awards $1 million in free tournament prizes. Both freeroll and cash qualifiers for the monthly $100,000 finals run daily.

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Software and Graphics

Sportsbook Poker's software runs fast and smooth. You can also see your own playing stats right at the table - like how often you see the flop, your win percentage, etc - making it a great learning site for beginners.

Overall the graphics are nice and clean and make for fast play, often dealing 60-70 hands per hour in full ring games. The avatars are nice looking and life-like. The tables are oval and the felt is blue, with a swanky casino setting with marble floors and heavy red drapes covering the walls.

Multi-table play is easy and smooth and works well with the stats tools available. One nice function is the hand history also saves the player chat, which is useful when trying to "figure out" a player

On the negative side, the note-taking function is a little hard to use and the software offers no mini-view or other multi-table help functionality. Occasionally the software will also freeze, but simply closing the program and opening it back up again seems to solve it.

All sounds and a lot of the graphics can be turned on and off and the amount of chat text a player wants to see can be chosen. Best special featrues are the in-game statistics and the access to hand histories without leaving the table.

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Soft Competition

Low stakes games are packed with bad players with the games varying from relatively loose to ridiculously loose with a viewed-flop percentages up to 50%-60%.

This translates to very juicy and loose games for the small- to middle-stakes player - maybe the juiciest online.

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Hits and Misses

Hits

  • Offers massive monthly $100,000 freerolls
  • Great statistics and hand histories
  • Accepts U.S. players
  • Fast software and play

Misses

  • No Poker Tracker support
  • Doesn't accept players from certain U.S. states

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Info

Name
Sportsbook Poker
Web site
www.sportsbook.com/poker
Established
1997
Country
Costa Rica
Auditor
Network
Merge
Size
12.9 MB
E-Mail
pitboss@sportsbook.com
Telephone
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Deposit & Withdrawal

NOTE: Sportsbook Poker claims it offers the highest credit card acceptance rate in the industry.

Deposit Options: VISA, MasterCard, Cash Transfer, UseMyWallet, Neteller, Skrill (formerly Moneybookers) and debit cards.

Withdrawal Options: Wire Transfer, Check/Gift Card, UseMyWallet, Neteller and Skrill (formerly Moneybookers).

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