Betfair: 

Betfair is one of the most trusted names in online gambling and offers a terrific independent poker room too, it is not just a gambling website, however, it is more of a community too. The forum is very busy and has all manner of sections, not least a poker section where poker players are always asking about rakeback. The forum is so busy and well known that it has even been subject of numerous UK newspaper reports and reviews.

When you play at Betfair you will find that there are plenty of fish and you will be entitled to 30% rakeback minimum rising up to 40% for the bigger rake generating players. This rakeback is paid out the first and third thursday of each month.

• Biggest sports betting site in the world
• Excellent customer service
• State of the art casino with the famous low house edge
• Numerous exchange games
• Financial and spread betting
• Arcade games, multiple betting, poker
• Betfair points can get you free flights
• Betfair is renown for having many fish

So not only can you play poker at Betfair, however, you can use Betfair for all of your gambling needs. They are proud sponsors of the WSOP Europe tournaments and always have special WSOP tournaments for qualification to this. There is the Million dollar game with regional freerolls running daily as well as the usual WSOP satellites and steps games.

There is always a game to be found there whether you like cash tournament or sit and go games. Cash tables are very busy and start from as little as 2/4 cent blinds right up to the nose bleed levels of $1000/$2000 blinds, there are both Omaha and Texas holdem games at all blind levels.

Tournaments on offer include anything from freerolls and 11 cent buy ins up to games like the $510 $66,000 New Breed challenge. There are plenty of normal tournaments and also lots of turbo and super turbos too. One of the tournament promotions is the Betfair Pokerfecta which awards players for winning three tournaments in a week, Betfair award each person to complete this special Betfair merchandise and clothing. Recent winners include Maxiriver, Lisa8, El timba, Linten and Homeboy8. Other promotions for tournaments are the leaderboards paying nearly $50,000 each month, maximum $10 rake on any level buy in, and the bankroll boosters for new players.

Sit and go games are also popular starting as low as 11 cents and raising to massive $10,000 sit and go games. Again there are omaha and holdem games, leaderboards and many more promotions. The world famous DN2 Games are double or nothing games and seat only 6 players, giving 3 people a guaranteed double up. These games are ultra easy when played with a good strategy and any half decent poker player can double their Betfair poker bankroll very easy.

Because of the Betfair sit and go leaderboards you find many rakeback grinders who will play thousands of games a month, these players are generally easy enough to beat if you use a decent strategy because they multi table and stick generally to ABC poker. Cucumber and Sleepwalker are prime examples of rakeback grinders on Betfair and although decent players they are easy enough to beat with a decent well worked out strategy.

Betfair also offer forumite profiles and interviews, training and strategy articles and poker blogs. On the Betfair poker forum you will find many regular posters, some helpful, some comical, some egotistic, some sarcastic and some just downright obnoxious people. Some of the regulars to look out for are Teeth (aka rakeback pro), Dealem, Chillindude, Mandylou (put out a calling mandylou thread if you ever need a freeroll password at Betfair). Others that post regularly include Arrboy, Doobs, Canaryboy, Jazzy_jon, Magical Feast, Jim Henson etc etc.

The Betfair poker forum run regular Betfair Forum poker games where the Betfair Flashmob always do well, did Mr Snap ever tell you about the time when he won it? If you do come along and join us at a Betfair forum game i can assure you that he will, although last years winner was Dests, a worthy winner she was too!