Bet Fred Poker Short review
Bet Fred Poker is a poker room that was launched back in 2005, by Betfred company. BetFred is an old company, established in 1967, that is currently the world's biggest independent bookmaker. They wanted to diversify their online presence by creating a new online poker room, and they did a great job, since this poker room is growing fast, and it's very successful. Unfortunately they do not accept any new players from United States. Bet Fred Poker is a British company, so the online poker room will be somehow similar to the other online poker rooms from United Kingdom.
Bet Fred Poker currently offer many multi-table tournaments, freerolls, satellites, sit n gos and heads up tournaments. You will be able to find many cash games also, but with so many other great options, you will certainly be interested in the other events that take part at BetFred Poker.
Sign up Bonus
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Traffic and competition
Bet Fred Poker is not an old and established online poker room, so you are not going to find a massive amount of players. But thanks to their aggressive online marketing campaign you will certainly be able to find many players from United Kingdom. Right now on average you will be able to experience around 2,000 online poker players connected at the same time. Since they are only offering Texas Hold'em and Omaha, most of the players will be situated at the Hold'em tables, but in the same time you will be able to find a decent amount of players at Omaha tables too.
Software and graphics
Bet Fred Poker room runs on the software provided by PlayTech. So it's going to be easy to install, run and use. Once you are in the online poker room, you will see that the graphics and the sound effects are nice, they are not something out of this world, that you would like to hang in your Christmas tree, but they are nice. In case you don't like the sound, there is an option to disable that. Bet Fred Poker software allows you to take notes on certain players, and a buddy list that will allow you to locate your online poker friends a lot faster. Also you will be able to play poker at a maximum of 6 tables in the same time.
Customer Support
The customer support is offered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week via email, phone and live chat. The phone and live chat support are the fastest methods that you can use to contact Bet Fred Poker, and the email is the slowest. The staff behind this customer support at Bet Fred Poker is very friendly and helful. Once you will enter Bet Fred Poker website you will be able to read a FAQ section, where all the common questions about their online poker room are listed.
Payment methods
Fortunately Bet Fred Poker is currently offering many payment options: Visa, MasterCard, Visa Electron, Visa Delta, Maestro, Solo, Laser, NETeller, MoneyBookers, Citadel, Bank Wire, Bankers Draft/Check, BTS (Bank Transfer System) and FedEx. This way they are making the life of the players a lot easier.
