Welcome To Sportsbook.com

For such a new poker site, there are lots of reasons why an online poker players should strongly consider playing on Sportsbook Poker. The major reason is that the players on the site as of now are simply awful. Any player that has even picked up a poker book will be able to boost his bankroll significantly by playing on this site. For players residing in the U.S., who are welcome on poker site, they will be happy to hear that it is very easy and simple to both withdraw and deposit money on the site. As all U.S. players all know, this can be an issue on many other poker sites. The cash game options are not very big in terms of variety, but the games that they do offer (No Limit Hold Em, Pot Limit Omaha and Seven Card Stud) usually have games running up to pretty high stakes. Players will not have a hard time finding full ring cash games above the $50-$10 level and overall, the traffic is pretty solid. The software the site uses is about average and the support team always fixes player problems quickly. Overall, any player will enjoy their time while playing on Sportsbook Poker. Expect this site to grow rapidly in the coming months.

Features
The main feature on Sportsbook has to do with their gold cards promotion. While players play on the site, they can win themselves gold cards. The is one gold card for every card in a standard deck of playing cards. After winning these gold cards, players can trade them in for real money. As well, the site gives away many free tickets into some nice freerolls. For example, when a player makes a deposit onto the site for the first time, he will automatically receive a free entry into a $500 freeroll that takes place once a week. The most popular feature to poker players, however, is the fact that most of the players on the site are fish, so money will come very easy to good players on this site.

Sign Up Bonus
There are many very cool features when it comes to the bonus program on Sportsbook Poker. For players who put money onto the site for the very first time, their initial deposit will be matched by Sportsbook Poker by a maximum of 110% up to $1k max. This means that players only need to put on about $910 to receive all $1k bonus. The bonus is earned as players accrue points. The bonus is cleared in $10 chunks and will be released to the player accordingly. The better part of this package includes that extra 10% the site gives in its bonus. After a player makes his first deposit, he will automatically receive 10% of his first deposit into his account without having to earn points. So if a player deposits $450 onto Sportsbook Poker, he will have $495 to play with from the start. This feature is particularly good for players with smaller bankrolls. Sportsbook Poker is one of the only online poker sites that literally gives away money to its new players. Currently, players cannot receive rakeback while playing on this site.

Tournaments
As the site has grown, the tournaments have grow along with it. So players do not get the wrong idea, MOST of the tournaments on this site are still small. On a daily basis, the majority of the poker tournaments offered have a guaranteed prize pool somewhere between $1k and $20k, which is not much to celebrate about. Most of these tournaments ask for buy in somewhere in the range of $3 to $25, so it is clear the the site has targeted novice to intermediate players when it comes to the tournament schedule. However, it is the weekends where the tournaments start to get big. Every week there is a $100k guaranteed prize pool which hands out some big prizes. That tournament then turns into a Quarter Million guaranteed tournament once per month and has a buy in of $250.

Traffic
The main thing to consider is that games will not be hard to come by. Whether it comes to cash games or tournaments, there are plenty on the site. In total, there is under 10k players at the busiest times for the site, somewhere between 7.5k and 8.5k. About 6k of the players are involved in tournaments with the rest playing at the cash game tables.

Software
The graphics on the site are decent and will appease most of the poker players on the site. If a player needs visually appealing graphics like on Full Tilt, the software on Sportsbook will just not be enough. On the plus side for the software, things always run very fast on this site. Players witting at ring games will see many hands per hour on each table he plays without any gaming interruptions. Players who like to multi-table will therefore be able to play a huge number of hands per hour.

Support
Players can either chat with the support team over the computer, via email or over the phone. Players will find the staff to be very knowledgeable, accurate and friendly. In terms of support, Sportsbook Poker has an above average staff.