Is betfair poker any good?

sliotar79

Been playing on here now for a bit mostly cash tables 25/50 cent and 50/1. made some money withdrew it (profit of about 200)but now have lost what i had left over. only starting with tourneys 5.50 and 11 usually and won good few . want to get a bit serious and make some extra cash not looking for huge money. what should I be doing? Have read the books and doing the study from online sites but looking for more advice from you guys. Any help would be appreciated

jayteecork

I'm not going to offer you any poker advice, but I can tell you that unless you use the Betfair gambling exchange, building up raked hands(ie: Frequent Player Points) on Betfair is absolutely useless. No freerolls, no rake back, no T-shirts/Mugs/Porsches!!(like Stars).

As far as I've discovered on Betfair, all you'll get is a small discount on your commision on the exchange.

phantom_lord

you can get rb tho.

sliotar79

Thanks .do use the exchange for my golf betting. How do you get rb there and would I be losing out in long run by not moving . Happy with new software and their customer service is great often get free stuff from them books , hats etc.

sliotar79

Thanks .do use the exchange for my golf betting. How do you get rb there and would I be losing out in long run by not moving . Happy with new software and their customer service is great often get free stuff from them books , hats etc.

CHD

how new is that software?

jayteecork

Their customer service never offered me anything.

sickpuppy

Sliotar if you look up betfair poker and rakeback in google youll get bamboozled with offers.
Or else try raketherake very good crowd up to 37%rake back and up to 1000 sign up bonus.

Chucky the tree

If your already signed up you might struggle to get rakeback. The software is **** and the traffic wasnt the best either. th standard of play is pretty shocking though.

strewelpeter

Rakeback is standard on Betfair. AFAIK everybody gets it as a credit to their account at the end of the month. Have a look in your account for a credit around the turn of the month. I'm not sure of the calculation but it is less than the percentages you can get from FT PS etc.
The cash games are reasonably soft (.5/1 - 2.5/5 is all i've tried) but not very liquid you'll need to be able to spot the ubernits who are a large part of the player base from the Lags playing their sportsbook. You cannot datamine but PT works ok once you have the latest patches installed.
There are a couple of guaranteed tourneys that can have a small overlay on quiet days the standard of play is probably a bit higher in tournaments than the ring games.
Betfair left crypto over a year ago and took over pokerchamps which they now run themselves. The software is a lot more reliable than it was initially however it remains IMO the most awful interface in the business.

jayteecork

I've never gotten a penny rake back in over 2 years using (sporadically) Betfair.

strewelpeter

jayteecork wrote: »

I've never gotten a penny rake back in over 2 years using (sporadically) Betfair.

Maybe there are some minimum hands played requirement - they are very vague about the whole thing. There is no mention of it anywhere on the website and while I used to get an email everymonth saying your rakeback for the month was x now I don't even get that anymore - just a credit to my account.

Vamos

I asked them about rb on existing accounts a couple of months ago.

I was told generating > £100/month of rake gets you 25% rb, and the top tier was 32% for > £2k rake/month.

MuddyDog

you can get RB for betfair from a number of sites, raketherake etc. also if you email betfair directly and ask about it they will give you rakeback themselves directly i think at 30pc.
i always play on BF but get rake from LTD. its probably the best site for multi tabling.