William Hill Poker

William Hill is one of the oldest and most respectable bookmakers in the UK, running gambling activity since 1934. Nowadays, they offer their services both offline and online. William Hill has a wide selection of gambling products and apart from poker they also offer sportsbetting and casino. William Hill Poker recently joined the rapidly growing iPoker Network and thanks to that the player traffic and promotions are first rate, with over $16 million in guaranteed prize pools every month.

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William Hill Poker offer multi currency deposits and their poker client is available in many different languages. They have a wide range of cash games, tournaments and sit-&-gos.

Since the company originates from the UK, they are a very popular poker room amongst British and European players and the traffic is therefore at peak during European rush hours. William Hill Poker sponsor several famous poker pros, mainly British once, like Roland de Wolfe, Julian Thew and Keith ”The Camel” Hawkins. Because of the large betting section offered by William Hill, the poker tables are filled with relatively unexperienced and loose players. In general, the games could be considered loose and profitable with tons of opportunity for easy games, especially when playing at the lover levels.

Bonuses and Promotions

William Hill Poker offer many good high quality promotions, a great $600 sign up bonus, some very profitable beat jackpots and a generous loyalty program. The sign up bonus is payed out in increments of $10 and is cleared at a rate of 700 William Hill Pints (WHP) for each $10. William Hill Poker award the players with WHP points for each raked hand and for each tournament bought in to.

Tournaments and Freerolls

William Hill Poker offers a huge amount of guaranteed tournaments, with prize pools ranging from $400 all the way up to $250 000 (the Sunday $250k). Other large tournaments are the Friday $150k and the Saturday $50k. The tournaments at William Hill Poker often have great value and the number of players in these tournaments varies from 100 to 800+ depending on the buy-in. Besides the guaranteed tournaments, William Hill Poker runs lots of satellites and qualification tournaments, for big live and online events such as World Series of Poker and ECOOP V.

William Hill also runs a great number of freerolls with extremely loose play. These freerolls are often multi-table Texas Hold’em tournaments with medium prize pools. As a new member you can participate in the daily newcomers freerolls for period of 3 month. There are also weekly freerolls with prize pools of $2000 and $3000 which you can qualify for by earning 2000 or 3000 William Hill Points. These freerolls often offer good value.

Software

The software used by William Hill Poker feels very polished and basically offer everything an online poker player could wish for, which of course include fast and smooth gameplay. The lobby underwent a remake during 2008 which gave it a cleaner and more user friendly look. It’s now easier to locate both cash games and tournaments. The recent updates of the software also added some very useful features, like special icons that indicates short handled tables and turbo tables. In general the graphic is one of the cleanest and best on the market. The menu for choosing table has a search function which easily guide you to the type of game you are looking for. Another great feature included in the software is the table statistics, which gives you detailed information about your game that is more extensive then similar functions at any other poker room.

Poker Games

William Hill offer the poker games Texas Hold’em, Omaha, Omaha Hi-Lo, Seven-Card Stud, Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo and Five-Card Stud. As an extra bonus you can also play casino games directly in the client.

Player Traffic

The player statistics concerning real money play for august 2009 showed more then 10,000 players at cash game tables and 5500 players in tournaments during rush hours. The games at William Hill Poker are pretty loose, but since it is a very large network it can of course happen that you find a table with really hard competition. Most of the traffic is centered around the Texas Hold’em games, and the percentage of folding players is around 30 to 40. Sometimes you can find tables that are full with players folding 50 percent of their hands.

Support

William Hill Poker offers support through live chat, e-mail, phone and fax. The support works fast and is very friendly.

Deposit and Withdraws

VISA, MasterCard, Neteller, ClickandBuy, Moneybookers, Click2Pay, Paysafe Card, Ukash, POLI, WebMoney, UseMyBank, EntroPay, bank transfers, bank checks and some locale payment options.

William Hill Poker offer new players a great $600 sign up bonus. The bonusis cleared at a rate of 700 William Hill Pints (WHP) for each $10.

 

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