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Ladbrokes Poker is one of Europe's most popular poker rooms, offering great promotions, strong game variety, good graphics and playability. Besides the regular poker action, Ladbrokes Poker also offers casino games, its own original "Poker bet" function and a new 3D poker client.
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Graphics
The Ladbrokes Poker software is a highly customized version of Microgaming's software that runs fast, smooth and offers very good playability. The software allows players to take notes on the opposition during play and the lobby supplies vital table statistics like the viewed-flop percentage, the average pot size and hands played per hour.
During any game you can see statistics for your own play, such as how often you see the flop, your win percentage and more. There is also a graphic replay of hands that is very useful when analyzing past games.
The Ladbrokes Poker software supports play at eight tables simultaneously and runs smoothly in multi-table play for both cash games and tournaments. It also offers a mini-view function, making multi-table play a breeze.
The graphics are clean and classy and the fact the software does not use avatars makes for a clean and easily viewable table. The software is updated regularly to ensure safety and reliability, with some downtime as a result
Ladbrokes Poker also offers casino games, its own original "Poker bet" function and a new 3D poker client. The standard software itself features first-class graphics, speed and design and comes in both a download and no-download version.
Playability
Traffic at Ladbrokes Poker is good and still somewhat concentrated to Hold'em games, although more and more players are showing interest in Omaha and Seven-Card Stud. In all, Ladbrokes Poker is a site with good ring-game traffic at peak hours. Ladbrokes Poker has peak cash-game traffic of 1,400 real-money players at peak hours (May 2008).
Game Variety
The games offered at Ladbrokes Poker are Texas Hold'em, Omaha, Omaha Hi-Lo, Seven-Card Stud, Five-Card Draw and Five-Card Stud. The games vary between No-Limit, Pot-Limit and Fixed-Limit. Full-table games, shorthanded and heads-up tables are all available
Payment Options
Deposit options: Instant bank transfer, credit card, NETeller, MoneyBookers, Western Union, Paypal and wire transfer.
Withdrawal options: Instant bank transfer, credit card, NETeller, MoneyBookers, Western Union, Paypal and wire transfer.
Player Level
Ladbrokes Poker offers loose and juicy games - you just have to know where to find them. The short-handed (six players max.) tables and turbo games produce wild games with viewed-flopped percentages upwards of 55%. The average viewed-flop percentage for full 10-player tables is just under 40%.
Overall Rating
Ladbrokes Poker is quite popular amongst European players; especially in the United Kingdom. There name brand is known world wide thanks to the success of their parent operation (Sports Bet Shops). Poker players would be hard pressed to find a more financially secure room to play at. Until February 2006 Ladbrokes owned the Hilton Hotel business and was known as "The Hilton Group Plc". The company sold its hotel operation in order to focus primarily on its gaming brands.
The Ladbrokes software was developed by Microgaming and is one of the few independent rooms developed by this software provider. Most Microgaming designed rooms share a player base with the Prima Poker Network. The software is suitable for play but rates only mediocre compared to the software of other top online poker room. The pure size and considerable reputation of Ladbrokes gives you the confidence to trust that Ladbrokes Poker will treat you fairly and ensure you get paid promptly.
Ladbrokes Poker is quite simply Europe's busiest online poker room with up to 12,000 players at peak times on up to 1,000 poker tables. This huge number of players means that there are plenty of games to choose from and at all levels.
Ladbrokes Poker also offers some of the hottest MTTs (Multi Table Tournaments) with their own tournaments Ladbrokes Poker Million, LEOCOP (Ladbrokes European Online Championship of Poker) and Ladbrokes Poker Cruise as well as sending a large contingent of pro-players, poker playing celebrities and qualifiers to the WSOP.
With the new 3D poker client. The standard software itself features first-class graphics. to become a poker client to rely on in the future. |
Promotions Summary
Overall, Ladbrokes Poker offers a pretty attractive mix for all players along with bonus clearing requirements that are quite generous compared to industry standard.
Reload Bonus
Ladbrokes Poker offers reload bonuses almost monthly. The bonuses are usually of relatively low value and generally in the $25-$100 range, with a deposit match of 25-50%.
Loyalty Bonus
Ladbrokes Poker offers players a program where they can earn points playing real-money games. The points earned lead to cash back, clearing bonuses or they can be used to enter special freerolls.
Sign-Up Bonus
Ladbrokes offers all new players a $500 sign-up bonus at 100% match.
To receive your full Welcome Bonus, you will need to accumulate 30 times the number of Player Points in relation to you initial chip purchase, minimum $50.
Bonus Payout
For every $1 raked on Fixed Limit Cash Games you will be awarded 25 Player Points.
For every $1 raked on No Limit & Pot Limit Cash Games you will be awarded 20 Player Points.
For every $1 paid in tournament entry fees you will be awarded 20 Player Points
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