Bet-at-Home Review

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Bet-at-Home is a well established and well-known European sportsbook, especially in the German-speaking part of the continent. It has been launched in 1999 by two Austrians, and later moved its base to Germany, Now it has offices in Germany, Austria, Malta and Gibraltar, and has over 200 employees. It offers online sports bets, virtual and live online casino games and a poker room to its players, along with the reliability and quality of service assured by its status of a dedicated brand.

Online poker is one of the smaller, yet not negligible operation run under the Bet-at-home brand – this branch has posted a gross profit of over 2 million euros in 2012. Also, it’s the ‘face’ of the IPN – International Poker Network, a smaller network with over 30 poker rooms, popular games and a stuffed tournament schedule.

Poker players at bet-at-home can benefit of a series of promotions and freerolls, that can mean extra winnings for them every day. New players can choose to receive a 100% match on their first deposit, up to a total amount of €1,000. Players who use other currencies are also rewarded based on the converted EUR amount of their first deposit. The bonus amount is cleared €5 at a time, after every 100 FPPs (frequent player points) earned by playing raked games and tournaments. The FPPs can also be used for accessing exclusive freerolls with cash prizes.

bet-at-home.com also features some massive promotions – a weekly No-limit Texas Hold’em tournament with a guaranteed prize pool of €10,000, a bad beat jackpot, satellites to live events, weekly freeroll tournaments and a special New Player Freeroll with a guaranteed €10,000 prize pool.

When it comes to games, the selection is wide and variable – all the most popular poker games with several limits and stakes are available here, but the most action can be found at the micro stakes tables. Bet-at-Home is a good choice for players who want to work on their strategy for relatively low costs. The list of games available at the bet-at-home.com online poker room includes SOKO, a Scandinavian version of the 5-card stud game, that considers four-card straights and flushes to be valid poker hands.

Competiton at the tables is considered less than serious – most players are sports bettors drifting over for a quick hand. It’s a good poker room for experienced players to win some cash. High stakes tables are usually unpopular at this poker room – most of the action takes place at the micro stakes tables. Unexperienced, loose players are often to be found here, so it is a good place to build your bankroll and grow your experience by playing against real – but not too experienced – players.

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