Ladbrokes Poker Bonus Codes and Review

Ladbrokes is a major online betting website from the United Kingdom. They offer various types of betting and gambling services. This includes online poker, sports betting, casino, bingo, financial betting and also various games such as 'deal or no deal'. You can bet on their website 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from anywhere in the world. It is however imperative that betting be legal in your own country. In some countries such as India it is not legal to gamble online.

Ladbrokes is a very large UK based company that has 14,000 employees. It takes more than £10 billion in bets every year. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange.

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Ladbrokes poker rooms – downloading software is optional

Ladbrokes offers online poker on its website. Their poker software is compatible with both Microsoft Windows PCs as well as Apple Macintosh. You can choose from Instant Play poker, Classic Poker and 3-D Poker. With Instant Play Poker you do not need to download any software. Classic Poker requires you to download very small software of only 11 MB in size. If you want to play 3-D poker you need to download a 380 MB software. All software is free to download. You can play all sorts of poker games on Ladbrokes including Texas Hold'em Poker which is probably the most popular form of poker online. Other poker games offered include Omaha poker, Five Card Stud Poker, Seven Card Stud Poker, Omaha Hi-Lo, Razz Seven Card Stud and Five Card Draw. You can choose between single table tournaments and multi table tournaments. You can take part in their online poker tournaments as well as try to qualify for their off-line events such as 'World Series of Poker', 'Poker Million' or 'Ladbrokes Poker Cruise'.

Ladbrokes promotional offers and coupons

Ladbrokes runs promotional offers from time to time and you can get free bet coupons on their official website. Currently Ladbrokes is offering poker bonuses up to £1000.

Ladbrokes Poker Bonus Offers – How they work and what ‘rake’ means

Ladbrokes offers bonuses to their new poker players. These bonuses can be as much as $1000 and vary depending on the number of raked hands. If you make a deposit or even as small an amount as £50, you'll receive bonus of the same amount of £50 if you have at least 600 raked hands. Many players get confused about what raked hand means. 'Rake' is what the house collects in each game of Poker. The rake, as per Ladbrokes is only collected on called bets. The maximum rake collected is determined by the number of players dealt into the hand. If the flop is not seen, no rake is collected. When Ladbrokes runs promotions offer poker bonuses, the raked hand means a hand in which at least $0.25 is collected as rake. While this may seem a small amount, consider that Ladbrokes collects $.01 per $0.20 bet in a game where the tables have blinds of $0.05/$0.10 and higher. Here the maximum rake collected is $1 when the players are less than 2 and the maximum rake is $3 when the players are between 3 to 10. When the table has blind under $0.05/$0.10, the rake collected is higher at $0.01 per $0.10. Here the maximum rake collected per game is $0.10. Now consider that you have to play 600 raked hands after depositing £50. This means you have to play 600 poker games in each of which Ladbrokes collects at least $0.25 as rake in every game. This means all poker games with blinds under $0.05 and $0.10 won't qualify because in these games Ladbrokes collects only a maximum of $0.10 as rake. So you need to play poker games with blinds of $0.05/$0.10 or more. Since the rake is roughly 5%, it means the pot has to be at least $5. Yet, the terms seem attractive if you're a regular poker player because if you play more and more you'll end up getting the bonus. It's only important to know which games qualify in the count for the poker bonus and which don't.

Poker Blogs

Their website has poker blogs that you can read. These blogs are written by professional poker players including Jon "skalie" Kalmar, Jonas Danielsson and Andreas Hoivold. There are interviews of professional poker players featured on their website all the time.

Ladbrokes Poker VIP Club

Ladbrokes has a special VIP club for its top 500 poker players. At the end of the month if you rank among their top 500 poker players, they'll invite you to join the club. This gets you access to promotions and special offers. You'll have access to poker competitions held and be invited to special events. Thereafter if you continue to rank among the top 1000 players you'll remain in the The Ladbrokes Poker VIP Club.

Free trial poker

To get a feel of what Ladbrokes’ poker is like, they let you try out their poker without having to spend any money. You can play for fun as a guest player without winning or losing any real money. At any point if you want to play with real money you can fill in a small registration form and get started. This is a nice test drive that we have quite liked. What's also commendable is that you don't have to download software to play poker at Ladbrokes. You can download their software and choose between the 11 MB and the 380 MB 3-D poker if you want but this is not necessary to get started.

Making a deposit – the various methods of paying and receiving winnings

There are various ways in which you can make a deposit at Ladbrokes. They accept Visa, MasterCard, Delta, Maestro, Switch, Solo, Laser, Neteller, PayPal, Ukash and ClickandBuy. You can also send them money via bank transfer. You need to be above 18 years of age to open an account with them and be able to pay them via any of these payment methods. The large number of payment methods for paying and receiving money gives a great amount of flexibility when you want to place a bet.

Ladbrokes Reward Card Program

Ladbrokes also has a reward card program called the 'Odds on Card'. This card gets you reward points every time you place a bet irrespective of whether you win or not. With these reward points you can claim bonus vouchers to boost your winnings or you can place free bets at Ladbrokes. For every £1 that you bet you get 1 point. If you place a bet of £1000 you get 1000 points and with this you can place a free bet of £10. If you play several bets over a period of time and have a relatively high turnover you can save a lot of money and get many free bets at Ladbrokes.

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