Betcoinpoker- This is one of the best up and coming bitcoin poker sites that have a chance of knocking seals with clubs off its long-held throne. Very crisp and polished ui, it combines 2 lobbies, divided into tournies and cash games so you can easier see what is going on without flipping through too many tabs. The games themselves are pretty soft.

The author only has experience as a tournament and sit and go player and there is enough volume given the small but very loyal user base. Cash games definitely run if that is what you like. Right now all mtts besides one are guaranteed prize pools and they run every hour throughout the day often ending up with great overlay that gives unmatched value. I personally love the 10 chip bounty which has a prize pool guarantee of 100 with a 4 chip  bounty. It is great fun because the bounty is big enough to make a large impact on the strategy you make on the table.

The buyin spread is awesome giving everyone options from micros to higher stakes. Their on demand tournies which as of now play like sngs  Their freerolls are 3 10mbtc prizepools that are evenly spaced through out the day so odds are no matter where you live you can give them a try. There is a decent leader board system in place with many opportunities to find a niche in sngs as not many people play them right now- you will have more competition if you want to place in the tourney and cash game leaderboards but that's what would make it a challenge! Their player rewards are as competitive as any other site at the moment and they are offering a first time deposit bonus of up to 1 btc with 2 chips instantly unlocked. The bonus isn't that hard to clear I've cleared one chip and when combining the deposit bonus with the 10% rakeback bronze vip reward I imagine I'm getting around 20% rakeback.

There are two schools of thought about how many chips to divide a bitcoin, and this site gives you 1000 chips/ btc deposited instead of 10000/ btc. The 1/1000 chip sites are doing better than the 1/10000; I personally think it makes for bigger games because there is a psychological affect where people who do not want to play poker for very high stakes are less likely to want to gamble in terms of thousands or hundreds of chips, but why not play when there is only 5 chips on the line? The result is that sites like k8poker.net and gridpoker.eu are stagnant and can't reach their small guarantees and the tournies there are played for much smaller stakes though they give a comparable amount of value in freerolls and player rewards.

Betcoinpoker really is a diamond in the rough amid a sea of comparatively crappy pokermaven clones. Rating- A+

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