The way bonus points are generated is as follows: You get 0.08 bonus points for every 1 chip you pay in rake. Thus, what counts is not how much you contribute to the rake, but rather how much you pay. So if the pot is 2-way and you and another other player go all-in for 1000 each, the total pot will be 2000 and the rake 40. If you win the pot you will collect 3.2 bonus points. If you lose the hand, you will not be awarded any bonus points, no matter whether you contributed to the pot/rake or not.

It all evens out in the long run. Well, kind of. To us it does not matter, but we liked this method better. The way we see it you only pay rake when you win.

Yes, we do pay players out

Not paying our players out would not only be illegal and immoral, but it would not make business sense at all.

- We will have tournaments by the end of the week.
- We only accept BTC
- 1000 chips is a minimum withdrawal
- If you refer players you will receive 30% of the rake they pay. Please all you guys and girl check our affiliate program https://btckings.com/pm/affiliates
- We do have a signature campaign here, we are considering FB and twitter.

Thanks for your input!

Bear with us, we just started a couple of weeks ago.

a) Players accumulate bonus points which will later (if we take off that is) be convertible into cash.
b) yes, we do have the ability to manually adjust the affiliate rake (it is 30% standard) for top affiliates
c) these accumulate bonus points much faster and that should translate into more cash over the long run - again if we take off.
d) players don't accumulate rake as such, they rather pay the rake. Again, a lots of rake, lots of bonus points and hopefully some form or cash back.

Do check our affiliate program and the mechanics of it. It is something we take a lot of pride in. It is simple, intuitive, well thought out and it works like a charm

Yes, the bots we have are very, very weak. But it is what it is. What they lose would not be enough to pay house-players.



Have you looked at our affiliate program? It is very easy to use, intuitive and it pays 30%. On top of that all, you can cash it in any time.
As far as the design goes, we got a lot of compliments from a lot of people so we don't foresee changing it in the near future.


The software itself is fairly cheap indeed. It's incorporating it into a working website - deposits, cashouts etc that is quite expensive.

I will talk to our IT guy about this if we get more requests. No offence, but we can't do major design changes because one person wants it

Thanks for you interest in our website. Let me answer the best I can:

1. At the moment we allow players from all over the world to register and play at our tables. This could change in the future should we feel pressure from certain institutions and regulatory bodies. We don't want to break any laws or step on anyone's toes.

2. We don't and we can't. We are a small poker site with with low budget and we can't hire top programmers to write code and try to catch colluders. That being said, in our opinion colluding is VERY overrated and to do it right and undetected (by other players) one has to put in a lot of energy and a lot time. In other words most of the time it does not work and it is not worth it. Especially not at micro levels.

3. We don't store hand histories as such, but the software we use (Mavens Poker) stores hand histories as long as you don't close the table. Go to Menu -> Hand Histories and it is all there

I hope this helps. Let us know should you have more questions.

I can only agree with you, but unfortunately that is the reality of new poker sites - it is almost impossible to start games without bots. We will eliminate bots eventually, but at the moment it is just impossible to have games going 24/7 without the help of the bots. We don't like it either - it is not fun for the players and the bots are costing us money. The bots have collectively lost over 0.5 BTC since we started and they're only playing 5/10 and 10/20.

That is weird. We've had that a couple of months ago when we purchased the site and the IT guy fixed it. We never had that problem since. I will text and ask him about it.

Yes, let me confirm officially: no play requirements whatsoever for real money deposits. These you can cashout at any time.

About your second question: I just checked - you've paid 706 chips in rake so far (and contributed 975 chips - we use the actual rake paid). That should give you about 60 bonus points. I am not sure if there's a delay when awarding bonus points, but believe me guys nobody is going to steal your bonus points away from you.

 

Thanks for letting us know. It's being worked on. The only reason we verify email address is so that you can reset your password and not be locked out of your account should you lose your password.

If you can't register with gmail (which we have tested and works fine for us), we recommend you set up an email with either http://tutanota.com OR http://yandex.com and sign up again with BTCKINGS using your new email address. Both tutanota and yandex offer fast, flawless and anonymous registration

Why would you contradict yourself in only 2 sentences. "The flop is opened with all-ins" and the very next sentence "the chipleader does not call minimum bet"? How does that make sense?

Anyway, we do have up to 10 bots (usually 6 or 7) running in order to begin and keep some of the games going. These bots are terrible players and are costing us money. You should not complain about it.

Rake is collected any time there's a flop. It is not true that 3 players have to see the flop.

Thanks for letting us know. I will have our IT guys have a look at it.

Well, the idea behind the free chips is not just to give money away for free but to generate traffic, as you can imagine 

True, to be able to cashout your bonus chips you need to pay 1,250 chips in rake. In our opinion about 40% of the players who received free chips will manage to collect enough bonus points (100ptc) before they run out of chips.

So far we've given away almost 200K in free chips and if you do the math about 80 players will collect enough bonus points and cashout if they decide to do so.

IMPORTANT: there are no cashout restrictions WHATSOEVER when you deposit btc to your account. Players can cashout these chips and the chips they win ANY TIME

We will have tournaments and freerolls soon. Give us a week max. 

We are not looking to compete with major poker sites, we are looking for a niche where people can register anonymously, have fun and not play against pros. Our software can only handle 500 players simultaneously and the most players we've had on line is 25. So we have a long way to go.

Thanks for explaining that for me Panjul! 

Hey eking! Your welcome bonus of 1000 chips has been credited to your account. Remember that you will need to clear 100 bonus points before requesting a cashout.
Good luck at our tables!

Ah, I understand. Ok, I'll tell you what, you deposit 1000 chips (0.001 btc) to your account and we will match it with 1000 bonus. You will need to collect another 100 bonus points to cashout. Email us if this works out for you at info@btckings.com

Hey ValVikram, no, unfortunately we don't facilitate any ranking systems. We are a small poker site and it would require a major endeavour to try and rank our players based on their poker skills.
I can assure you however that our games are much more "beginner-friendly" than any games you'll find at major sites such as Poker Stars.

We also have a very low-stake table (table Marisa). It's is a 1/2 NLH game and no rake is charged at that table. A perfect place to perfect your game

Hey Gennady. Sorry to hear you've lost. Poker is a game of high fluctuations.
I just checked and see that you indeed ran out of chips. I also see that you signed up twice, with two different email addresses and we credited bonus chips to each account. It is not something we encourage, but we already credited both accounts so I wish you good luck with your second account. Remember you will have to collect 100 bonus points on your second account before cashing out.