William Hill Poker

Established in 2002, William Hill is arguably the most noticeable online gaming client in the European market. Although one of their latest gaming ventures, William Hill Poker, currently excludes players residing in the United States, the world's biggest economic market should see an expansion to U.S. residents in the near future. Part of the iPoker network, William Hill Poker has flourished due to being a part of the biggest online poker network in the world. With nearly 80 years of online gaming experience, the European gaming entity has a firm grasp as the premier online poker software for it's neighbooring personnel.

While only coming in at a meager 12 MB, William Hill's poker software still provides significant content. Although still not quite as sleek as several other online poker room contenders, the recently updated features have made both regular pros and new customers content with William Hill's product. What William Hill is missing asthetically, they more than make up for in their functionality. Boasting a new navigational main screen, those accustomed to either the old menu style, or the new two-pane menu board can alternate between their preferred tastes. The online site has also now removed all of their bottom menu buttons, and replaced them with a homogenius menu bar located at the top of the screen. Now all of William Hill's most valuable information, can be found in one easy-to-locate area. William Hill also provides a distinguishing characteristic to their online poker room, which is a Quick Seat tab. The tab allows players to select a few basic criteria, and after choosing, can be quickly seated in a tournament or ring game that models their preferences.

Also new, are both the My Favorites tab, and Casino Games tab. The former component allows players to now access and record their favorite online tables and players. Within the screen, the My Tournaments section will allow players to quickly find which tournaments they've entered, and see all of the detailed information associated with that content. Right next door, is also the My Buddies tab. Here, you can create, delete, and edit lists of the friends and enemies you may encounter on William Hill's poker software. William Hill Poker now allows you to keep track of this information in one easy-to-find location.

Understandably, since William Hill is also one of the biggest online casino entities in Europe, the poker medium has now included a section for patrons to play their favorite casino games. Whether poker players are interested in taking a brief lapse to play Craps, Roulette, or a few hands of Blackjack, all of those games can now be played from the same home screen.

In a few smaller additions, the site has added several table icons, to help players swiftly access some of their preferred ring and tournament tables. The buy-in and fee amount for tournaments have also been condensed, so they can be viewed in one easy-to-read format. Players are now allowed to deposit and play ring games in several different monetary values, such as USD, GBP, and Euro. A tournament time bank, and auto-top up preferences are two new features that have also been included.

The 70+ year-old gaming company has several dedicated phones lines, which are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to service it's online gamers. Like most poker software, you may also communicate any issues through email notification. If those options aren't enough, you can contact William Hill's customer service help by fax as well.

William Hill's level of security is certainly top notch. The poker software is backed by one of the longest standing online gambling names in the industry. Their sportsbetting operations have been world-class, so it's reasonable to assume their poker operations would follow suit.

Being on one of largest poker networks in the world certainly helps induce soft competition. Although the gaming site certainly contains it's fair share of inexperienced and bad players, it also contains many regular professionals and online grinders. As on any site, you just need to do a fair amount of research to find the most profitable games. The lack of tough high-stakes competition, may also increase any player's bottom line.

This is arguably one of the features that William Hill lacks in the most. While several other online poker rooms are offering many poker variations such as Triple Draw, Badugi and 8-game mixes, William Hill only offers different varieties of Hold'Em, Omaha, and Stud. Despite the exclusion of many new poker variants, the games on William Hill are always busy, with the site often hitting five-figure player traffic during its peak hours.

William Hill offers $250,000, $100,000, and $50,000 guaranteed tournaments every week on their online site. As usual, Sunday is one of the biggest days in tournament online poker, and this holds true on William Hill Poker. Several other smaller guaranteed tournaments are available daily.

William Hill's WHPoint Program, is one of the easiest ways to particpate in the site's biggest online freerolls. There are often exclusive tournaments being held for first-time participants, and their generous bonus codes often allow players to jump in quickly on the action and start racking up points. As a first-time depositor, you're even given 5 free entries into several freeroll tournaments as a token of their appreciation. These freerolls, open exclusively to new players, give customers a great chance to learn the game, and also win some cash and a few prizes. Also available, are freerolls designated for side stakes in the various casino games.

As for most sites, the usual suspects are glaringly apparent in this category. The inclusion of the smallest micro stakes are available, along with no-limit, pot-limit, and limit games up to $300/$600 for those who are more daring.

William Hill's WHPoint system is very generous to its participants. Those who regularly play on the site, or play high enough in stakes to accumulate a substantial amount of points, will certainly be rewarded for their vigor. The WHPoint system is evaluated by rake, so as your level of rake increases, so will the amount of points you receive. You can use these points, to later receive cash rewards. These prizes start at $2.50, and stop at a staggering $250,000. Tournament players are also awarded WHPoints, dependent upon their finishes and buy-in values.

The regular first-time deposit bonus, of %100, up to $600 total, is also standard at William Hill Poker.

The European-based entity has a plethora of deposit and withdrawal options, including most major credit cards and several other popular online financial institutions. VISA, MASTERCARD, and Paypal are all available, although as most regular depositors would note, depositing using a credit card often has been subject to decline due to the recent UIGEA and international government involvement. Almost all deposit options are instant, and even a few withdrawal methods of QuickCash and NETeller boast the same benefit. Most withdrawal options however, usually take 1-5 business days to completely process.