Betking Poker: New cryptocurrency poker room available for Worldpokerdeals players

Hello guys! As many of you know, WorldPokerDeals is deeply studying the cryptocurrency market and this of course involves ICO reviews, and checking out all the new and exciting online poker rooms working with cryptocurrencies. Today we are going to review Betking, an old/new poker room in the crypto-poker market:

Betking Poker in the online poker room of Betting Casino. This project was created by Dean Nolan in 2014-2016, and was closed in December 2016. In September 2017 the same Dean Nolan decided to re-launch Betking Poker.

Betking Software

If you play in Nitrogen Sports (one of the most popular projects of crypto-poker), then you are going to be pleased to know that Betking uses the same software, developed by the Swedish company Cubeia:

The software is functional and covers the basic needs of poker players: 4 color deck, multi-tabling options, muck losing and winning hand, and some hand histories available in the HMTL5 client.

To attract new players, specially from the casino, Betking poker takes an old idea from Full Tilt Poker offering some cool avatars to display on the tables.

Betking Traffic

Well today, Betking traffic is close to zero. From time to time you can find some table (not more than 1-2) in NLH or Omaha in low or mid stakes. Dean Nolan itself post on Twitter when he plays in some high stakes PLO table. There are no tournaments or Sit&Go tables in Betking Poker right now. The traffic is just starting to increase.

To attract traffic, Betking Poker is focused in offering a Weekly Rake Race of $9,000 divided into three levels:

Micro Stakes Rake Race:

Blinds: 0.01/0.01, 0.01/0.02

PRIZE POOL : $1000

Rank	Prize in $	%
1	125	0.125
2	100	0.1
3	80	0.08
4	65	0.065
5	50	0.05
6	40	0.04
7	30	0.03
8	25	0.025
9	20	0.02
10-20	15	0.015
21-30	12.5	0.0125
31-40	10	0.01
41-50	7.5	0.0075

Low Stakes Rake Race:

Blinds: 0.02/0.05, 0.05/0.1

PRIZE POOL : $3000

Rank	Prize in $	%
1	360	0.12
2	300	0.1
3	270	0.09
4	240	0.08
5	210	0.07
6	180	0.06
7	150	0.05
8	120	0.04
9	90	0.03
10-20	60	0.02
21-30	36	0.012
31-40	24	0.008
41-50	24	0.008

Mid Staked Rake Race:

Blinds: 0.1/0.2, 0.25/0.5

PRIZE POOL : $5000

Rank	Prize in $	%
1	1000	0.2
2	750	0.15
3	550	0.11
4	400	0.08
5	300	0.06
6	200	0.04
7	150	0.03
8	125	0.025
9	100	0.02
10	75	0.015
11-15	60	0.012
16-20	50	0.01
21-25	40	0.008
26-30	30	0.006
31-40	25	0.005
41-50	20	0.004

Right now, this rake race can be profitable as a MTT tourney with overlay, because there are not a lot of players but the rake race price is guaranteed. Bottom line you can receive back more money than the actual money you generated to the poker room (rake).

Right now, the winners of the rake race are receiving 100% of rakeback:

Betking Poker offers tables both in Bitcoin and Ethereum, but second ones are full empty.

Rake in Betking Poker

The rake in Betking Poker is presented in the following tables.

Bitcoin Poker Tables:

Small blind	2 Player % / Cap	3-4 Player % / Cap	5+ Player % / Cap
0.01	3.50% / 0.3	4.00% / 0.3	4.00% / 0.3
0.05	3.50% / 0.5	4.00% / 1.0	4.00% / 1.5
0.25	3.50% / 0.75	4.00% / 0.75	4.00% / 2.00
0.5	3.50% / 1.00	4.00% / 1.00	4.00% / 2.50
1.00	4.00% / 1.25	4.00% / 1.25	4.00% / 2.75
2.00	4.00% / 1.50	4.00% / 1.50	4.00% / 3.00
25.00	4.00% / 2.25	4.00% / 2.00	4.00% / 3.00
50.00	4.00% / 2.50	4.50% / 3.00	4.50% / 5.00

*in mBTC

Ethereum Poker Tables

Small blind	2 Player % / Cap	3-4 Player % / Cap	5+ Player % / Cap
0.1	3.50% / 3	4.00% / 3	4.00% / 3
0.5	3.50% / 5	4.00% / 10	4.00% / 15
2.5	3.50% / 7.5	4.00% / 7.5	4.00% / 20
5.0	3.50% / 10.0	4.00% / 10.0	4.00% / 25.0
10.0	4.00% / 12.5	4.00% / 12.5	4.00% / 27.5
20.0	4.00% / 15.0	4.00% / 15.0	4.00% / 30.0
500	4.00% / 25.0	4.50% / 30.0	4.50% / 50.0

*in mETH

Is Betking Poker anonymous?

One of the benefits of the Bitcoin revolution is the anonymity. And the answer is yes, but lets call it pseudonymity (yuou know, the Internet). You can create an account in Betking Poker even without an email, and all the transactions are handled in cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin or Ethereum) so your data can be considered safe.