William Hill Room Review
William Hill is situated within the giant Ipoker Network. This means that there is a massive player base to choose from averaging 5000 real money cash players at any given time (about 3-4 times bigger than Betfair Poker and slightly bigger than PartyPoker).
This is not without its dangers, which means that there are a lot of multi-tabling sharks within this network. However, if you table select properly, then you should be able to find the fish with relative ease.
Software
The William Hill Poker software is fast, smooth and has good playability. Recent updates include: auto-top up, a quick seat option, hand-for-hand near the bubble in tournaments and a friend list for online friends/fish.
The tournament lobby is easy to navigate, you are able to take notes and view hand history as if it were real time (pictures as opposed to just text).
The graphics are so so. You are able to have mini-tables or one giant table, nothing in between. The benefit of mini-view is that you are better able to multitable. What I would like to see is the ability to re-size windows. However, i’m just being picky and the graphics are more than adequate for the average player.
Game Selection
As stated before, there is a large pool of players but many sharks. Just table select well and you will do OK. If you choose to join random tables, chances are that you will get eaten alive.
William Hill Poker offers a massive amount of guaranteed tournaments with prize pools from £400 all the way up to the Sunday $250k. Other big tournaments are the Friday $150k guaranteed $100 rebuy and the Saturday $50k guaranteed.
Besides the guaranteeds, William Hill Poker also usually offer plenty of qualifiers at all levels for big live and online poker events like the World Series of Poker and the European Poker Tour. Overlays don’t seem to be common though. Fields are typically around 800+ for the daily low stakes tournaments, and more like 100ish for the high-stakes ones.
William Hill Poker does run quite a few free tournaments, with freerolls very well-visited and play extremely loose. Most are multi-table Texas Hold’em events and typically have small prize pools. All new players can play the daily beginners $50 and $100 freerolls for the first three months after signing up and there are also weekly $2,000 and $3,000 freerolls you can enter with 2,000 and 3,000 William Hill points.
Bonuses
William Hill Poker offers a reasonable $600 sign-up bonus at 200% deposit match for all players.
Bonus Payout: Bonuses are cleared $10 at a time with 700 WH Points needed for each $10. That equals about 235 hands of ring-game poker where the rake taken is $1 or about 35 tournaments where the fee is $1. Note that at William Hill only hands that see a flop at a cash table are raked.
Loyalty Program
William Hill Poker offers a multi-tiered VIP club with increasing benefits as you gain WH points. You gain entries to freerolls, get cash back, get access to the Loyalty Shop, and for the very top levels you get live sponsorships and can play in $10k freerolls.
William Hill Poker awards WH Points in every raked hand and every real-money tournament. In cash games, anywhere from 0.5 to 16 points can be earned per hand depending on the total rake. 5¢-20¢ in rake earns 0.5 points; 25¢-50¢ earns 1.25 points and so on. For tournaments the general rule is 20 points per $1 in fees.
William Hill also offers an unusual bad beat bonus where any player that has a hand of quad jacks or better beaten can email support and receive a credit of $150. The secret is that it’s not automatic, so remember to fire an e-mail to support as you are sobbing or cursing your bad beat – you might need that $150 for a new keyboard.
Conclusion
This is a great offer to take advantage in a fantastic network. The sheer number of tables available make this the wise choice, particularly if you are up all night and can’t find a decent game on another site. Also, make sure to take advantage of the bonus offered as this will help you build up your bankroll.
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