William Hill

Payday

Rakeback is paid to your poker account once a week, every Tuesday.

Bonus

Grandfathered players can receive a 100% match on their first deposit up to $600 / £400 / €450 payable in bonus dollars. How to Claim it: All you have to do is make a first deposit in the “My Account” area and then start playing for Real Money. Each time you play WH will award you with WHPoints, and for every 700 WHPoints you earn, WH will release another $10 to your “Pending Bonus Dollars” balance. You have up to 60 days to release the full bonus amount, so it’s up to you to play as much as you can. You can see how many WHPoints you need in order to release the full amount, or how much time you have left, simply by clicking on the “Bonuses” tab in the menu. old info: ______ £250 New Player Bonus. All new players enrolling within ANY calendar month will have until the end of the next calendar month to earn MPPs towards their bonus target. For example, a player joining on October 13, 2008 will have until November 30, 2008 to earn their bonus.

Rakeback

According to William Hill, the method used to calculate rake/rakeback is the dealt rake method.

Comment

As from March 1, 2008 William Hill changed their rakeback structure where new players and players not qualified as grandfathered accounts will receive 30% gross rakeback.

William Hill review

William Hill is a long-standing and well respected European gambling operator. They started out in sports betting and they have an online casino too (which I had the pleasure of playing at myself) Whether this is really significant from an online poker point of view, I'm not sure, but word has it, that whenever a poker operator has a sports book and a casino too, rookies will abound at the poker tables. The theory is, that casino gamblers and sports bettors do not make good poker players, but they'll give it a go anyway. Thus there will be very good value in these games for good poker players.

Player traffic used to be excellent at William Hill Poker in 2005, but it kind of took a dive after the UIGEA. Still, because it's a Cryptologic room, action is hot there these days too.

The support system is one of the best (live phone support 24/7) but then again, there are over 10,000 William Hill employees world-wide, so that shouldn't come as a surprise.

The Cryptologic software works well, looks average, and allows for 10 tables to be played at a time. That means that you'll have an easier time generating rake and releasing bonuses.

Talking about bonuses, William Hill will give you £250 as signup bonus without any deposit required. Of course, they won't just give it to you to have fun with, there's a way to obtain that bonus. Check above, where you'll find detailed information of how many MPPs you need to unlock the different batches of your bonus.

William Hill is keen on keeping its existing players active, so they offer a monthly bonus of up to £100.

As if the above offer weren't generous enough, you can also earn rakeback at William Hill. The 30% rake back is transferred into your player account once every week, on Monday or on Tuesday, which means you'll get your hands on your rakeback fairly soon.

Expect to find around 12,000 players in tournaments at peak hours, and about 3,500 at real money ring tables.

Obviously, if you sign up, player traffic won't be something you should worry about.