Any thoughts on Betonline?

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What up ya'll, I recently made a deposit to BetOnline and I'm curious to see if any of my CC friends would shoot me their thoughts. Your time is appreciated, thanks!
 
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They have a much higher rake than ACR and worse promos. Their bad beat jackpot promo is kind of cool wish they had it for Omaha games. Otherwise BOL sucks compared to ACR.
 
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What up ya'll, I recently made a deposit to BetOnline and I'm curious to see if any of my CC friends would shoot me their thoughts. Your time is appreciated, thanks!


all i'm doing is freerolls right now but i like the interface of BOL better but they don't have 1/2 or 2/5 like i'd want to play long term, so if you're working with limited funds you are stuck with either huge low limit tournaments, some 11 cent winner take all or other high variance games.

to me the play quality there is more calm than acr in the freerolls, not sure of the other games. i also like the length/number of levels better.
 
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it's a decent site,not better than ACR in my opinion (thinking in USA players) i didn't like how they removed micro S&G and some tournaments but still a decent romm to try.
 
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I haven't played much on betonline but ACR is a good site. some sites you tend to have better luck on then other sites. the most money I have won on is AP. but that site has been gone for a long time now. I just got to find a different site where I might be as lucky as I was on AP. never thought of trying betonline yet.
 
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Normal normal good poker room, I play it rarely but it has a fast poker, which I think is important
 
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What up ya'll, I recently made a deposit to BetOnline and I'm curious to see if any of my CC friends would shoot me their thoughts. Your time is appreciated, thanks!

I like the poker client from BOL over ACR. Easier replayer, ACR you need to download your hand history which goes stale the very next hand. Chat is nicer on BOL with popup balloons over the player. Custom avatars on BOL, ACRs avatars just plain suck and I have them set to not show.


ACR has more variety of games and more players. Both provide the same larger freerolls like Jackpot, TheNuts (i won $10 on this one), but BOL has no private games like we are used to at ACR (THR, TDD, VGN, etc.).
 
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Betonline is a mixed bag these days, but as a US player, its one of my only options. They used to have freerolls running 24/7 which they've eliminated. They've also eliminated micro SnG and cash tables (cash starts at NL10).So its now almost impossible to build a roll on there. The software is good, and they've recently added their own HUD/odds calculator which can be downloaded separately from their website. Most MTTs only have 60 min. late reg. (this is great compared to ACRs 3-5 hr late reg). And there's the huge bad beat Jackpot, which someone does hit every few months, though rake is higher at the Bad Beat tables.
 
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BOL is pretty much all I play and I used to think they were the best option for US players, but with the removal of so many freerolls, rake increases, and the removal of microgames, I find ACR a better option now.
 
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I've been on BOL about 2 years or so, Used to love it a lot of micro stakes games and plenty of freerolls as mentioned above the replayer is much better than ACR.

Since they eliminated those games I have played much less on the site. But I do like the interface ts just that there are a lot more options n ACR and easier to get into a game (paid or otherwise) At least that has been my experience
 
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Thanks guys, I appreciate the insight!
 
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ACR is a much better option but I like playing on Betonline. I would describe it as a solid Poker Room.

The rake is higher at Betonline and my HUD does not work with them. The number of freerolls have been cut drastically. These are my only negatives.

Positives - it is a good alternative to other sites out there. They are a honest room. They process my withdrawals in a timely manner. They have the best odds when comes to Sports Bets of any Poker Room. They have really nice promotions like reload bonuses some for Poker, plenty for betting and casino. Cardschat run a $200 weekly freeroll on Wednesdays on there. There is also a weekly $200 Cardschat freeroll on Fridays on their sister site SportsBetting Poker.
 
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I like BOL because of their mobile App. Being able to play tournaments on the go is worth the downsides to me.
 
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I like the choice of freerolls that is in the ACP, but I also plan to register an account on BetOnline in the near future. Sometimes I am interested in sports betting, so for a good choice, I also plan to use BetOnline for bets as well.
 
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RNG - Online Poker

Thoughts on BOL:

Windfalls - these seem crazy. Crazy Action cards recently lost str8 flush to royal. Seems to be way to high of a % of action flops. How many times can 3-handed play have str8 over str8 flush over flush 2pair over 2pair

Boost Tables - lots of good action with crazy flops..

Tournaments - Good Action & good play. Just be prepared for typical online type beats. The blind structure is messed near and after $$ bubble...
 
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BOL used to be better when they had free rolls. Still like it better than ACR and I will deposit to BOL and I will not on ACR. Tourneys and cash games are great but if you like sit'n gos not so great. Chat is a lot better on BOL.
 
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I like the interface better than ACR, but I don't like the higher minimum deposit. I'm cheap.
 
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Good room, it has been crashing on me regularly as of late though and my settings (audio,table themes, chat, etc) keep resetting to default anytime I log on and support has no solutions that have helped, anyone else having this problem?
 
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Hello

I have been playing on Betonline for many years and I still enjoy it. The only thing I don't like is they stopped offering very many freerolls. I don't know why they stopped them but they did.
 
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I used to play on Betonline a couple years ago but I wanted to see if I could build a bank roll without making a deposit (starting from freerolls). When I looked in to it you needed to make a deposit on Betonline before withdrawing, and this is not the case (as far as I know) with ACR. To me this makes ACR a superior site. Why should you have to deposit to withdraw your winnings, this just rubs me the wrong way. If anyone knows if they have changed this policy I'd be interested to know. I think I still have $6 I won there somewhere :)
 
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WHy have all the buyins gone up so high. Might sound like nothing but when everything is R/A, ths stuff adds up quick. A month or so ago, there were a ton of R/A games with under a buck buyin that were clearing close to $500. Now all the buyisn are over $1 closer to $2 which makes playing on games for $3 quite hard now when it seems like the games were killing it at the lower buyins. Kinda of sucks as they have really reduced the number of games I can get into until the roll builds SUCH A CATCH 22, HEY SPORTBETTING BRING BACK THE MTT SCHEDULE YOU HAD A MONTH AGO
 
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I played on BOL for about three years up until just recently, as they removed their microstakes cash games. I asked if they thought about bringing them back but it doesn’t seem like it.

Switched to ACR and I’m very happy. The interface isn’t as nice but there’s a ton more players and for microstakes it’s the only option for US players. A ton of tournaments too - at any given time there’s probably 10 MTTs that you can register for with a $2 or under buy in.
 
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"I played on BOL for about three years up until just recently, as they removed their microstakes cash games. I asked if they thought about bringing them back but it doesn’t seem like it.

Switched to ACR and I’m very happy. The interface isn’t as nice but there’s a ton more players and for microstakes it’s the only option for US players. A ton of tournaments too - at any given time there’s probably 10 MTTs that you can register for with a $2 or under buy in. "

ignition also has micro stakes, and they are US facing.
 
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I do not believe ignition has .01/.02 or .02/.05, at least that’s what the chat support told me
 
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I like playing on BOL but have never made a deposit on any site. I made all my bankrolls from freerolls. Just watch out for the bingo players and you should be fine.:D:D
 
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