Ladbrokes Poker - Review

Ladbrokes is one of the most established gambling brands in the world. With this kind of recognition it comes as no surprise that Ladbrokes Poker is Europe's biggest online card room. Player numbers regularly exceed 8,000 at peak times - all spread over around 2000 poker tables. It's easy to see why people enjoy Ladbrokes; there are always great promotions, cash games, and tournaments with larger starting stacks than other Microgaming sites. No wonder there's over 10 Million hands dealt every month!

Ladbrokes Poker is one of Europe's most popular online poker rooms, offering great promotions, strong game variety, good graphics and playability. Operating on the Microgaming network, Ladbrokes Poker is a part of one of the largest sports betting operations in the world and with over 100 years of experience in the gambling world Ladbrokes Poker has no trouble providing high traffic volume, loose tables and an extensive range of table limits for its punters.p>

Games offered are Texas Hold'em, Omaha, Omaha Hi-Lo, Seven-Card Stud, Five-Card Draw and Five-Card Stud. Besides the regular poker action players can also entertain themselves and win money playing casino games and the innovative betting game "Poker Bet," all without leaving the Ladbrokes Poker client.

The large number of shorthanded and turbo tables creates loose and juicy games as well as quick playability - sometimes seeing more than 120 hands played per hour. Although there are always details that can be improved, the software has proven to be very functional, fast and reliable and it's available in both a download and a no-download flash version.

Ladbrokes Poker have recently launched a 3D version of the table using the Playwize software (a leading developer in console game graphics). Now you can play the same ppoker games, but with characters that display human like movements. In addition, as well as the standard text chat, they've included a VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) and over 72 actions and expressions to use while playing the game.

Also there are Live poker stats with draw percentages, pot odds, pre-flop hand rankings and best hand indicator have also been included in the software. Overall the new Ladbrokes software comes highly recommended.

Ladbrokes Poker are Europe's busiest poker room and being stand alone (not relying on other room's player base) they are reasonably busy. At peak times there are around 1,500 real money players at the cash games and around 6,000 at the tournament tables.

There's quite a good mix of game at Ladbrokes Poker. Hold'em is the most popular, but there are quite a few Omaha games too. 7 card stud, Omaha hi/lo and 5 card stud games have less frequent games at any reasonable stakes, but ideal for the beginner to gain practice.

There's always Texas Hold'em games available, ranging from micro-limits up to regular $10/$20 NLH games during non-peak hours, raising to ultra high $200/$400 games if there's support.

Ladbrokes is renowned for having some of the loosest action on the net. Flop percentages can often be in the 60% range and all this action is attributed to the “Maniac Scandies” (in the nicest possible way) and their do or die approach to poker. Ladbrokes Poker is a potential goldmine, albeit with high variance, for good players.

The majority of the games at Ladbrokes are 6 max games so an aggressive style is needed somewhat, there are full games though for those who prefer it.

Omaha games are pretty frequent too. As with the NLH there are games from microlimits to $10/$20 PLO games at non-peak hours rising to $50/$100 games if support warrants at peak times.