888poker review

The scores

Welcome bonus

$20 free no deposit + 100% match up to $400

Effective 12-22% via The Club loyalty tiers

Pros

• Genuine $20 no-deposit welcome, actually useful
• Recreational player pool with mandatory straddle tables
• Slick redesigned client (888poker 8)
• Regulated in more European markets than ACR
• Snap Poker is a clean Zoom clone

Cons

• Loyalty program is thin compared to GG/ACR/CoinPoker
• Smaller MTT guarantees
• Player pool has shrunk vs 2015 peak

Rake and rakeback

Weighted contributed. Reasonable caps. The NL100 cap is $3.00 at a flat 5.00% rake percentage.

Effective rakeback for a 100k-hand/month grinder works out to Effective 12-22% via The Club loyalty tiers. Compared against the full rake comparison table, that places 888poker toward the bottom of the field.

Traffic and player pool

Peak cash 24-hour traffic of approximately 2,100 concurrent. Our internal pool-softness score for 888poker is 7.8/10, about average for the field.

Games and formats

Payments

888poker accepts:

Currencies supported: USD, EUR, GBP, CAD.

Licensing

Government of Gibraltar; UKGC; MGA; AGCO; AAMS; ARJEL; DGOJ. Operating since 1997.

Should you play here?

Solid recreational room with the best no-deposit welcome in the industry. Not the place to grind serious rakeback, but the entry-level experience is hard to beat.

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