Unibet Poker: room review, freerolls and bonuses

Unibet Poker is an independent poker room, aimed at recreational players from UK and Northern Europe. Low rake from 1%, favorable welcome bonuses and a small number of regulars are the main advantages of this poker room.

An important feature of Unibet Poker is that the cash tables here for each player are selected based on his level — beginners and professionals play against their peers of similar level. Tabel select is not available.

Unibet Poker annually organizes live series, which are held in different European cities. You can get access to them through daily poker room satellites.

Unibet Poker app can be downloaded on computers with Windows and MacOS, as well as to mobile devices on Android and iOS.

On the official website of Unibet Poker you can register in the poker room, download the app for playing poker and get acquainted with all the rules and current promos of the room. You can also play all the cash games and tournaments at the website. Usually players use a mirror of the website, because the original platform is often blocked by the internet providers.

To sign up, you need to specify the following information:

• Name;
• Date of birth and gender;
• E-mail address;
• Country, city and residence address;
• Phone number;
• Account currency (the main currency is Euro);
• Password and secret question.

To be able to withdraw winnings from Unibet Poker, the user also needs to pass verification by uploading the following documents to the «Account Verification» section:

• · A copy of your passport, ID card or driver’s license;
• · Confirmation of residence address (bank statement or utility bill).

Usually documents are checked within 3-5 work days. In case of withdrawal of particularly large amounts, players may be asked to provide additional documents.
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Unibet Poker is an independent poker room and is not part of any poker network. In the peak evening hours after 8 pm at least 4,000 players are playing here. In the morning and afternoon this number is 2 times smaller.

The player pool at Unibet Poker is not very strong — recreational players from the UK, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and other wealthy European countries prevail here. Active games are played on all limits up to NL100, on higher limits of NL200 and NL400 players are not always present. More regulars can be met at these higher levels.

Unibet Poker has one of the lowest rake levels among poker rooms — from 1% to 6% depending on the selected limit. The rake structure in Unlimited Hold’em is as follows:

If the hand ends before the flop, the rake is not taken. At standard tournaments poker room commission is 10%.

At Unibet Poker there are several poker modes:

Traditional cash tables with No limit Hold’em and Pot Limit Omaha (PLO) on all available stakes: 0.02/0.04, 0.05/0.10, 0.10/0.25, 0.25/0.50, 0.5/1, 1/2, 2/4 and 4/8.

Texas Hold’em games are played on all available stakes up to 0.5/1, and the maximum number of players at tables with stakes of 0.02/0.04 and 0.05/0.10 (100 players and more). Tables with upper limits are filled only during peak evening hours.

In games with Omaha traffic is much smaller: the game is mainly on the three lower stakes — 0.02/0.04, 0.05/0.10, 0.10/0.25.

Players do not have the opportunity to choose opponents — after choosing the limit they automatically sit at a random table. There is no filtering and sorting of cash games. The currency in all games is Euro.

Banzai Texas and Omaha – game modes for No limit Hold’em OPL on only All-in or Fold, when players have only two of these options to choose from after receiving the cards. Cash tables are available with three stakes — 0.005/0.01, 0.025/0.05 and 0.1/0.2. As a rule, each of them gather at least 8-12 players. Buy-in for these tables is fixed at 10BB.

At least 7-10 tournaments with different buy-ins start hourly at Unibet Poker. Their size ranges from 1 to 200 euros. Tournaments of different formats are met here: Freeze-out, Multi Buy-in (double, triple or quadruple starting set of chips for an extra fee), With guarantee, Knock-out awards, satellites and freerolls. Competitions on PLO, as well as tournaments with late registration.

The absolute majority of tournaments are attended by no more than 150-200 players and the prize pool does not exceed 8,000 euros usually. However, there is an exception — a weekly Sunday Supernova tournament with a guarantee of 20,000 Euros and buy-in of 100 Euros.

Satellites for Unibet Open live poker series are held daily in the poker room with from 0.01 to 50 euros entry.

Unibet Poker hosts SNG tournaments only for 2 or 5 participants with buy-ins of 1, 2, 4, 10, 25, 50, 100 and 200 Euros. All tournaments are held in a standard format.

Classical spin games mode, where 3 players participate and the prize is determined randomly and can exceed the buy-in of participants by 1,5x, 3x, 5x, 10x, 25x, 100x or 1,000 times (the most common multiplier is 3x). You can enter these games for 1, 2, 5, 10, 25, 50 and 100 Euros. By the way, compared to other poker rooms, the 10x multiplier at Unibet Poker is met more frequent.

Unibet Poker room organizes a series of Unibet Open live tournaments several times a year, which are held in different European cities (Warsaw, Prague, London, Dublin, Barcelona and others). You can get to any tournament of the series through numerous satellites with buy-in from 0.01 to 250 euros (direct hit). Qualification there consists of 5 stages and ends every Sunday with a 250 euros entry tournament.

The Unibet Open participation package includes hotel accommodation, buy-in to the tournament, daily meals and 250 euros personal expenses, as well as private parties.

Unibet Poker offers a generous bonus program, consisting of the following bonuses and offers for new and old players:

• First deposit bonus of 200 Euros, regardless of the deposit amount. It is paid in five parts upon generating a particular amount of rake: 2 euro rake — 1 euro bonus, 10 euro — 4 euro, 50 euro — 15 euro, 150 euro — 40 euro, 550 euro — 140 euro. The bonus must be wagered within 60 days, otherwise it will expire.
• 4 tickets for weekly freerolls with a 500 Euro guarantee for the first deposit.
• · Awards for the best players of the month, quarter and year on Unibet Poker. To get higher places in the leader table, you need to be among top three players as often as possible at regular tournaments with low and high buy-ins. The number of points gained depends on the number of participants and the player’s position in the competition. Awards for 25 leading players are tickets to exclusive tournaments and freerolls.

Rakeback and loyalty programs on Unibet Poker are not available, but for certain tasks, players are rewarded with real money, bonuses with wagering requiring and tickets to tournaments. In terms of cash, you can get up to 30% rakeback.

The number of points credited depends on the difficulty of tasks, as well as on limits on which the player do the tasks. Examples of the simplest tasks are to get single-handed cards or to play 500 handouts on cash tables. Among difficult tasks — to win on the pre-flop with a weak combination. Progress in reward list is reset every quarter — January 1, April 1, June 1, October 1.

Unibet Poker has a simple software without many additional features, but with excellent performance and intuitive design. On the main page of the poker room the lobby with cash tables on Unlimited Hold’em are displayed. From here you can choose other section of poker games, as well as Cashier, user profile and casino.

Unlike many other poker rooms, at Unibet Poker you can’t choose cash tables or games for one limit — the distribution of players is random, which does not allow to play against weak opponents.

No systems for filtering cash games and tournaments by format and number of participants are available.

During the game you can change the design of the table, the background theme and the design of the card deck. But at Unibet Poker there is no add-ons, no possibility to write notes about opponents and no chat for players.

Unibet Bet software has only two additional features: possibility to play on tables under different usernames and avatars, and multi-window mode.

Since this room is designed for poker fans, not for regulars, it is forbidden to use any third-party poker software.

Unibet Poker has released a user-friendly mobile app for playing poker on iOS and Android, which can be downloaded from the official poker room website. The app has a convenient interface, but limited functionality — only cash tables with Unlimited Hold’em, PLO and Banzai.

However operations at account, participation in the bonus program and the game mode on several tables are available in the mobile app.

Unibet Poker is a reliable and legal poker room, which is regularly checked by independent auditing organization eCOGRA for security and honesty. Interaction with the poker room is goes through secure channels with SSL encryption.

Therefore all user data is securely protected from any unauthorized access. Unibet Poker players receive payments of any size (except for the use of external software and prior collusion) without any problems.

The activities of Unibet Poker are licensed and regulated by the legislative authorities of Malta. All disputes between a poker room and its customers are settled in accordance with the laws of that country.

Unibet Poker is a rather unique poker room, designed for recreational players, not for regulars. In order to attract users, it uses simple software and prohibits the use of any third-party poker programs. The main advantages of this poker room are:

• Soft player pool;
• A large number of satellites for live tournaments Unibet Open;
• Good welcome bonuses.

The serious disadvantages of Unibet Poker are a small number of regular tournaments, no possibility to select cash tables and reduced functionality of mobile app. The room is attractive for beginners due to generous welcome bonus.