Why TonyBet is THE Place to Play!

Poker has seen more than its fair share of changes over the last few years, and finding positive ones has become a challenging task, but thankfully, some online sites out there are determined to keep offering more-and-more to their customers.

TonyBet, once the exclusive domain of Open-Faced Chinese poker players, continues to surprise, with the past year seeing a great variety of new games added. They also have excellent promotions, fantastic rakeback deals, tournament overlays to die for… They even found the time to host an OFC world championship.

Not bad at all for the site which only opened the doors to its poker rooms in 2013. Perhaps it is doing so well because it is the brainchild of Antanas ‘TonyG’ Guoga, one of the poker world’s biggest personalities, who is not only a poker pro, but also a hugely-successful businessman and member of the European Parliament for his home country of Lithuania.

The Games

Let’s start with their OFC games which, if you haven’t experienced them before, require a blend of powerful strategy and keen intuition. If this sounds like you, then there is money to be made in OFC, and TonyBet is leading the way with five variants on offer, each just a little bit different from the other.

Classic, Pineapple, Pineapple 2-7, Progressive Pineapple, and Turbo, all feature on the site. Don’t worry if you’re new to the game, they have all the rules and even an OFC online school to help you along the way.

According to pro Bryan Devonshire:

Another of the world’s best had this to say:

That was Daniel ‘KidPoker’ Negreanu’s enthusiastic claim after trying it out, so it’s definitely something to put on your ‘poker bucket list’.

“That it’s become so popular at the high end and at low stakes is a good sign for its staying power,” said Devonshire in an article by OFC High-Rollers champion Jennifer Shahade. She recently picked up €100,000 and wrote:

Of course, it’s not only the Open-Faced Chinese game which has made TonyBet one of the leading and fastest-growing online sites in the past few years.

PokerTube wrote of the site’s new game launches late last year, which saw them introducing micro-stakes versions of Texas Hold’em and Omaha cash games without rake! This is in addition to plans to add higher stakes tables,SNG’s, and tournaments.

TonyBet ambassador, and million dollar poker winning pro Isabelle ‘NoMercy’ Mercier said:

More recently they have introduced 4-max tables, HeadsUp games, 10000 chip starting stacks, and live straddled in their cash games.

Promos/rakeback

It’s all very well having the world’s best players singing the praises of TonyBet Poker but what else do they offer you and me, the everyday online poker enthusiast, looking for the best place to spend our hard-earned cash? Promotions in this day and age are a must, so let’s take a look at what we get.

Up to €2000 Sign Up Bonus

That’ll do nicely, and it’s up there with the very best offers for anyone new to a site.

€10,000 Dreamerz Freeroll League

As ever, freerolls are a huge draw to any site, and TonyBet’s €10K includes all sorts of tempting goodies that won’t cost you a thing. The latest iPhone 6S’s, all-inclusive Las Vegas packages, daily, weekly, and a huge final free-roll all add up to a great deal.

€15,000 Grinderz League

While some sites seem determined to dismiss their most regular players, TonyBet instead has found a huge wad of cash to celebrate their best Holdem and PLO grinders, with €15K in cash, and Glory Series Tournament tickets on offer for the €100K GTD grand finale. Points mean prizes, so there is every incentive in the world to keep at it!

Free €10 Tickets to the €5,000 GTD Event

It’s nice to be nice, as they say, and newbies to the site are given a free buy-in - with the chance of scooping the best part of €5K. No such thing as a free lunch? Maybe not, but this’ll do nicely as a warm welcome instead.

Take on the SnG Heads-Up Challenge!

Again, while others are cutting entire games out of their online offerings, TonyBet are looking for ways to draw them in and reward them.

Heads-up players haven’t been having the best time of late, so the SnG HU offerings here are a huge boost, with €1000 in cash, every month, to play for. Every week, the Top 18 SnG HU players share the €100 leaderboard prize pool, while the best 18 throughout the month are rewarded with €600. Check out the player leaderboard to find out if you’re on the list. If not, start playing SnG Heads-Up tournaments and get in on the action!

Rakeback scheme

With their special promotion coming to an end, TonyBet decided to change their rakeback deals, and now offer one of the best – and most unusual – in the industry.

There is a minimum rakeback level of 25%, but for those who have a bad day at the poker office and chuck €100 or more, they will receive an extra 55%, making it 80% rakeback and lessening the blow! With it going straight into your account every Monday, those weekend bad beats won’t hurt quite so much.

Overlay

Quite possibly the favourite word of tournament players worldwide, overlays happen when there aren’t enough entry fees to cover the guaranteed prize money, so the site makes up the difference.

How does that help you in practice? Well, this will likely only be a temporary occurrence until TonyBet tournaments reach the level of their other offerings, but basically you’re playing against fewer players for the same big payday!

And even when the overlays finish, you can be sure of something innovative and exciting to replace them, a huge online tournament series being part of the plan.

Conclusion

What you see is what you get with TonyBet. Highly-specialised in its OFC offerings, extremely innovative in its other games, and hugely competitive overall. Their promotions are not only competitive, but in many places out-do many of their long-standing fellow sites.

The site itself and the playing platform are both high-quality affairs – befitting of a fast-rising modern poker site whose main aim is to offer players a great alternative to the biggest sites.

All-in-all, TonyBet seems to have it all covered – they are going from strength-to-strength so why not take the trip along with them!