Sportsbook.com is a sportsbook, poker room and casino that egan in 1997. The poker room opened in 2006 on the Cake Poker network and just moved to the Merge network.

Unlike most poker rooms, Sportsbook Poker is available only to U.S. and Canadian players. The poker room has grown very quickly and offers the loosest and juiciest games available online today. Most of the player base comes through the sportsbook and casino, which makes a large portion of the players beginners and so very easy to beat.

The software features great graphics and functionality as it was developed by a group of poker players looking to “re-invent” the online poker world. Game play is very good and offers  everything most poker players need, with good table stats, fast action, 10 tables for multi-tabling and great support features.

Game selection is also good, with all variations of Texas Hold’em plus Omaha and Omaha Hi-Lo. Games are definitely concentrated in No-Limit Hold’em, and especially at the small and middle limits, but at peak hours players can be found at pretty much any limit and game.

Sportsbook Poker offers a decent number of tournaments with the traffic volume overall in the lower segment of the industry but growing fast. Sportsbook Poker also offers monthly massive-value $100,000 freerolls.

Real-money player statistics as of January 2011 show 1700 ring-game players at peak hours, and 6000 tournament players at peak hours.