Victor Chandler

Victor Chandler is a UK based bookmaker with a plethora of online betting facilities.
Their poker client is a good starting place for beginners to online poker.
They have around 5-10,000 players online at any time, and a good mix of low stakes tables, which you can cut your teeth on without risking your house!

VC Poker is one of the few Poker rooms promoting ‘free cash’ at the moment. Click Here for more information on the $35 Free Cash offer, and the 200% Match Bonus.

Sign Up

Signing up to the Victor Chandler poker client is easy, download their client and install on your PC. Run the program and register yourself (pick your username carefully - It may be with you for a while!)
You can then play on any number of free table straight away without having to commit any money.
If you want to play real money tables or the freeroll or paid tournaments you will need to go through the poker clients cashier and register a credit/debit card.

Poker Client

Playing on Victor Chandler is easy, and the poker client is excellent for beginners, with many nice features that are designed to aid your play:

Games

For beginners I would suggest playing the free play tables to get used to the client and gain some experience of spotting potential hands and how players online like to play.
Moving onto the paid tables I would avoid the lowest stakes ($0.02/$0.04) and start playing on the ($0.05/$0.10) or ($0.10/$0.20) tables, you will get a better game at these stakes, and will have to play a stricter game. At the lowest stakes people still tend to play every hand, and hope to get lucky.

It is your choice whether you play No Limit Pot limit or Limit Holdem, or even Omaha (though you'll struggle to get a game of Omaha on VC), I would suggest playing the No Limit games as you can guarantee a better game, and are more likely to make money.

Victor Chandler offers tournaments of varying buy-ins, including free-rolls. Free-rolls usually require Action points, these are gained by playing hands on real money tables.
Tournaments seem to be heavily weighted to many good hands at a time, with lots of action and show-downs with very strong hands.
The payouts can be very good, and I would recommend playing a few single table tournaments to get used to how people play.

Deposits and Payouts

You can make deposits through the poker clients Cashier screen, this is a secure payment that can be done by Credit/Debit card or through NETeller.
Payouts can be drawn against a Dredit/Debit card you have already used to make payments, BACS for UK users, Telegraphic Transfer for those outside the UK, or by Cheque.

Bonus Codes

Victor Chandler are currently offering a 25% bonus (up to $100) on your first deposit.
Check Victor Chandlers Promotion page to get the current promotion code.
Read through that page as there are many other bonus cash amounts to be won just through playing at Victor Chandler

Etiquette

Victor Chandler provides the following table of abreviations that you may see through the chat window, etiquette online is purely down to the type of person you are, but politeness costs nothing, and remember if you have nothing good to say, then don't say anything at all!