Poker in Bulgaria continues to explode in popularity and late last year, Bulgaria became the latest European country to open its doors to online poker sites and poker players in Belgium. In October, an online gambling provider created a site in the Bulgarian language, making it easy for citizens to play online poker for real money. While Bulgarian citizens have always had the ability to play online poker on foreign sites, this was the first time that they have been able to play the game on a site written in their own language.

Bulgaria Poker Sites

The new poker site, Bwin poker, is the first international poker site to provide an online poker platform based entirely in the Bulgarian language.  Bulgarian poker sites and poker players depositing to play poker from Belgium have been one of Bwin’s biggest market segments and offering a poker site based in the Bulgarian language has significantly increased the market share within the country.

Bulgaria Poker Deposit

Bulgaria Poker sites currently accept a wide variety of deposit methods for real money accounts. One of the most common forms of real money deposits is through the use of credit cards. Bwin, currently, accepts Visa Electron, MasterCard, and Diners Club credit cards from Bulgarian players. While credit cards are generally considered the fastest and easiest way to fund your real money online poker account, it is important that you check with your credit card issuer prior to completing a deposit. Many banks will treat deposits to an online gambling provider as a cash advance, resulting it tremendous fees and high interest rates on any transactions to your online poker account.

If credit cards won't do the trick for you, then Bulgarian online poker players playing on the Bwin site, also, have the option of funding their real money accounts with an e-wallet service. These third party payment processors, such as Neteller or MoneyBookers, give players the ability to make instant deposits from their bank account or credit card without having to provide their personal account information directly to the online poker site. This adds a great level of security to depositing funds to an online poker site. Many players prefer this method to a direct transfer from a bank or credit card.

Many Bulgarian banks currently permit instant transfers to an online poker rooms in Bulgaria via the BankTransfer system. Once your bank account is linked to the online poker site, you will then have the ability to make deposits directly from your checking or savings account. However, one of the downfalls to this particular deposit method is that most transactions will take at least 2-3 days to clear your bank and become available for use on the online poker site. Thus, players logging on in Bulgaria who are seeking an instant deposit method will need to choose another option.