Natural8 Review - Everything You Need To Know (2026 Updated)

Natural8 runs a $100,000 Freeroll Tournament every single week.

These freerolls are always run on Saturday 12:00AM HKT.

Ways you can qualify for a ticket:

1. Refer a friend and you both receive 1 Weekly Freeroll ticket.

2. Deposit $500 or more to receive 1 Weekly Freeroll ticket.

3. Play 1,000 cash game hands and receive 1 Weekly Freeroll ticket.

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Requirements for earning freeroll tickets reset daily at 04:00 PM HKT.

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NOTE: Satisfying any one of these requirements will earn you a ticket to that week's $100K freeroll tournament. Tournament tickets are non-transferrable, and are valid for 1 week. If you let your ticket expire after you earn it, the ticket becomes void and invalid for future weeks.

Hands starting before midnight and ending the following day will be counted as hands played on the following day.

The default currency for Natural8 is USD.

Natural8 has one of the best "Welcome Bonus" offers out of all Asian poker sites.

To be eligible, you can't already have a verified Natural8 account.‎‎

✅ 200% Deposit Match Up To $1,000

Natural8 will match 200% of your initial deposit as an unlockable bonus up to $1,000. The bonus is released to you as you progressively unlock it. Exactly $1 in bonus funds is unlocked for every $5 paid in net rake/tournament fees. This effectively acts as an additional accelerated cashback on top of the existing cashback programs Natural8 operates!

Natural8 is running a 30-Day Honeymoon Challenge for all new players.

To be eligible, you can't already have a verified Natural8 account.‎‎

✅ How To Opt-In For The Honeymoon Challenge

1. Navigate to the Home Page within the Natural8 client

2. Click the "Honeymoon" button underneath the "Cashier" button in the right side panel

3. Click "Start Honeymoon"

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You will be provided with a new mission every single day, for a total of 30 consecutive days. You can claim your rewards for clearing each mission instantly, which will deposit the prize directly into your player balance.

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NOTE: The default currency for Natural8 is USD.

Hand Requirements To Qualify

To qualify for your share of the Bad Beat Jackpot, you must have an incredibly strong hand lose to an even stronger hand in a real money cash game. The specific hand criteria depends on the game that is played:

No Limit Holdem: You must lose with Aces full of Tens or higher to qualify

Pot Limit Omaha: You must lose with Quad 2's or higher to qualify

Pot Limit Omaha 5: You must lose with Quad 8's or higher to qualify

Pot Limit Omaha 6: You must lose with Quad J's or higher to qualify

Short Deck: You must lose with Quad 6's or higher to qualify

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NOTE: Both you and your opponent must use both your hole cards in making your best 5 card hand.

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General Additional Rules:

• Prizes are awarded instantly at the end of the hand
• If there are more than three jackpot-qualified player hands within a hand of cash game poker played, the jackpot will be awarded to the player who comes in second in the hand.
• Hand must go to showdown
• No committed pot amount needed to make the jackpot hand
• Both the winner and the loser muse use both hole cards to make the best 5 card hand combination. In the case of players agreeing to run the board multiple times in all-in situations, only the first runout will count.

Bad Beat Jackpot Payout

Upon signing into the downloaded Desktop Client, you'll be shown the default home page with all of the ongoing promotions of the site. However, to get to the cash games you'll want to click either "Hold'em", "PLO", or "Short Deck" in the top selection row depending on the game you want to play.

After doing so, you'll be shown the default "Group View" of all of the available stake levels for that game type. If you prefer to see a list view of all of the individual table instead, you can click "Table View" in the top right of the desktop client- right underneath the end of the game selection row.

To navigate to the full list of ongoing and scheduled tournaments, click on the "Tourney" selection panel at the very top of the application. There are also more specific tournament selectors you can choose such as "Flip & GO" and "Bounty Hunters Series".

For mobile users, Natural8 is available on both iOS and Google Play Store.

The below graphic shows a split screen view of the overall app home page and selection lists for both real money cash games and tournaments.

The mobile poker table layout closely resembles other free poker apps that you may have played in the past. It allows you to sit at up to 4 tables at once, using the top row selectors to either add new tables or swap between existing tables easily.

The below graphics show the basic layout in addition to a side by side example of all available customization options.

The following rake table applies to No Limit Holdem cash games, differing by stake levels and how many players were dealt in the hand.

All amounts are shown in the U.S. Dollar (USD).

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NOTE: Rake is only taken if no 3-bet occured preflop & if the hand did not make it past preflop.

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The following rake table applies to Pot Limit Omaha cash games, differing by stake levels.

All amounts are shown in the U.S. Dollar (USD).

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NOTE: Rake is only taken if no 3-bet occured preflop & if the hand did not make it past preflop.

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Tournaments are raked differently than cash games, as the rake is paid lump sum up front along with your tournament buy in instead of paid every hand participated in.

Natural8 sets tournament rake as 10% of the total tournament buy in, dependent on the stakes played. Additionally, they charge a 0.5% administration fee in some of the larger scale events.

Natural8 has a very small list of allowed jurisdictions since they are specifically tailored towards Asia.

The following list of countries are allowed jurisdictions to play on Natural8:

The following list of countries are restricted/excluded countries that cannot play on Natural8:

Most notable mentions: United States, United Kingdom, China, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Russia, India