William Hill Poker - Version 1.0 William Hill is undoubtedly one of the most reputable and best known names in the entire gaming and betting industry. William Hill has been in operation for over 70 years and employs in excess of 15,000 people in offices in the UK, Ireland, Bulgaria and Israel. They maintain 2,300 retail shops throughout Europe and have a substantial telephone betting business in the UK. William Hill PLC has been traded on the London Stock Exchange since 2002. William Hill entered the online poker industry back in 2005 when they teamed up with the iPoker Network, the world's largest online poker network, in creating William Hill Poker. Being one of the largest companies in the gaming and betting industry and teaming up with the largest online poker network has really worked out well for William Hill Poker. Their software is crisp and clean and their poker room sees more than 8,000 real money players grinding it out at any time in the day with well over 13,000 real money players at peak hours.