Bonus Hunting

Defendant · #1 11-01-04, 08:14 PM

How profitable do you think it is to take advantage of the maximum amount of bonuses? As in cash in enough to a site to get the maximum bonus, play enough to clear it and move on to the next site?

Which leads me to my second question...how do you find out about reload bonuses?

Defendant

BlibbityBlabbity · #2 11-01-04, 08:26 PM

Would say that depends on the site/offer. In general there is a TON of money being thrown to players who are willing to deposit money to a site and play a certain number of raked hands, etc to unlock the bonus. Key here is to read the fine print at the site or send the cashier at the site a specific email asking any questions you have before you deposit. (I say cashier only because they usually have the most up to date info and at some sites the cust. service people will say whatever they think you want to hear so you will deposit).

If you are comfortable playing middle limits you should have no problem unlocking any bonus out there IMO. How long it will take is what the major differences tend to be.

Since they are trying to get you to put more money in the site, you should see an email about any reload offers, but sometimes they are only advertised on the site, or on forums.

bothecorgi · #3 11-01-04, 08:29 PM

I have built my initial bankroll of $100 to over $1100 by getting deposit bonuses at Pacific, Paradise, Party, InterPoker and I am now working on Poker Room. The key is to be patient to clear the bonuses. Once I clear Poker Room, I will move onto UltimateBet or some other site.

Talking Poker · #4 11-02-04, 01:10 AM

I think this is a VERY profitable way of building one's bankroll. If you work your way down the list of sites here, you will be able to earn $1930 in bonus money:

That is a LOT of free cash up for grabs.

As for the reload bonuses, they are often emailed to you once you establish accounts at the various sites. offers $90 per month, for example, and , , , , , and regularly offer 10-20% reload bonuses, just to name a few.

I play at most of those sites regularly anyway, so I ih as well take advantage of the free money by chasing the bonuses around, right?

In summary: Bonus whoring is a great way to build your bankroll.

GeoffM · #5 11-02-04, 09:01 AM

Not sure if this ever happened to anyone, but my account at Party went inactive for 2 months and they gave me a $20 free deposit, with the catch being I had to play 125 hands in 5 days. Did it in one night, and made a cool $50 on top of the $20. My account has once again been inactive for about 2 months, hopefully I get another $20.

ChipFish · #6 11-02-04, 09:05 AM

Got a question for you there Geoff.
Was there any money in your account?
I got busted out about a year ago on Party save for something like $3.82
Roughly 8 months went by without a re-load bonus or $20 in my account.
I guess what I am trying to say is I had heard about that sort of thing going on and am damn pissed off that I wasn't able to receive either offer.

Boo Party Poker !!

Oh, wait... They make me money.... ok, Yay Party Poker

Penguinfan · #7 11-03-04, 03:05 PM

I had the same thing happen at Party to me and I had less than 1 dollar in there. I pulled out all my funds from everywhere before (sportsbooks and poker rooms) before my last trip to Atlantic City and when I got home the 20 dollar e-mail was waiting for me (about 10 days from taking out funds to getting the 20 deposit from them). Funny thing is I was gonna deposit money back there as soon as I got home anyway, just wanted as much cash on me as possible to go to AC with, you know, big dreams of hitting it big and never going back to work, which is why I was looking for the best bonus I could find

BlibbityBlabbity · #8 11-03-04, 03:09 PM

So even if you only have $1 in your account, you won;t get the $20 from them, but if you are completely wiped out they hook you up, right??

GeoffM · #9 11-03-04, 03:17 PM

James, if I remember correctly, I had about $0.80 or something like that. Right now I somehow have $3 in there, so once I reach 450 posts on this site I will have $53 and then will withdraw every last penny that I can. I will then let you all know if and when I get the $20 gift from them. Could be something to take advantage of every couple of months for some easy cash.

Penguinfan · #10 11-03-04, 03:18 PM

I really can't say for sure, all I know is I had less than $1 when it happened to me.

hackers238 · #11 11-04-04, 10:04 PM

After playing for play money for a while on party (I never really was a fan of their site) I got a 50% deposit bonus for real money, and I didn't even have a real money account!

LoneWolfAlfonso · #12 11-05-04, 09:15 AM

When you say Party Poker, do you mean that you played on the play-money tournaments or the play-money limit games? Also, how long did you play? Not that I'm interested in manipulating that sort of thing...

drewjax · #13 11-06-04, 01:11 AM

Pacific Poker gave me a free $20, and I NEVER deposited anything. I just played for demo money, and one day I got the email. Turned the 20 into 160 and cashed out. that was awhile ago, havent gotten another one.

BlibbityBlabbity · #14 11-06-04, 02:27 AM

I signed up there a while back because someone said this and I waited, waited, waited. I finally emailed support with the contents of the post that caused me to sign up. They responded that this was not an official offer and that they were only giving a FEW new players the free $20 at random.

So you MIGHT get the $20 if you sign up there. Not a guarentee.

hackers238 · #15 11-06-04, 02:42 PM

LoneWolf, I play mostly sit&gos on party for play money.

jimmytheg · #16 11-07-04, 11:54 AM

After cashing out of Party and not playing there for a while, Party gave me 50 free. Id played for over a year and a half, and had switched over to stars.....couple months went by with no activity at party, and i got the email saying i'd received 50 bucks because i was a valued customer.

2Tone · #17 11-07-04, 04:57 PM

As much as I appreciate the good folks at Party brining 50k players to my computer each and every night, I've given up trying to find any patterns on who/what/when triggers reload or free money bonuses. I've read stories of larger stakes playing 20 hours a week for months, presumably generating tons of rake, then busting and leaving, and Party never even sends them a reload. Other times somebody gets a free $50 from an affiliate for signing up, losing it in one session, and Party treats them like a whale at the Bellagio. Plus, despite being the same damn site, each of the skins seem to have their own weirdness on these policies.

Ah well.