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Posted by: BadBeatBill at August 13, 2005, 11:06 pm

Topic: Party poker bonus clearance strategy on NL $25 tables Forum: Bonus Whores

macman wrote:

Just for the hell of it, I 8 tabled reload bonuses once all at $25 NLHE. I basically followed the strategy above with some modifications (8x pfr with AA, KK, QQ .... played any pocket pair from any position for up to a 3 or 4x pfr, depending on the size of the raisers stack ... AK and AQ). I turned a profit at every table, anywhere from a couple of bucks to $100 or more. I errored on the side of protecting my stack, almost playing weak tight but not quite. But how boring this was. However, the hourly rate was very good.

FWIW, IMHO, if you can't at least average making as much money winning as you do from the bonus, it is a rather silly endeavor. On the average, I have somewhere between a 2:1 to 3:1 ratio of winning/bonus and enjoy the time spent doing it. Everyone has different needs though so to each their own.

I really doubt someone could play EIGHT tables at once and turn a profit at each one using a very weak/tight strategy. This strategy is liable to get cracked and if not at least run over by aggression...how many hands was the reload bonus that you could make $100 or more at one of the eight tables playing like this at the $25 NL tables? I've only been up to $100 profit on those tables a few times, and that takes all night and a lot of good plays...getting your stack to 5x its size is very tough, and with 7 other tables to distract you and a strategy that generally seems to be careful, but not very profitable, it seems near impossible.

Also, how is it silly if you can't average as much in winnings? I know, some people 'play to win' for the whole psychological feel, and some people play for fun, but above all, rather than win or have fun, I'm sure most people here just want to MAKE MONEY - and for a $100 reload bonus, playing 700 hands and making, say, $50 on top isn't silly at all, that's $150 for what, 9-10 hours of work? You know, if you can consider it work, which you probably shouldn't. On an online site with 80 million players on it winning isn't such a thrill because it's not like a home game where people notice a consistant winner.

Okay, as for the original poster, I know it's been said before, but even though it is an interesting idea - I'm sure everyone here has thought of it before - but we all realized that it's just a losing strategy. Also it seems to me on the $25 NL tables that only 50% are raked, although it may be because they're unusually tight on the first days of a bonus. Either way you'd be better off making stupid calls and raises because it's hard to lose even $50 in 700 hands unless you're a really bad player or have just been getting unlucky (which is often the case when I hear about people losing).

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