| Posted by: hofdaddy at January 11, 2005, 9:23 pm | | Topic: Where to bonus whore for a SNG player? Forum: Bonus Whores | Lagniappe wrote: coloradoholdem wrote: dont you get 3 points for a $5 + $.50 so in effect for $1 in fees you get 6 points?
I could be wrong here it has been awhile since I have played on stars
Yeah, you could play $5+.50s and do better than even money but it takes forever doing it through tourney fees as it is.
hofdaddy wrote: Bodog also let's you clear bonus (bodog) pts by playing in their tourneys.
Interesting, I didn't know that. According to their website, they have the same points structure as Stars for tournament fees. You get 6 points per $1 in fee and it takes 6 points to clear $1 of bonus.
I just finished clearing my bonus at Bodog on the NL tables and I'm done with them for awhile. I loved the fishiness but every other hand someones connection to the server would drop and you
have to wait for them to time out. I still cleared about $140 from play chasing a $50 bonus on the .25-.50 NL tables.
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| Posted by: Lagniappe at January 11, 2005, 9:00 pm | | Topic: Where to bonus whore for a SNG player? Forum: Bonus Whores | coloradoholdem wrote: dont you get 3 points for a $5 + $.50 so in effect for $1 in fees you get 6 points?
I could be wrong here it has been awhile since I have played on stars
Yeah, you could play $5+.50s and do better than even money but it takes forever doing it through tourney fees as it is.
hofdaddy wrote: Bodog also let's you clear bonus (bodog) pts by playing in their tourneys.
Interesting, I didn't know that. According to their website, they have the same points structure as Stars for tournament fees. You get 6 points per $1 in fee and it takes 6 points to clear $1 of bonus.
I just finished clearing my bonus at Bodog on the NL tables and I'm done with them for awhile. I loved the fishiness but every other hand someones connection to the server would drop and you
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| Posted by: TheJourneyman at January 11, 2005, 7:12 pm | | Topic: Where to bonus whore for a SNG player? Forum: Bonus Whores | Lagniappe wrote: Of the sites that let you clear a bonus using tournament fees, Poker Stars has the best payout. You basically play the tourneys rake free.
dont you get 3 points for a $5 + $.50 so in effect for $1 in fees you get 6 points?
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| Posted by: hofdaddy at January 11, 2005, 7:08 pm | | Topic: Where to bonus whore for a SNG player? Forum: Bonus Whores | Bodog also let's you clear bonus (bodog) pts by playing in their tourneys.
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| Posted by: Lagniappe at January 11, 2005, 6:26 pm | | Topic: Where to bonus whore for a SNG player? Forum: Bonus Whores | Of the sites that let you clear a bonus using tournament fees, Poker Stars has the best payout. You basically play the tourneys rake free.
Stars: --------|- $1 fee = 5 FPP --|--- 5 FPP = $1 bonus ---|---- $1 fee = $1 bonus ------|
Pokerroom: -|- $1 fee = 5 PP ---|---- 7 PP = $1 bonus ----|----- $1 fee = $0.71 bonus -|
Full Tilt: ------|- $1 fee = 7 FTP --|-- 16.7 FTP = $1 bonus -|--- $1 fee = $0.42 bonus ---|
Absolute: ----|- $1 fee = 1 APP -|-- 10 APP = $1 bonus ---|---- $ 1 fee = $0.10 bonus -|
Tournament fees are a pretty inefficient way to clear a bonus on any of these sites but if you're going to play SNGs and want to clear a bonus at the same time,
Stars and maybe Pokerroom are the only places you should think of playing.
I have the last three reload bonuses left to clear on Stars. I only play the SNGs there and I do most of my tournament playing at Party.
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| Posted by: flafishy at January 11, 2005, 9:24 am | | Topic: Where to bonus whore for a SNG player? Forum: Bonus Whores | It doesn't really pay to go bonus chasing if you're only playing tournaments. That said, if you are looking for a permanent home to play SnGs, you can eventually work off a bonus at a few sites doing so. Absolute probably the best. Tourneys there are very beatable, and they offer some fairly regular and decent reload bonuses.
They give you one point for every dollar in tourney buy-in fees, and they release $10 of your bonus for every 100 points. So you'll get $10 for every 100 $10+$1 SnG you play.
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| Posted by: hackermike at January 8, 2005, 1:03 pm | | Topic: Where to bonus whore for a SNG player? Forum: Bonus Whores | | i would try pacific. if you play sng's it does not go toward clearing you bonus, but i heard the games there are very nice. you should deposit, take the deposit out, and just play with the bonus money. then oyu will have a free 100 bucks to play around with. i realize that eventually you will have to play some ring games to get the bonus money out, but then you could just play some NL and you'll be done pretty quick. the games at pacific are very soft so if you have to play comewhere, that may be the place. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Stew at January 7, 2005, 9:58 pm | | Topic: Where to bonus whore for a SNG player? Forum: Bonus Whores | whackadoo wrote: UB will let you but it would be real slow to clear.
You can't clear bonus money at UB playing any sort of tourneys.
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| Posted by: BCsparky at January 7, 2005, 8:22 pm | | Topic: Where to bonus whore for a SNG player? Forum: Bonus Whores | I used to play only SNGs. Its a great way to start with a short bankroll.
The two best sites I found were Pokerstars which basically refunds the fee in bonus, and pokerroom, you get 5 points for every $1 in fees. For every 7 points you get $1 in bonus. Other sites that give bonus points for tournaments are Paradise, Fulltilt and absolute. There are probably others.
Paradise is not very good for earning bonus in SNGs. For every $1 in fees you get 1 point. You need !0 points per bonus dollar. So you're only getting 10% of you fees returned.
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| Posted by: Thythe at January 7, 2005, 8:00 pm | | Topic: Where to bonus whore for a SNG player? Forum: Bonus Whores | Not very many places. Paradise Poker allows it and so does Poker Stars, but Poker Stars doesn't have a bonus going on right now.
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