Bodog balance with bonus?

[udbrky]

Ok, I deposited $100 for $100 bonus last week. I've accumulated almost 50 points (on top of what I got for signing up). This is what it shows for my account on their website:

Your eCash balance is $170.49
Your bonus balance is $0.00

Do I really have that available to withdraw without penalties? I'm down $30 playing. I went card dead for the first 400 hands, and then had almost all top hands - AA, AK mostly - beat for the last 100 hands and think I just want out while I'm not down a lot. Does anyone know if I can pull out now? And if so, for how much?

[playersare]

you can't make any withdrawals from bodog until you actually clear the bonuses already given (3 poker points per bonus dollar). otherwise they will warn you that the bonus portion will be removed.

[Drjamescrow]

yeah that bonus balance = 0 doesnt mean anything. theres nowhere on the site that tells you when youve cleared your bonus, you just have to keep up with the points yourself. youre gonna need to have 350pts in your acct or youll get the $100 bonus deducted from whatever you withdraw.

[udbrky]

I figured that's how I should interpret it. I'm just getting brutally mugged there.

[WiSeIVIaN]

With all due respect $30 is not all that bad. On Bodog I got down to 86 and ended up cashing out like $325. Nice place, i tell ya.

[The Man in Black]

Tourney fee counts 100% to the bonus amount, correct?

So if I deposit $500 and get a $50 bonus. If I enter a tourney that's fee is $50, I clear the bonus completely?

[Siegmund]

Yes. But remember, the tourney *fee* is the house take, the number after the plus ... so, yeah, if they are running a $500+50 buyin game, that'll do it in one hit, but that means seventeen $30+3s, not two.

[daPlayboy]

yes

[recipro]

All you Bodog people make me wish I wasn't Canadian.

[PollyEmory]

If you try to cash out before clearing bonus, they will return it to your account and drop you a very polite email asking if you'd like to have the bonus amount removed. If you say yes, they will process your cashout - bonus - profits and will ban you from future promos.

But they'll be very polite the whole way through.