Absolute Poker

[perfectpokar]

How hard is it to clear an absolute bonus, compared to party or paradise.
Thanks for the help.

[boracay]

extremely hard compared to mentioned sites.

[Dave Coulier]

Yeah, Paradise is just a few hours of 3 tabling to clear. Absolute will take you quite a while and you probably wont make a large profit outside of the bonus as its just a rock garden.

[Raul Wong]

What about in comparision to the eurobet bonus that was going on a couple months ago? How many hands would the full bonus take playing 1-2, 2-4 or 50NL?

[Blowup Doll]

Absolute clears at about 1.7BB/100 at the 1/2 limits.

It sucks because they have virtually no 2/4 tables.

[perfectpokar]

so the AP750 bonus (100% up to 750) isn't worth doing?

[Niediam]

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so the AP750 bonus (100% up to 750) isn't worth doing?

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If you use good table selection so you are usually at tables with 5BB average pots or so it will take about 15k hands at 1/2 full limit.

[somapopper]

Absolute is a good deal, with bonuses not counting against rb.

[Andrew Karpinski]

Absolute offers bonuses?

[somapopper]

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Absolute offers bonuses?

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Be sure not to miss them when they come. They're few and far between.

[Blowup Doll]

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so the AP750 bonus (100% up to 750) isn't worth doing?

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It's worth doing. I'm doing it at 1/2 limit just fine.

[Nicholson567]

I have made it through $400 of the Easter wkd $750 sign up.

If you are at the 3/6 tables around 68% of their hands make the $0.50 rake criteria vs. at 1/2 it was 38%.

[jason1990]

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so the AP750 bonus (100% up to 750) isn't worth doing?

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The AP750 bonus, in and of itself, is not worth anything. What I mean is that, if you decide to play at AP, then you will never be playing without a bonus. You will never "clear" a bonus, because you will just keep accumulating bonus money into your pending account. (Just like poker is one long session, AP bounses are just one long bonus.) So you shouldn't ask, "Is this bonus worth it?" You just need to ask, "Is it worth it to play at AP for continuous bonus money?"

As for AP being a rock garden, that is misleading. The SH games are far from that.

[ottsville]

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Absolute clears at about 1.7BB/100 at the 1/2 limits.

It sucks because they have virtually no 2/4 tables.

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For full ring, they almost NEVER have 2/4 tables going. Bonii clear well at 3/6 though.

[HSB]

What is absolute like for NL say at the $50 and $100 levels?

Full and six max?

[CasqueNoir]

Yesterday evening at 3/6 6max there was a boatload of tables, near 20 at one time, never seen that before, too. Tougher than Party probably but some bad players could be found (you know, not just me /images/graemlins/blush.gif)

I dabble with 50 and 100 NL from time to time when 3/6 is slow and/or tough and it seems soft enough for me, and I'm a limit player first. Not sure how it is for the bonus, though.

[MrMon]

I'm a long time $3/6 6 max player at Absolute who's taken a break and am now working my way up through the NL levels. (Got tired of a streak of horrendous suckouts. I want to punish bad play.) The $0.25 NL game is almost impossible to clear bonus at, though it does clear. I'm now on to the $0.50 NL game, and that clears considerably faster, but I'm thinking I'll have to get to the $1 NL game before I get a decent clearance rate. As for game quality, let's just say I'm very happy with the quality of my opposition. Even at low levels, if you're patient you can take home some decent dollars as these guys make the same stupid plays as limit, but you can make them pay, and pay dearly.