US player bonus whoring mission $50 to $1000

[TheRedRocket]

I've decided to undertake a bonus whoring challenge of turning $50 into $1000 hopefully within a month's time without going busto. I will only be playing on sites which accept epassporte and will playing NL fullring holdem or NL sng's depending on which clears faster. I will also play is any freerolls available to new players.

i have previous accounts on FT and Absolute so I wont be using those but someone following a similar plan could conceivably take it to $2000

My plan is as follows
Starting $50
deposit to PS for %100
bankroll = $100

deposit to UB using poker source online for a free $225
bankroll = $325

deposit to Truepoker for 100% up to $200
bankroll = $525

deposit to cake poker for 100% up to $500
bankroll = $1000

My biggest risk of going broke will be on the initial deposit and then again on UB.

Ill keep track of amount of hands I've played to clear as well as the quality of the tables.

If I've left any rooms out or have any advice please let me know.

[pantsdown]

$600 at full tilt?

[WiSeIVIaN]

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$600 at full tilt?

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Reading comprehension...

[WiSeIVIaN]

What state are you in and what game/limit do you plan on playing? Regardless of the awnser to these questions, in order to clear the stars bonus your going to have to play at stakes which make your chance of going busto very high. Nontheless...

Start with $50

Pokerstars:sign-up via pokerlistings for $75 for 500fpps, plus you get into a couple freeroll things I guess
=$125.

While looking at networks i just realized how depressing it is to be a US pokerplayer. Get rakeback at cakepoker and truepoker. If you are in a good state play some primas (check out bonuswhores.com). Sorry I couldn't help you more.

[canadiensfan66]

you will lose first $50 and then gameover son

[batmanoflove]

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you will lose first $50 and then gameover son

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I like the way you reminded me a year ago.

[Bobo Fett]

$90 extra at PSO for Stars.

[TheRedRocket]

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$90 extra at PSO for Stars.

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sweetness thanks

so basically im just waiting for a FT cashout to epassporte then I will begin

[TheRedRocket]

I looked at redstarpoker and it looks like I can add their 200% up to $600 as well in the plan

does anyone know if its deposit $300 to get $600 or deposit up to $600 and get $1200?

[Bobo Fett]

One more possibility for you - Microgaming (Prima) skin Aspinalls (aspinallspoker.com) has a 200% to $100 5x bonus. Site shows it as contributed, but there's a thread about it over at bonuswhores...it's clearing as dealt just like pokerroomla did. I'm not 100% positive if US is allowed, but US is NOT in the long list of excluded countries, and there is a US toll-free number on the front page. Might be worth checking out.

[reddragon1]

Aspinalls does not allow US players. If you click on any of their links and are from the US, it brings you to crazy poker! I found 2 primas yesterday that allow US players. 5x, 50% up to 200$............virtualcity poker and goldentigerpoker. However, there is a downside to both of these..... check is the only form of cashout for US players. They say 21 days or less! So that might be a bit long for a player with a lesser roll!

[Sammich]

"Poker Room - Promotion Terms And Conditions
Residents of the United States of America shall not be eligible for entry to any of the PokerRewards promotions at any time."

http://www.virtualcitypoker.com/help/termsconditions.asp?siteAction=Promo

I shouldve picked up my balls last year and moved out of the US before I pissed away my bankroll. Too late now...

[reddragon1]

Thanks for the info SAMMICH. Hadn't checked the T&C's yet.....U DA MAN!!!!!!

[TruePoker CEO]

I appreciate your including us in your plans, we always welcome new business.

So, here is what I will do .....

1. Your FTD Bonus with us is 100%, up to $200. I'll add another 50% on top, if you clear FTD our bonus by August 31st. Email me at management@truepoker.com when you create your account.

2. If you go do bust, we have extended our current 40% Reload Bonus through August 30th, TPAUG Code. It would be stackable with the FTD Bonus.

We do take epassporte and US players.

Good luck.

TruePoker CEO

[WiSeIVIaN]

U expect a guy with $50 to be able to clear a $500 bonus in a little over a week? Unrealistic expectations anyone?

[reddragon1]

I think true poker might be a bit more popular if the blinds were not .50-1.00 at 25NL.

[PNXRMX]

i think you should concentrate more on playing, since it's gonna take a hell of a long time to clear most of those. PSO bonuses = good idea. Do those. Also, you forgot vegaspoker247 /images/graemlins/laugh.gif same bonus as absolute, also via PSO. wait until you play NL25 or NL50 though before you start on that, since only raked hands with at least 0.50 rake count.

[TruePoker CEO]

TruePoker's FTD Bonus is 100%, up to $200. I offered to sweeten it for him if he clears by August 31st. That would give him more like 9 days to clear our $200 bonus ... very doable. (Except for his starting bankroll decision of investing $50 at PStars first, he is not really under any constraints.)

If he has $200 built up by the time he moves his stake to Truepoker, then he gets up to $300, in any event he would get BETTER than 100%, more like 150%.

I am not sure whose expectations you think unrealistic. If he is a winning player, what's the problem ? If he is a losing player, he would likely need to reload along the way.

[TheRedRocket]

I am very grateful for the opportunity to earn the additional 50%. I'm not sure if I'll will be able to but I'm certainly going to try

[Shizzle12345]

are you american? If not you should def go to everest, that 100$ welcome bonus is sick easy to clear on micro's.

[Bobo Fett]

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are you american? If not you should def go to everest, that 100$ welcome bonus is sick easy to clear on micro's.

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See thread title.

[minSim]

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Aspinalls does not allow US players. If you click on any of their links and are from the US, it brings you to crazy poker! I found 2 primas yesterday that allow US players. 5x, 50% up to 200$............virtualcity poker and goldentigerpoker. However, there is a downside to both of these..... check is the only form of cashout for US players. They say 21 days or less! So that might be a bit long for a player with a lesser roll!

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VirtualCity and GoldenTiger are 10xRH, not 5x.

[kidpokeher]

I've been interested in how the FRNL games at Cake and Prima are post-legislation. Looking at your list, I would drop Cake in favor of Eurolinx (Prima) as they have recently revamped their bonus program. If what I am reading on BW is correct, you can get a nice hourly per-table rate even if you only played break-even poker; especially for your initial signup bonus.

Save Cake for rakeback in case you like it enough to want to stay there for a while. Send me a PM if you sign at either of these if you would just to let me know what the games are like.

[OuTag]

Hi, i ve begun the mission too, i deposit 70$ on stars through PSO and now im up to 232 (I won a 5$ 45p SNG).
However ive only 70 fpp, and should i continue to grind nl10 in order to have 225fpps so i can have the 12K PSO points?

and what about this Ub 225$ promotion trhough PSO? I Cant find but the 12K points promotion

[TheRedRocket]

poker source UB bonus (http://www.pokersourceonline.com/free-poker/money/)

RE: Prima

unfortunately I am in one of the states Prima has banned

[WiSeIVIaN]

Nothing wrong with adding some extra incentive, but even if your bonus was worth 100% rakeback (which its not) and he was playing 2 tables of 50NL (which he won't be) it would be a huge grind to clear $300 in rake in a week.

Nothing wrong with adding extra incentives, just saying unless he has a hidden $1k roll to start with and wants to play $100NL hes not clearing $300 of your bonus by the end of august since doing so would be practicly impossible at your weird $25NL game.

When bonuswhoring dollar amounts and percentages are not even nearly as important as how fast the bonus clears, and how long you have to clear it.

[TheRedRocket]

finally got started

I played 618 hands so far of $10FRNL and earned 42 points so it looks like it will take me about 7400 hands to clear. Not great

[OuTag]

You are talking about which bonus?
Because ive done the step1 and i dont knwo if i should deposit my 300$ to UB or to TRuEPoker, which one is the easiest to clear?

[TheRedRocket]

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You are talking about which bonus?
Because ive done the step1 and i dont knwo if i should deposit my 300$ to UB or to TRuEPoker, which one is the easiest to clear?

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I am still on step 1.

for step two I am going to do UB because you only have to deposit $100 but looking at bonuswhores it looks like truepoker ($200 @ 100%) clears faster. If you already have the $200 doing truepoker then UB, where you could player higher stakes, more tables or both would make a lot sense.

if you have the information I think it would be helpful to post what games and how many hands/buy ins you played as complete each step.

good luck

[gotmarc]

That Pstars bonus is tough with such a small BR. To play a $10 FRNLHE you'd only start with five full buy ins. Are you playing the $0.02-$0.05 or $O.05-$0.10 blinds?

There's a thread here somewhere about Chris Ferguson's journey from $1 to $20,000. He never bought in a game for more than 5% of his bankroll. Is this what you're doing or are you taking shots? If you go in shortstacked then you can probably use something similar to Sklansky's system and have +EV if you clear your bonus.
On the other hand if you play once cent two cent you'll never get the points to clear it on p-stars. Are you using a strategy like this or are you playing your normal game?

[reddragon1]

True poker.. IS NOT the best next step. Simply because of their "crazy" blind structure. At 25NL the blinds are .50-1.00. Or so Truepokerceo says...I have heard and read that its 1.00-1.00.....Either way...can't really see any traffic happeneing at true at the lower levels......I have been wrong b4 though!!!!!! Carbon poker...is pretty ez. 3points/per rake! Plus u can get extra 120$ from PSO!

[BotOnTilt]

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Carbon poker...is pretty ez. 3points/per rake! Plus u can get extra 120$ from PSO!

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Its contributed and I'm not sure if you need to be in the flop too, and I think you need to play at least NL25.

[reddragon1]

BOT...... sorry but I just cleared the promo in 1 day 4 tabling .10-.25 NL and it is NOT contributed!! AGAIN...EZ money!!!

[BotOnTilt]

Thanks for letting me know. I'll add it to my to-do list /images/graemlins/smile.gif On the PSO page they say its contr. but if not then it certainly seems easy!

[HighSteaks]

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are you american? If not you should def go to everest, that 100$ welcome bonus is sick easy to clear on micro's.

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This bonus looks really hard to clear to me at Micro level, am I missing something??

[Nogatsira]

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are you american? If not you should def go to everest, that 100$ welcome bonus is sick easy to clear on micro's.

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This bonus looks really hard to clear to me at Micro level, am I missing something??

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And isnt that bonus basically 7% rakeback untill its cleared? Not that awesome if you ask me?

[BotOnTilt]

I'd also be interested in hearing more about the Everest bonus. 2+2 has it on its list, so the books + cash would be nice if its easy, and of course its nice to give some referral monies to 2+2.. Although I'm a bit spooked by these reviews at FTR where they say their accounts got locked:

http://www.flopturnriver.com/reviews/Online-Poker-Everest.php

[PaulG]

The everest bonus clears at about $1/hr/table at 6Max 25NL. I find that the BonusWhores rate is about right. I have done the signup and 3 other $50 reloads that clear in the same amount of time. I estimate from my stats about 70% rakeback at 6Max and 90% rakeback at full ring.

I have withdrawn a few times and haven't had any problems. I even whored their casino. But I have heard about a few people getting their accounts locked. In every case, the player was allowed to continue playing after ID was verified.

[Teddie]

How long would the bonus take too clear at UB NL 10? I presume that's what you will be playing or are you gonna risk playing NL 25?

[CaptVimes]

From playing NL10 FR on UB recently you clear probably .15-.20 per table per hour. It takes a lot of hands to clear a significant bonus at that level. NL25 isn't that much better either.

[HighSteaks]

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The everest bonus clears at about $1/hr/table at 6Max 25NL. I find that the BonusWhores rate is about right. I have done the signup and 3 other $50 reloads that clear in the same amount of time. I estimate from my stats about 70% rakeback at 6Max and 90% rakeback at full ring.

I have withdrawn a few times and haven't had any problems. I even whored their casino. But I have heard about a few people getting their accounts locked. In every case, the player was allowed to continue playing after ID was verified.

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I joined up there today, turns out it's pretty easy to clear, 2+2 has a good deal (extra $100 and 5 books).