Empire Poker Reload 40% up to $200 7x Bonus

[brendanb438]

The 40% Deposit Bonus will ONLY be applied on your Reload deposit made between 00:00 AM ET on March 29, 2006 and 23:59 ET on April 1, 2006. You must use the bonus code "APRIL06RELOAD" on the Deposit Screen where you enter the amount of the deposit.
Minimum deposit is $50. You can deposit using any of the deposit options available at the Cashier.
Bonus Amount will automatically be added to your Bonus Account where it will be held until you play raked hands equal to SEVEN (7) times the Bonus Amount within THREE (3) days of making your deposit (the "Release Requirements").

Brendan

[Ted Metro]

Wow, 500 raked hands per day at Empire can be painful at the NL tables. That's logging some serious hours during bonus time even 4-tabling. That place gets really rocky.

Wish I wasn't going out of town though, for $200 it's worth it.

[synth_floyd]

$200 at 7x is great. But doing that in 3 days at the ex-party skins? Yeah, right.

[Ted Metro]

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$200 at 7x is great. But doing that in 3 days at the ex-party skins? Yeah, right.

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The last reload I played the $25-NL and was getting about 20 hands / hour / table. That was a 10x $200 in 7 days.

Anyone play the $50-NL tables there? Wonder how many hands / hour you can get at that limit.

[fullhouse]

very nice...

thx for the info

[metsandfinsfan]

JESUS

there are 2 fullring 25nl tables and 1 fullring pl 25 nl
zero fullring 50

3 fullring .50/1 limit tables and zero 1/2

i guess only 6 max players play at empire now

glad i only deposited 150 so i only need 420 raked hands ... but it will still be a grind for 60 bux

[TWINUNO]

just out of curiosiy, who plays on empire anymore? Another question anyone try those 1+1 10k guaranteed tourenys, just checked and ther is only likt 15 people in it with 16 min left.

[CappyAA]

This bonus is really not that hard to hit. To get the full bonus, you need 1400 raked hands, which equates to about 2000 hands (since you don't see a flop on some hands). When you are 4 tabling, you can get 75 hands/hour per table = 300 hands/hour. This whole bonus will take about 6-7 hours of play 4 tabling. They ran another similar bonus last month and it took me about 1 1/2 days to clear. I don't think this should be a problem.

[Ted Metro]

[ QUOTE ]
This bonus is really not that hard to hit. To get the full bonus, you need 1400 raked hands, which equates to about 2000 hands (since you don't see a flop on some hands). When you are 4 tabling, you can get 75 hands/hour per table = 300 hands/hour. This whole bonus will take about 6-7 hours of play 4 tabling. They ran another similar bonus last month and it took me about 1 1/2 days to clear. I don't think this should be a problem.

[/ QUOTE ]

I don't care what limit you're playing I don't know how you can get 75 raked hands per table. Most tables don't even play 75 hands per hour, and subtracting out hands that get folded pre-flop you have to be below 50 at any limit.

[CappyAA]

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This bonus is really not that hard to hit. To get the full bonus, you need 1400 raked hands, which equates to about 2000 hands (since you don't see a flop on some hands). When you are 4 tabling, you can get 75 hands/hour per table = 300 hands/hour. This whole bonus will take about 6-7 hours of play 4 tabling. They ran another similar bonus last month and it took me about 1 1/2 days to clear. I don't think this should be a problem.

[/ QUOTE ]

I don't care what limit you're playing I don't know how you can get 75 raked hands per table. Most tables don't even play 75 hands per hour, and subtracting out hands that get folded pre-flop you have to be below 50 at any limit.

[/ QUOTE ]

Um, do you play the 6-max NL tables? These tables average around that much per hour, and I didn't say 75 raked hands per hour. I said 75 total hands per hour. If I assumed 75 raked hands per hour, you'd be able to finish by my assumption in 4-5 hours, instead of the 6-7 that it would take. Obviously if you're playing full ring, there would be less hands per hour.

[mosuavea]

His calculations are close. You will see roughly 75 hands of 6max NL possibly more because of the amount that are going to be folded PF.

According to my PT, 40% of those are raked roughly at 25NL 6max, so it would take roughly 2500 hands at 25NL 6 max, 2000 at 50NL 6 max and 1800 at 100 and 200 NL 6 max.

[Ted Metro]

Didn't see that you figured more hours to account for fewer raked hands. My bad.

No, I only play full ring.

[bozlax]

This would be easy to do at 1/2 limit tables. Too bad there are only like 3 of them running. There aren't even any 6max tables.

[aces_dad]

You guys notice this in the bonus email?

You will soon have access to 10 times mre players on Empire Poker!

They (re) joining Party Gaming or other large gaming network?

[grjr]

[ QUOTE ]
You guys notice this in the bonus email?

You will soon have access to 10 times mre players on Empire Poker!

They (re) joining Party Gaming or other large gaming network?

[/ QUOTE ]

Yeah, I saw that and was about to ask about it. Seeing that Party now owns Empire Poker you'd have to think they're rejoining Party.

[Sponger.]

All,

Does anyone know if you can still open multiple clients for empire poker and where I can dowload the patch for it?

[Layzie]

yes, you can open multiple clients, but I don't know what you mean about a patch.

[jasonHoldEm]

[ QUOTE ]

You will soon have access to 10 times mre players on Empire Poker!

[/ QUOTE ]

This is by far the most important part of the email. woo-hoo!

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J

EDIT: I wonder if they will attempt to block you from having an account at both party and empire (like they did for party/pokernow).

[brendanb438]

The multiple clients still works just tried it. Can't log your same account in twice though so this isn't any good for players with only one account. If you know of some way I can 8 table the same account Sponger PM me or post it to the board. Also does anyone know a program that will let you resize the tables on Empire? 8 tabling full size tables on a laptop sucks ass.

Thanks,
Brendan

[Sponger.]

Obviously I have more than one account on empire.

[goodguy_1]

[ QUOTE ]
$200 at 7x is great. But doing that in 3 days at the ex-party skins? Yeah, right

[/ QUOTE ]

WTF 3 days ..why do they always have such short terms on their bonus offers-annoying..I always deposit and never finish off a bonus at this graveyard.

[goodguy_1]

[ QUOTE ]
According to my PT, 40% of those are raked roughly at 25NL 6max, so it would take roughly 2500 hands at 25NL 6 max, 2000 at 50NL 6 max and 1800 at 100 and 200 NL 6 max.


[/ QUOTE ]
roughly 80% of Party's loose $100 and $200 NLHE 6MAX hands are raked so 1400x1.25 or 1,750 played hands. This being Empire thu maybe 70%-75% is more accurate ie 1867-2000 hands.That's doable in one nite if you can find the games.

[MicroBob]

1. For only three days you may want to consider depositing less and having only $100 or less to clear. Sure is better than not finishing it at all. I might only just do $100 of it or something this weekend. Not depositing yet because I'll have more time to play it on Sat and Sun.


2. While you can't count on it happening, sometimes those 3 day deadline things get extended a little bit. On the last Party reload I finally finished clearing it almost 1 week after it was supposed to have expired. This happens on Empire too sometimes.


3. The last reload on Empire brought about some really weak-tight play. Kind of amusing actually.

[brendanb438]

3 Days does suck ass. Does Empire usually give an extra day or so on bonuses like Party does? My last couple Party bonuses I was able to finish about 18 hours after they should have expired.

Brendan

[goodguy_1]

good points Bob I usually just load up for every bonus..Search for decent games and end up playing somewhere else.

I wont grind out 1K/2K hands for a $100 or $200 bonus in poor games when game selection is so much better elsewhere particularly short nlhe games-just not worth it to play in poor games.

[IggyWH]

I think the key here (especially for the working crowd) is to deposit for this bonus sometime Friday night or early Saturday. That way, 2 of your 3 days are weekend days. Considering there will be a lot of people playing just for the bonus, the tables will probably be tight, but you shouldn't have problems finding tables.

Even on full NL tables, 40 raked hands per hour per table is no biggie for $50NL. That would equal a little under 9 total hours. I work 8-5 M-F and I think it's easy enough to play 3 hours a night on a weekday, let alone when you have a weekend to play.

[shayneon]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
You guys notice this in the bonus email?

You will soon have access to 10 times mre players on Empire Poker!

They (re) joining Party Gaming or other large gaming network?

[/ QUOTE ]

Yeah, I saw that and was about to ask about it. Seeing that Party now owns Empire Poker you'd have to think they're rejoining Party.

[/ QUOTE ]

That is what I am thinking too. Very interesting, and very cool.

As long as Empire is coming back - might as well bring back PokerNow too...

[Unabridged]

having the $.05 raked hands not counting is [censored]

[Unabridged]

any word on multipoker rejoining?

[AncientPC]

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having the $.05 raked hands not counting is [censored]

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Where'd you hear that?

[krazyace5]

[ QUOTE ]
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having the $.05 raked hands not counting is [censored]

[/ QUOTE ]

Where'd you hear that?

[/ QUOTE ]

It counts if there is 5 ppl at the table or less, maybe he means at full tables.

[mosquito]

[ QUOTE ]
1. For only three days you may want to consider depositing less and having only $100 or less to clear. Sure is better than not finishing it at all. I might only just do $100 of it or something this weekend. Not depositing yet because I'll have more time to play it on Sat and Sun.


2. While you can't count on it happening, sometimes those 3 day deadline things get extended a little bit. On the last Party reload I finally finished clearing it almost 1 week after it was supposed to have expired. This happens on Empire too sometimes.


3. The last reload on Empire brought about some really weak-tight play. Kind of amusing actually.

[/ QUOTE ]

Auto for me. I hate empire. Deposited for $75 in bonus. Got lucky and cleared 1/3 of it in a 1.5 hr session, some good tables that dried up right as I was getting tired. Hope to get the rest in without tooth-pulling........

[UATrewqaz]

I deposited $100 for a bonus amount of $40 (280 raked hands)

I am 4 tabling .5/1 full and the tables are decent actually, I've been catching cards and runnign well and have won alot and have 140 raked already.

[BobbyShaftoe]

Alright, I'm a murooon!!! I went ahead and put a few bucks in to do the reload bonus. Then I forget to enter the damn bonus code. Whoops.

I'm thinkin no prob, I'll just email support and explain so they can enter it manually.

No, they are being complete NITS about it. Oh, the code is mandatory. Its system generated, blah, blah.

Guess I'm taking my ball and going home. Yes, I'm a maroon for forgetting to enter the code, but jeeez, you figure they could fix it.


So don't forget the code. /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[ericicecream]

[ QUOTE ]
Yes, I'm a maroon

[/ QUOTE ]

/images/graemlins/smile.gif

[BobbyShaftoe]

It didn't hit me till I went to the cashier and saw no bonus pending. DOH!! Oh yeah, I was supposed to enter a code somewhere in there.... DOH! DOH!

Second email fixed it, tho. /images/graemlins/smile.gif Yea!

I hadn't played there in over a month and had essentially a zero acct. balance. Then suddenly the very day they offer a reload I make a nice deposit? Thankfully, they came to see my point of view.


And yes, I'm still a maroon. But at least I can count my outs.

[Layzie]

[ QUOTE ]
I hadn't played there in over a month and had essentially a zero acct. balance. Then suddenly the very day they offer a reload I make a nice deposit? Thankfully, they came to see my point of view.

[/ QUOTE ]

This is why they offer reloads.

[L0QTiS]

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WTF 3 days ..why do they always have such short terms on their bonus offers-annoying..I always deposit and never finish off a bonus at this graveyard.

[/ QUOTE ]

[ QUOTE ]
... I have more than one account on empire.

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Ding!

[MicroBob]

you didn't have enough where you could have just deposited again WITH the code?

[JayLeno]

[ QUOTE ]
1. For only three days you may want to consider depositing less and having only $100 or less to clear. Sure is better than not finishing it at all. I might only just do $100 of it or something this weekend. Not depositing yet because I'll have more time to play it on Sat and Sun.


2. While you can't count on it happening, sometimes those 3 day deadline things get extended a little bit. On the last Party reload I finally finished clearing it almost 1 week after it was supposed to have expired. This happens on Empire too sometimes.


3. The last reload on Empire brought about some really weak-tight play. Kind of amusing actually.

[/ QUOTE ]

I did the full bonus last night 4 tabling 6 max 50 NL.
It took 6-7 gours to clear the full monty - but I lost 30 dalasik....Guess thats ok but I dont like loooooosing.....
Felt like a mauroooon too /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[mosuavea]

[ QUOTE ]

I did the full bonus last night 4 tabling 6 max 50 NL.
It took 6-7 gours to clear the full monty - but I lost 30 dalasik....Guess thats ok but I dont like loooooosing.....
Felt like a mauroooon too /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[/ QUOTE ]

That sounds about right according to my calc on the spreadhseet I have, looks liek I will be at the 50's to clear this bad boy.

[orange]

sonofabitch, looks like empire will be a sharkfest with all the 2p2 bonus whores going ( i plan on depositing tonight /images/graemlins/smile.gif)

[mosuavea]

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sonofabitch, looks like empire will be a sharkfest with all the 2p2 bonus whores going ( i plan on depositing tonight /images/graemlins/smile.gif)

[/ QUOTE ]

Stay away from my tables fool! /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[aces_dad]

Unlikely you can avoid each other. There were only 2 50NL 6max tables when I was on last night 10PM PST.

[Steve Schmitty]

I'm gonna deposit and probably start 4 tabling NL 25 6-max,. Wonder how much of the bonus I'm gonna escape with in these shark infested waters this weekend...

[niquewon]

This is an excellent offer. I may be in the minority but I love playing 1/2 6-max on Empire with all the weak-tight bonus whores.

[AncientPC]

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This is an excellent offer. I may be in the minority but I love playing 1/2 6-max on Empire with all the weak-tight bonus whores.

[/ QUOTE ]

You're not the only one. /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[daedalus]

I'm trying to figure out how much to deposit. What happens if I go for the $200 and don't clear all the hands 7x200=1400? Do I get a percentage of the $200 or nada? Thx.

[Steve Schmitty]

[ QUOTE ]
I'm trying to figure out how much to deposit. What happens if I go for the $200 and don't clear all the hands 7x200=1400? Do I get a percentage of the $200 or nada? Thx.

[/ QUOTE ]

Nada. Look at the clear rates on bonuswhores for the tables you'll be playing. Think about how much time you'll have to play over the 3 days and deposit accordingly. Its definately better get $80-100 out of it than to fall short with nothing

[AncientPC]

You get nada.

[daedalus]

Thanks, you may have saved me $100+. /images/graemlins/laugh.gif

[orange]

How much do we have to deposit for the full bonus? I suck at math...

[Ekenstar]

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How much do we have to deposit for the full bonus? I suck at math...

[/ QUOTE ]

$500

[orange]

Thats what I thought. But then again, I'm a SPED at math.

[dlk9s]

[ QUOTE ]
3 Days does suck ass. Does Empire usually give an extra day or so on bonuses like Party does? My last couple Party bonuses I was able to finish about 18 hours after they should have expired.

Brendan

[/ QUOTE ]

Nope.

On the last Empire reload, they had technical problems that prevented me from logging in for two days. They even admitted the problems were on their end in an e-mail.

I asked if I could have 2 extra days for the bonus and they said no.

[censored].

[orange]

Who all is doing this? Should we post our sns so we can avoid each other?

[Layzie]

[ QUOTE ]
Should we post our sns so we can avoid each other?

[/ QUOTE ]

Um. No?

[shaodeee]

Okay I just finished this...Took me about 5 hours playing 4 tables of 1-2 6max. Took me a total of around 2400 hands to hit the 1400 required rake hands. The tables were fishy as hell when I played (Thurs 3-8 PT). I would recommend clearing this bonus in the 1/2 limit 6max tables. More than half the hands are raked and the hands comes pretty quickly.

[orange]

The players are so weak and passive there (50NL 6-max). I played about 2 1/2 hours 4 tabling and have about 750 hands done. Lookin to be done soon.

[LotsOfOuts69]

[ QUOTE ]
Okay I just finished this...Took me about 5 hours playing 4 tables of 1-2 6max. Took me a total of around 2400 hands to hit the 1400 required rake hands. The tables were fishy as hell when I played (Thurs 3-8 PT). I would recommend clearing this bonus in the 1/2 limit 6max tables. More than half the hands are raked and the hands comes pretty quickly.

[/ QUOTE ]

Shhhhhhhh.............

[Xcalibur]

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Do I get a percentage of the $200 or nada? Thx.

[/ QUOTE ]

You get Nada III.

[pyedog]

So am I the only person who found the Empire tables to be tight aggressive instead of weak tight at 1-2 limit 6max and 50NL 6max? Those games seemed way harder than the typical Party games.

Granted I took a couple of bad beats in large pots and still broke even before the bonus, but if every site had players of that caliber at those stakes then I would not be bothering to play online at all without any good bonus offers.

Just as an example, I would raise preflop and make a continuation bet HU at 50 NL, and a significant percentage of the time I would get reraised to the pot size by an aggressive player and have to fold A-high. A lot of the time I suspected a resteal, but reraising would mean putting a lot of chips in the pot on a hunch, which I think is a high risk play relative to its reward.

Or at 1-2 limit 6max when I raised preflop as a blind steal with position and auto bet the flop and turn I was getting check raised a lot of the time and being put to tough decisions. These plays don't usually happen in soft games (either loose passive or weak tight).

Granted there are probably ways to adapt to this, but I can't see it being very easy or particularly profitable, especially considering the pots are raked close to 10% at these stakes. Still with a 7x bonus I've got no complaints, but I definitely didn't feel like sticking around there for any extra hands after I finished it.

[jrz1972]

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Or at 1-2 limit 6max when I raised preflop as a blind steal with position and auto bet the flop and turn I was getting check raised a lot of the time and being put to tough decisions. These plays don't usually happen in soft games (either loose passive or weak tight).

[/ QUOTE ]

I ran into this constantly at Absolute. Occasionally I would have an overpair or something and at showdown I would be shown either a semibluff or total air, so I know I was definitely getting pushed off some good A-high hands.

Yes, there are ways to adapt to this. With position, you should be checking behind on the turn quite a bit versus aggressive opponents who you know might make this move. But you're right that that's sort of beside the point, since there are much softer games elsewhere.

[Wongboy]

Is this bonus account specific? I did not get an e-mail and don't see anything on their web site.

[MycroftX]

[ QUOTE ]
Is this bonus account specific? I did not get an e-mail and don't see anything on their web site.

[/ QUOTE ]

nope, the bonus code is APRIL06RELOAD in all caps.
valid till tomorrow night @ 11:59pm.

[Wongboy]

Thanks

[POKhER]

Gay bonus, down $120. Gay fish.

[Stew Griffin]

I noticed quite a bit of fish my self along with the nice weak-tighties. It was a beautiful mix!

[daedalus]

Ok I'm clearing my bonus nicely but actually ahead of schedule. Does anyone know if I can reload "again" prior to the deadline and get 40% as long as the total of the 2 bonus's would still be below $200??

[WiSeIVIaN]

Tables are fast. Bonus clears well. And there are still better players elsewhere. After 10 tabling at party for the march giveaway i am quite happy to 4 table at weak-tight empire for $200.

[shaodeee]

[ QUOTE ]
Ok I'm clearing my bonus nicely but actually ahead of schedule. Does anyone know if I can reload "again" prior to the deadline and get 40% as long as the total of the 2 bonus's would still be below $200??

[/ QUOTE ]

I think the bonus code is one time use only. You can try emailing them I guess.

[grouchie]

counting bonus i finished up 56 bucks.
I was rocking along well until I'm sitting on a NL200 table and i get a guy that Raises my bets on the Flop and Turn with a minor overpair and a gutshot, then hits his gutshot on the river.

at least it's positive $$$

[Layzie]

I'm up 100BB's about 75% done... I've been running so good on Pokerroom skins, i'm glad it's transfering to Empire.

[IggyWH]

$50NL was kicking my ass, so I went to $1/2 Limit and cleaned house. $1/2 limit cleared at about the same %, but was a LOT faster than $50NL.

[g3rkshz]

i only came out with HALF of my $50 bonus. :/ here are some PT stats:

Straight - 3 times out of 1,108 hands
Flush - 1 time out of 1,108 hands

[mikegmstr]

Made $90 playing .50-1 limit. Holy crap, those tables started getting tight.

[sushijerk]

Man, getting raked hands is like pulling teeth.

[TWINUNO]

I finsished 200+ those games were pretty easy, acutally easier then your typical pokerroom game. People wouldnt kno how to fold when you held goood hands, grantaed i did taek a few bad beatigns. Lossed a full house to another full house on the river, straight flush to full house as well. But still managed to have a 200+ profit.

[Layzie]

[ QUOTE ]
I finsished 200+ those games were pretty easy, acutally easier then your typical pokerroom game. People wouldnt kno how to fold when you held goood hands, grantaed i did taek a few bad beatigns. Lossed a full house to another full house on the river, straight flush to full house as well. But still managed to have a 200+ profit.

[/ QUOTE ]

I just took a bad beat myself.... I tried to understand what you typed.

[jrz1972]

[ QUOTE ]
I finsished 200+ those games were pretty easy, acutally easier then your typical pokerroom game. People wouldnt kno how to fold when you held goood hands, grantaed i did taek a few bad beatigns. Lossed a full house to another full house on the river, straight flush to full house as well. But still managed to have a 200+ profit.

[/ QUOTE ]

So at Empire, a full house beats a straight flush.

Damn, no wonder I never win there.

[Sponger.]

I'm done. Up about $140

[Riddick]

I dropped $145 while clearing $200 (1/2 6max LHE)

[Publos Nemesis]

Wow, I made $200 playing the $25NL 6max tables.

[tehox]

Down $135 playing NL (not counting bonus). But this includeds losing a $250 pot all in with set vs. FD, and seems like ran into bigger overpairs more than my fair share.

[FloppyJ]

Up $65 while clearing $80 bonus at 0.50/1.00 6max LHE. I should have deposited more as it turned out to be easier to clear than I was expecting.

[POKhER]

I got sucked out all day long, finished $20 down clearing $100 [after $250 deposit. ]

[leehrat]

most agonizingly boring crap ever, but it's over. up $140

[WhatDoesCallMean]

up $75 plus $200 at 1/2 6max......an interesting mix of tight ass ho's and fishy fish......1403 raked from 2877 played....i like to give a little cover play to those kind souls at empire /images/graemlins/smirk.gif

[CappyAA]

Finished earlier today:

2,399 hands
Profit of $306.44 while 4-tabling the NL50 tables.
BB/100 = 12.77

Including the $200 bonus, total profit of $506.44 over 2 days. Not a bad few days work. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[TomBrooks]

It took me 13 hours to clear, 10% @ 1/2 6M LHE and 90% at 3/6 6M LHE with an MT Ratio around 2.4.

[Barrin6]

You need an option for less than 4 hours

[Joeyyungrocks]

im down 1000 from the stupid empire bonus, but does it matter i play there anyways /images/graemlins/frown.gif

[WiSeIVIaN]

How in the world can you clear 1400 raked hands on 4 tables in less then 4 hrs? BTW, up $90 took about 8 hrs to clear, would be up 120 but I felt like playin a tourny where i got sucked out on w/ AA. Happens, at any rate empire was made of juice this time...i dont understand but i wont complain.

[TomG]

I literally came within a few minutes of this bonus elapsing on me. I didn't think I was going to make it, so near the end I was limping pre-flop every hand and then either min-betting or calling bets just to make sure every hand was raked. I'm not maxing out another Empire 7x bonus unless they give me more than 3 days or if they allow more than 4 tables at a time.

[Boxpressed]

I decided to make my first foray into 6-max to clear this bonus. It took me about 5.5 hours to play 1,402 hands (704 raked). I mostly two-tabled, but three-tabled for about an hour and a half. Lost $59 to clear the $100 bonus at 1/2 6-max, but the games whiz by. I was averaging over 250 hands per hour. That's over 100 hands per hour per table because of the two/three table variance.

At $18/hr, this is a great alternative to $25 PL/NL, especially since Empire changed the raked hand def to $0.10 or more. The rate is probably closer to $22/hr if I three-tabled the whole time. I wish I had deposited for the full $200 bonus, but all of the stories of rock gardens scared me. /images/graemlins/blush.gif

[Benny180]

Finished max bonus mostly PLO and the odd 25NL and 1-2 LHE table.

Pretty good clearance rate at PLO, about 75% "raked" hands.

+70 poker
+200 bonus
+1 strained neck

[WiSeIVIaN]

I forgot that not everyone deposited for the whole $200. At any rate, It'd be nice if once party and empire merge they give empire a software update. Its nice to resize tables and play more then 4. I know from the march giveaway that I can't play 10 optimally, but if the tables are smaller I can definitely manage six.

[Steve Schmitty]

It's been suckout city for me at 25NL. Been getting turned and rivered all day today. Been getting reraised by nothing, only to lose to two miracle runners. Only deposited $200 for an $80 bonus. I am down over 100, still need to play another 150 hands. Hopefully I don't lose more than $50 in the end...

[MicroBob]

[ QUOTE ]
How in the world can you clear 1400 raked hands on 4 tables in less then 4 hrs?

[/ QUOTE ]


4 tables of 5/10 6-max could be about 300 rh's per hour perhaps which would get you to 'close but not quite' range (if doing the full-bonus for 1400 rh's).
I agree that clearing it all in under 4 hours appears unrealistic.


I was down $450 at one point clearing this stupid thing and actually had to 'reload' onto my reload to finish it off.
Glad I did.

First hand after re-buying I get 72o in the big-blind. Flop is 777 and the guy who limped with K8o hits his K on the turn and we cap-away from there.

That was the first of a handful of nice hands for me.

Battled back to -$129. So with the bonus I finished +$71. I'll take it.


One hand I felt silly about:
KK on board of A223A.

I finally give up on the river after it's bet and called before me. Even though the opponents are idiots I figure ONE of them would have an ace. They had been calling me down so far afterall.
One guy had 77 and the other guy had 44 and I lost out on a decent-sized pot.

[Precision1C]

Finally done. Man $25 PLO and PLO8 were a complete grind. Three tables of PLO8 all at $1 and another at less than a buck average pot size make it kind of hard to get a raked hand. WTF! If it wasn't for Donkosaur this bonus might of expired on me, got down to less than one hour. Thanks Donkosaur, eat my blinds anytime : ).

[CalvinTy]

I wish I looked at this thread over the weekend; would have tried 1/2 6-max "as a learning experience" rather than 1/2 full ring. My weak/tight table image prolly didn't help & kept losing contested pots left and right (mostly me getting victimized by TONS of FLOPPED sets against me, quite high variance of that, grrr).

Got only 1,321 raked out of 2,871 dealt hands at 1/2 full, not even 50%!?!? Amazing! Even Party's 0.5/1 or 2/4 full ring are closer to 50% than THAT, haha. Saw so manyyyy same people at my 4-tables all weekend. (The other nbr of hands were done at beginners table; recently-new account).

WITH the $200 bonus, yes, WITH the bonus, I'm up a mere $4 bux! LOL!

* CalvinTy

[TomBrooks]

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One hand I felt silly about: KK on board of A223A. I finally give up on the river after it's bet and called before me. Even though the opponents are idiots I figure ONE of them would have an ace. They had been calling me down so far afterall. One guy had 77 and the other guy had 44 and I lost out on a decent-sized pot.

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That happened to me while clearing also Bob. I forget the exact hand but one guy bet into two players so I figured he and the caller couldn't both have nothing so I folded a semiweak hand that turned out to be best. Had it been HU I would have called.

[PennDisc]

At 3/6 and 5/10 is it even worth it to play the bonus? Given that there\'s no rakeback anymore, you probably would have gotten $150 in rakeback somewhere else over the course of the hands played here to get the bonus. I deposited and have til tomorrow night, but I think I\'m going to pass on this because I don\'t feel like putting in the hours over the next 2 nights. If I were a pro I guess I\'d take the $50 +EV or whatever but I won\'t force myself to play 8 hours in 2 days as is.

[TomBrooks]

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At 3/6 and 5/10 is it even worth it to play the bonus? Given that there\'s no rakeback anymore, you probably would have gotten $150 in rakeback somewhere else over the course of the hands played here to get the bonus.

[/ QUOTE ] I played 92% 3/6 6m and 8% 1/2 6m. I got 70rh more than required to clear and I payed $393 in rake.

- I didn't realize Empire RB was no more. I was expecting to get something back.

- Most RB plans pay back about 25% which would be about $95 - $100 in this case, only about half of this bonus.

[PennDisc]

OK I estimated something like $500 MGR, with a 30% deal = $150. Yeah my estimate looks a bit high - although the $500 figure might be accurate at 5/10. It still doesnt look like a sweet enough deal without rakeback to make me put in 8 hours of 4-tabling to complete (given that I don\'t plan to play that much otherwise, def worthwhile if I was already going to play).

A 7x bonus should be pretty juicy for .5/1 or 1/2 players and bonus whores though.

[MicroBob]

The bonus is worth $0.14/rh. (1/7 of $1 per rh).


At 3/6 6-max I will very roughly estimate an average rake of $1.80 and average # of players of 5.5.
That's $0.33/rh MGR.
At 30% RB this would be $0.10/rh.


So for 3/6 6-max the bonus might be slightly better than 30%rb but it's fairly close (and they are only estimates afterall).


The games at 3/6 6m were much juicier than the rock-fests at 1/2 and 2/4 from my experience though.
At least 1 or 2 VP50-60 type players at each of my tables.

[sushijerk]

Meh, finished up about 50 not counting bonus. Had more but took some beats at 25 nl in the final two hours.

Apparently preflop tighties with like 22% vp%p at nl 6 max still do not hesitate calling thier whole stacks with the gutshot.

[jmillerdls]

Things were sucking seriously (breaking even for first half of the rake requirement)...but today I finished the bonus, up another $100...so +$300 for about 6 hours. Not bad at all.

[Aytumious]

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Apparently preflop tighties with like 22% vp%p at nl 6 max still do not hesitate calling thier whole stacks with the gutshot.

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I hate when that happens.

[sharpie]

Played mostly 3/6 6 max but switched to 1/2 6 max when I realized I only had a few hours left to clear it. Ended up about $400 down at 3/6 but the tables were alot better than 1/2. Like Microbob I also redeposited, just because I like sitting with 50BB.

[AncientPC]

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Apparently preflop tighties with like 22% vp%p at nl 6 max still do not hesitate calling thier whole stacks with the gutshot.

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Or pushing every turn with TPTK and consistently sucking out on my two pair.

[TomBrooks]

I had gone up $200 quickly and then went into -90 BB stretch of playing so-so but mostly running bad and getting sucked out on that put me at -$300. At one point I got beat by runner runner flushes three times. I clawed back and actually finished +$100. It was a roller coaster.

[AggieAce]

+150 and the bouns. kickass!

[PSW]

Has the bonus showed up in anyone's bonus table at empire? I made a deposit w/ the code but it hasn't shown up. I have emailed customer support but haven't gotten a response. It has been over 24 hrs!

psw

[thing85]

It hasn't shown up on anyone's bonus account. As long as you haven't withdrawn from Empire or Party during the bonus period, and you didn't complete the original offer, you should be fine.