Very stupid question

[pepitannikita]

It was at least 2-3 years ago now but I got a free $25 from PowerPlayer just for opening an account without depositing. I ran that up to $4k within just a couple or three months, four months max and all from that initial free $25 because I never made a deposit.

It was when they were a brand new site, I believe, I don't know what the deal was. Used to play about 6-7 tables there at a time, mostly $50-100 or $100-200 PL I think is where I liked hanging out the most and knew regular players there. But did it also just to build up the player points, I forget what they called them but every month I'd get another $500 up to I think about $800 or so just for having accumulated so many points. I cashed out $1k once and at another time a few hundred but then like the moron newbie I was (and probably still am, to an extent), I went nutzoid one day and stupidly sat at some high stakes limit game-- I guess I just wanted to see how fast I could lose my money-- LOL. It didn't seem real, it was like playing fake money games. I guess because it was all "free money" to me, I didn't really "get" it until I actually got a check for that first $1k I had cashed out.

That's been my only experience with online poker so I stick with casinos now.