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For a beginner bonusses and rakeback are very important. They can help you break-even or give you a small profit for your bankroll. So check out the best bonus/RB/gift-offers you can get.

Obviously for a beginner it's hard to deposit $600 and get the bonus playing 0.01/0.02 cashgames.

I would recommend after playing some playmoney (just for the sake of getting a feeling with NLH), you deposit $50 on Pokerstars, which is a duable amount for beginners and learn the game. After a couple of months (depending how much you play per day) with some solid poker you get the $50 bonus and maybe some nice gift like Pokertracker for free.

Maybe now you are playing 0.10/0.25 or 0.25/0.50 and you have enough money to look around at another (softer) site and get the $600 or $1000 bonus playing those stakes and above. After some weeks/months you get the deposit bonus and you move to another site and do the same thing etc, etc, etc.

Pokerstars software, traffic and service are really good and that's a very big plus for their site. It's just a pity that they don't have rakeback.