Poker Bonuses == Disguised Rake Back

[Adam Selene]

I've haven't paid much attention to poker bonuses until recently.

100% deposit bonus at ActionPoker - $2500 max.

However, for example on a $100 bonus you must earn 1190pts. 1 pt = $0.10 in rake (or entry fees) *you paid*. So basically after paying $119 in rake you get back $100. And you get only 50 days to do it.

Are most poker deposit/reload bonuses nothing more than disguised limited term rakeback offers?

Glad I didn't take the max, $2500 bonus sounds nice until you realize it would be absolutely impossible to pay more than $2500 in rake on a $2500 bankroll in less than 50 days; at least at the stakes I play (or even the stakes available at ActionPoker).

[chicken10der]

Yes.

[bkkdude]

whatever you call it, money cums back to player. its all good.

except what you have at ub..........lol.

[mephisto]

actionpoker is part of what network? Bonus sounds juicy

[WiSeIVIaN]

The action network...duh....I'm serious btw...

[mephisto]

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The action network...duh....I'm serious btw...

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dohhhhhhh..... I tried to get back in time in order to answer my own question in order to not look stupid with the obvious answer..... guess I failed, sigh.

[WiSeIVIaN]

lol, no harm done.

[mephisto]

Btw, I did a little homework, seems like bonus whores really dislikes action poker. In their cons they stated that their betting code is flawed, yikes. Seems like there's no traffic either.

[Scorcho]

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Btw, I did a little homework, seems like bonus whores really dislikes action poker. In their cons they stated that their betting code is flawed, yikes. Seems like there's no traffic either.

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Before the US crackdown, this used to be my only network I would regularly play on. Full of really really bad Canadian players. A site on their network had constant reloads and after rakeback, it ended up being somewhere around 110% rakeback on a network with really bad players.

Then they all went away. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[mephisto]

weird, if the bad players were Canadian, why did they go away? we can still keep on playing poker up here [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]