Taking player bonus and promotions @ B&M rooms.

[MTDog-7]

Here where I live the Poker tables are plentiful there are about 30 tables in a Town of 65,000 and while we are a regional center we are "over Pokered" compared too other towns in Montana. So to get players several rooms offer a bonus to players. One Room I play offers the starting 9 players $40 chips for $20 buy in on the $1-4 game. The "catch" they "request" 3 1/2 hours of play. Well......after taking the bonus many times getting a nice stack of chips early on and not being able to cash out, then losing I stopped taking the bonus. Monday I SCREWED UP!!!! I went too play for few hours and I took the @#%& bonus. I get a number of nice hands, take down a number pots and 45 minutes after starting I have $230 in chips sitting in front of me. If I had just bought in without the bonus I would have hit the trail and smiled all the way home. But NO I have to play almost another 3 hours.......result cash out $22 up.
So it's back to my rule I broke DON'T TAKE BONUS OR PROMOTION DEAL IF "REQUESTED" play is too long. I go Back Wednesday don't take the bonus buy in $50 play hour and half cash out $180 so $130 profit.

The point of this is just to give a thought to anyone else who has this type of situation. Be careful of PROMO and Bonus deals, make sure they are worth it.