How much $ did you make from bonuses last year?

[Ron Burgundy]

I'm talking about poker, casinos and sportsbooks combined. I made $13.5K. This is a significant decline from 2005 when I made $19.4K. I predict that number will go even lower this year, now that US players have fewer sites to play, and thus fewer bonuses. I'm estimating $6-8K this year.

I really miss the Cryptos. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] Now I actually have to be good at poker to make a living.

For people who keep track of these numbers, have you noticed a similar decline?

[MadMat]

I Didn't keep accurate records untill about 1/2 way through 2005

But I made about $17k from bonuses in 2006, and about $1.5k from actually playing poker!

Mat

[celiboy]

About 6700

Just under 2K from Casinos (including the 1K from Mansion on the Steelers promo) and the remainder from poker

I'm aiming for around $4K this year only as I find the Casino chases boring as hell and am only sticking to poker. Unfortunately the poker bonuses are drying up compared to previous years as well. I'm Canadian so I can still do the Cryptos, but that would be a last resort

[thing85]

My numbers aren't quite so telling because I started casino whoring in the middle of 2005. $10k in 2005, and $12k in 2006. If 2005 had been a full year, it would've obviously been much larger.

I've quit casino whoring altogether and with money tied up in NETeller and difficulty moving money from site to site, I don't plan on trying any new casinos or poker sites. I estimate this year that probably 90-95% of my gambling income will come strictly from playing poker (and rakeback) and maybe 5-10% (and even this is optimistic) will come from bonuses.

[halftilted]

$15,500 from poker, casinos, and sportsbook bonuses/arbs although Neteller has about $5000 of that now.

[kyleb]

-$3252359325

at least it feels like it

[DocMartin]

I've been making the bonus/rakeback transition due to equal parts desire/necessity. 2005 was 11K/4K while 2006 was 5K/32K. I expect the trend to continue as well due to lack of bonuses/lack of ways to move money around efficiently to get the bonuses that are available.

[aka23]

I gained about $40k through my casino play last year. I did not play poker or sportsbook significantly. I plan to get more into poker this year.

[dzbonus]

$800 I think. I got lucky.

[Nick-Zack]

$3600 in bonuses and $28.6K in prop pay last year. $5400 in bonuses and $54K in prop pay in 2005.