tough-to-clear bonuses

[Guest]

I've got enough extra bankroll to branch out and add another site to my repertoire, and I want to clear as large a bonus as possible. FullTilt and Ultimate Bet have the largest deposit bonuses, but both are notoriously tough to clear. Anyone have any idea how long it will take me to clear the max bonus if I am 2 or 3-tabling 2/4? Also, does the money go into your account as you earn it or do you get the whole amount when you've played the required amount of hands?Thanks for any help/advice anyone who has cleared these bonuses can give me.ZH

[PittRounder 0]

Its really much easier if you play larger limits but less tables since its based on the amount of rake. I was 2 tabling 5-10 and i think it took about a month

[justblaze 0]

1,000,000 years +/- 5.

[cdddc75 0]

I've got enough extra bankroll to branch out and add another site to my repertoire, and I want to clear as large a bonus as possible. FullTilt and Ultimate Bet have the largest deposit bonuses, but both are notoriously tough to clear. Anyone have any idea how long it will take me to clear the max bonus if I am 2 or 3-tabling 2/4? Also, does the money go into your account as you earn it or do you get the whole amount when you've played the required amount of hands?Thanks for any help/advice anyone who has cleared these bonuses can give me.ZH

Full Tilt clears $6 at every 100 FTP interval. Playing at those limits, I would guess it would take about 10 hours to reach 100 FTPs. Total guess though.

[NormanHaupt 0]

Actually.. Absolute may be the best choice.From what I understand, on your deposit, your bonus expands the more you play over to the month. The cap is huge.. so if you're going to devote an entire month to a single site, you play there nd your bonus keeps growing more and more. Its pretty huge the potiental. I'm thinking about depositing myself.

[Mr2jt 0]

For Full Tilt, the max bonus is 600 dollars. I think they decide to release the bonus 10% of the deposit at once.So, after doing some calculation, I've concluded that you need to play about 10,000 hands to clear the total bonus.How did I come to this conclusion? Well, the avg rake for the 2/4 limit holdem game is about 1 dollar. Under the rake structure of FTP, each dollar of rake clears 0.06 dollars, with a maximum of 3 dollars raked each pot.So, taking 600 dollars and divid by 0.06, you get 10,000.Going further, each table averages about 60-70 hands per hour, So that means, 10,000/60 = 167 table hours.If you are two tabling always, that means about ~84 hours of playing to clear the max bonus.Hope that helps.

[Vidgames 0]

Actually.. Absolute may be the best choice.From what I understand, on your deposit, your bonus expands the more you play over to the month. The cap is huge.. so if you're going to devote an entire month to a single site, you play there nd your bonus keeps growing more and more. Its pretty huge the potiental. I'm thinking about depositing myself.

I was going to recommend Absolute also. I recently did a bonus there--first deposit of $100 got me an extra $50 for using Neteller (otherwise, it's only $35) as well as a $25 bonus that's instantly available (you don't have to "earn" it into your account). Then you get $10 of the bonus moved from a pending account into your account for every 100 raked hands (at or over $5 pot, which is common on a .50/1.00 table, and you don't have to contribute to the pot to earn it...just have cards dealt to you). The in-client cashier has a counter, so it's easy to track your progress--you get a point for each hand where the rake is .25, and when the counter hits 100, $10 is moved and the counter resets to 0.Yes, Absolute's software/network is erratic and laggy, but the competition isn't great (and that's coming from a relatively new player) and it took me just a few hours across a few days to clear the bonus even on one table (because I'm not really comfortable playing more than one yet, and when I tried, it really slowed my system to a crawl)I guess the best part is, once you're a player on the site, they spam you with frequent bonuses, in hopes of keeping you there. Last week, they had 20% bonuses for *each* Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, and then another 20% one on Sunday. If my BR wasn't tied up on another site (the pitiful Pacific, where you can't track your bonus progress without e-mailing customer support and can't play multiple tables, though the aquarium is stocked with even more fish), I'd probably keep pumping the Absolute bonuses. I'm not sure if other sites do this, but it seems that the only negative is that you can't deposit to Absolute for the bonus and take the money back out again within 48 hours, or you'll lose the bonus. However, with that many bonuses, I figure a good player can boost their BR so there's always enough in Neteller to play a lucrative game of pinball between the Neteller account and Absolute. A Ep.s.--Geez, Norman...that's still a bulky signature you got there.

[MasterLJ 0]

Clearing the Full Tilt bonus isn't that hard. I did it single tabling 0.25/0.5 NL. 3 tabling at 2/4 should take a few weeks to get the full 300 (I think it's 300).Also, Full Tilt has some buggy reload offers... sometimes I have a bonus on my account that I never signed up for. Not like I'm going to complain about free money, but still.

[Monkeyman 0]

Also, does the money go into your account as you earn it or do you get the whole amount when you've played the required amount of hands?

Mr2jt gave a good answer on the time it takes to clear the bonus, in line with my experience at FT. To answer the quoted question: FullTilt releases your bonus in increments of 10% of the total bonus or $20, whichever is less. If you deposit the full $600, every time you earn 333.33 points, another $20 will be released into your account.

[obs 0]

I can easily clear the $100 party skin bonus' in a night of 4-tabling.