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I joined Golden Palace casino. This one is pretty cool, they give you a 300% initial deposit sticky Bonus. So I deposited $100, emailed them, and received $400 to wager with. Now, here's where I got kinda confused. I decided to wager $200 on my first hand, so I could split or double if need be. Well, I won that first hand. Cool. I went up to $600. Well, now I didn't know what to do, so I played $5 a hand and started working off the wagering requirement. I've worked it off, and I have $565 in my account now. I could withdraw it all (they keep the $300 sticky), and I would get $265. So, $165 of profit. I'm not complaining.

Now the question is, should I leave and go to the next casino? Or should I bet it all and go for the double up?

Me, I be happy with the $165 profit. They cant take that away from you. I think if I was going to do it I would just bet the $165 profit and not my original $100 investment. That way if you loose you break even and take your $100 elsewhere.

Thats your choice to make though. Me, Im tight and would keep the $165 because its guaranteed.

By the way, congratulations on doing well here.

Thanks Rabid, yeah, I decided to run with it and take it elsewhere! That bankroll is building up pretty easily!

Go big or go home!

This next one I will, I agree, I have the bankroll now to risk $100 bets.

Ok, I went to Carnival Casino, 100% initial deposit sticky Bonus, bet $200 on my first hand:

Dealt K6. 16!?! goddamnit!

Dealer shows a 3. I stand.

Hole card is a 9. Hits a 2. Hits an ace. Hits a ten.

I win! I'll add this to my sticky post once I complete the wagering requirement.

Way to go ttanaka Very Happy

Glad your doing well on those sticky's. Your making it sound extremely easy. And that bankroll is looking good also. I have to go knock out the Party Poker $100 Bonus before I can do anything else. Just withdrew from Bet365 so I would have the 500 to put into Party. Heading there first thing in the morning. Since Im not working right now Im going to try and knock most if not all of it out tomorrow. But Im sure it will go into Saturday before I can finish 1000 hands.

I've downloaded the trial version of Poker Tracker and have been spending most of the day trying to figure out how to set it up. Not having much luck, but I havent read the help yet, thats the next stop.

Thanks Rabid - well, I definitely prefer poker to this casino blackjack long-term, and spending time on Poker Tracker is gonna do you well, so it's time well invested.

This casino whoring is fun, the money is easy, but really it's an exercise to complete my journal and an experiment to see how much I can make with little risk.

Anyway, investing some time into Poker Tracker is time well spent.

ttanaka,

Im definitely going back to more casino's after I finish with the Party Bonus. Its just that its a time sensitive Bonus and I have to do it before Dec. 28. But I do like the speed at which the casino bonuses clear opposed to the poker bonuses. You can definitely make a better hourly rate if thats what your looking for. Not that I worry about the hourly rate over the cleared Bonus amount. The end result is more important to me.

Xianti,

Thanks for that link. I have never seen it. I even did a search for Poker Tracker on the site and I think the search brought up every thread that had poker in it. You can imagine how many threads that was. Im looking over the link right now.

One question. I have never played at party on the computer I am using now. I bought the computer from another person who has played on party. Can I download their hand history to the trial version of Poker Tracker and use it. Not so much to rate how I have done, but to rate other players on party.

One thing I dont see is how to use the auto rate players tool. This is one thing Im fuzzy on. I would like it to be able to rank the players Im playing against so I know later how skilled they are, just incase I see them at other tables or on other days.

Finished the Party Bonus (cleared the whole 100, plus a little extra made on top of that. Party Bonus is not added into the casino bonuses total at bottom since its poker). So I decided to hit another casino. Decided to try Will Hills Bonus. Didnt seem too bad. Deposit 80 and get 80, wager 2000 and receive your Bonus. That seemed like a fair wr. The only thing I didnt like was you have to wait up to a couple weeks to receive a pin # before you can cash out. Although I did go ahead and try to cash out and was never asked for a pin #. Maybe it was because I was cashing back into my Neteller account that I deposited with. I dont know. Or maybe Will Hill doesnt require the pin but the rest of the Crypto's do. Or maybe I will get an email saying I have to wait for the pin to cash out. We will see. Anyhow below is my experience at Will Hill. It was not pretty. The software was fairly slow and I have a ton of disconnects from Will Hill's server. I mean a ton of disconnects. But the game always picked right back up where I left off. Now to my Brutalization from Will Hill.
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OUCH! I guess it was bound to happen at some point. Anyhow here's how it went. I deposited 80 and got the free 80 welcome Bonus. Started out playing just $1 bets thinking this would help keep the variation to a minimum. Im not really all that worried about time since I dont have a real job right now so Bonus hunting is what Im trying to focus on right now.

Anyhow $1 bets. Started playing Pontoon. Within 1 1/2 hours at $1 bets Im down $52 following the chart 100%. So I decide maybe Pontoon isnt the game to play. I switch to Blackjack, still sticking to the $1 bets. I play another 2 hours and Im back up to $150. So I stop for the night. Check my wr and find I still have 1567 more dollars of the original 2000 left to go to meet the wr.

Sit down the next day and decide to make $2 bets. By the way Im playing the multi hand table. Start off playing 5 hands at a time. First 2 rounds I loose all ten bets plus 2 doubles and one split out of those ten hands. So I switch to 3 handed and stay there the rest of the time. Still making $2 bets and 2 hours later Im down to $78 ($2 into my own money). So I check my wr counter and I still need to wager $333 more. So I decide to take a break.

Come back an hour later and sit down again. Still playing 3 handed at $2 a bet. After I sign on I notice Ive been credited with another $40 Bonus, nice. Well I would have thought it was nice, lol. Anyhow to clear that Bonus and the rest of my other Bonus I had to wager another $1133 total. So now instead of sitting with $78 Im sitting at $118. Ok, $2 bets three handed. 45 minutes later I have my original $80 left and none of the Bonus left. Still needing to wager $128 to try and salvage anything of the $120 Bonus I was given. Another 30 minutes later and the wr's are complete and all I have left is $40 of my original $80 invested.

Close to 6 1/2 hours to try and clear this Bonus at $2000 wr for $80 Bonus then what looks like another $800 wr for the extra $40 they added. Im not sure if they give you a $40 Bonus for 5 hours of play in the Casino like they do in the poker room, since I noticed this Bonus after I had played for 5 1/2 hours. Or if I got the monthly Bonus staked on top of my welcome Bonus. Couldnt tell ya.

Notes: I played strictly by the chart. Discounting a couple mistakes I might have made but didnt see, (where maybe I might not have followed the chart but was not aware of it) Doubling up when told to and splitting when told. Im gonna just write this up to nothing is guaranteed, and this will happen from time to time. I did go ahead and cash out, when I did Will Hill said nothing about a pin # for cashing out back to my Neteller account. I didnt even see a place to put your pin #. So maybe the cashout will be successful, Im not sure.

Can any see anything I might have done wrong here? Or is this just one of those things that will happen from time to time.

Start of $100
Starlucks $50+$35=$85
PlanetLuck $120
Bet365 casino $174
Will Hill lost Bonus plus $40 of my own money. Minus $40
Total $439 (includes initial starting investment)

Hi,

This is my first post here, so hi all ...
One thing i have to say is that this forum rocks, and have the feeling that people here have really the will to share experience with others ...

So 2 weeks ago i decided to give a try to casino whoring, taking all advice i found here.
So this where i am :
Planet luck +100 (5$/hand)
Starluck -17 (worse cards i ve ever had ... is it rigged? Dealer unbeatable) (2$/hand)
Then went at Casino On Net and oooohhh mistake i deposit via neteller ... Sad

So I had to wager 5000$ ... oh my god ...
But finally, i manage to clear the WR with 2$/hand bet, tooks me 3 days playing session of 2/3 hours several times a day
I finally end up with +157 (Bonus +extra 57)

So i am happy with that.
star +100
planet -17
CON +157
total +240 profit

About the pin code, I deposit at poker site they had the same pin code thing but after contacting support they told me that unless you want to cash out more than 500$ you don't need the pin code.

Now i want to keep on building my BR, this is a great way to do it, of course this is not risk free (that would be too easy), but it looks like we can have a good edge to do it.

My next casino, i don't know i am a little scared of using the sticky Bonus and i was thinking of using another angle for theses bonuses. Tell me what you think.

you deposit 100, get 200 sticky, ok now i read that your approach is to bet it all and get lucky, if not you loose everything.
What if you use these 300 to meet the WR, using same strategy like 5$/hand.
Then once you meet the WR, see what you have left or extra and then bet all the Bonus in 2,3,4, or 5 hands, keeping your deposit intact. Then if you get lucky you can withdraw a good amount if not u can still withdraw your 100$.
For me it looks like a safer way to clear the Bonus, your thought?
Of course its time consuming, compare to the other bet it all method.

Im pretty sure that on sticky's, no matter how much you make and withdraw, that they deduct the sticky from your withdrawal before cashout.

So say if you have a 200 sticky and your 100 deposit for a total of 300. You make your 5 dollar bets and you end up with as an example 30 profit plus your original 100 for 130 total. Then you do what you mentioned about betting all of the Bonus in 2,3,4 or 5 hands. If you bust out that 200 Bonus and then try to withdraw your 130 I dont think it will happen if I understand sticky's right. That 130 would be considered part of the 200 sticky. So you would have to just keep going untill you either bust out or have something over the 200 sticky to cash out.

If Im wrong someone correct me.

Yeah i realize after the deposit that neteller was 50x instead of 20x, shame on me ...
So finally it was better that i only deposit 100 otherwise the wr would have been 10 000$ (arg)
And why i didnt deposit 200, just because i didnt want to risk too much money... because i don't have a big bankroll ..
But i'm working on it ...

So far, I don't think I've come across the Type 2 Sticky yet, I've always had the bonus come off the top on the first withdrawal.

Anyway, if you haven't already checked, I completed Casino Tropez for some good success (I won the first big bet hand!)

Congratulations ttanaka

I just read the terms at Carnival Casino....
It looks like you can deposit 300, get a 600 sticky match Bonus, and play blackjack (for us dollars only). Am I missing something? Do you think the best strat for this is to play 3 $300 hands all at once to start? I assume you can't play 1 for $900. I have made $300 from the other sites and would be willing to do this one for the full amount, but don't really know the best strat.

hmm... interesting, I believe the max bet is $500 at Carnival Casino, so I'm not sure what the best strat is here. You definitely want to utilize as much of that Bonus as possible, maybe 2 bets at $450? Look to double up and target $1,800, and then work off the wagering requirement? Not sure here...

Has anyone withdrew from Carnival, Vegas Red, Tropez, or Del Rio yet?
If so which of these if any require any documents faxed? Thanks.

Great thread Ttanaka

I did del rio awhile back and i didnt need to give them any documents or ID of any kind

From Carnival Casino:

Keep it up ttanaka, your making those sticky's look easy.

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