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EasyT
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06-05-2007, 02:00 AM
Post subject: Best Historic Bonuses
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Full House
Join Date: Jan 2005
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Gosh, I never post much here anymore.
I thought it'd be fun to see if I could drag out the old timers to take a trip down memory lane and come up with a list of the best bonuses of all time. These greenhorns don't even know of the bounty of yesteryear. So let's hear some tales of the greatest long gone bonuses.
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I nominate.....
The stackable renegade bonuses at Party Poker. I remember one time where there were 8 renegade bonuscodes that came out at once, and Party shut down the code in a record three hours. I think all the regulars here managed to get all the bonuses because of frenzied emails and links to the topic.
Speaking of stackable bonuses, the early days of B2B were kind to us too. There were rampant stackable bonuses there roughly November, 2005. These bonuses weren't just stackable, they cleared concurrently. Meaning that you got your Referral bonus, the Welcome bonus, and the Reload bonus...all paid out just for clearing the biggest of the three. I think I made 800-Euros clearing that baby. And I think I got another 800-Euros or more by being one of the guys who spread the word about this, and so got to be the name folks put in the referrer's box.
Pacific Poker tech-support was just too damn lazy to even check and see if folks cleared the bonus before they let you withdrawal their bonus money, which then was paid up-front. Anybody that didn't get $150 for an hours worth of poker and two weeks worth of patience was not a regular reader in this forum.
Albeit not a Poker bonus, but Casino-On-Net was paying a $200 bonus AND $200 to the friend who refered you for a long, long time. Blackjack with a high EV (expected value), and with no risk if your referrer "insured" your losses like us good folks at FTR. A repeatable advantage for us regular referrers, and probably the LONGEST thread ever in this section of FTR.
The list goes on.....please continue it.
EasyT
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Jimmy Mac
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Full House
Join Date: May 2005
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ohhhhhhhhhhh party. Nothing else compares. The OnGame ones were nice till they changed it so you had to contribute to the pot. They used to be close to 100% rakeback and there were loads of them.
I'm too lazy to bonus whore these days. I like to play 9 tables and I can only do that on party or stars as I dont have the monitor space. Bonuses just aint what they used to be 
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flotu
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Flush
Join Date: May 2006
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I remember the sweet Expekt bonuses (back when they were a part of the Prima network). They were usually 100% up to $100 and you recieved them and could cash out right away, though I used to cover play around 20 hands.
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Full House
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: SoCal
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100% rakeback?!
I wouldn't even touch a bonus unless the bonus would return more than 100%. 
Party and it FOUR clones were by far the richest source of ongoing money. A few hours multitabling the quarter tables was good for a hundred bucks or more.
EasyT's mentions are all fond memories, but I have to mention the Boss bonuses. I avoided them forever because they were contributed  hands and the tracking was difficult. Ohmygoodness, you could play nickles, or 7CS and earn $100 in a few hours, plus mow green because the kooky play at the tables. :P
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I'm a know-it-all.
No, really.
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Miffed22001
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Straight Flush
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Marry Me Cheryl!!!
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my first post for a week!
God this is tough.
Definitly party/empire/2 other skins sign ups plus the monthly reloads were awesome when they were there.
All those prima sign ups that you could clear at 10nl (albeit 8k hands!) that got your roll from 50nl to 100nl.
But i think the winner is the crypto casino monthly reloads.
zomgs, i made close to 5gs just over a couple of months of relaoding interpoker/littlewoods/etc all the casinos plus the eurobet/corral monthlys.
They were the best at like 7-10x bonsues playing blackjack. Doesnt get much better i dont think.
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BoondockSaint
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4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Indiana
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Man.... this thread is gonna make me sad. I remember when I got in from the start on one of the party renegade bonus codes when they had like a ton of different, all working, bonus codes, and I had like 5 days to clear 1200 in bonuses and party never took back one of them.
Multipoker was doing that thing for like 2 months before party skins split with 2000 in reloads at 20x clearing requirement.
The crypto risk free 90 to 100 dollar bonuses every single month was just insane.
Absolute best though was when CON was paying 200 a sign up. Geez there was just so many insane casino bonuses back then. It was paradise.
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Boondock the Bot-Slayer
-'rilla
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Rabid Dog
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Flush
Join Date: Jul 2005
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Boon, speaking of Paradise. Wasnt that the site you could sit out at the table and still clear the bonus. Now that was sweet.
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BoondockSaint
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4-of-a-Kind
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Originally Posted by Rabid Dog
Boon, speaking of Paradise. Wasnt that the site you could sit out at the table and still clear the bonus. Now that was sweet. |
Ha ha, thanks for joggin the memory. And hell yes it was. Also the site where bonuses didnt expire. Though I had my account banned and unbanned twice for clearing all my bonus before they ended up fixing the problem. I think thats the only time I was making steady bonus money in my sleep when I went to bed while I was sitting out on 4 tables, clearin away. Oh the good ole days.
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Boondock the Bot-Slayer
-'rilla
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Rabid Dog
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Flush
Join Date: Jul 2005
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Yeah, same here. Open tables, play a few hands, then sit out and go to bed and let bonus clear. Good times, good times.
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EasyT
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Full House
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Yo Mamma
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Originally Posted by BoondockSaint
...I think thats the only time I was making steady bonus money in my sleep when I went to bed...
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Are you CRAZY!! Paradise may have been the only sleeping poker bonus, but autoplay casinos were gold in the sack.
The first ever autoplay bonus I did was Riverbelle. They had a deal in July, 2005, where they were giving $10 per day bonus for every of the first 30 days you played after signing up. I did it in pounds (gbp). So I deposit 50-gbp, logged in on my lunch hour every day for 10 mins to play blackjack, and earned a 300 gbp bonus. Then set autoplay running and went to bed. A little varriance in my favor, and I cashed out 500gbp, which at the time was about $900.
There were a lot of autoplay Jacks-Or-Better bonuses too. King Neptune, Trident, etc. I enjoyed doing those during my Friday night home game. Set the laptop up in the corner, firing autoplay JOB-100, and all my friends got a kick out of me making money on the computer while playing cards with friends.
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BoondockSaint
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4-of-a-Kind
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Originally Posted by EasyT
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Originally Posted by BoondockSaint
...I think thats the only time I was making steady bonus money in my sleep when I went to bed...
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Are you CRAZY!! Paradise may have been the only sleeping poker bonus, but autoplay casinos were gold in the sack.
The first ever autoplay bonus I did was Riverbelle. They had a deal in July, 2005, where they were giving $10 per day bonus for every of the first 30 days you played after signing up. I did it in pounds (gbp). So I deposit 50-gbp, logged in on my lunch hour every day for 10 mins to play blackjack, and earned a 300 gbp bonus. Then set autoplay running and went to bed. A little varriance in my favor, and I cashed out 500gbp, which at the time was about $900.
There were a lot of autoplay Jacks-Or-Better bonuses too. King Neptune, Trident, etc. I enjoyed doing those during my Friday night home game. Set the laptop up in the corner, firing autoplay JOB-100, and all my friends got a kick out of me making money on the computer while playing cards with friends. |
Ha totally forgot about that. I did some of the autoplays too. Set it for 1 dollar a hand, fastest speed, go to bed, wake up, hope your account is up big.
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Boondock the Bot-Slayer
-'rilla
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Miffed22001
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Straight Flush
Join Date: Jun 2005
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clearing $400 on dise while asleep rocked, but jacks or better was sooo cool.
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salsa4ever
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Full House
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Melbourne
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100 line jacks or better / deuces wild on Microgaming
man there were like a ton of bonuses u'd just autoplay and go to sleep. once i was watching it and i hit 100 royal flushes (got a pat royal) FTW.
Oh, and the golden palace group. They were a bitch cos you had to send in verification, but man it was a lotta free money
Back then intercasino was also no risk
Sadly I missed the CON refer a friend. Still, I took the 200 and made it 600 so I can't complain. Pacific was also pure gold.
What about all the stars bonuses that were stacked from the beginning of time and then they offered double FPPs and they cleared at the speed of light.
But nothing makes me yearn for the good ol days more than the 8 party bonuses you could grind out at 25NL
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Would you bone your cousins? Salsa would.
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well courtie, since we're both clear, would you accept an invitation for some unprotected sex?
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flotu
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Flush
Join Date: May 2006
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Originally Posted by Miffed22001
But i think the winner is the crypto casino monthly reloads. |
Don't bring those up . I miss playing risk free blackjack every month so much!
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flomo
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Full House
Join Date: Mar 2006
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great thread  even if it is a bit painful
i liked the pitt steelers free bet for a $1,000 of free money
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Protect dog
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BoondockSaint
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4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Indiana
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Flomo I cant believe I forgot that one. That was probably the best of all of em. Sucks for mansion. They have a buttload of US players take a grand off em then 2 months later they kick all US Players.
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Boondock the Bot-Slayer
-'rilla
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drtofu66
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Flush
Join Date: Apr 2005
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Originally Posted by flomo
great thread even if it is a bit painful
i liked the pitt steelers free bet for a $1,000 of free money |
That's the one for me.
I'm still dumbfounded that one paid off (not that Mansion paid-- but that the Steelers beat the spread on that one with the last minute interception returned for a TD AFTER the missed FG that would have beaten the spread) AND that I didn't arb it. It's games like that that make me understand why people get that thrill from sports betting. Too bad Mansion couldn't even reap the rewards of that one with the US crackdown and NeTeller fiasco.
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Miffed22001
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Straight Flush
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Marry Me Cheryl!!!
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mansion would be a great site if the US hadnt dropped out. Still beats me why they banned them anyway, it was a great opening for a small site to take on buisness.
Thing about the 1k steelers bet was that half of 2p2 then lost it playing keno for the casino bonus when they had a x25? bet on evens/odds outcomes.
lolololol
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tommyd7878
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: bay roberts,nl,canada
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Yah the Mansion bonus was sweet especially when I gave my buddy 1k and did it twice. Gave him 300 and $1700 in my pocket. Very nice, although I rememebr Charlie Batch fumbling on the goalline and me freaking out.
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drtofu66
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Flush
Join Date: Apr 2005
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Originally Posted by Miffed22001
Thing about the 1k steelers bet was that half of 2p2 then lost it playing keno for the casino bonus when they had a x25? bet on evens/odds outcomes.
lolololol
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Seriously? I hadn't heard about that. lol
And 2p2'ers are normally such a nitty +ev group, I wouldn't have thought so many would blow it on a crap -ev game like keno.
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thnwkd
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Flush
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Bahamas
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damn you all, damn you i say, damn you! 
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