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iwasajackoff
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07-01-2005, 03:18 PM
Post subject: Interpoker bonus change
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 33
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Interpoker has changed there bonus structure.
450 raked hands required to clear bonus.
Pot must be raked 1 unit to count as a raked hand
So a pot must be $20 to count
Wow talk about penthouse to outhouse
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jmrogers7
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Full House
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 1,112
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Yeah this sucks. I am a loyal InterPoker monthly bonus whore. They started out at simply 5x and any rake counted. Then they had 2 months of 8x. Now this.
It's obviously the wave of the future to start making bonus clearing harder but I don't have to like it. 
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"The urge to gamble is so universal and it's practice is so pleasurable, that I assume it must be evil." - Heywood Broun
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journey075
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Full House
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 725
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UGH. JUST when i started bonus whoring.
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JeffreyGB
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4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Jenks, OK
Posts: 3,477
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Has anyone taken a look at their logs for NL$100 and NL$200 to see how many hands this is by comparison? I'll take a glance at each and let you know what I come up with.
Does anyone know how the clearing requirements for uncleared bonuses from prior months are affected by this?
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JeffreyGB
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4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Jenks, OK
Posts: 3,477
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I'm seeing, in general, around half of my raked hands are for $1 or more. Also, for the record, I'm getting about 60% of the hands I'm dealt are raked. So around 30% qualifying means you'll end up playing around 1500 hands for this. At 8x, you had to do 720 hands. At 60%, that means you had to play about 1200 hands. Definitely a change there. I'm not sure how devestating it really is though.
I wonder how long it would take only playing at the NL$200 level, since the rake is higher there but the players are more scarce...
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JeffreyGB
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4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Jenks, OK
Posts: 3,477
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I broke it down a bit more, looking at my NL$200 games by themselves. Looks like 60-65% of them are raked over $1. NL$100 is probably closer to 25% then, since that would skew the numbers a tad (though I only had a few NL$200 hands in the original sample I took).
Haven't heard back from them regarding what happens to uncleared bonuses.
For those of you experienced in it: if you have stacked bonuses at Interpoker (i.e. I have two months outstanding), do you have to clear all $180 to get any of it, or does it get added in $90 increments?
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kfellmy
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: north fort myers, fl
Posts: 13
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once IP changed the bonus to either poker or casino I started playing in the casino all the time. With this new wrinkle I do believe that I won't be playing any poker there other than the freerolls and the downtime tourney. How long will it take you to clear it in the poker room? Too long!
June results-took 1 hour and 15 minutes to clear:
July's results-cleared in 50 minutes:
Any more questions about where to clear the bonus?
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iwasajackoff
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 33
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Ok so I cashed out my deposit and played the $90 bonus in the casino on blackjack. Cashed out for $146 May never play poker there again but I will visit there casino once a month.
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JeffreyGB
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4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Jenks, OK
Posts: 3,477
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What kind of a betting structure do you guys use to get through the bonus on blackjack so fast? I have a hand chart for what action to take, but how much are you betting? Are you varying the amount or keeping it constant?
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journey075
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Full House
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 725
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the casino has a 25x wagering reqt...is that really worth it?
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Strung
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Straight
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 209
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honestly guys, just go to the casino and do it. You can play with the $90 bonus money ie: withdraw your deposit. Play $5 hands, I cleared it in about 1.5 hours playing single hand BJ and I turned the $90 into $350. Here is the betting guide:
http://www.onlineblackjackguide.com/...ullreview.html
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twosevoff
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Flush
Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 526
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Man that blows they screwed up their bonus. Cryptologic has gotten a lot less fishy as of late with the new lower stakes tables though. Now all the fish play at NL25 and the average pot sizes at the NL100 games are usually under 20 bucks, which is pretty pitiful.
Strung: With $5 bets you're going to experience high variance. Though you got lucky this time, you could easily have gone bust.
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