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11/11/2004 - Updated raked hand requirements for Royal Vegas. This raked hand requirement may apply to all Prima sites (Gaming Club) but I am not certain.
11/18/2004 - Updated withdrawal requirements for Royal Vegas. This withdrawal requirement may apply to all Prima sites (Gaming Club) but I am not certain.
I figured just for the hell of it I'd post what I know of the various online poker rooms and their respective bonuses. Anyone having additional information please feel free to add on to this thread as you see fit.
1) PARTY POKER / EMPIRE POKER - It's probably best for anyone who hasn't already created accounts at these 2 poker rooms to sign up through FTR and support what I think is the single most important site that has helped my poker game.
Dual sign-up info here: http://www.flopturnriver.com/empire-...nup-bonus.html
** Bonuses range from a 20% initial deposit bonus up to $100 to a simple $25 initial deposit bonus. Bonuses are earned by playing a certain amount of raked hands. I do not know the formula for determining the amount of raked hands to release any given bonus. If anyone knows this formula please feel free to post it.
** They also run various "Reload" bonuses from time to time. Players are notified of these reload bonus codes when logging in or via email. These bonus codes are only good for those players that receive these notifications.
** Also, both Party Poker and Empire Poker will usually reload your account if you show extended periods of inactivity on their site in an effort to entice you back. The period of inactivity is usually around 30 days. It has been the norm that PARTY POKER will reload your account with $20 and EMPIRE POKER will reload your account with $10. I have received a $50 reload at PARTY POKER for about 6 weeks of inactivity.
2) ULTIMATE BET - Ultimate Bet normally runs a 25% intial deposit bonus. This bonus is given in the form of Bonus Dollars which are earned by playing raked hands and accumulating what UB calls "Ultimate Points". It takes longer to earn your bonus at UB than at other sites that require only a certain number of raked hands to earn your bonus. Ultimate Points are earned slower or faster depending on the stakes of the table that you play. They are earned slower a lower stakes tables and faster at higher stakes tables. Your Bonus Dollars are then deposited into your account at a rate of $1 for every 10 Ultimate Points that you earn. The bonus is deposited into your account "as you go" instead of in one lump sum as with most other poker rooms which makes the earning of their bonus seem extremely tedious.
** UB is currently offering a 50% reload bonus. This is a Player Appreciation Bonus and I believe that it ends this week.
Sign up to UltimateBet here!
3) PARADISE POKER - Paradise Poker offers a 20% initial deposit bonus up to (I believe) $100. You earn your bonus here by playing raked hands and the bonus is deposited into your account at a rate of $10 per 100 raked hands. Paradise Poker rarely offers reload bonuses, but when they do it is normally in the 10% - 15% range.
4) POKER STARS - As far as I know, PokerStars does not offer any sort of intial deposit bonus. They offer periodic, but infrequent deposit/reload bonuses raning from 20% - 25%.
Sign up to Poker Stars here!
5) INTER POKER - InterCasino also does not appear to offer any sort of initial deposit bonus. However, they offer a monthly recurring 100% matching bonus of up to $90 (currently). In order to receive this monthly bonus you need to play 5x the number of raked hands. Again, this is a RECURRING MONTHLY 100% MATCHING BONUS. It has been matching up to $90 for the past 2 months (September and October). Also, you do not need to necessarily clear the bonus in that given month. It will carry over to the next month if you are unable to clear it in that particular month. you can still take advantage of the next month's bonus. They will carry over and clear in the order that you get them.
** In addition, this site will pay you to play in certain instances. While playing you may receive a pop-up window asking you to start a new table at a particular stakes. As compensation for starting this new table, InterCasino will pay you $X/hr (depending on the stakes of the table) to play at that table. There are, of course, terms and conditions such as you cannot sit out a hand during this time or they will stop paying you for playing at that table. Also, you can, of course decline to do this if asked.
** Also, they have a manager named "RyanH" who randomly picks players out from various tables at various times of the day and will award them a bonus ranging from $10 to $100. So, if you are lucky enough to be one of those chosen by him that is more free money into your account.
Sign up to Inter Poker here!
6) THE GAMING CLUB - They will 100% match your first $50 deposit ($50 max). Once you deposit $50 into your account they will deposit an additional $50 into your account within 24-72 hours. You can then withdraw the bonus money after you have played 300 raked hands.
Sign up to Gaming Club Poker here!
7) ROYAL VEGAS - Royal Vegas is currently offering new players $10 free and clear to try their site without having to make any intial deposit at all.
** Additionally, they will give you a 40% deposit bonus up to $40 on your initial deposit ($40 max).
** I've received confirmation that in order to clear a bonus in this poker room you need to play (The amount of your deposit + the bonus amount) x 3 raked jands. For example, if you deposit $100, you would get a $40 bonus. In order to release this bonus you would need to play ($100 + $40) x 3 = 140 x 3 = 420 Raked Hands.
** I've received confirmation that in order to withdrawal any money from Royal Vegas you will first need to make a deposit to the site. So, for example, if you take advantage of their $10 free and you work that money up to $300 and now want to make a withdrawal, in order to do so you must first make an initial deposit in order to withdrawal any funds in your real money account.
Sign up to Royal Vegas Poker here!
8) PACIFIC POKER - They offer a 25% initial signup bonus. The attraction here is that they give you the bonus immediately once you join and you can begin playing with that bonus money at the tables immediately. However, you cannot withdraw that bonus money until you have wagered no less than 20x the amount of bonus money received (ex. - You must wager at least $2000 in order to withdraw $100 of bonus money.).
Sign up to Pacific Poker here!
Well, that's all I know. I have played at all of these sites and this information comes from what I have experienced at each. I hope that you all find it useful. Again, if anyone has any other information or new information please feel free to add it here.
I see this thread as perhaps a common place to list any new bonuses that people may encounter for various sites. Hope this helps! 
{Edited by Xianti: I've added our FTR affiliate links where appropriate and made a clarification on reload bonus codes.}
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Update to the INTERPOKER bonus structure - InterPoker (they changed their name from InterCasino Poker to InterPoker) has changed from giving players a set monthly bonus once a specified number fo hands has been played to offering a MONTHLY 100% MATCHING DEPOSIT BONUS up to $90 per month.
Of course this amount is subject to change but as of right now it is 100% matched up to $90.
You must play 5 times the amount of your bonus in raked hands to release the bonus. So, if you deposit $90 in August you have to play 450 raked hands (5 x 90) to release the bonus.
Here is what I thought was nice about this program. Bonuses are cumulative and, from what it sounded like from the support person that I queried about it, they don't expire if you have not played the required number of hands before the current month is over.
For example, if I make a deposit in August of $90 to get a $90 matching bonus (and I did!  ), I do not necessarily have to clear that bonus by the end of August. So, assume that in August I only play 400 of the 450 required raked hands to release that $90 bonus. Then in September I deposit another $90 to get another matching $90 bonus. I can play my remaining 50 raked hands in September to release my initial August deposit bonus of $90 and then start playing the next 450 raked hands to work on releasing my September bonus.
I have found, for the most part, that InterPoker has some very loose NL/PL games. The pots can get very juicy very quickly. I have enjoyed my time playing there thus far.
The software/interface is pleasant (IMHO) but slow and a little on the resource-intensive side compared to other poker rooms.
One downside is that it consists of mostly U.K. players. So, the tables seem to be more full during U.S. working hours and it is a little more difficult to find many full tables during evening hours when most U.S. players would play.
This aside, you can't beat the bonus structure that they have right now. Definitely worth a look though as far as I'm concerned.
Sign Up to InterPoker Here: http://www.intercasinopoker.com/index.html?2020897|03470
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Gaming Club Poker no long offers the $15 free. Royal Vegas Poker . com, however offers $10 for free and has the same network and software as GCP (prima poker network)
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which of these bonuses are instant? ie, which let you use your bonus right away without fulfilling requirements? (you can only cash out the bonus money after fulfilling requirements etc)
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Hyper - I have updated the information to reflect the recent changes that I am aware of. Also in answer to your question about instant bonuses, only Pacific Poker, to my knowledge, allows you instant access to your bonus to take to the tables immediately. Of course, Royal Vegas allows you to take the free $10 to the tables immediately as well.
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So which poker room has the best bonus/cashout structure overall?
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Pacific does. Royal Vegas at 40% is a pretty sweet deal too. Both places are slow to cashout.
Interpoker sounds like it has an excellent bonus, but I haven't been able to try it out yet. Been waiting 9 days now for my Firepay funds to clear.
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Hmmm... Well which ones aren't slow to cash out and still have a good bonus structure?
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all the prima sites take longer to cashout because they have a 24 hour period that allow you to reverse the cash out. and after that 24 hours, take another 24-48 hours.
empire and paradise were fast. in my neteller within 24 hours. i haven't had experiences with other sites.
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What you should remember is that most places take 1-2 BUSINESS days and not just 24-48 hours. I've cashed out on monday and received it in neteller on tuesday; but i've also cashed out on friday and not received it until monday aftertoon.
Poker Stars is the norm 1-2 business days. Usually very quick.
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But stars has no good bonuses 
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Jim,
The Pacific deposit bonus is 25%, but you also should mention that if you are referred by someone else - FTR in this case, that you will get an additional $25.00 on top of the deposit bonus. The referrer will get 50.00.
The net effect, if you deposit 100.00, you will have 150.00 in your Pacific account right away if you use a referral. This is how it has worked with my referrals, I'm assuming signing up via the FTR link would be similar to when I send a friend an invite email.
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Hey lhoney2 -
I didn't put down that aspect because I believe that that is the case for most if not all of the sites. I believe that you get the referral bonus above and beyond the initial deposit bonus everywhere.
However, it is a good point so thank you for noting it.
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Updated 11/11/2004 with Royal Vegas hand requirements.
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LOL, just tried to reply to this topic but IE went A** up so I lost it. Try, try again.
Crazy Vegas and 7 Sultans also offer the $10 no deposit required.
Also, there's another Prima site called Pigg's Peak Poker that offers $16 free no deposit, AND they offer a free $75 if you play 200 raked games (also no deposit required since they say you can use your free $16 to do it).
According to the Prima web page, there are 28 Prima poker rooms, all of which have different promotions/bonuses. Someone needs to look at all of them to see what's available. One thing to watch for, though, some of the sites (Capt. Cooks) says you can't have received a bonus from another Prima site. Read the terms and conditions! PPP's did NOT say that.
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Updated 11/18/2004 with withdrawal requirements for Royal Vegas (and possibly all Prima sites).
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Yo dude !!! Got a couple questions. Do you know what qualifies as a raked hand at paradise and/or gaming club?
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At Paradise you only need to be dealt cards. I am not certain about The Gaming Club, however.
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Pacific Poker gave me $10 for free when I DLed their software. I just wanted to check it out to see their interface, and see if it was worth depositing there (I am going through the bonus whoring stage). The next day I fired it up and lo and behold a free 10 dollars, I am sure I'd have to deposit to get my ever growing bank roll out of there  , but maybe once i have wagered 20x they'll let me?... I dunno ill let u know.
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12-18-2004, 07:33 PM
Post subject: Re: Online Poker Rooms and their known bonuses
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Originally Posted by jmrogers7
11/11/2004 - Updated raked hand requirements for Royal Vegas. This raked hand requirement may apply to all Prima sites (Gaming Club) but I am not certain.
7) ROYAL VEGAS - Royal Vegas is currently offering new players $10 free and clear to try their site without having to make any intial deposit at all.
** Additionally, they will give you a 40% deposit bonus up to $40 on your initial deposit ($40 max).
** I've received confirmation that in order to withdrawal any money from Royal Vegas you will first need to make a deposit to the site. So, for example, if you take advantage of their $10 free and you work that money up to $300 and now want to make a withdrawal, in order to do so you must first make an initial deposit in order to withdrawal any funds in your real money account.
Sign up to Royal Vegas Poker here!
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I have crushed the incredibly weak omaha hl there into around $100, But don't havea credit card as im underaged. What would be the easiest way to pull this off?
I wouldn't mind sharing some of the money if anyone would help me cash this out.
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KingDan -
I would look at opening a checking account and then signing up with Neteller and using that checking account to fund it. That way you can make that intial deposit to Royal Vegas and the just withdraw that deposit along with your winnings.
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I tried... I couldn't open a netteller. Theycheck more in depth in than I thought. I gave my ss number, but it didnt go along with my age or something.
Any idea what the minimum deposit is?
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Originally Posted by Triptanes
Pacific Poker gave me $10 for free when I DLed their software. I just wanted to check it out to see their interface, and see if it was worth depositing there (I am going through the bonus whoring stage). The next day I fired it up and lo and behold a free 10 dollars, I am sure I'd have to deposit to get my ever growing bank roll out of there , but maybe once i have wagered 20x they'll let me?... I dunno ill let u know.
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Actually, you do not have to make a deposit. I got the same $10 (which I turned into 300) and called customer support about a cashout. Their response was that I needed only to bet 20X the bonus amount. Buyins for tourneys (but not entery fees) count towards that, as well as all money put into the pot in cash games (you can see the amount wagered in your history).
Their cashouts are slow (request, 3 day waitring period before they even look at it, then 3-7 daty for a bank transfer once its approved), but I got $200 out with little problem.
Note that, because they are in the UK, they use wire transfers to send you your money, rather than more typical ACH deposits. This means that 1. Your bank may charge you a fee. and 2. You may need to use a different routing number (call your bank to be sure)
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Kingdan I'm only 17 and I've been playing poker online for about a year. You should be able to open a neteller or firepay account and I know you can open a checking account at your local wells fargo or something.
good luck man
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I just joined PartyPoker this week and got a 50% initial deposit bonus up to $100 using the code that PartyPoker sent me by email after I signed up with a playchip account.
They emailed me the same message every week for about 2 months, saying, "For some reason, your initial deposit was not successful.... again. But use this signup code with your deposit within the next xx days and you'll get the bonus!" They made it sound like the code would expire, but I think it never does.
I won't post the code because that may be grounds for banishment here... but the stick ought to be updated to reflect that all new Party users get a standard 50% bonus up to $100.
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I'm a big fan of Ultimate Bet's referral bonuses. 50% initial deposit (up to $100) plus your referree gets a cut too (a big one actually - 100% of your deposit amount).
- Jeffrey
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I forgot to mention the formula for unlocking Party's 50% initial deposit bonus. For every bonus dollar, you have to play 5 raked hands. You have to do it within 4 weeks I believe. Pretty easy. But you have to unlock all of it; there are no incremental bonus awards. If you get 95% of the way there by the deadline, it's all gone.
Redeposit bonuses generally require you to play 7 raked hands per bonus dollar, and you have to do it within 1 or 2 weeks depending on the deal. And they only award 20% instead of 50%.
The sticky should be updated with this info, plus the stuff I wrote above.
Re: UB's bonus, it is generous, but it takes a much much longer time to unlock the bonus dollars compared to Party. The upside is that you unlock the money as you play, not all at once or in incremental blocks. For example, you can unlock $1.33 out of $50 in one session.
However working off that $1.33 can take 90-120 min at UB playing $0.50/$1 (single table). Whereas it takes only about 20 minutes at Party!
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I just signed up to pacific, I forgot to come here first, am I ass out of luck now, or can I still get the bonus? I dont remember even seeing where to put it in though.. 
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Originally Posted by Triptanes
Pacific Poker gave me $10 for free when I DLed their software. I just wanted to check it out to see their interface, and see if it was worth depositing there (I am going through the bonus whoring stage). The next day I fired it up and lo and behold a free 10 dollars, I am sure I'd have to deposit to get my ever growing bank roll out of there , but maybe once i have wagered 20x they'll let me?... I dunno ill let u know.
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did you need to give a credit card number to get the $10?
edit - i tried signing up with pacific and the next day I was given $10. excellent.
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Any ideas on how to sign up for the "other" Party/Empire skin? When I tried it told me that for security purposes I was blocked since I already have a Party account.
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03-13-2005, 05:56 AM
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Any ideas on how to sign up for the "other" Party/Empire skin? When I tried it told me that for security purposes I was blocked since I already have a Party account.
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I read somewhare, probably here that as of 2004 you cannot do both without using another computer. It seems that you cannot create the account on the same computer, but you can use it if you have created the account on another computer, such as work or a friends computer. For an excellent discussion see: http://www.flopturnriver.com/empire-...nup-bonus.html
They may also be checking account names, so you will probably need to use a different one.
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Interpoker changed the way they do things. As of April 2005, they now offer a 100% match up to $100, but it's 8x raked hands to work it off. Kinda sucks...
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Beyond their 100% match bonus for April which rocks, Inter Poker just kicked my a FREE $10 for my Birthday.
Thanks INter....
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THATS STRIKE 2 BITCH - EDIT BY BOONDOCK
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Do I smell solicitation?
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I have not looked around alot but is there a place in Pacific that tells you how many raked hands I have. I know I can play my bonus there but was wondering how many raked hands I have played.....
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I have not looked around alot but is there a place in Pacific that tells you how many raked hands I have. I know I can play my bonus there but was wondering how many raked hands I have played..... |
Check your PM's JP
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