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hagakure
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04-25-2005, 02:08 PM
Post subject: Refer a friend bonuses...any advice?
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Straight
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 215
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It seems a lot of people include refer a friend bonuses when talking about the bonus offerings of some poker rooms. Those of you who use these bonuses on a regular basis, do you actually refer someone in the conventional sense that the site wants you to? Or is there some secret to reaping these rewards without actually getting someone you know to sign up with a new account? I thought about simply creating a second account with it's own firepay/neteller account and doing it that way, but it seems my IP might give me away there. I wonder if I could get away with claiming it's a roommate or something that uses my IP but has their own account?
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BoondockSaint
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4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Indiana
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You can probably get away with doing it but use different computers. Once u register on a different computers IP u can play on it all the time no problems. Its just registration I think that matters with the bonuses.
I did it with 3 people back in the day and once they didnt cash me out and I called em and they were saying are you aware that "hasd" and "hdsfsd" are playing on your computer. And I said yeah one is my bro and one is my best friend. They say "ok thats all we wanted to know, we will process ur cashout now"
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PokerBoss
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04-25-2005, 09:25 PM
Post subject: i can refer you
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This is not allowed (edited by Boondock) especially with 2 posts. Unreal.
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Full House
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: SoCal
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Let me be a wet blanket here and say ... - Don't kill the goose that lays golden eggs.
I'm just getting into the swing of bonus chasing, and it is a very good thing. And it is temping to want MORE. But there is plenty of free money to work on honestly, without faking a second account. Sure, it can be done, but please don't try.
On a global level, bonuses will shrink, rakeback situations will dry up, and referral offers will dissapate as fraud expands. Everyone loses.
On a personal appeal, I'd hate for you to be the guy who gets his account frozen, perhaps across several linked poker rooms. What if you lost access to all Party rooms? Or all Prima rooms?
And -- and -- AND! FTR waves the 'no collusion!' banner, so we should also speak up over cheating the house with fraud. Many FTR members benefit from signups, and from honest poker, and I've noticed several members planning to invest in IPO for Party stocks. Just out of self interest, we need to discourage fraud against the house. I'm not pure, but sometimes groups standards can help each individual hold a higher standard - positive peer pressure.
Don't sign yourself up twice, please.
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I'm a know-it-all.
No, really.
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BoondockSaint
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4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Indiana
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Well I didnt really do it 3 times since the other 2 people were actually my bro and best friend. I didnt just make up names and use myself all the time.
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Full House
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: SoCal
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by BoondockSaint
Well I didnt really do it 3 times since the other 2 people were actually my bro and best friend. I didnt just make up names and use myself all the time.
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 I wasn't referring to your computer sharing situation, Boon, but was addressing the original post
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Originally Posted by hagakure
I thought about simply creating a second account with it's own firepay/neteller account and doing it that way, but it seems my IP might give me away there. I wonder if I could get away with claiming it's a roommate ...
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And I don't want to flame.  Tone is sometimes hard to create in writing. I just want to encourage us all to take a higher road and stay off the paths that head the wrong way. We've all seen some crypt keeper dragging up old posts, which goes to illustrate, these posts are very persistant, will show up on Google for years, and may somehow color all of FTR. Even some crap I post while I have just 3 messages posted -- when someone reads it 3 years from now, they'll look at the poster and it'll say "eeeee, 100-kajillion posts", and they'll think, "well, this guy is an oldtime FTR dude, it must be for reals." But what I wrote back then is still just crap, and may eventually reflect on all of FTR. So, I spoke my opinion that we should, as a community, discourage taking the house for anything they are not already offering.
And I'm doing my part by addressing hagakure's idea while he is still just 'checking the waters'. I didn't want to flame, just to persuade.
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I'm a know-it-all.
No, really.
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Ondti
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Join Date: Apr 2005
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Moron shut up we know you are a spammer.
That was Boondock talking to this poster trying to scam people for money.
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