Clearing Hollywood Poker 500% deposit bonus. Easy/no-risk?

[PokerPatNEU]

You get 1 "bonus point" for every hand that the rake is 1$ or more, .5 bonus points for every hand that the rake is between 50 cents and 1$.

You do not have to contribute to the pot to gain a bonus point for that rake.

750 points = 50$ credited from your bonus account.

Do you guys think it's easy to deposit say 200$, quad camp 25NL full ring (playing super tight, fold all day long) and clear the 1000$ bonus within the 60 days? I've never been much for bonus whoring, usually just grinding out at PokerStars tables, but this seems like a ridiculously good opportunity.

[jmrogers7]

If I remember correctly, Hollywood is a PokerRoom skin. I have whored PokerRoom in the past and they clear SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOWLY. I don't think clearing at the $25 NL tables is a good idea. Given that you have to get to a minimum of a $0.50 rake to receive any credit toward clearing the bonus, I think you should try to play the $50 NL tables at a minimum.

When I cleared their bonuses I played the $100 NL tables and I was still only averaging about 40% raked hands. Given that you have to accumulate 15000 points to clear the entire bonus you are looking at somewhere between probably 35000 - 37500 hands to clear the entire $1000 bonus.

That is completely ridiculous. Also, this bonus is 15 points for every $1 in bonus earned as opposed to a normal Pokerroom bonus which is 7 points for every $1 in bonus.

Unless you play high stakes I would not even bother with this one. Ugh.

[PokerPatNEU]

At full ring, 10$ pot earns you half a point, 20$ pot earns you 1 point. At 25 NL if 1/8 or so pots is above 10$ and 1/20 is about 20$ (think those are close to accurate?) Thats like 1.5 points per orbit. If an orbit takes 10 minutes, thats .15 points per minute. Times 4 tables = .6 points per minute. Times 15000 points = 9000 minutes = about 150 hours.

Assuming these assumptions are kinda in the ballpark, thats like 3~ hours a day average over the 60 day period to clear the bonus.

Edit: Heh after reading this i realized thats 150 hours to clear a 1000$ bonus which is like 7$ an hour. Booo...I'll prolly still try it.

Edit2: My math is broken on the .6 points per minute x 15000 points...should be 15000 points / .6 points per minute = 30,000+ minutes.


So it's definitely not worth tryign to clear at 25 NL...Next question: Is it very dangerous to try and clear (playing very very tight)at 100NL with a BR thats only around 600~?

[jmrogers7]

I would say if you're just planning on camping then 6 buyins should be fine. But, all it takes is to get too excited about one hand and before you know it BAM you've lost a buyin.

I would say proceed with caution.

I'm currently on a 4.5 buyin downswing over 2 days at the $100 NL tables. I'm in that zone where no matter what I have I'm getting beat. trying to just plow through it but it can happen in an instant. This downswing is right on the heels of a 6 buyin upswing over 3 days.

So just BEWARE.