The Poker Bus

I miss the old days of online poker bonuses

I was looking through someones rake back site and saw they offered a special $500 first deposit bonus for party poker. That seems promising. So I checked at the details and it said you had to play 40X the bonus, meaning 20,000 hands just to clear it!

I miss the old days when when ALL party poker bonuses were 5x to clear. Reloads and all. And they had five other skins of their site (Empire Poker, Multi Poker, Poker Now, EuroBet, and InterTops) that all had 5x bonuses.

At a full 1/2 limit holdem table a 5x bonus was worth about $10/hour per table. So with four tables running you just needed to break even for two and a half to three hours to make $100.

Anyone could turn a $1,000 bankroll into $2,500, in a week playing 1/2 limit poker, with almost no risk.

So what you would do is deposit $500 at two Party skins, spend about 6 hours clearing both $100 bonuses, cash out, and do the same at two other party skins the next day. After you’ve done all the skins and made $600 from deposit bonuses you’d deposit to the 6 party skins again using igm pay and the bonus code IGMPAY. That’s good for a 5x $100 reload bonus at each skin. And then there was the Epassporte bonus which could get you another $50 I think.

It didn’t stop there either! After finishing a round of these bonuses, some people would sign up an account under their moms name, dads name, sisters, brothers, dogs, friends, and even their garden gnomes (not a joke :-o). And then you could get two monitors so you can bonus chase two skins at once, doubling your hourly rate to around $80… at 1/2 limit poker. And don’t forget about all the reload bonuses you’d be getting.

I only wish I could go back in time and do it again knowing what I know now. Bonus chasing isn’t as good as it used to be, but it’s far from dead. Bonus Whores has really good bonus details (check out their bonus grid), and a great bonus forum.

If you ever come across a great opportuny - milk it for all it’s worth!