Sign-up bonus deals and re-load bonus offers are a great way to build your bankroll when you start out. The way to do this is by signing up at multiple poker rooms and take advantage of the typical $100-$200 sign-up bonus. Basically you deposit money at one site and play at least until you receive the maximum bonus, then you can either cash out and move your money into a new site or leave it there and deposit more money at a new site. If you do this at 5-10 different poker rooms it can give you upwards $1,000-$1,500 back as bonus dollars from the rake you have already paid! If you are playing at low limits such as $1-$2 or $2-$4 fixed limit the bonus will in effect give you as much as 80-100% of the rake back at many rooms.
On another note, do not abuse bonuses with multiple and false identities at the same poker room, as you face serious risk of having your main credit card, NETeller and/or IP address blocked. To be blocked from any of the top 6 poker rooms is not fun. Your winnings could also end up being confiscated in worst case.
Several Eastern European countries, as well as Israel, China and Denmark are frequently excluded from receiving sign-up bonuses due to heavy abuse. However, if you are from these countries you can often get a bonus anyway by kindly asking support for an exception (you might need to meet harder requirements for the cash-out though).
Re-load bonuses are promotions to make existing customers play more at the room and stay loyal. They are usually set up in the same way as sign-up bonuses, with a set maximum bonus amount, a percentage deposit match on the re-load and a raked hands requirement. A typical re-load bonus would be up to $100 at 20% deposit match with 10 raked hands required per bonus dollar. There are more and more re-load bonuses available as the competition is heating up. If you have an unused poker bankroll you should load up to the max at every chance you get as the extra bonus will serve as playing more or less free of rake.
Several poker rooms have special value multi-table tournaments, where the prize pool end up being higher than the buy-ins through added money or a guaranteed prize pool. You will benefit greatly by playing at multiple rooms to be able to take part in these events. Since late 2004 more special tournaments are also hosted at European evening hours.
Every weekday there are at least half a dozen big tournaments with $50 or higher buy-in and more than 400 players in them. The number is higher on weekends when also many of the $200 and $500 buy-in events are hosted. Several of the $30 and $50 events have unlimited re-buys in the first periods, creating big prize pools and good odds at making money for players sticking to a solid game plan with modest re-loads.
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