yet another absolute reload

[MicroBob]

has to be via neteller.
this one is 10% up to $50...which is pretty chinsy (sp?) by absolute reload standards. but i don't see too many other reloads out there so i'm not complaining.

remember....if you haven't signed up yet for absolute you get 35% up to $210.
and then can deposit another $500 for another $100 in bonus.

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NETeller Deposit Bonus Weekend! Receive a 10% bonus on all of your deposits made using NETeller this weekend. Deposit bonus in effect all day Saturday and Sunday, and ends Sunday at midnight Eastern.

(Maximum of $50 in total during the promotion. Bonus funds will be added to your player pending account. Please see our terms and conditions for more details.)


Don’t use NETeller? Sign up for a new NETeller account now and earn a $10 bonus on your first deposit with Absolute Poker using NETeller that is completed during the month of August.


(The $10 bonus is in addition to the 35% first time deposit bonus offered for new players this month. Only one account per person is allowed at Absolute Poker. Please email Promotions@AbsolutePoker.com with NETeller $10 in the subject line after making your first NETeller deposit and your player pending account will be credited with the bonus. This promotion is only offered to players who have not previously used NETeller to make a deposit at Absolute Poker.)

[El Barto]

You mean I only get to deposit once this weekend? I was enjoying the "deposit several times a day" routine of last weekend. $50 adds only about 4% to my bonus balance. /images/graemlins/frown.gif

Someone should try to deposit twice and report back, I don't have the funds this weekend to do so.

[PugX]

Where did you find this? I have looked around after it and I have not got it by mail.

Best regards,

Pug

[El Barto]

You can usually find their offers if you go to Menu>Announcements>News from the lobby. This one is not listed there as far as I can see.

[lacky]

Bob,

I know you do lots of bonus chasing. What is it worth per hour 4 tabling. My rakeback at empire runs about $9 per hour at 3/6. Is bonus chasing significantly more? Are the games generaly tougher? Just wondering if I'm missing out on much by not working the bonuses.

Steve

[Uston]

It mentions the bonus on the scroll at the bottom of the lobby.

[MicroBob]

i think you can make more than $9/hr over 4 tables on absolute and others. however, if your opponents are THAT much worse on party than that can quickly make up the difference.

i would guess around $3-$5/hr in bonuses per table on absolute. that's a little less than what bonuswhores.com reports...but not by much.
2/4 is tougher to whore on absolute because fewer of the hands are raked. 3/6 picks up the pace quite a bit. but i just play the tables that i think are decent....so i mix it up between 2/4 and 3/6...sometimes even a little 1/2.

some of the tables are tight...but i've found enough J4o goofballs to keep me happy.

even though i post here frequently about absolute i actually haven't play there that much. i have $1500 in bonus to clear there....and have played through $150 worth of bonus.
if i decide that my rake-back at empire is better than the bonus-clearing at absollute then i'll just leave the bonus in there until i feel the games are better.
right now i'm kind of on the borderline....but the early results point to absolute possibly being a little better right now for me.


bonuswhores.com has some handy tables on how much each bonus is worth per hour for each site...some of their numbers are going to differ than yours....but it's a pretty good starting point.

[MicroBob]

i have deposited 5x for a total of $1690 receiving $169 in bonus money in the last 12 hours (i wanted my account to round-out to an even $1600 in bonus money).

this happened last weekend for me as well.
you can deposit 15 seconds apart and still get additional bonus money.

$50-max bonus per deposit...but, for me at least, there doesn't appear to be a limit on the amount of bonus you can receive.

i also am very near the top in their monthly ranking thing because of my heavy volume of depositing there.
i am probably virtually guaranteed a spot in the top 50 for a spot in their $500 free-roll (usually about 25 entrants, so roughly a $20 value for that tournament). i busted out 24th out of 27 last month...flop trips but lose to runner-runner flush...yuck.
plus, the points you get from all the deposits can be used to 'buy-in' to their not-quite-freerolls (they charge you points to enter afterall...so they're only pseudo-free)...although i haven't played in any of those yet.

[djcolts]

I looked at the terms and conditions, and it said "All bonus money is subject to a 60 day expiration from the day it was first received." - so I wonder if that means that all bonuses are like that, or that they CAN do that if they so wish.

And - it definitely is 48 hours from last deposit until you can withdraw. I have way too much money in there as it is - with this reload it will be ridiculous for someone that plays 1/2 at most.

[MicroBob]

typically i will cash out most of it about 48 hours and 1 minute after my last deposit.
i'll just be turning it around and depositing it again in a week or two....because that is about how often they offer reloads.

[peregrine]

So you can deposit and withdraw most of your money and still keep the bonus?

[gonzo787]

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I looked at the terms and conditions, and it said "All bonus money is subject to a 60 day expiration from the day it was first received." - so I wonder if that means that all bonuses are like that, or that they CAN do that if they so wish.


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God I hope that's not true as I have about $1200 sitting in there. I was always under the impression it was like UB- bonus dollars never go away.

[gonzo787]

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So you can deposit and withdraw most of your money and still keep the bonus?

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Yes. That I do know.

[MicroBob]

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So you can deposit and withdraw most of your money and still keep the bonus?

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of course.

there are a lot of questions regarding this aspect at many sites.
most bonuses work this way...you can deposit and cash-out as you choose. some sites don't want you to cash-out BEFORE depositing for the bonus...because that's just turning the same money around and getting the bonus.

but as far as cashing-out AFTER depositing AND keeping the bonus...you can do this at most poker sites including
party/empire, stars, ub, pacific, absolute and pokerroom.

i know there are a lot of people who play other online-casino games around here...so perhaps that is the reason why so many seem so confused on this issue.

but most online poker-rooms let you take the money back out and clear the bonus later. some bonuses will expire at some point (party, pokerroom) but others will stay there forever (so to speak) including stars, ub, pacific (i think).

pacific is a bit different and i'm not positive whether you can do it there or not.
i am finally getting going on crypto so i don't know how it works there.

[MicroBob]

this is interesting and a bit scary....but not too much imo.

not sure what the deal is here..because they don't show any expiration date anywhere to clear the bonuses (like most other sites would).

someone may want to ask absolute on this one.

it seems to me that they MAY take it back after 60 days.

logically, one would assume that they wouldn't do this though....because they are going out of their way to be as customer-friendly as possible (and doing a pretty decent job if you ask me) so i would be surprised if they just started yanking some of the bonus-dollars away from players just for kicks.

they are trying to generate business....not lose it due to pissed-off players and a bad-rep.


i am accumulating bonus-dollars faster than i can clear them for the most part.....so i suspect that at some point i might actually get to be 60-days behind.
i am assuming that if they really do yank it back they would do it based on your earliest deposit compared with your earliest bonus-clear.
for example, the first dollars i clear are the first bonus-dollars i received there. my first $100 bonus-dollars i received there were on June 15th...so if i only cleared $40 by August 15th then they will take $60 of it back but i will still be left with the rest.
my next bonus-dollars i clear will be the next bonus dollars i received there (on June 22nd perhaps)....and so on.


but my hunch is that as long as you occasionally clear some bonus-dollars there you should be okay.
and if you NEVER play a hand there they MIGHT start taking some of it back after awhile. but even that would surprise me a little.

that's just my hunch and i really have nothing concrete to base that on.

[djcolts]

Thanks for the reply.

I have over $300 of bonus left to clear there (I just started there July 31st) - and I have a 10% rake rebate deal there as well, so I'll be playing there quite a bit, anyhow. I've been pleased with the site so far - though I'd be more pleased if they had a little more traffic and had 10-person tables.