Someone please help with this question

[Bigwig]

I recently opened an Empire acct to get rakeback. It came with the $100 deposit bonus. I just checked to see why I haven't gotten it, and it said I had only played 27 of the required 500 raked hands.

I was under the assumption that I could get the bonus playing SNG's.

So, I was wrong, right? I must play some cash games for the next 2 hours. Right?

[Shilly]

AFAIK, you can't clear these bonuses by playing SNGs. It may be possible on other sites, though.

[Eric Draven]

Complete guess here, but have you played 27 SNGs? Maybe each SNG is 1 "raked hand" so to speak...

[Bigwig]

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Complete guess here, but have you played 27 SNGs? Maybe each SNG is 1 "raked hand" so to speak...

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I've played a lot more than that.

[mjm]

All sites I know require raked hands for bonus. Therefore no SNG. I basically bore myself playing low stake cash games to get the bonus, surely there are now enough SNG specialist players that we should be able to chnage this?

[Bigwig]

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All sites I know require raked hands for bonus. Therefore no SNG. I basically bore myself playing low stake cash games to get the bonus, surely there are now enough SNG specialist players that we should be able to chnage this?

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I would hope.

Oh, well. Here goes 3 hours of limit cash games. *snore*

Thanks for the replies.

[skipperbob]

SnG's don't count as "raked hands"...You will be surprised how quickly you will clear the 500 raked hands if you play a quick ring game like low-limit NLHE...B-T-W the bonus will be deducted from your first rakeback payment

[gumpzilla]

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I would hope.

Oh, well. Here goes 3 hours of limit cash games. *snore*


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If you can play 7 stud, my understanding is that because you ante every hand you participate in every raked pot, and most pots will end up passing the rake threshold. Thus 7 stud is supposed to be a pretty good bonus clearing game from what I've heard, though I don't have experience with that particular aspect of it.

[Gramps]

You can clear bonuses on Poker Stars playing tournaments. Nice bonus for SNG players.

[Phill S]

Pokerroom and its skins allow bonuses to be worked off using SnGs.

Phill

[pergesu]

Play the 1/2 6-max game. I cleared a Multi bonus there last night, 330 raked hands, took an hour and 15 minutes. Made $95 just playing, and then the bonus on top of it. I don't ever play shorthanded ring game...so I either was super hot or the play is just terrible. And I wasn't getting exceptional cards.

[Bigwig]

Oh yeah--forgot about that.

Anyway, I played a bunch of 1/2 limit. I'm not sure how the BB/100 is calculated. Is it BB's per 100 ($1), or Big Bets per 100 ($2)?

I won like $220 over 600 hands, so either 18.3/100 or 36.6/100.

I rule.

Got the bonus.

[TruFloridaGator]

For the record..Pokerroom, Full Tilt, Pokerstars are the ones I know for SNG bonus.