Two questions about Absolute reloads

[bobbyi]

The bonuswhores page on Absolute shows that they are constantly having reload bonuses, but does not say how those bonuses clear. Do they clear at the rates listed on the page for the first deposit bonus? Or slower? Also, I thought I had heard that the bonus clears continually like Paradise's rather than in a lump sum if you complete it all like on Party. Is this true?

Thanks.

[Soul Daddy]

I believe it clears $10 for every 100 raked hands. You heard correctly, not in a lump sum.

[Nfinity]

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I believe it clears $10 for every 100 raked hands. You heard correctly, not in a lump sum.

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You are correct sir.

And as far as clearing rate goes, it all depends on the limit you play.

Clearing it at .50/1 would take forever, as would 1/2 full I'd imagine.

I play 1/2 6max and can clear it rather quickly.

Make sure you opt for the "unmentionable" for this site as bonii do not count towards your MGR.

[nervous]

Side question: Can you clear the bonus AND have rakeback at the site without negating the rakeback?

[Kumubou]

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Side question: Can you clear the bonus AND have rakeback at the site without negating the rakeback?

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Make sure you opt for the "unmentionable" for this site as bonii do not count towards your MGR.

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(Short answer: yes)

Just be on the lookout for people with pattern mappers, jamming pre-flop with baby pairs only to keep spiking sets. /images/graemlins/mad.gif

-K

[bobbyi]

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Clearing it at .50/1 would take forever

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I would be clearing it playing no limit, but regardless the above quote seems to contradict the bonuswhores page (http://www.bonuswhores.com/absolute-poker.php) which says that at .5/1 lhe it clears at about $4/hr per table. Is the clearing information there accurate? I would be playing the small no limit games and the reason I was going to play them at Absoulte was because of the fast clearing information from the bonuswhores chart.

[timprov]

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Clearing it at .50/1 would take forever

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I would be clearing it playing no limit, but regardless the above quote seems to contradict the bonuswhores page (http://www.bonuswhores.com/absolute-poker.php) which says that at .5/1 lhe it clears at about $4/hr per table. Is the clearing information there accurate? I would be playing the small no limit games and the reason I was going to play them at Absoulte was because of the fast clearing information from the bonuswhores chart.

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I don't play .5/1 or NL, but it clears pretty quickly. It's a very standard 10x raked.

[grimel]

It depends on when you play. On Fri/Sat, .50/1 limit and NL clear over $5 (nearly $6), BUT, the variance caused by a table of drunken fools can be heart stopping. Week days, under $4, week nights, mid $4ish.

Do to family/work/other obligations I've not been able to play very much these last 2 months. I started receiving the AP bonus money about to expire warnings. As of 7/25 I had $20, $20, $80, and $260 expiring between 7/28 and 8/8. I started playing 7/28. As of 8/1 I hadn't lost a bonus and was down to $230 expiring 8/8. Right now, I have $110 expiring by 8/12. That's about $220ish cleared in 3000 hands. Looking at my account history, I'm ave $10 every 45 minutes playing a mix of .50/1 and 1/2 depending on what tables are ave 100+ hands per hour with a pot ave of $7 or more ($5 is the magic number to count toward clearing bonus).

Off to continue the bonus clearing marathon at AP, then IP, Wm Hill, and who ever else I find.

[grimel]

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Side question: Can you clear the bonus AND have rakeback at the site without negating the rakeback?

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YES! AP is very player friedly with constant reloads and clearing the bonus does NOT screw with the rakeback. Bonus and rakeback work to make AP pretty well profitable.

[aK13]

The rake must hit $.25 to count I believe (from my experience). Absolute rakes in increments of $.05 at .5/1, so the pot has to reach $5 to count.

2/4 is by far the fastest clearing level. The rake is gigantic if you plan to play for pokerwinnings, but for clearing bonus it's godly. $5 pots are raked, which is basically every hand that sees a flop at 2/4. I play 6max 2/4 at absolute combined with rakeback -- I find it fairly awesome.

[theblitz]

And yet I seem to lose money there.
Dunno why.

Probably too small a set of stats to judge.

But the bonus + RB make up for it.

[Nfinity]

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Side question: Can you clear the bonus AND have rakeback at the site without negating the rakeback?

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Make sure you opt for the "unmentionable" for this site as bonii do not count towards your MGR.

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(Short answer: yes)

Just be on the lookout for people with pattern mappers, jamming pre-flop with baby pairs only to keep spiking sets. /images/graemlins/mad.gif

-K

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I said I was sorry.

[Nfinity]

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Side question: Can you clear the bonus AND have rakeback at the site without negating the rakeback?

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Yes the Bonii do not count towards your MGR.

[timprov]

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Absolute rakes in increments of $.05 at .5/1, so the pot has to reach $5 to count.


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Ick. I hadn't realized that, or the 2/4 rake. Why on earth are there always so many people playing those levels?

It clears pretty fast at 5/10, too, and the rake doesn't suck nearly so much.

[theben]

from my experience, that holds about true as long as the games are not in rock-garden mode

[celiboy]

My experiences

I two table .5/1 so I get in about 115 - 120 hands per hour. I find that 1 in every 2.5 hands or so reach the rake requirement, so 250 hands to get $10 in bonus. Therefore I get $10 in bonus every 2.5 hours or so, so the $4 per hour is doable if you 2 table. The tables are much looser after 8 or 9 PM eastern time. Luckily I live on the West coast so that when I play at around 10 Mountain time it's midnight on the east coast. Playing when I get home from work at about 5 = extreme rock garden (like $3 average pots) so I stay away during that time. I don't have the unmentionable on there and I plan on opening a new account on a clean computer.

Absolute players are better than your average Party donk so you should keep this in mind. I'm around -0.3bb/100 at Absolute over about 5000 hands and around 2.5bb/100 at Party skins so if given a choice between a Party reload or Absolute I always opt for Party.

I have been off of Absolute the last month as I have been casino whoring. It is indeed profitable as I'm up $600 for the month casino whoring to a tune of about $30 an hour. Once the casino bonuses dry up I'm going back to Absolute.