Full Tilt Extends 100% Match, $600 Match Until 10/31
 

This should get evryone riled up again:

http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/bonus600.html

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Personally, I can hardly contain myself.

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anyone had problems with cashing out here? how many people play at the site? what about affiliate program for rake rebate?

sounds like a solid deal to me.

cheers!

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anyone had problems with cashing out here? how many people play at the site? what about affiliate program for rake rebate?


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Good questions, anyone have an answer? I thought there were only a couple dozen people playing here.

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For every $16 in rake paid you get $1 bonus cleared as compared to 2.5:1 for Party & skins / Absolute / Paradise.

I like the software just as much as UBet's but no miniview.

On average there's a few thousand players online, so your typical mid sized room.

Cashouts are generally fast. I usually get it to Neteller within a day or two.

No affiliate rake rebates.

Games aren't as tough as UBet, but they're not exactly terribly soft either as most people are there to clear the bonus. However it seems recently there are more and more players joining to play against the pros, so the higher stakes are supposedly softer especially the NL 200 / 400 games (according to Bunky).

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So, does anyone have a quick guess on how many hands to clear the bonus at $.5/1 table? Does about 3000 sound right?

Thanks.

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It takes about 4,000 hands at empire to clear a $500 bonus and the empire games are significantly looser, therefor more rake paid.

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It takes about 4,000 hands at empire to clear a $500 bonus and the empire games are significantly looser, therefor more rake paid.

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$100 Party & skins bonus = 700 raked hands Party / 500 raked hands Empire to clear. That's equivalent to $175 / $125 raked.

$600 Full Tilt Bonus = $10,000 raked to clear, or about 40,000 raked hands (assuming $5 pot where rake is $0.25).

Do you guys understand why the FTP bonus sucks so much now?

You can and will clear the FTP much much faster if you play higher level NL stakes where rake is usually a couple dollars a pot, but forget about it if you're a low limit grinder.

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I don't think I want to play 40,000 hands. If I just give them $10,000, will they give me the $600? Be a lot quicker and easier! These bonuses are really insulting--they must think we're total idiots. Them and Gaming Club: "If you swim the English Channel in 45 minutes, we'll give you $500. However if it takes you 46 minutes or you drown 100 feet from the far shore, you get nothing, zip, nada." Isn't this a great deal?" It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy knowing they care about us like this. . .and then posters on here actually gush their thanks. . .
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Because we are total idiots, or at least a lot of us are.

How many times do you see the same questions asked over and over? I had to elaborate on the bonus differences when just 16:1 and 2.5:1 would of sufficed.

People don't want to think anymore, they just ask and ask and ask away and idiots like me answer their questions anyway.

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Don't forget that they release the bonus in increments of 20% of your ORIGINAL DEPOSIT. That means the more your original deposit, the longer it takes to clear ANY of it. Just doesn't make any sense.

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Well it makes sense for FTP to do it that way, it means less bonus gets cleared than say releasing it in $10 increments. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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It also means people are less likely to deposit larger bankrolls because of it. And, even less likely to stick around and bother clearing them.

If the goal is to get people to deposit tiny amounts and then either lose it or withdraw it and never return, I'd say their plan is spot on.

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Unfortunately you're giving people as a whole too much credit.

They deposit $600 wanting the full amount, and then work their tail off to try and clear that $120. That's what I did and after I cleared the first 20% I cashed out.

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easily the hardest bonus to clear, but i like the game texture

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Cashout was quick and easy. I cleared the bonus in just over 2 weeks. All in all a great site.

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The 200 is really weak, The 400 has some soft spots but can e tough in some situations. But the 100 and 200 are abysmally weak. Clearing the bonus was a piece of cake.

Maybe they'll let me do it again.

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Are the limit games ($3/6) any good?

Why don\'t they just extend it indefinitely
 

It's not like the toads are giving anything away. They are making a ton of money off of this "promo". What a load.

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$100 Party & skins bonus = 700 raked hands Party / 500 raked hands Empire to clear. That's equivalent to $175 / $125 raked.


I've seen you post this often.

The games at Party, other than NL have 50c minimum rake at $5 on the micro tables.

Lori

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$100 Party & skins bonus = 700 raked hands Party / 500 raked hands Empire to clear. That's equivalent to $175 / $125 raked.


I've seen you post this often.

The games at Party, other than NL have 50c minimum rake at $5 on the micro tables.

Lori

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Yeah I did the numbers once and no one's ever mentioned that they were wrong, but I realized I did those with .25 rake. Just double those numbers and they're good. [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]