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the Golden Palace/VC bonus requires that 125 "action points" be accumulated to earn $1 in bonus. action points are awarded based on your share of the pot rake when you actually contribute to the pot. so for example, if you're one of 4 players who saw the flop and the eventual rake was $1, then 25 cents of that rake was attributed to you. on Apex Network sites like Golden Palace and Victor Chandler, every dollar of rake attributed to you is worth 100 action points. so you would get 25 action points on the hand detailed above.

Since it's 125 AP's = $1 bonus, you're essentially spending $1.25 in actual cash rake in order to earn $1 back in bonus. This is equivalent to an 80% rakeback deal, but compared to bonuses on other sites which are worth as much as 400% rakeback, it's not a particuarly good whoring opportunity.

not to rain on the people who already did this, but the biggest Apex ripoff is the Doyle's room promo where you get SS2 for "free" after earning 10000 action points. people are essentially paying $100 in cash rake, plus spending a lot of time and energy racking up points, to get the hardcover version of a book which is now available in paperback on Amazon for $23. Even more telling, that same amount of action would earn up to $400 in cash bonuses from Party skins (and would be cleared 2-3 times faster since ANY raked hand counts towards the bonus), and then you can buy someone else's hardcover on ebay and still have a ton of moolah left over.