who else knows about International Poker Network???

boose_bagina · #1 06-24-2005, 12:14 AM

How come the International Poker Network (i.e. Casino.net, Aces.com, etc.) never gets any attention in regards to bonuswhoring?? IMO the easyiest way to bonus whore. (not spam, bonus whoring advice just always looks that way)

Synergistic Explosions · #2 06-24-2005, 02:31 AM

Fill us in, I'd like to hear what they offer.

Do they have free rolls?

playersare · #3 06-24-2005, 02:48 AM

it was only last month that you could even play more than one table at a time on Boss/IPN. also most of the sites are just offshoots of larger sportsbook and casino sites, who decided to offer poker on the side almost as an afterthought. so lack of marketing may be stunting growth as well.

also, many of the skins have problems knowing what the difference between "dealt raked" and "contributed raked" hands, which can make bonus clearing ambiguous. they don't have countdown screens to show you the clearing progress like on some of the larger poker networks. you just have to bug support and hope they get it right.

that being said, if you find an IPN site with good, clear T&C's then go for it. the euro LAG players on there are some of the worst in the world, if you don't mind the volatility you should come out ahead in the end pretty easy.

Synergistic Explosions · #4 06-24-2005, 03:43 AM

I think I played one of those sites, sounds familiar. It was a while back though.

The more sites the better. I hope they do well.

I'll have to download one of them and check them out again.

pokrplyr · #5 06-24-2005, 04:06 AM

Another one of these sites is starnetpoker.com...I find tons of weak players as they get a lot of players from affiliated sports betting or online casino sites who drop in to blow their winnings after hearing about online poker on TV! [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

naschburger2 · #6 06-24-2005, 04:10 AM

Some facts about this network. You can sign up for three different sites on the network so select carefully because I have never seen a wider variance in what is required to earn the bonus. The easiest bonus to earn was on totalpoker. Just play small stakes stud and any contributed raked hands count. Some sites required a lot more raked hands or you must play 1 2 or higher to earn the bonus. i played in some world series of poker freerolls that were unbelievable on imperialpoker and bowmanspoker. You can now play multiple tables on the network.

boose_bagina · #7 06-24-2005, 09:43 AM

I've played on three of their sites so far, each offering $100 in bonus (even if you only deposit like $50). First 100 hands they give you $30, next 400 hands they give you the remaining $70. You can play on tables as small as 0.05/0.10 NL, and as long as a rake is taken, and you saw the flop in which a rake was taken, it counts as a raked hand. I three tabled it at 0.12/0.25NL and had my bonus in about 3hrs. really soft players too. The ones I used were casino.net, sportingbetpoker.com, and aces.com. Highly recommend this site, because you can get $100 bonus from only like a $20 deposit.

***note: the reason it took so long to get it, is that at the small tables, they only rake like half the time cause the pots are usually so small. if you play 1/2 above, you can probably cut this time in half.

Schwartzy61 · #8 06-24-2005, 10:02 AM

I think there's 6 of them that will give you $100 for 500 raked hands. Hard to pass that up, even with an ambiguous definition of raked hand and no bonus monitoring system. YOu do have to be careful and read all terms. Just as an example Casino.net says a raked hand is one in which you have contributed to the pot, but the blinds do not count as contributions. So that bonus really isn't a good 5x.

Not sure about how many sites you are limited too, haven't seen any T&C that include that wording.

In interesting note about the IPN, when heads up on any betting round there's no cap on raises. This is the only site I have seen with this feature and thought it was pretty cool.

BradleyT · #9 06-24-2005, 10:05 AM

Can you see how many raked hands you have accumulated so far?

P.S. Crypto has unlimited raises HU when the betting round started HU.

OrangeBaller · #10 06-24-2005, 11:16 AM

I've played on 4 different ones, I think they are 17 in all but you can only play 3 from one IP address. Does anyone know which ones you don't have to contribute to the pot to count as a raked hand? I know that on CelebPoker you do and I wasn't willing to grind it out.