Table-hours to clear $180 bonus at UB?

[carlo]

Guiding into this--At party I've played approximately 600+ hands to make the 500 raked hands for a $100 bonus(.5,1 table)--about 80% will be raked. Calculating the ultimate points set up(.25 ultimate points per .25 rake($5 pot)) the calculation leads to approximately 4x as many raked hands to receive 0ne ultimate point. Factored to this you will need 10 ultimate points to redeem $1 of bonus which is opposed to party's which is one half of this(5 raked hands per $1 bonus). Ergo you will need approximately 8x as many hands to redeem the $100 bonus-- 4800 hands.yuk,yuk,yuk.

[MicroBob]

since i usually multi-table the party/empire games....i will just replace one of my tables with a UB table (or maybe 2).

so instead of 4-6 party/empire tables i'll just play 2 or 3 tables on empire and 1 or 2 on UB.

this is how i worked off the bonuses at paradise and stars the last time through.
it might take me well over a week on the UB tables though since i have $300 to clear.


i know of a couple other players who have over $1000 in bonus-money. they just can't bring themselves to make the effort towards clearing it.


they are running that promo of trying to earn the most points between Jun 4-16 to qualify for various freerolls.
i wonder if the extra incentive to play has promted more action than usual.

i don't care about the free-roll itself....but if it brings about fishier than usual play then i'm all for it.
the period to try to earn the points is almost expired though and i haven't checked out the action to see if it really is fishier.

9k players logged onto UB right now though which i think is a little higher than normal. the pot-avg's and SF% for 1-2, 2-4 and 3-6 all seem typically tight.

since i've been playing a bit more NL lately i may try clearing the bonus via those games.
wonder if the bonuses go any faster on the UB NL games and if the games are any fishier to warrant playing them.

i might be willing to invest a few hours to come up with some conclusions. i'm kind of tired of the limit games at UB which just aren't terribly profitable imo. my hunch is that the NL games are equally tight....but i want to check to make sure.