Cryptologic FAQs (rough draft)

[parappa]

-UKB, Totalbet and Ritz Club pay for partial hours.

You forgot something on the order of:

Q: How do I tell if the hourly bonus has shown up in my TotalBet, UKBetting, or Ritz Club account if I'm playing dollar tables and my account is in Pounds?

A: When you buy into your dollar table, a popup will come on the screen telling you "You are about to purchase $X worth of chips at a cost of £Y." The easiest way to deal with this is to:

-figure out the exchange rate by dividing the amount of dollar chips you get and the amount of pounds it costs you. (it's usually about 1.8 dollars to the pound right now)
-When you're done playing on the table, make a note of how many dollars you've won or lost (let's assume you've lost $18 to make the math easy)
-Convert that into pounds ($18 makes £10)
-Add/subtract the amount you've won/lost from the starting amount of money in your account (If you bought in for £100, you'll now have £90)
-Compare the amount of money you should have in your account with the amount of money you actually do have in your account. If it is £25 higher, you've cleared all five hourly bonuses

...or something to that effect less horribly written.


-Support: Attempting to communicate with support is essentially useless. I've never had an email to support answered. Calling isn't much better.

-Ritz uses E-cash and Betfair use their own.

[parappa]

Sorry, one more:

Q: I've played five hours but I haven't received the emails telling me I've cleared the hourly bonus. What gives?

A: The only foolproof way to tell if you've gotten the bonus is to keep track of the money in your account. Sometimes the emails come immediately after you clear each hourly bonus, sometimes they come a day or two later, and sometimes they never come. While it is useful to use the emails as a way of verifying that you've cleared all five bonuses (sometimes the last one requires you to go somewhat over five hours), they are unreliable.

[BigBluffer]

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How do I keep track of the number of raked hands that I play?

There is a raked hand counter that is available free of charge at??? ( I don’t have the link…anyone)

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Alternatively, use PokerTracker's Game Notes tab. After each hand update, be sure to click the GET ALL button. Total Raked Hands will be shown at the bottom of the POT column to the right of "TRH -->". Be sure to set the correct date filter in the Preferences tab.

[HesseJam]

Hey, that's my personal POTD!

I always wondered how I could check out that without adding all the raked hands in the sessions menu.

Thanks!

[cjs]

Does anyone know which ones have a casino match and does it require a deposit into the casino side? Are some risk free and others require you to risk your funds first?

Their casino sides always confuse me.

[skaughty]

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Interpoker = up $90, 100% match bonus on your first deposit of the month. You must play 8x the bonus for it to be released. $90 bonus requires 720 raked hands. To clear this promotion the hands must be played at 1/2 Limit or 0.5/1 or NL/PL or above.


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Where is the evidence that the above levels are required for bonus clearance? THe T&C seem to state in rake size (min $.25).

[hhughes]

Cubs...very nice work

There is another question that recently came up during one of the weekly hand promos they have at Total/UKbetting:

During one of the recent promos (Bachelor Party I believe, get dealt 2 Jacks, get a third, etc.) One of the people I was playing with got the wired Jacks and hit the 3rd on the flop...after the hand I reminded this person of the promo and to report the hand to CS to recieve the bonus (which they were not aware of). A third person at the table chimed in and said that these promos only paid out on the GBP tables and not the dollar tables(and we were on a dollar table.)

A discussion ensued about how people had gotten the bonus at the dollar tables before(myself included). The third person told us to go to the site and "read the fine print."

After doing just that, it seemed that what he said about only paying out at the GBP tables was accurate. I dont know if this is the case or not. All I know is that I had been paid previously for these hand promos at the dollar tables (though the time I hit was at least a couple of months ago)

FWIW

[PygmyHero]

This is excellent. Thank you for your effort. It might also be worthwhile to either link to this , or to check it over and see if you can incorporate any of it into a revision.

[stir]

Cubs,

In regard to Classic poker, you should include the fact they do not offer a monthly bonus.

Also strongly consider an warning advisory that Classic Poker is inconsistent in paying their intial bonus. They have not paid me and this problem has been reported by several other 2+2'ers over the past 4-5 months. They seem to ignore emails. Others have been paid no problem, but this situation could be a real concern to someone on a limited bankroll.

[wmspringer]

Yes, I believe I cleared the first month's bonus at .5/1.