Empire Reload 100%, $100 max., 10x raked hands

[mosquito]

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I did, but it was a chore... Usually its a grind, this... was a CHORE

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Ugh. It's a chore all right. Occasional fairish tables and lots of worthless ones. But the bonus is clearing sorta okay. Just tough to make any money from play (had a couple bad beats).

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since the fencing off of pokerskins from party i have all but stopped doing these bonuses....
are they still an easy 10x or is it truly a garden of rocks?
(levels i would be clearing at .50/1 and 1/2)

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I did not check those limits, but I can tell you how Thursday evening NL25 (full ring) tables looked. Sorting by average pot size and picking the 4 best tables, I observed these stats:

Worst table: VPIP 14 PFR 6 (40% of hands count as raked)
Best table: VPIP 26 PFR 4 (60% of hands count as raked)

u kidding me? why can't we whores just get a system down that 4 pplayers always see a flop and it is checked to the river.

[Fraubump]

Depends what you consider good. It took me almost exactly 2000 hands to get 1000 raked. I played a combination of 25nl and limit .5/1 6 max. I made $86 on top of $100 bonus. So it worked out to about 9 cents a hand or about $20/hr. If I look historically at $100 bonuses at party and skins: here is how much I have made outside of the bonus starting with the present and going backwards, all playing mostly 25nl:

86, 45, (15), 19, (26), 65, 31, 6, 1, (12), 50, 201, 64, 29, 79, 17, 98, 74, 28.

No firm conclusions here, but for low risk, nitty bonus whoring, the payoffs haven't changed much over time for me in absolute terms, though they have worsened significantly in hourly rate.

[froggy527]

I treat these X-skins bonus like Bet365, were table selection is very important. Pick a loose table and
when it rocks up move! Plus if you see a table with a
high flop % and high VPIP. But with a lot of people on the waiting list forget about it. Those rocks in waiting
will kill the table before you ever get on it.

[dgoldsmith]

I deposited yesterday and played 2 hours last night, 1 hour at lunch today and about 2 hours tonight to clear the bonus. This was 4-tabling at NL $50. I had about 70% of hands get raked.

Now back to Eurobet to finish last month's bonuses and then over to Multi for this months before they become Party.

Dave

[excession]

There are very few full ring tables but plenty of 6 max ones (up to $200 at least). I played there tonight on the $100 NL 6 max ones and there were some terrible players with very high Vp$iP there.

[mosquito]

Hurrah!

I just got the email from Empire today (the 14th) that PLAYNOV is available.

It came to late for a reload, and

I have already cleared it and withdrawn.

Way to go, Empire!

[Salva135]

I just started on the $100 sign-up bonus at Empire, but I read that they sometimes try to crack down on bonus whores by closing their account if they attain their bonuses and then cash out soon after. Anyone know if this is true?

[parappa]

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I just started on the $100 sign-up bonus at Empire, but I read that they sometimes try to crack down on bonus whores by closing their account if they attain their bonuses and then cash out soon after. Anyone know if this is true?

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The empire "bonus bannings" appear to have been a one-time thing. I wouldn't worry about that.