Paradise 50% Bonus

Pokernews.com is offering a 50% new deposit bonus with Paradise.

"Paradise offer 50% bonus to new depositing poker players up to a maximum of $100 with bonus code pokernews. Bonus code must be used within 30 days of opening your account at Paradise. Players are released the bonus money after wagering in raked games. (over $0.25 in rake) 1 point is awarded for each raked game, once players reach 1000 points $10 is released from the bonus account into players real money account. 500 points / 500 raked hands will be enough to earn the maximum $100 bonus."

Would appreciate all thoughts on this subject.

Thanks everybody for your input.

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I don't know what paradise is doing now, but over Thanksgiving break i cleared a bonus. I started, unknowing they were taking 0.50 out of each pot, regardless of pot size, for a bad beat pot. over the 1500 hands i played on .5/1 FL, I figured i payed about $75 to the bad beat pot. I'm not sure if they are still running the bad beat pot, but I wish I hadn't played there. It sux to steal the blinds, and only make $0.25, which happens a lot at this tight site.

For the record, I find Paradise to be incredibly soft, especially at .5/1.

Thanks everybody for your input, it is appreciated.
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over the 1500 hands i played on .5/1 FL, ... ,which happens a lot at this tight site.

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Is this a joke?

And to the original poster -- Paradise has always released bonuses for me over the past year using a 100 raked hands (> .25) non-contributed --> $10 released scale.

[Ken_AA]

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And to the original poster -- Paradise has always released bonuses for me over the past year using a 100 raked hands (> .25) non-contributed --> $10 released scale.

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ya, im confused. it can't be 1,000 raked hands =10bucks, but at 100 hands = 10bucks would mean that 1,000 total raked hands would need to be played to get the whole bonus not 500as OP says. Unless after the first half the last 50 is given???? so how many hands would be needed to get the full 100 bucks?

also, after you use the code does the bonus have to be cleared in 30 days? (i'm going out of town for a bit soon and would have to do it in about 5 days which would be alot of poker for me).

Ken

[WhiteWolf]

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And to the original poster -- Paradise has always released bonuses for me over the past year using a 100 raked hands (> .25) non-contributed --> $10 released scale.

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ya, im confused. it can't be 1,000 raked hands =10bucks, but at 100 hands = 10bucks would mean that 1,000 total raked hands would need to be played to get the whole bonus not 500as OP says. Unless after the first half the last 50 is given???? so how many hands would be needed to get the full 100 bucks?

also, after you use the code does the bonus have to be cleared in 30 days? (i'm going out of town for a bit soon and would have to do it in about 5 days which would be alot of poker for me).

Ken

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100 raked hands = $10 released is the correct release rate.

Paradise bonuses never expire, and always stack very nicely.

[Fraubump]

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I don't know what paradise is doing now, but over Thanksgiving break i cleared a bonus. I started, unknowing they were taking 0.50 out of each pot, regardless of pot size, for a bad beat pot. over the 1500 hands i played on .5/1 FL, I figured i payed about $75 to the bad beat pot. I'm not sure if they are still running the bad beat pot, but I wish I hadn't played there. It sux to steal the blinds, and only make $0.25, which happens a lot at this tight site.

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This is untrue.

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This is untrue.

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What is untrue about it? Maybe it isn't tight, but that was my impression from playing there, but like i said it was only 1500 hands. Most people were folding pf, but the play was still pretty soft. And the part about the bad beat rake? That was definitely true. Why would I just make [censored] up?