Homer's legendary whoring post

[Idaho Ave]

I recently established my first interenet poker account. I had plans to follow Homers whoring instrutions in order to establish a bankroll.
I started at William Hill for their 25 dollars for 5 hours of play, played for five hours and got no bonus. This was disheartening, because Homer's post was so highly regarded and beautiful in theory.
I did not play ring games but only played SnG's. However I never saw a "x raked hands" in the guidlines. My specific question is why did I not recieve the bonus?, and my broad question is, are bonuses typically easy to clear, or does the practice of clearing bonuses usually involve some quibbling?
Thanks for the advise past, present, and future.
-Idaho

[bconway6]

Most of the bonuses requirements are in terms of raked hands. I would guess that this is the reason you did not make the bonus. I am not nearly an expert on bonus whoring though.
So far I have not had any trouble in getting the bonuses from parytpoker. (thats the only one ive tried so far)

[Thythe]

99% of bonuses can only be cleared through ring game play. Sit n gos don't count. Even at sites where they do count they count so minisculy (is that a word?) so as to make them almost useless. You can clear them decently at Pokerstars with sit n gos, but that's about it.

[BradleyT]

Hope you won cuz you got 5 hours of ring games to play to get the bonus.