Poker Bonus

Because of the raise of the level of competition between poker players, poker rooms have been forced to implement some changes to their software to convince each player to pick a particular poker room and stay loyal to it. One of the first strategies adopted by poker rooms is to introduce the big sign up bonus. This means you will get money free, just for signing in on a particular poker site. When you decide to start playing poker online and you have money problems, you realize that a good initial bonus can get you started in your way to winning enough money to keep playing and buying you nice things. These bonuses involve giving you, the player, a percent out of you initial payment under the form of a bonus for signing up with that particular poker site. Let us assume that a site offers you a 20% bonus if you pay at least 100$ when you sign in for the first time. This means that after you have deposited 100$ you will have in your account 120$.

There are always restrictions when it comes to the sign up bonus. Usually you have to play a certain number of hands to receive the bonus money. The bonus is blocked on your account and you cannot touch it until you finish the number of hands you are required to play. This decision is taken by the administrators of the poker rooms in order to avoid any abuse from the part of the poker players. They want to make sure that their investment under the form of the bonus is used to play on their site, not taken out of the site account and used for other purposes, outside the site. You have to realize that there is the danger that you loose all the money before playing all the required hands. In this case, you will have to make another deposit to get the bonus. There are some poker rooms that pay the player in small amounts, whereas other just send the bonus money to the player at one time so as the player has enough money to play.

In order to make the right decision when you choose the site with the best sign up bonus you have to think of two variables. The first is the different percent for the bonus. A 100% percent out of 100$ is much better then 50% out of 300$ if you are looking to invest only 100$. The other variable refers to the restrictions you have to respect. These restrictions can vary a lot. For example, for 100$ with a 100$ bonus you can be forced to play twice as many hands in comparison with the 50% bonus for depositing a 300$ amount. These restrictions can be very hard to meet, especially if you are looking to play a small amount of money. The risk of loosing all the money before you actually get the bonus is very high. The offer for sign up bonuses varies considering both the amount of money you want to invest and how much you want to play the game. The best bonus requires a higher percent out of the initial payment and a small number of hands that you are forced to play until you are able to cash in the bonus. A good offer will give you 30%-50% and will ask of you to play 5-8 hands per dollar given as bonus. A medium quality offer will give you around 25%-40% with 9 to 15 hands for every dollar you will be given as a bonus. A bad bonus offer will force you to play around 15 hands for every dollar you will be getting out of the bonus.