Building Your Bankroll With Online Poker Promotions

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Building Your Bankroll With Online Poker Promotions

Whenever I go looking for a game of online poker on a poker site I have not played on, the first thing I check is the online poker rooms available promotions. Of course I ensure there is nothing too dodgy about the poker room’s background as I don’t want to join a room which may close and take my money; but mostly I go straight for the poker room’s promotions page.

Poker Online Promotions can add a substantial amount of money to your bankroll when selected and used wisely. The first promotion I look at is the sign up bonuses. Getting a good deal on a sign up bonus can double and even triple your bankroll. Some signup promos include free rolls for first depositors. Make sure you check on these also and ensure they are being played when YOU can play them! Living in Australia the 3am wakeups for tournaments can get annoying!

Many poker rooms also offer loyalty rewards, free entries into live tournament satellites, refer a friend programs and online stores where you can spend you loyalty reward points. It is very important that you look at all of these different promotions available and make sure you use them to your full advantage.

Let me show you just how much you can increase your bankroll from a $50 deposit.

Deposit $50 on a site where you receive a 100% signup bonus and you suddenly have $100 (this usually has conditions related to the amount of points you earn – the more you play the quicker it’s paid).

Refer a friend and have them successfully deposit and you may receive another $50.

Some sites offer up to 12 $1000 freerolls for new depositors win or place in a few of these and add maybe $300 to your account.

Summarised: for your $50 you now have $450 PLUS the tournament entry fees which would likely equate to another $60 making your total profit just from joining depositing and playing $460 give or take a few dollars – and that’s profit folks!

To look at this one step further at the same time you are playing you are earning points. These points also go towards tournament entries and merchandise purchases. With some online poker sites the promotions really don’t end! I do mean this too, with some offering free cash, VIP tourneys; monthly freerolls and Country related ones. Other things include raffle like cash wins and bad beat jackpots.

Now remember the above figures are just an example of what you CAN get and they have not taken into account the fact that some people may deposit $50 go to a cash table, spend their bankroll unwisely and use their $50 in one hand. Advice is NOT to do that!

All in all ensuring that you look closely at the online poker promotions available at all sites can be very profitable. Enjoy searching through some new sites available promos, don’t sit back and be ripped off, miss out and fall behind. Change rooms if your room doesn’t offer good promotions!