Year-end poker bonus for those who don’t get poker bonuses

I’m like the party guest who refuses to leave.

I’ll pop in now and again, with slot and life talk on pokergrub.com and poker talk here. Or a bit of both.

I’m desperately trying to maintain my sanity in the low-limit SnGs, thanks to a bet I made with a friend. You know the kind, whoever wins the most money playing 50 of them this month wins a free steak dinner (which includes dessert, because dessert is part of the meal).

Only he thought I said $10+1 instead of $11+1, and the big difference in playing the non-turbos is a few more years off my life in frustration.

On the other hand, variance is much lower and my bankroll hasn’t been making the wild stock market waves.

I have a dozen and a half left to go, and if I don’t completely nosedive I should be okay. He finished his at $8 up for a 1.6 percent ROI. I’d like to think I can do better, but the last time I tried this in the turbos, I ended up over $100 down (but still won the contest).

Adding extra intrigue to our wager is a lapdance, though he’s too hairy to perform. I could take him to Little Darlings, where lapdances are $40 (for contact), but I’d never exploit a bet like that, would I?

The past couple months I’d been doing really well at Full Tilt, winning a couple cheap multis that I’d mention in more detail if not for the fact that I dumped it all in a bad run at SnGs.

Now I’m trying to grind my way back up, and slowly but surely it’s working. Just need to maintain patience and not jump ship and go wild on the shorthanded cash games that I’m still fond of doing.

It’s been awhile since there’s been a really good bonus offer from Lederer et al., but they just announced a nice one for people like me who don’t normally get bonuses.

Those (also like me) who complain about not getting bonuses is actually a savvy marketing move that I first noticed from Party Poker — lure players who haven’t played in awhile with bonuses to return to playing and shun the loyal players. Why spend more money on players they already have in their pockets? Complain and threaten to leave, and good riddance, we don’t need another 12-tabler shark hogging all the cash.

It’s why I still play on Full Tilt without rakeback and despite not getting bonuses when everyone else seemingly is.

Anyway, the new bonus offer rewards Iron Man members with a big juicy bonus in January.

In December, just make one of the four Iron Man levels (bronze, silver, gold, iron), and you’ll get a bonus not just for that month but for all months that you made Iron Man in 2007.

For every month you’ve made bronze, you get $25 in bonus. For every month you’ve made silver, you get $50 in bonus. For gold, $75. For iron, $100.

Up to $600 (a discrepancy on their site says $600 in one place and $1200 in another) in bonus will be in qualified accounts beginning January, and after working it off, the lump sum of it will be credited at the end of the month.

For those with rakeback, I assume it would count against that rakeback, but it’s still a good deal to get the bonus plus remaining rakeback.

Now to try to sneak into bronze next month despite another too-soon Vegas trip and the Christmas holidays.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 27th, 2007 at 8:05 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.