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Playing poker online and receiving poker bonuses is very common nowadays. From one point of view, it’s an excellent marketing tool for poker sites that try to attract as many people as possible, from another point of view, poker sites must offer some kind of bonus to be able to compete in an industry that’s governed by so many outrageous rake back and bonus deals.
There are some smaller poker sites on the Internet that offer their gamblers substantial poker bonuses which is not the smartest thing for them to do, but under the circumstances, they are compelled to do so.
And for this reason you need to understand that not all poker bonuses are, at first, what they seem to be. Although some poker sites offer true value bonuses, there are other poker sites that use bonuses just as a marketing method, and this does not give people any rewards at all. You need to have a good idea of what to look for so that you can recognize poker bonuses that are phony.
First, the amount of bonus money that’s advertised is irrelevant. The poker site may have banners advertising - $800 free! - but it does not mean that you’ll get $800 for free. What it means is that the site will match your poker bonus up to an $800 maximum. The important factor is the percentage your bonus is matched with, and not necessarily what the maximum is. So, the higher the percentage of your bonus, the higher the balance of the bonus.
The second thing that poker bonuses seldom advertise is that they all involve some type of redemption. Yes, you heard this right, and there are no exemptions to this bonus rule. There are some poker sites that offer people free money with supposedly no commitments at all, (these bonuses are known as free poker bankrolls), but in fact people have to overturn that money many times before they can cash out, in other words people have to unlock these poker bonuses in the same way they would have to unlock standard bonuses.
In order to see a poker site’s true colors, you need to know what to look for and be able to recognize the differences between the above mentioned two points.
There are some poker sites that will give you your bonus in small amounts of $10, $20, or $50, and there are other poker sites that will give it to you in a lump sum. Of course, there is no need to mention which one of these bonus options is more rewarding. When your bonus is continually given to you in small amounts, then you will at least get some of it before it expires. It is a lot riskier to get it in one lump sum, and if it has a short legality and a large play-through specification, it will completely lose value.
In summary, the play-through specification is the one most important aspect that basically defines the value of a poker bonus. And this is why it’s so important that you thoroughly understand how this mechanism woks.