Free money from Party Poker

smoore · #21 (**permalink**) 08-23-2006, 04:43 PM

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Originally Posted by smoore

Wow, cool. If you win it's "cash", if you lose it comes off of the "restricted" amount.

I know this because I had a +20 swing last night where I was up to some $65. This morning only $16 of my moniez are restricted, yet I need 300 more raked hands to clear it.

Furthermore, if you win a SnG, your restricted amount "refills". I won one and now I have $40.00 restricted, $33 available.

edit: this could all be incorrect, different bonus screens are showing me different things

yeltzen · #22 (**permalink**) 08-23-2006, 07:12 PM

Remember when Party used to have $200 x 1400 raked hand bonuses? Those were the days...

smoore · #23 (**permalink**) 08-23-2006, 08:13 PM

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Originally Posted by yeltzen

Remember when Party used to have $200 x 1400 raked hand bonuses? Those were the days...

I credit those bonuses for my being a winning player. Had I not gotten them so frequently I would have gone broke learning how to play. I might not have quit but I certainly would have had to spend my own money.

yeltzen · #24 (**permalink**) 08-23-2006, 09:33 PM

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Originally Posted by smoore

I credit those bonuses for my being a winning player. Had I not gotten them so frequently I would have gone broke learning how to play. I might not have quit but I certainly would have had to spend my own money.

I was too dumb to notice them when I was first starting (and I lost my money too fast). Once I started getting serious about limit, I went from .50/1 to $3/6 in two weeks because of them (Party & Empire). I lost it all, but still.

R Deckard · #25 (**permalink**) 08-23-2006, 10:03 PM

I stopped playing PP around Oct 2004, and about six months later in March 2005 I got an email saying they added $50 to my bonus account. I ignored it, did not play at all, and the bonus expired. Then in Oct 2005, I got another email that said they had added $100 to my bonus account, with about 45 days to clear it. That was enough incentive to get me to try playing there again, and since then I have managed to turn it into $240, grinding it out at .50/$1 LHE cash games and $6 NLHE MTT SNGs. Unfortunately, it is chump change compared to the losses I have racked up at 'stars, Full Tilt, and Doyle's Room, not to mention my early online days at Paradise (when they were the big dog).

PFunk · #26 (**permalink**) 08-23-2006, 10:09 PM

Just to clarify...You are still playing with that original free money deposit from over a year ago, and have profited $140 from it in that time?

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Originally Posted by R Deckard

I stopped playing PP around Oct 2004, and about six months later in March 2005 I got an email saying they added $50 to my bonus account. I ignored it, did not play at all, and the bonus expired. Then in Oct 2005, I got another email that said they had added $100 to my bonus account, with about 45 days to clear it. That was enough incentive to get me to try playing there again, and since then I have managed to turn it into $240, grinding it out at .50/$1 LHE cash games and $6 NLHE MTT SNGs. Unfortunately, it is chump change compared to the losses I have racked up at 'stars, Full Tilt, and Doyle's Room, not to mention my early online days at Paradise (when they were the big dog).

yeltzen · #27 (**permalink**) 08-24-2006, 08:15 PM

Made just enough to cashout. Yeehaw. It's a true freeroll now.

TheMightyJim2k · #28 (**permalink**) 08-25-2006, 01:06 PM

grinding out with free Party money is the only way to play...I took a free $100 from them about 15 months ago and have worked my way up to $1200 playing limit hold'em. Just started 2/4 tables this week and going to shoot for 3/6 within the next month or so...its all a free roll now...

coyote · #29 (**permalink**) 08-25-2006, 04:31 PM

In the words of Tommy Boy Callahan: That. Was. Awwwwesome!

Just took PP's free $40 and turned it into $324 in about 1.5 hours last night at .5/1NL.

Just a SICK card rush. And EVERYTHING held up. I didn't lose a single showdown. Aces held up, Jacks flopped sets, underpairs rivered 1 card straights, Pairs outkicked hit the kicker on the turn, flush draws came home, players folded to continuation bets....

Wow, thanks for reading my no content brag post!

hachkc · #30 (**permalink**) 08-25-2006, 04:42 PM

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Originally Posted by coyote

In the words of Tommy Boy Callahan: That. Was. Awwwwesome!

Just took PP's free $40 and turned it into $324 in about 1.5 hours last night at .5/1NL.

Just a SICK card rush. And EVERYTHING held up. I didn't lose a single showdown. Aces held up, Jacks flopped sets, underpairs rivered 1 card straights, Pairs outkicked hit the kicker on the turn, flush draws came home, players folded to continuation bets....

Wow, thanks for reading my no content brag post!

That happens to me alot. The problem is the alarm clock goes off and I have to wake up.

Congrats.