Archive for November, 2010

Current Trends in the Arena of Bonus Seeking

by Kenny on Friday, November 5th, 2010

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Cracking down on bonus hunters is getting tougher! A wide range of devices and new fighting measures are taken:

"Sticky" bonuses become more and more well-liked ( a gambling house player can not have the quantity of a bonus), last yr a new selection appeared – "phantom" bonuses – a variant of a sticky bonus, but the total of a bonus whilst taking money will not be left around the account, but is removed. At current most gambling houses with PlayTech, Microgaming, RTG softwares offer "sticky" bonuses.

Other gambling dens expand the list of games forbidden for bonus wagering. Blackjack or Video Poker are either forbidden or wager demands increased by 2 to 4 times. A few common net gambling dens introduce bonuses which might be wagered in Slot machines only.

Wager specifications continue to grow. A 12 months ago you could locate web gambling dens offering decent bonuses with ten to twenty times wager requirements. Nowadays 25-30 times are the summit of the hunter’s ambition ( for Slots bonuses wager may well be a bit lower).

Except not everything is so bad. Gambling establishment bonus hunters have new interesting perspective in a related region – online Poker rooms. The Poker industry is growing now incredibly rapidly (the variety of gamers and bets for that last 12 months have grown by much more than 5 times!). New Poker rooms are continually appearing which attempt to appeal to new people offering bonuses, money for enjoying and free of charge rolls, and big Poker sites preserve up with young competitors.

At existing among Poker rooms are more well-known interest bonuses to the initial deposit – twenty to twenty-five per-cent bonus as much as 100 dollars. Fixed bonuses exist (about $50) and in Poker rooms with Cryptologic software monthly bonuses for that time of playing are $5 per hour. The wager requirement is mentioned by the range of wagered deals or the volume of bet money.

New Poker rooms need avid gamers strongly, nobody will come into an empty room, consequently they are ready to propose money to avid gamers not for sitting and actively playing (so-called proposition avid gamers or props – the participant must play at the table appointed by betting houses and he gets for that a bonus or a few tens of dollars per hour).

The third way of earning money is tournaments with free entrance designed to attract new avid gamers and preserve old ones. It can be a tournament on one table with a prize fund of $10 or it may be a tournament for thirty thousand dollars with the first bonus of six thousand dollars (at existing the highest fund of free of charge roll is one hundred thousand dollars!

A question arises: is it as well risky to hunter in Poker. Won’t you lose more? Won’t rake swallow all profits? Here needless to say a lot depends around the level of the player. Nonetheless, at low limits up to 1/2 dollars (it’s no use to trying higher for a hunter and the bank does not enable to risk in this way) the degree of the people is just not too superior, therefore anybody who will spend a couple of hours on studying the chance concept and basic principles of the casino game and print the table of the start hands, has great chance to turn out to be a plus player. Naturally several damaging losses are achievable except in web-based gambling establishments the scenario is the exact same consequently Poker rooms is much more kindly soil for that hunting. And though acquiring actively playing experience a bonus hunter may well well transfer to the class of professional avid gamers and start earning tens and even hundreds of dollars per hour Without BONUSES.

Thus, hunting in web casinos is gradually declining and its place is going to take web Poker hunting. The king is dead, long live to the king.