What's My Problem

[Talking Poker]

I'm with you.... At some point, spending 4 hours to "guarantee" a $12 win seems silly, when that same 4 hours could be spent to earn much, much, much more (in the long run, of course - in any given 4 hour session, I am certainly capable of losing a nich chunk of change).

P.S. See bold above. Either you are getting $200 bonuses somewhere, or.... oh, I see. Did you mean Big BLIND instead of Big BET? Remember, in PT (and most of the time when you see people talk in terms of win rate), BB = Big Bet.

[PShabi]

No, no, no. I always mean Big Bets.

Didn't party used to offer up to $200 because I know I deposited 1k a couple times.

They quit that a few months ago and maybe my subconscious mind was hoping the bonii would come back.

You get the point though.

[GeoffM]

Oh, you guys are confusing the shit out of me.

I clear around $200-$300 in bonuses weekly. I have only REALLY started to bonus whore, where I will find a site with monthlys (pokernow, party, empire). I think I might even pop $1000 in Absolute this evening, as I would have 60 days to clear the bonus. I will make my deposit, get the bonus pending and withdraw as I have a few other bonuses to get to first.

BB means big bets in everyone's book, doesn't it? At micro-limits, I can usually win somewhere around 5BB/100 hands, so yeah, $5 is kind of crappy for 45 minutes of 4 tabling, but multiply that 45 minutes by 7 (for 700 raked hands at Party) and I figure I made (counting the bonus as PURE PROFIT) $135 in 5.25 hours, or ~ $25.75 an hour. Not too bad. This is my whole thought process behind bonus whoring. Not only am I blessed with some of the crappiest players online at these limits, the bonus is very nice and off to the next site. I'm sure some of the bigger boys on here make more per hour than me, but I don't have to deal with the swings, nor do I really want to at this stage.

Edit to add: Believe me, I can surely find 10-12 sites to do this on each and every month. It simply becomes a time issue with me. If I didn't come to work every day, I would be making this much every day.