I’ve won $564!!!  You heard me.  $564!!!!  And it all started with a measly $5 no-deposit bonus at JonWoodGaming.

I didn’t win all of the $564 at JWG.  $464 was won at JWG, and as I’ve explained in a previous post much of this money - I would estimate about half - was won because there was a bug in their site.  The remaining $100 I won at Hold’em Poker. 

I started playing at Hold’em Poker because I joined this site called Emperesspoker, where you get paid to click on links to poker rooms (I know pathetic).  You get $5 for joining the site and you need to click on $195 worth of links in order to get any money from them (you can click on about $.5 worth of links a day).  You also need to become a real money player at one of their affiliated poker rooms, such as Hold’em Poker. 

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I have lost my patience with LTD Poker. I thought I was going to get a $50 bonus from them for signing up with Noble Poker, as indicated on their website. However, after about a month of waiting I have received nothing, nada, zilch. I would get replies to my email querries, initially indicating that everything looked good and that I should get my money as soon as the “stats” came through. But after about a dozen emails with different changing stories I have come to believe that I’ve just been getting the runaround. LTD most recently told me that they would deposit the bonus money into my Neteller account, but I needed to have it certified. I did this, and then they said it needed to be a Premium account. It is not stated on their site that you need a Premium account.  Americans, like myself, cannot get Premium accounts.  And according to Neteller people, the Premium account has more limitations than a certfied account, and so there is no valid reason why LTD cannot make a peer-to-peer transfer. I let LTD know all of this.  In fact, I copied and pasted to one of my emails the chat discussion I had with a Neteller official.  I never heard any reply back from them.  I think that we have good evidence that LTD is a bogus affiliate.  If hell freezes over, and I get the bonus, then I will gladly retract these comments.  But until then, I suggest that you don’t waste your time with them.  You will just end up being extremely frustrated.

I’m always looking for opportunities to play online poker without having to pay any money.  I recently found such an opportunity at PokerSourceOnline.  They’re this affiliate that gives you stuff - eg poker books, poker chips, poker tables - if you sign up with an online poker room that they sponsor.  I believe that to get the stuff you have to play a certain amount of raked hands at the poker room. But I’m not sure how it works, because I don’t need stuff.

PSO also offers an opportunity to get real money for FREE if you sign up with either Titan or Party, and you don’t even have to give your credit card information.  What a deal!  Of course, there’s a catch, namely you have to play a certain amount of raked hands in order to cash out your money.   But this beats playing for play money any day of the week, and the more experience the better.

I signed up with Titan, because I already have a Party account, and if you have an account with either place, then you’re not eligible for the deal.  I got $50 (it took about 5 days before the money got into my account, but they warn you that it takes this long in advance), and then I had to play enough hands to accumulate 4500 Titan points.  I’ve been playing the last two days for about 8 hours at the $0.50/$1 tables and I’ve accumulated about 325 points.  I’ll let you do the math to figure how long it will be before I can get paid, so to speak.

That’s assuming,of course, that there will be any money left in my account when I get to the 4500 tp mark.  As of now, I’m down to my last $10.  I don’t think I’ll be in for much more.  You’ll find out tomorrow.