I had my doubts about whether I was ever going to do it.  But I did it.  I actually cashed out money from JonWoodGaming. $300 to be precise.  How sweet it is.

Not all of what I cashed out was winnings, however, since withdrawing money at JWG required that I deposit $25 and then play 4x this amount of money. So of the $300, only $275 was profit. Not too shabby, given that I started with a $5 no-deposit bonus. I can’t crow too much since much of my winnings was due to an error with their program. I figure I legitmately earned about half.

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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.

Yesterday, I found a promotion at UnitedPokerForum (one of my favorite places for poker promotions) to play with $5 (no deposit) at a flash online poker room called JohnWoodGaming. 

Due to some good luck, I turned this $5 into over $25 in about 4 hours, and was under the impression that I could cash out, as the website doesn’t state any playthru requirements for when your initial deposit is made as a bonus.  All the site basically says is that you need a minimum of $25 to cash out. 

I wanted to cash this money out for two main reasons.

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