Poker Bonus Clearing

What is a poker bonus? Put in simple terms, it's free money a poker room gives to you for signing up and making a deposit. Bonuses vary in match and size, but most standard you will find will be around 100% up to $500. This means if you deposit $500, you will be given $500 as a bonus. However, there are strings attached and that is what this website is about. You have to "clear" each bonus, which means you usually have to earn x amount of points for the bonus money to become yours. Each site is much different from the next and it can be confusing, so knowing the poker bonus clearing details can be difficult. But that is what this site is designed for, to explain you in detail how to clear each bonus!

Here are a few of the very best poker bonuses available, handpicked for your poker bonus clearing convenience:

Every bonus is different in size and scope and is also offered by different sites etc., so theoretically, every single bonus might necessitate a different approach in order to be cleared. And remember, here you will find the largest collection of bonuses and bonus codes on the entire net, so be sure to check out which ones the site you are trying to become a member of require and you will be on your way to getting your free money!

The procedure to qualify for the exclusive poker bonuses can differ greatly from site to site. One way is through using an exclusive poker referral code, either during sign up at the site or while you are making your first deposit. Of course, after you qualify for the bonus, you will need to clear it. The most common way of clearing bonuses involve real money play. Just sit down at a few tables, play for a while wagering real money, earn player points in the process and these will count towards the releasing of your bonus. But I guess this can be better explained using a real world example.

Let's take for instance Full Tilt. It is one of the most popular sites on the net, and everyone who plays poker online has heard of Full Tilt Poker at some point or the other. It has one of the best user interfaces you are going to find, and comes out a winner when it is compared to pretty much any site in terms of game availability, variety of stakes, tournament structure, overall traffic, and much, much more. It simply is the best, and they accentuate this by giving new users using the FlopTurnRiver code a 100% match bonus of up to $600, and all you have to do to qualify for this exclusive poker bonus is use our unique Full Tilt Poker Referral Code. This means that if your first deposit is of any amount up to $600, Full Tilt will match it and put it into your bonus account. You will have a total of 90 days (3 months) since the day of your first deposit to get it cleared, and Full Tilt bonus clearing requires you to gather 10,000 points in order to clear the whole $600 (which is released in $20 chunks or 10%, whichever is smaller, into your account).

But how exactly is the poker bonus clearing done in this case, you ask? The answer is: through play. All you have to do is play some real money games on the site and generating rake in the process, which will be converted into player points depending on what games you play. The easiest ones to calculate are the tournaments, such as multi table tournaments (MTT), single table tournaments (STT), heads-up sit-n-go's, and the like. $1 paid in tournaments fees equate to about 7 Full Tilt Points (FTPs). This means that if you enter a $5+$0.50 SNG, you would have paid $0.50 in tournament fees, and therefore you would receive 3.5 FTPs. As you can see, playing some tourneys can get your poker bonus clearing on pace very quickly.

In real money cash games, the calculation is a bit different, but the process is still simple. When $1 is taken in rake from any given pot, anyone who has been dealt into that hand will collect 1 FTP. It maxes out at $3 per pot; therefore a maximum of 3 FTPs can be collected from any given pot at any given time by any given player. Naturally, $3 rake per pot only occurs when you play at a little bit higher stakes, such as 100NL, and if you only deposited $600 you would be severely under-rolled to do this. But that is beyond the scope of this article. Again, poker bonus clearing while playing cash games is a little bit more complext than while playing tourneys, but it's still very easy.

So, if you decide to deposit the whole $600 and use our exclusive Full Tilt Poker Referral Code, then your poker bonus clearing mission will be to collect 10,000 FTPs, and you got 90 days to do it. You have to choose your method of succeeding at this, and get on it. Just play real money games on Full Tilt Poker with any kind of frequency, and you will be pocketing yourself an extra $600. That is without mentioning other perks you get by signing up at Full Tilt Poker via FTR, which include a variety of specially held tourneys and bounty prizes, and also at least two special freerolls. In total, you will be granted access to over $800 in extra money each and every month. But I did not tell you that; I kept that secret entirely to myself...

We can use the other online juggernaut for an example of bonus clearing: PokerStars. It dwarfs all other online poker sites (including Full Tilt Poker) in terms of sheer size, traffic, and game availability. And PokerStars is also offering new players signing up via FlopTurnRiver a very juicy first deposit bonus also being a 100% match up to $600. In addition to that is, again without mentioning, over $1,000 in exclusive tournament prize pools that are on offer for FlopTurnRiver players each and every month until the end of time. To qualify for this massive mountain of great things, you have to make sure you use our exclusive PokerStars Marketing Code and PokerStars Bonus Code when you are registering your new account.

PokerStars bonus clearing requirement is that an amount 17x the deposit amount has to be earned in VIP Player Points (VPPs) for the bonus to be released into your account. Also worth noting is that the bonus will not be released in chunks, but rather in one lump sum.

So let us break that down. 17 x the deposit amount: if you were to deposit the whole $600, you would need 17 x 600 = 10,200 VPPs to clear the whole bonus.

VPPs on stars can be earned simply by participating in real money cash games or real money buy-in tournaments. The rate at which you earn VPPs will depend entirely on which games you play, and what stakes you play them at. For example, if you play a single single table tournament (STT) with a $6+$0.50 buy-in, you would be paying $0.50 in tournament fees. For every $1 you pay in tournament fees you earn 1 VPP, and up to 5 Frequent Player Points (depending on your VIP level and multiplier, but FPPs do not count towards PokerStars bonus clearing, only VPPs do). If instead you enter a $25+$2 buy-in tournament, you would be paying $2 in rake and therefore earning about 10 VPPs.

For cash games, your VPP generation rate is calculated a bit differently. You have to see into how many people got dealt into the hand, and how much rake did get taken from the pot. When a table has 8 or more seats, 6VPPs will be awarded for every $1 in rake that has been taken from the pot, and then will be divided equally between all the players that have been dealt a hand during the hand in question. This means, if there were 9 people seated at the table and each got dealt cards and there was taken a total of $1.50 of rake during that pot, the total amount of VPP that would be divided among the table would then be 6 * 1.50 = 9VPPs. Because there were 9 players, each would receive 9/9=1 VPP for that hand. If instead there are 7 or fewer seats, you would get 5.5 VPP awarded for every $1 in rake taken, and this will be divided among everyone that got dealt a hand. So say there were 7 players seated, but one was sitting out so that only 6 got cards dealt and the pot generated about $3 in rake. $3 in rake in this situation would mean 3*5.5=16.5 total VPPs would be awarded, and these would then be divided by the 6 dealt-in players. Each player would earn 2.75 VPPs in this scenario.

Of course, the higher you play, the quicker you will be releasing your bonus. You will need to earn a total of 10,200 VPPs to get the entire bonus released into your account. You can mix and match stakes and games to get there, and how you get there is entirely up to you. Simply pick whatever game(s) you are most comfortable playing and grind away to clear your bonus!

And those were just two examples of the literally hundreds of poker room bonuses you will find in the FlopTurnRiver bonus database. FlopTurnRiver will offer you access to a plethora of bonus codes for every site in existence, no matter how big or small. Other great examples of our exclusive poker bonus codes and poker referral codes include UB (formerly Ultimate Bet), which after using the UB Referral Code will grant you a 100% bonus up to an incredible $1,100 AND also access to over $400 in added prize money or freeroll tournaments each and every month! It boils down to this: if an online poker site has any kind of poker bonus whatsoever, FlopTurnRiver has it in its poker bonus codes database and will gladly give you access to it! And on top of that, FlopTurnRiver goes the extra mile and offers extra tournaments on most of the sites, such as exclusive freerolls and members-only money-added tournaments, which have very weak competition and do not leave free money on the table ever!

Remember, the specifics may vary, but in order to clear pretty much any online poker bonus all you have to do is play some real money games, whether they are cash games or tournaments. Most, if not all, are based on this same principle. Please be sure to do a little light research (in all cases FlopTurnRiver has already done that for you) in order to be entirely certain you qualify for any given poker bonus and know how to clear the bonus within the allotted time.

Now ride free, and may your hands hold up, young grasshopper!