How do Online Poker Room Bonus Codes Work?

Poker room bonuses are a means of offering you the opportunity to earn some additional funds as you play for real money. This guide will look at how these bonuses work and how they are used by online poker rooms. First of all let's cover why they are offered. Online traffic is the one thing that keeps rooms in business so it's vitally important that they attract as many players as possible. The more players they have at their tables, the more money they make. Pretty straight forward. The competition is fierce online and there is more choice that ever before in terms of which poker room to choose. This is where the poker bonus comes in. It's an incentive for players to join the room, in the same way that another company company would offer a special discount or promotion to both attract new customers and keep hold of the customers they already have.

Whilst there are offers that come along that are no deposit bonuses, don't get too excited. Nothing in this world is truly free. Whilst they will give you the cash, you will have to play a certain number of hands or wager a certain amount before you can withdraw it. In essence this works in the same way as a standard bonus. Let’s assume that the bonus offer on a poker room is offering a 100% up to $200 bonus. This means that your first deposit is going to be important in determining how much of that $200 you can earn. As it's a 100% up to, you would need to deposit $200 to be able to earn the full bonus amount. After your initial deposit, you will have to earn that bonus. That means the more raked hands (real money hands) that you play will earn points and these points are what are exchanged for your bonus as you earn them. It varies from room to room however you will usually earn a set amount of money as you earn the required points.

The beauty of these bonuses is that it doesn’t cost you anything and it really is a win-win for you. As you play for real money, the money will be released into your player account and you can do with this money as you please. The amount that you win depends on how much you play and the stakes that you play at (the higher the stakes, the faster you will release the full bonus).

Using Online Poker Bonus Codes

Bonus codes are specific codes that allow you to assign your player account to the bonus being offered. Most sites that advertise for the poker rooms have bonus offers that are over and above the offers you get going direct to the room yourself. This is the incentive to advertise them. As shown below, when signing up (after you have downloaded the client), you will be presented with a screen to enter your details. There will be a space as shown below to enter the bonus code being offered. Enter any code we provide in there to ensure you are assigned the full bonus we are offering.

Some offers do not have a bonus code specific to them and you will be tracked by following the link on our site and automatically assigned to the bonus on offer. Make sure that you check out the release requirements so that you know how much play is required to release the full bonus amount.

 

How do i know this is the best bonus?

You wouldn't be thinking on the right lines unless you ask whether the offer on offer is the best offer. Our primary objective is to offer you bonus offers that are considerably more than what you would receive if you were to visit the poker room directly, and that is guaranteed. Keeping one step ahead of our competitors and bringing you the very best is what keeps us moving forward – check our our online poker sites listings for details of all bonus offers along with other pertinent information regarding our online poker rooms.

The Bonus expires soon?

This is a very good question and one that is frequently asked, so we thought it prudent to explain how it works here. We use rolling bonus offers here at Online-Poker-Codes.com which means that when you sign up with a room you are entitled to the bonus on offer and will be given the full amount of time available in which to clear it, even if the bonus was to expire the day after you sign up - if the time to release was 6 months, you would be given the 6 months to clear the full bonus.

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