Bookmaker	Free Bet	Information	Join
	£100	Bet 365 offers great value with free bets up to £100 for new customers.Place a qualifying bet and you will be entitled to a free bet up to a maximum of £25. Place a further 5 bets and you will qualify for a second free bet and so on!	Bet365
	£100	Place an accumulator bet and SportingBetwill match the stake of your 1st five accumulator bets up to a total of £100.	SportingBet
	£50	Paddy Power offers £50 in free bets: Open an account, place a £25 bet and they will give you a free £25 bet. After placing your first free bet, place a further 5 qualifying bets and you will qualify for a second free bet, to the average of your first 5 bets, up to a maximum of £25.	Paddy Power
	£50	Ladbrokes offers new players £50 in free bets: Once you have placed your first bet Ladbrokes will double this stake unit and give you a free bet upto a maximum of £25 per account.	Ladbrokes
	£10	Coral is offering £10 free for new customers who deposit and bet £10 on a sporting event.	Coral
	£50	BlueSquare will match the stake of your first bet (at Evens or greater), with a free bet up to the value of £25 once it has been settled!Place a total of 10 bets of at least £25 or more and you will qualify for a second free bet token of £25.	BlueSquare
	£50	VC Bet will match your first bet stake with a free bet up to a maximum of £25. place five more consecutive real money bets of £10 or more to be rewarded with another £25 free bet.	VC Bet
	£50	Open an account on BetFred, place your bet of £5 or more and betfred will give you a free bet to the same value, up to a maximum of £50, credited into your account within 48 hours.	BetFred
	£25	No Lose Gamble! Get a £25 Free bet within 24 hours! Simply create an account. make a deposit to your account and place a bet up to £25. If your first bet loses, you’ll receive your cash up to £25 within 24 hours.	Betfair
	£25	StanJames will match the stake of your first bet (at Evens or greater), with a free bet up to the value of £25 once it has been settled!	Stan James
	£20	Irish bookmakers BoyleSports offer a free £20 bet. Deposit and bet £20 to receive your free bet.	BoyleSports

Please ensure that you read the terms and conditions attached to the free-bet offer before you sign up.

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A bonus whore will usually only return to one of the poker rooms they have whored if they are given a reload bonus (equivalent to added rakeback for a month), or if the poker room is particularly soft.

Bonus Whoring Considerations

• Rakeback: If you can get rakeback and clear it at the same time as your deposit bonus, you are getting more than just rakeback.
• Bonus Release Rate: When unlocking bonuses, it is desirable to get the lowest possible irelease rate to unlock your bonus – or at least a reasonable rate. Raking $50 to clear $10 in bonus is not-unreasonable.
• Multi-Tabling: It’s often essential that you can multi-table with ease to hit the targets required to unlock your bonus. Desirable features on a site which you may bonus whore on are: traffic, pokertracker / holdem manager support (to track bonuses/raked hands etc).
• Rake Races: Rake races offer the potential to win additional prizes as you grind, depending on the amount of rake you generate and your position in the leaderboard during the promotion. Some sites run monthly rake races. Visit Rake Race and sign up for the mailing list for monthly rake race promotions.

Where to Get Poker Bonuses

Many poker sites offer especially larget poker bonuses and rakeback to savvy players through dedicated sites. Remember that you should always make a suitable first deposit to ensure you are eligible for the maximum permitted bonus when you join a site for bonus whoring. Check out our resources below to get you started.

Poker Bonus Whoring Resources

• Bonus Whoring – Guide to bonus whoring, featuring the best poker deposit bonuses and Poker Loyalty Program Schemes.
• Poker Loyalty Program – Poker loyalty program site, offering loyalty and deposit deals for sites on iPoker, OnGame, Fulltilt, Boss Media, PokerStars and more.
• Rakeback – Rake360 Rakeback offers rakeback and VIP deals for most online poker rooms, deposit bonuses, and a selection of juicy rake-races.
• Rake Race – site offering rake-race information and mailing List,
  keeping you up to date with new rake-races.

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The series will run from the 1st of October through to the 10th. Paradise Poker will also be running a €10,000 Freeroll on 10th October (with a paltry 10 raked hands needed for entry). Make sure you don’t miss out on this sick value!

Resources

• Paradise Poker – Official Paradise Poker web-site
• Boss Media Rakeback – 30% Rakeback at Paradise Poker

Rake is how poker rooms make their money. That is the money that the poker rooms deduct from every pot. Usually the rake is a couple of percent with a cap at around $3 at the highest limits. There is also rake on tournaments, where the large portion of the buy in goes to the prize pool, and a little fee goes to the poker site. The poker rooms make huge money from the rake the players contribute with. It is not unusual that a single player pay $3000 to the poker room every month, and that’s just one player. A poker room with more than 10,000 active players earns quite a lot of money to say the least.

What is Rakeback?

Rakeback is a refund to the poker player.. Poker players receive a percentage of the rake they pay to the poker room. A normal rakeback offer is between 25% and 40%, but sometimes players can get an even better offer. If you receive 35% rakeback, and rake $1000 one month, you will get $350 back. The more you rake, the more you get back. Some sites offer what they call a “poker VIP Bonus“, which to the player is equivalent to rakeback.

How do I get rakeback

If you want to get rakeback you have to sign up at a poker room through a special link (which lets the poker room know that they must give you rakeback (as normal players do not automatically get rakeback). Some sites offer multiple rakeback deals (e.g. Poker Rakeback Deals. All of the poker site links on this page entitle you to rakeback when you join the poker room.

A referring rakeback site earns a couple of percent of your total rake back, but the major part of it goes back into your bankroll.

Some of the poker variations are better suitable for a rakeback deal. If you play shorthanded poker, you are involved in more pots, and therefore pay more rake (and can potentially earn more rakeback). If you play at more than one table at the time you also play more hands, and pay more rake. When you are involved in a lot of pots you should definitely play with rakeback – otherwise you are really throwing away a LOT of money unnecessarily.

There is no downside to rakeback – you will earn a lot of extra cash, or save cash depending on how you look at it. Just do it!

Rake Races

A rake race is a competition to rake more money than anyone else on a particular poker site in a given timeframe. Rake Races either count the number of hands you rake, or the value of the rake from the hands which you have played.

Rake race leaderboards pay out 20-50 people usually, sometimes even the top 100 raking players are paid.. so there is plenty of incentive to play (however just like a tournament payout structure, the bulk of the money to be won is at the top of the ladder). The prizes are lucrative, with some rake races paying up to €30,000 to the winner!

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