For budding whores:

www.martinspoker.com

look at promotions - you can get 800 euros ($1000) at 5x. This is a very good bonus BUT:

1] Your money is locked up for three months ($1000)
2] This is B2B. These are Scandanavians. There are very few limit games this is for NL PL ppl (EG me and missot ).
3] Scandanivians play a very odd game of poker- they love their draws - and will pay heavily to draw - but be prepared to get rivered a lot!! Actually I consider this a bonus in terms of experiencing a different type of poker..
4] Pokertracker can work - but it's a real pain.


This bonus can be cleared in four or five days but you have to take three months so use this time to play sexy Swedish SnGs (also goes towards clearing) and generally get a cosmopolitan experience of poker...

This is probably breaking a forum rule but (Steve or Marm edit this at your discretion) but I'm DrDeme there if you want a "refer a friend" --it's not that I want the money its that I want some evidence that I have friends

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See me playing $10/$20NL like it was play money

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Doberman: "but Sarge, isn't poker gambling and just luck?"
Sgt. Bilko:" not the way I play it"

Thanks I'm about to sign up and for 600 euros I will be anyone's friend :-)

They do have limit holdem, up to 1/2 Euros.

I think you've earned the right to a little spam bob.

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You have to leave the money there for 3 months because they are probably using deposits to cover pending cashouts and don't have the $$$ to cover all the virtual chips.

Kind of a scary stipulation if you ask me, especially with giving a free $1,000 so easily. Sounds fishy

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thanks Marm... but str8 up - they haven't got a raf program... I was just curious to see what happened.

I played B2B before (gutshot club = terrible bonus) - and I was getting my butt handed to me before I sorted out what they were doing.

B2B is a major network now - I believe the cash is safe because its held by the B2B transactions bit - not the partner. They usually have a 30 day cashout rule - so 90 days is steep but it is a big bonus.

If you can put away the money for 3 months - its a nice bonus to have in the background. Historically I've done pretty well at thier SnGs and they have a good range of tournaments.

As ever my interest is to get everyone playing on different networks. I want five or six big sites for poker -in this way ol poker remains competative.

From the poker purist point of view these guys play very differently to the North American style - it's an education

The software you either love or hate. If you dual screen you cant drag a table to the second screen ! BUT - in a European way you can play b2b through the Browser,a macintosh and even a Linux machine!

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See me playing $10/$20NL like it was play money

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?...405&q=xxdemexx

Doberman: "but Sarge, isn't poker gambling and just luck?"
Sgt. Bilko:" not the way I play it"

It sure is. I play a lot on Everest, which has a lot of Europeans (and even more South Americans, for some reason), and man! It's like bingo rather than poker. The prevailing attitude is if you have a pocket hand that's even marginally good, go allin. While it seems that this would be just the sort of environment a tight/aggro player would want, it's still frustrating and you MUST catch cards, and early, or you fall hopelessly behind the repeat bingo winners (I speak only of MTTs there, FYI).

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Personally I like the above playing style. Learn to play PLO so when they go all in on draws and bottom set they are drawing practically dead. Probably why I cream the cryptos PLO games.

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not such a bad place

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See me playing $10/$20NL like it was play money

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?...405&q=xxdemexx

Doberman: "but Sarge, isn't poker gambling and just luck?"
Sgt. Bilko:" not the way I play it"

mmm looks good but i can't seem to find the terms and conditions of the bonus on their site. how many raked hands do you have to play (and what's the rake have to get up to? and do you have to see a flop or put money into the pot for it to count for you?) to clear the full deposit bonus?

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