That time of month again. $100 reload at 10x. "PlayNov is the code"

At the moment ppl are giving Empire a bad time.. Saying its not worth playing there. I've really got to disagree. At 0.25/0.5 and below (where the bonus clears in a coule of sessions) the only difference I've noticed is fewer tables. -the play is just as bad as it always was.

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Do you happen to know the rake req to be counted twoards the bonus? I was digging around the site and couldn't find it.

Is it still useful??

so long as the pot is raked, it counts...

just for shits and giggles, i cleared the $25 bonus last week at eurobet playing NL25 where the pot gets raked at $1...so basically every hand gets raked and counts towards the bonus.

the ex-skins are still great to play at....i've prob played there more since the split than before it and notice very little different bout the games.....just as many fools as always if u pick and choose the tables to sit at

also, its nice to see empire move back to a 10x bonus rather than their 20x the last few times.

It's a 10X bonus, from what I heard Empire is a rock garden and I can get this same bonus over a Absolute; literally all the time and actually pay significantly less rake.

It just seems that there are better deals out there, granted it is 100% up to 100$ so if you have a smallish BR then this might not be that bad.

empire is by no means a rock garden...sure, its a rockier garden since the split but with good table selection, there are lots of good games going (im talking 1/2 & 2/4 limit here)....think i said this already here somewhere, but im prob playin (& winning ) more there since the split than before

i actually think that absolute has attracted more rocks since the split....i used to be a big fan of there but i cant find a good game recently.....that could also just be bad timing on my part.

a $100 bonus is not to be sneezed at imo, no matter what size ur BR is at...

also, im no expert on the subject but is the rake not identical except for Absolute raking pots less than $5 at limit games? of course, im open to correction on this one.....

the rake is .5 on a 5$ at Empire (.5/1 or 1/2) at absolute it is 0.25. The thing is you can do bonuses at Absolute till the end of time and get rakeback on top of it. At 0.5/1 pots are raked 0.5 for every 1$ at absolute, but overall it is lower.

People tend to go overboard classifying a place as uber tight etc....

i knew this so why i mention rake at all?

I'm sorry if I don't really understand...

For a $100 dollar bonus, all I need is 1,000 raked hands? And a hand counts as "raked" as long as ANY rake is taken from it? So at 1/2 virtually every hand should count, and I can clear the whole bonus in like 1,100 hands?

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yes.....1/2 is what id play to clear the bonus but it normally takes between 1600-1700 hands to clear. its asking a lot for 1000 raked hands out of 1100 dealt hands