I have never deposited at full tilt so I don't know much about it. I have deposited on stars and it isn't difficult at all to gain your bonus. I know this maybe cheep, but I deposited $25 and had my $25 bonus in 2 days. They give it to you all at once. Goodluck and I will see you on the felts.
fyi make sure you get your bonus it takes awhile unless you play all day everyday. try to stay away from expensive tournements till you get your bonus too. ive made that mistake b4 and ended up depositing again just to get my original bonus.
grandstrom said:
Wow 2 days to get $50 back? What games were you playing? That sounds incredibly fast, because I had deposited $200 and FT was giving the bonus back to me in $20 increments. I find it to be a workout to get the $200 back. I was playing different ring games and mainly $1/$2 limit and I have been able to build up to $20 in 2 days.
Also, has anyone noticed, that the Bonus page would be for example showing: "next bonus will be released after 60 points", but while you are playing I have noticed that on the FTP page I have to go up to almost an extra $100 FTP to get the release. I have been wondering about this discrepency....
koadyawn said:
There is no set answer. It depends on what level you play, how many tables you play at once, and how long you play.
The rule is, each Full Tilt Point is worth $.06 towards your bonus.
You get 7 points for every $1 you pay in tournament entry fees. So in other words, if you tournaments that's $.42 for every $1 you pay toward a tournament.
If you play $10 +$1 tournaments, you'll need to play 1,429 of them. That's a total of $15,719 worth of tournament entry fees. But if you can average a 5% ROI, you'll also have $786 in your pocket to go with that $600 bonus.
(This is with the 10% rake at the $10 level. The $1 games have a $.25 rake, which is a bend-you-over rate)
As for ring games, you get 1 point for every $1 in rake at the ring games. At $.05 per $1 in the pot, that's 1 point for every $20 pot. A lot of $.10/$.25 and $.25/$/50 games average $5 per pot, which would be four hands per point. So to get those 10,000 points you'll need to play about 40,000 hands. (Folding every hand at the $.10/$.25 tables, with an average of 8.5 people at the table, means you'll post $1,647 in blinds during that time. At $.25/$.50 it'd be $3,529).
Figure 65 hands per hour would be 615 hours. Divide that by 4 if you play 4 tables at once and that's 154 hours of play.
There a bazillion other ways to get there, but unless you go way way outside your bankroll, it's going to take a long time.