30K Freeroll today at Bet365 Poker.

I originally signed up at Bet365 because they offered a $50 bonus for a $50 deposit and it only took 250 raked hands. That's a pretty good deal on its face. It's a Prima skin and I seem to do pretty well on their network. 250 hands is only 5 hours of single table play. So you're looking at your normal earning plus $10 an hour on top of that. Add a second table and double that.

The bad news first.

The TOC says it pays out $10 of the bonus money for every 50 raked hands that you play. BUT you need to email them to claim it each time AND it takes 48 hours to recieve it. Well I emailed them once right after I cleared the whole thing. Then I called on the 3rd day. I got the usual run-around about how they're backed up yadda yadda. So I emailed them a second time and let it go to see just how long it might take if I left them alone as an experiment.

A little over 2 weeks later, I called them to bitch. They told me that they had no record of my emails at all but they added the bonus money before I got off the phone. So I promptly logged in to withdraw it. My advice is go ahead and sign up, but make sure you call and bitch at them to get your money right away everyday. They can add it while you're on the phone. If anyone has a better or worse experience than me, please comment on it.

The 30K Freeroll good news

The good side of this is that the 250 hands to clear the bonus qualifies you to play in their monthly 30K VIP Freeroll. I don't see this MTT tourney on any of the other Prima skins. So it's strictly a Bet365 offering. It's starting this morning in about 4 hours and there's only 891 people signed up and 80 places pay. That's one hell of an overlay.

80th place pays $60. 1st pays $6,000. I'll be happy to get in the money. But I've been playing a ton of 1K freerolls on Prima skins this past week to gear up for this one. I've managed to place in the top 30 a couple times now. That pays $180. Wish me luck.