Free Online Poker Bonuses

The online poker industry is one that is extremely competitive with hundreds of rival sites trying their best to attract new customers to their particular site. The vast majority of them offer free online poker bonuses, but potential customers generally want more than to be able to play free online poker games, they also want rewarding for choosing the site they have.

Most sites do indeed reward their new customers in the form of free online poker bonuses often offering quite large sums of money for creating an account with them. The most common bonus on offer comes in the form of the first deposit bonus where the site will give the new player a set amount of money once they have played a specific amount of hands, much like the £675 on offer from Ladbrokes Poker.

Occasionally poker sites will give existing customers the chance to earn free online poker bonuses either by depositing more funds into their account or by playing a specified number of hands during an allotted time. By taking advantage of these free online poker bonuses it is possible to not only play free online poker games but to actually end up almost being paid to play by the site, especially when coupled with the various VIP and loyalty schemes available.

Free online poker games

In addition to offering free online poker bonuses to new and existing customers, poker sites will often reward their valued customers by running completely free online poker games also known as freeroll tournaments. These free online poker games can be a great way to boost your bankroll without having to invest any of your own hard-earned money at the tables. Each site will have different criteria for offering these free online poker games but they generally revolve around new customers making their first deposits, existing customers playing a specified number of cash game hands or tournaments or for special land based events such as the World Series of Poker. Regardless of the reasons for the free online poker games you should always go out of your way to compete in them, for reasons highlighted below.

Any free online poker games represents value to the person playing it so you should have a very good reason for not playing in any of them that are offered to you. For example, if your chosen site is offering free online poker games (with a free online poker bonus) with a prize pool of $500 and there are, on average, 600 people who also play in this tournament then you have equity of at least $0.83 if each of the players are of an equal skill level. However, you will often find the overall standard of player in free online poker games is quite poor so your equity in each of this particular tournament may be as high as $2 or $3, which if they run once a week all year round means you would be giving up around $150 if you do not take part in these free online poker games!