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[robe2584]

phewwwwww...I just finished clearing a 150 dollar sign up bonus at Poker Room. Ended up netting 50 bucks, which means I was down 100 without the bonus. I found this site to be very tough at the 50NL level. The players tended to be very solid there. If you are a no limit player trying to clear the bonus here you need to be willing to play the 50NL, the 25NL games just clear too slowly. At nights the 50NL games cleared loosely around 80-90 player points per hour. During the day the clearance rates were much worse, around 50-70 player points per hour (this is while 4 tabling). Overall, I don't think I would have gone after this bonus again if I had the decision. I wasn't quite confident playing the 50NL game at Poker Room, I felt outmatched at times. In the future I will probably stick to bonuses where it is easier to clear at the 25NL level (Party/Paradise/Absolute).

[tightpoker]

How many hours did it take for you to clear the $150? We could probably get a sticky thread going of avg clearing rates at diff games.

[robe2584]

My best guess is that it took around 17-22 hours to clear the bonus over the course of 2 and half weeks.

[velar]

I've got a lot of info on clear rates at many different sites and a few different limits. I started keeping track when I first began the bonus hunting guide a few months ago. Let me know if you want me to post here or send the info to you, MJ, so you can see if it's enough to start a sticky.

[tightpoker]

You can post in here Velar for everyone to see, then I'll try to start a sticky with the information I can compile.