Signing Bonus on Pacific

I recently signed up to play on pacific poker, but they gave me a 25% signing bonus. (100 dollar limit).

Could people just sign up w/ 400 dollars to start with, get 100 dollars bonus, cash it all out and never look back?

-r3y

you need to play a large amount of raked hands before you can cash out the bonus, typically 5x the bonus amount.... (so with your example 500 raked hands)

PokerStars Game #1822500794: Hold'em No Limit ($5/$10) - 2005/06/03 - 02:24:47 (ET)
Table 'Felicitas' Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: dcruz ($208.90 in chips)
Seat 2: FearMyFlush ($1092 in chips)
Seat 3: TheGrrrr... ($1062 in chips)
Seat 4: akslcv ($985 in chips)
Seat 5: Lyric ($1242 in chips)
Seat 6: pokahmum ($1032 in chips)
Seat 8: beeyoung ($1564.25 in chips)
Seat 9: gruvy ($1003.75 in chips)
DrCaligula will be allowed to play after the button
beeyoung: posts small blind $5
gruvy: posts big blind $10
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to beeyoung [Kh Kc]
dcruz: folds
FearMyFlush: calls $10
TheGrrrr...: folds
akslcv: folds
Lyric: folds
pokahmum: folds
beeyoung: raises $30 to $40
gruvy: folds
FearMyFlush: calls $30
*** FLOP *** [Qd 9h Kd]
beeyoung: bets $40
FearMyFlush: raises $100 to $140
beeyoung: calls $100
*** TURN *** [Qd 9h Kd] [5s]
beeyoung: checks
FearMyFlush: bets $360
beeyoung: calls $360
*** RIVER *** [Qd 9h Kd 5s] [4h]
beeyoung: bets $550
FearMyFlush: raises $2 to $552 and is all-in
beeyoung: calls $2
*** SHOW DOWN ***
FearMyFlush: shows [9s 9d] (three of a kind, Nines)
beeyoung: shows [Kh Kc] (three of a kind, Kings)
beeyoung collected $2191 from pot

Pacific is run by Casino On Net and take a casino mentality when it comes to clearing your bonus. You need to wager 20x the bonus+deposit if I remember correctly. Just about the worst bonus payout there is. However, Pacific does put the money in your account right away and I've heard of people cashing out without clearing it.

when i put money into my account... i was able to take it all out immediately. Its not like in paradise where you only get that money if you play so many games..

-r3y

how the hell do they make any money doing that if you can pull the bonus out right away?

nice hand eyecu, big blind love all the way.

Heh, I have no idea. That is why I posted. I figure someone can take advantage of this because I already signed up and I didnt know that I could get a signing bonus.

-r3y