The Big Poker Bonus Debate

No matter where you look nowadays in the online poker world, you will see promotions of all kinds. These promotions are around and offered by online poker sites to coax people into joining their site with the hope that a person will stay after the poker bonus is gone and continue playing with the online poker site that initially offered them the bonus. In the long run, the poker site will make pure profit out of all of the people they are able to make stay on the poker website afterwards and this is why having a good infrastructure is essential to the survival of any online poker website.

However, there is a big debate going on in the online poker community regarding poker bonuses at the moment. It is a debate that has been going on almost since poker bonuses were introduced and now that people really know what they are doing in terms of releasing those poker bonuses into their account, it is a debate that continues to rage across the online message boards and chat rooms of the online poker community.

One side says that the best way to play online poker nowadays is to go from site to site, collecting bonuses as you go. This is known as bonus whoring or bonus collecting and it is quite simply the art of minimizing the time necessary to collect a particular bonus so that you can go to the next site and get the next bonus. Most of the players that are online can arguably be said to be in this camp at least partially and for this reason the opinion is the more popular side of the debate.

The main advantage to this particular side of the debate is that it allows you to keep collecting money regardless of how your own run of luck is, since you have to play very poorly and get unlucky in order to lose your entire bonus in the process. However, it also has the added impact of not allowing you to have a poker base of operations on the internet and that can be very bad if you want to get into the really good promotional events.

The other side of course is the opposite and states that you should stay with one website after the bonus has been used up. They do not say that you can not visit other websites and try out other bonuses, but rather that you should dedicate most of your time to playing at a single website to take advantage of loyalty programs and other promotional events that come after the deposit bonus. This is how the debate is framed across the internet and how you decide to proceed with your personal online poker experience really depends on the kind of person you are. Both options have their good points and bad points and most players online have tried both strategies out at one point or another.