Some Common Poker Bonus Code Misconceptions

The biggest misconception that is floating around the internet at the current moment in time is that poker bonus codes do absolutely nothing. If you take a look at many of the online forums and chat rooms that deal with the subject of online poker, you will find an attitude that is very safely described as being jaded when it comes to the topic of poker bonus codes. While many people do have this attitude that poker bonuses are not going to do anything, the reason that attitude exists is because many people confuse poker bonus codes with poker marketing codes. Marketing codes are for the poker site to know which affiliate should get the commission, while bonus codes are for the actual bonus. Marketing codes will not affect the bonus, but bonus codes will.

Another misconception that many people have is that the only way online poker sites will offer bonus codes is if they have recently reduced the deposit bonus and the bonus code just gets it back to its normal level. While this is true in some cases, it is by no means a universal truth for the online poker industry.

The reason most people believe this is that for a long time poker bonus codes were nothing like that, just as something like a lower rate for a credit card was compensated for by increasing fees. In both cases however, the market eventually got wind of what was happening and because they decided not to buy from those particular vendors, the vendors had to clean up their act. And just as there are now genuine low rate credit card offers, so too are there genuine poker bonus codes that actually do give you a little something extra if you use them when you sign up for the website.

And finally, another misconception that you will see hurled around the internet is that poker bonus codes all do the exact same thing. This one is the easiest to disprove and for that reason it is interesting to note that it is one of the longer surviving misconceptions in spite of this fact. The misconception, simply put, is wrong. There are poker bonus codes out there that increase the amount of the bonus, there are codes that increase the percentage and there are codes that make releasing the bonus easier to do. There are even codes that make the bonus monthly instead of one time, so as you can see the variety of poker bonuses that you can find is actually quite remarkable.