Poker Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
To encourage players
To encourage players to open accounts with them, casinos offer new account holders bonus money as an inducement. For example - deposit £50 and get another £50 added to it for free. It does come with strings attached though - usually by way of a wagering requirement. This means you have to wager a given amount of money first and differs from casino to casino. It is important to check and understand wagering requirements.
Now - some simple mathematics
Now - some simple mathematics to illustrate how you can profit from this "free" money: Example: You open an account with Casino A, deposit £50 and are given £50 free. You available stake is therefore £100. The wagering requirement is 10 times he deposit and bonus amount. In this case that means £1000. That might sound a lot but it isn't really as all you wagers (wins and losses) count towards that £1000. So - if you were playing at £1 per hand and had a sequence of W, W, L, W, W, L, L, L, W, W you would be £1 ahead over the sequence but have wagered a total of £10. Get the idea?