SportsBook Poker Bonus & Review

Sportsbook First Deposit Bonus

The welcome bonus at Sportsbook.com Poker allows for bonuses up to $2000 when you use the promo code "FIRST100PK". This is a 200% bonus, so for every dollar you deposit into your account, you receive a dollar of bonus money. Players also get a $250 for any friend referrals, while players who play a lot of freerolls can win extra prizes simply by moving up the freeroll leaderboard. The real money "Tourney King" title is won every month. Whoever sits atop the tournament leaderboard for paid entry tournaments every month wins an additional $20,000 in cash.

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Sportsbook VIP Program

Sportsbook.com Poker has their own VIP rewards program that's a little bit different than the many copycat VIP programs I've seen. The program has 13 tiers which correspond to the various card ranks. Once you reach 7-high or higher, you get the opportunity to get cash back through a cashing in option. Each tier after 7th level allows you to make 3 cash exchanges (for VIP points) per month. At the Aces High level, you'll be able to exchange points for $900 in cash three times every month.

Sportsbook Poker Tournaments

Players might be wondering what kind of tournaments they can enter to move up the leaderboards. The list I include is a good example of the kind of poker events you can find on a typical day at Play Aces by Sportsbook. I found these listed on the homepage when I last visited the site. I'll discuss what each of these mean: "$3 PL Omaha", "$800 Guaranteed - 1 Rebuy/1 Addon", "$1 Heads Up Turbo", "Daily Badugi Freezeout", "$15 Bounty SH", and "$500 Guaranteed Freezeout".

"PL Omaha" stands for pot-limit Omaha, a limited form of betting which requires a player to be disciplined and tactical while calculating the many winning (and losing) scenarios games of Omaha present. An "$800 guaranteed" event is guarantees a prize pool of a certain amount, while 1 rebuy and 1 add-on allows players to be their way back into a tournament once after busting out, while giving their chip stack a boost at another point in the tournament. The heads-up turbo is an event which allows player-versus-player at every level of the event, while the $1 is the buy-in fee.

Badugi Draw Poker

Badugi is a form of triple draw poker played most often in Korea. In Badugi, the object is to build a 4-card hand where you have no pairs and no suited cards. You get to draw new cards three hands in a row to see if you can accomplish this object, which is harder than it sounds.

Freezeout Tournaments

Freezeout tournaments might sound exotic, but they're actually the type of tournament you're used to seeing on television. A freezeout event simply means you get no re-buys and no add-ons. You start a tournament with a chip stack and the only way to increase it is through beating other players out of their chips. If you go all-in and lose, you're out of the tournament. The World Series of Poker Main Event would be a freezeout tournament.

Play Aces Sunday Guaranteed

Sportsbook Poker has a $150,000 Sunday Guaranteed, which is the biggest part of their $400,000 guaranteed weekly. Sunday is the traditional day of the week in online poker for the biggest tournaments. More players have the most leisure time on Sunday than any other day, so the big Internet poker sites offer their best prizes on those days. Sportsbook Poker is no different. The prize pool on events is determined by the number of poker players who enter, but guaranteed events assure players they get a certain minimum prize total. No matter how many players enter this freezeout tournament, the prizes equal at least $150K. This event happens every week at 3 o'clock pm NY City time for all you American poker players.

Shoot Out Tournaments

In a shoot out tournament, poker tables are more self-contained. Those who've played in an online poker event know that tables are combined often. When a couple of players are knocked out, they tend to be replaced pretty quickly by eliminating a table and splitting those players between others. The shootout assures players get to play until a low number remain. In a typical table at the Play Aces Poker, a 10-player table remains active until 3 players remain. In one example on the site, a 100-player tournament would have a round 1 where each of the 10 tables got down to 3 competitors apiece, then a second round would start with three 10-player tables. This would proceed until a final table was chosen. The shootout tournament rewards players for taking notes on their opponents, since the longer play sessions with a certain set of opponents lets you learn their tendencies a little better. It also assures players in each new stage of the event have a similar chip count.

Bounty Tournaments

A bounty tournament pays for aggressive play and the killer instinct. When you put another competitor all-in and knock them out of the tournament, you get paid a bonus. All your knockouts are paid at the end of play, as if you finished in the money. In the poker bounty event, a certain percentage of the prize money is paid towards these bounties. Some poker sites have staff players and celebrities who are the target of bounties, but the standard tournament at Sports Book Poker simply pays for any person knocked out of the tournament.