Quote Originally Posted by thejesusfish
Ok, sorry im a complete newb. Im british with a midget bankroll (40$) and ive just made an account on full tilt so i guess ive messed that 600$ bonus up. Is there any way to delete that account later when i can play higher stakes and then make a new one to get the bigger bonus?

I have an account at Pokerstars (my friend said these were the best two sites so i just set up accounts on each). At the moment it says im clearing a deposit bonus and im 1/10th of the way there.
ok, finish clearing the $50 first deposit bonus on stars while learning to beat 2nl. Build your balance up to $150 and ask again.
Re Full Tilt, if you haven't made your first deposit into full tilt then you haven't messed up the first deposit bonus. Don't deposit there. In the meantime you should e-mail them about getting rakeback installed on the account you have created - it should go through before you have a BR worth depositing there.

There are a bunch of sites with good first deposit bonuses etc, once you're a winning player at 10nl with a $250 roll you can really boost your roll quickly by clearing these.

Don't open any more accounts without first posting a thread in the online poker section of this forum asking for advice etc.

I like raketherake as a rakeback affiliate, they're never going to disappear and I have never heard a single complaint about them. There are other options too though, I don't know too much about them.

chatzilla, your situation is about the same. Ask me about in IRC if you want, but first step is to clear the stars $50 and don't open any new accounts without asking for advice. I don't know what the bonus offers look like right now, but a while back going in this order made a lot of sense:
1) stars
2) empire
3) pacific
4) party
5) Full tilt
etc.
Bonus whores gives a lot of advice on bonus clear rates - there are many first deposit bonuses that sound good but are about impossible to clear.

Also, it may be worth finding a kickback that gives you HEM or PT3 for free - but only if you do it through some smaller site on a major network so that you won't kick yourself later for abandoning the prospects of rakeback/races/whatever.

Before that you should be using the free trial version of HEM or PT3 anyway

For what it's worth, I ground up from a $200 bankroll a while back and first deposit bonuses were a great tool at the time... pretty sure it's linked into the first post of my current op/blog if you're interested in how it worked.