Quote Originally Posted by Jason
I agree that it's good not to be in a hurry, but don't you worry that you may not give yourself a reasonable opportunity to clear it because it must be cleared in 120 days and whatever isn't gets lost?
I play 10NL hands with avg pot of >$1. Assume all pots are $1
Rake at FTP is $0.15/dollar at 10NL with no rake if there's no flop
Bonus is one point/(dollar of rake)
It will take 6.6 hands for every dollar of rake.
Bonus is $0.06/point and you get one point per dollar of rake
So I get $0.06/(dollar of rake)
So every 6.6 hands I get $0.06 or 110 hands/dollar
It will take me 66k hands to get my $600 bonus at FTP. I have 4 months to play 66k hands or 16,500 hands per month. If only half the hands see a flop then I need 33k hands per month. That's why table selection is so critical.

At 25NL I only need 5 hands per dollar of rake so I need 83 hands per dollar. So I'll need about 50k hands

At 50NL rake is $1/dollar with max at $3 so for every $3 raked pot you get $0.18 and you will only need 3333 hands to get your $600.