clearing a stars bonus

[The_Bankroll]

what is the best way to clear a bonus on pokerstars? i was playing 2/4 limit, but the games seem a lot tighter and tougher to beat than party. so I was wondering if there is another game that clears as fast or faster

[LeFou]

best is 1/2 limit. here's why
a pot of $15 (7.5 BB) gets you a point. At most other stakes a pot needs to be 10BB. e.g. at .5/1 a pot of $10 is the minimum.

[The_Bankroll]

i might try that. how tough are the tables there?

[tom]

btw I looked and couldn't tell for sure- is there a time limit on the recent 25% stars bonus?(I assume the same one you're getting over)

[UG]

There is no time limit on clearing the bonus at PokerStars.

[pokerfanatic]

2/4 6max at stars is on loose ass game... the full ring games you have to know what tables to try and sit at... i always seem to find loose good ones and get my ass whoped... you probably saw me tonight if you were playing full 2/4 ring there i was 5 tabling for awhile...

loosing night so you might have won a peice of the $170 i'm down from tonight

[DaNutsInYoEye]

You can also play more than 5 tables on Stars now if you didn't know already... makes clearing it even faster.

[The_Bankroll]

2/4 6max at stars is on loose ass game... the full ring games you have to know what tables to try and sit at... i always seem to find loose good ones and get my ass whoped... you probably saw me tonight if you were playing full 2/4 ring there i was 5 tabling for awhile...

loosing night so you might have won a peice of the $170 i'm down from tonight

maybe I did. what's your screename on there? Mine is I_Heart_Chan

[Seasider]

I just moved over to stars to escape the rocklike hell Empire had become. To get my confidence back after officially the worst downswing of my life I'm playing some 25NL. So this morning i put in my max $600 and got the $150 bonus.

It's going to take forever to clear, at $25 anyway, 1 point for each hand over $1 rake! I have 18 so far and need 750 or something! I'm just going to forget about it at the moment and play away, the bonus will be a nice extra for xmas '06!

Even when i move back to $50 it will take a bit and i'm not playing limit as i would lose a bunch! At the moment that bonus looks as far away as that pokerstars frequent player chipset.

On the plus side I am loving the action at stars after empire, took 3 $25 tables up to $50 without much fuss tonight, who needs bonus anyway!

[Aces]

Pardon my laziness, but what NL limits do you have to play at Stars to make the bonus clearable? So far I 've only played SNGs there.

[DaNutsInYoEye]

To make bonus clearing tolerable I think you need to play at least $100 NL or 1/2 LHE. You can clear them at lower levels, but it will take you awhile.

[arkana]

You get 5 points for every $1 you pay in tourney fees and since you clear $1 in bonus with every 5 points you are essentially playing tourneys without rake. If you want to play ring it sounds to me like the pot has to be $15 to earn a point, therefore I would recommend playing at a level where the average pot is about that which is probably $100 or $200 (for NL). So with a small bankroll its probably best to play SNGs.