Online Poker

BATMAN wrote: does anyone on this forum ever play online poker?
Used to play piggs peak until they closed but i have started with silver sands

Used to jam Piggs heavilyy. Play sands off and on, just don't like the fact that I could get a call for the reserve bank at any stage when withdrawing with any regularity due to it's illegality. That said I play occasionally, mostly 2/4 - 5/10 cash.

If you're not worried bout the indefinite threat of a call from the reserve bank (the risk isn't too great, know a few people who do w/d consistently with no issue, I'm just a bit obsessive like that). I'd say Sands is a potential treasure trove for any solid player (just play a solid tight-agressive game with good bankroll management and you should make good money imo, cos the general quality of play is pretty damn bad. Top pair is the nuts on that site on most stakes....

BATMAN wrote: silver sands sent emails offering bonus deposits and and their website.I must say i fell for it and deposited the max.. only to read the fine print and realise to qualify you have to play a unbelievable amount of hands. think it works out to 9000 raked hands of poker within 10 days to earn the amount that the adds say.Should be laws against these types of offers.After one day i decided to lose my bonus and withdraw.

The winter blues promo ?

I've already redeemed my full match there took me like a week lol. I play a few tables at once tho. It paid me out every 60 raked hands. Wasn't that bad imo, kinda helped my roll, b4 i w/d it.

TheBluntPunt wrote:

BATMAN wrote: silver sands sent emails offering bonus deposits and and their website.I must say i fell for it and deposited the max.. only to read the fine print and realise to qualify you have to play a unbelievable amount of hands. think it works out to 9000 raked hands of poker within 10 days to earn the amount that the adds say.Should be laws against these types of offers.After one day i decided to lose my bonus and withdraw.

The winter blues promo ?

I've already redeemed my full match there took me like a week lol. I play a few tables at once tho. It paid me out every 60 raked hands. Wasn't that bad imo, kinda helped my roll, b4 i w/d it.

That means you only deposited R200 and got back R20 every 60 hands.
I did the 3k deposit which means to get full bonus i have to play 9000 hands and get paid R300 every 900 hands that i played.

They ended up giving me way over 200 though, was weird. Like I'd hit 60 hands get 140 hit 60 more hands get 80, 60 more hands 40 and so on, may have been a glicth or something but it was cool.

9000 hands is a quite a shit tonne man no matter how you spin it it.
There will always be fine print on sands promos. Online poker is actively illegal in South Africa. As long as it is actively illegal there will be nobody regulating it and they can do what they want man.

I played and worked on cruise ships, first as a casino dealer, then as a manager.
And have a big experience in this sphere.