Joined: May '09
Location: Australia
Age: 51 (M)
Posts: 24
which one turns out to be the most profitable, no deposit bonus or rakeback? Can anyone shed some light on how rakeback is better, and can you sign up for rakeback after you have already opened a deposit account ?
Joined: Dec '08
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 42 (M)
Posts: 17
In the long run i think rakeback is always going to better cause after you've completed the no deposit bonuses you can never get the juicy signup rakeback bonos again only the reload ones, so theorectically your capping the amount of money you can make from poker and potentially doing yourself a future injustice if you ever make it up to like medium to high stakes and depositing say $1000, etc... But I believe you can get some decent reload bonos at a good rakeback %.
If your not prepared to deposit large sums of cash, the no deposit bonos are better to start off with and build a roll... I only do 1 no deposit bono at a time currently virgin poker and so far made a profit of $21.41 BUT had to pay something like $10.57 in rake, virtually 50%.... if someone is a breakeven player.. this is naaaaasty. Not only do you need to beat the players you have to beat the rake to be profitable in the long run.
