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Online poker is a very competitive industry with each poker room fiercely competing for new players. The main reason that poker rooms need new players is "liquidity". Liquidity comes from new players playing on the tables, this may sound obvious but without a constant stream of new players to play with a poker room will soon run out of games to offer. When you go to any online poker rooms lobby you want to see lots of games being played and offered at all levels and on all games.

With this in mind poker rooms offer very competitive new player sign up bonuses, and to hold onto players reload bonuses. Most poker rooms also offer some sort of "comping" offer, usually called Frequent Player Points, FPPs.

Sign-Up Bonus & Bonus Match
All of the top online poker rooms offer some form of sign-up bonus. A sign-up bonus is a bonus that is paid into your poker account after a particular number of raked hands are played. It varies between sites, some allow you to play with the bonus straight away, but most release the bonus money into your account in a drip feed way depending on the number of raked hands you play.

To explain a bonus better let's use an example:

You will see Pokerstars advertising a "First Deposit Bonus - 100% up to $50".

So what does all this mean, let's break it down. What they are offering is a Match Bonus of 100% up to $50. So if your first deposit is $50 then you will be able to release a $50 bonus into your Pokerstars account when you have fulfilled their requirements.

Now reading Pokerstars promotions T&C's you will find out that to release the bonus money, or to clear the bonus, you must earn 10 base FPPs for each $1 in bonus money.

Reload
Most online poker rooms also offer some sort of reload bonus after sign-up bonus has been cleared. Again this will have requirements in order to clear the bonus money.

Frequent Player Points
FPPs are earned by playing in cash games as well as tournaments. The higher the rake the more FPPs you earn. FPPs can be used to purchase branded items, such as Caps and Mugs, as well as tournament buy in's.

Where can I play Online Poker?

1.		Pokerstars	Bonus Offer: 100% up to $50	Review Play
2.		Full Tilt Poker	Bonus Offer: 100% up to $600	Review Play
3.		Titan Poker	Bonus Offer: 150% up to $600	Review Play
4.		Pacific Poker	Bonus Offer: 100% up to £200	Review Play
5.		Party Poker	Bonus Offer: 100% up to £250	Review Play
6.		Ladbrokes Poker	Bonus Offer: 100% up to $500	Review Play
7.		Paddy Power Poker	Bonus Offer: 150% up to $600	Review Play
8.		Bet365 Poker	Bonus Offer: 100% up to $500	Review Play
9.		Mansion Poker	Bonus Offer: 150% up to $600	Review Play
10.		VC Poker	Bonus Offer: 300% up to $600	Review Play

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