Poker promotions are a great way to continue to build your bankroll after you have exhausted the initial deposit bonuses for the majority of the reputable online poker rooms. 

After you have used all the additional money the poker rooms gave you to try out their rooms, you have to look for other ways to gain an edge.  These can include rakeback, freerolls (such as the country freerolls at Full Tilt), overlay tournaments AND online poker room promotions.  Many promotions offered by poker rooms give money and prizes back to the players. 

For example, the Doyle’s Room bounty promotion gives players a free entry into their first bounty tournament, which is a value of $27.50.  On top of this players can earn extra bounty money from knocking out Doyle or his friends.  This all turns into additional cash being added to the tournament.

Another example would be Carbon Poker’s monthly rake race promotions, which are always the exact same with different themes, which kind of annoys me, but they are still giving cash back to the player.  Or even Full Tilt’s happy hour.  Full Tilt Points are basically cash because they can buy you into tournaments or purchase you Full Tilt merchandise. 

Poker series’ held by rooms almost always have extra prizes or a winners freeroll that gives back to the players.  For example the Cake Poker Reindeer Games promotion has added prizes for every tournament, such as 5 seats added to the $250K guaranteed, $5000 added to the prize pool, etc, not to mention the $20K Reindeer Games finals which the top 9 finishers from each event earn entry to. 

As you can see poker promotions are a great way to build your bankroll, because you can actually be at an advantage to the house.  Any time a poker room offers a promotion such as a money added tournament, a rebate or special bounties, you should try to take advantage of these offers, rather than just play regular tournaments where the poker room earns 10% of your buy-in.

A smart strategy would be to look at our bonuses page.  Try to clear all these bonuses while building your bankroll, which will give you a lot of additional poker funds.  Start by playing at the poker rooms that give you the best poker bonus and work your way down through the remaining poker rooms bonuses.  Then come back and stay on the look out for new poker promotions that are coming up, that put the advantage back in your hands.  It’s all about continuing to build your bankroll by gaining an edge any way you can!!

The Reindeer Games are a series of promotional tournaments put on by Cake Poker from December 18th until December 26th.

Value: Every Reindeer Game has either added cash, a bonus prize or an added prize pack, plus the opportunity to make the Reindeer Games finals.
Chance of big payday: There is over $50K guaranteed throughout the series.
Type of Promotion: Poker series with each tournament having an added prize or added cash.
Take Advantage: Definitely.  This is like Full Tilt’s FTOPS combined with added value tournaments, you get the best of both worlds.

Schedule
Dec. 18 – 9:30pm EST – 10 Gold Chips – 1st place wins a 50″ Plasma TV, 2nd – 10th win $100
Dec. 19 – 9:30pm EST – $5 Rebuy – Satellite to $250K Guaranteed with 5 seats added
Dec. 20 – 1:00pm EST – 1 Gold Chip – $5000 Guaranteed
Dec. 20 – 9:00pm EST – $15 NLH – 1st place wins a 50″ Plasma TV
Dec. 21 – 2:00pm EST – 2 Gold Chips Rebuy – Satellite to $100K Guaranteed, top 5 win
Dec. 21 – 9:30pm EST – $10 NLH Bounty – $5000 Added
Dec. 22 – 8:30 pm EST – $20 NLH – 1st place wins 2 Super Bowl tickets
Dec. 23 – 4:00 pm EST – Satellite to Irish Open satellite, 10 seats
Dec. 24 – 7:00pm EST – 1 Gold Chip - 1st place wins seat in WPT Caribbean Cruise, 2nd – 15th win $100

Play in any of these tournaments at Cake Poker.

Reindeer Games Final
The top nine from each reindeer games tournament will also receive a seat in the Reindeer Final.  This tournament will offer a $5000 grand prize and a prize pool of $20K total.  So with 10 reindeer games tournaments, that means the finals will be a $20K tournament with only 90 entrants.  That equals out to a $222 buy-in per person, if it was a buy-in tournament.

If you are thinking of signing up as a new player at Cake Poker, you should remember to find a Cake Poker Sign Up Code.  **Also for anyone looking to check out another poker blog I found this one today that is pretty solid.