Make The Most Of Your Bonus – How You Could Spend Your Bet365 Poker Welcome Package

One of the most exciting aspects of joining a site like Bet365 Poker (click on the following link for the latest Bet365 no deposit bonus details) is that you get a fantastic deal as a new customer to sign up. At Bet365 Poker, this is called a Welcome Package and consists of the following items:

• €5 No Deposit Required Cash Game Ticket
• New Player Bonus based on your first deposit of up to €100
• €5 worth of Tournament Tickets
• 10 Free Spins on a casino game accessed from Bet365 Poker’s lobby
• Special New Player Welcome Mission offering further rewards if completed

As you can see, there are a lot of bonus offers available to new players on the site and you have to ensure you use each fully in order to gain the best out of them. In this article, we are going to show new customers to Bet365 one example of how you could spend your bonus cash on a wide range of poker games to get the best starter experience on the site and to trial as many different types of poker as possible.

Your No Deposit Required Cash Ticket

There’s no better place to start working through your bonuses than with your no deposit required £5 Cash Game ticket. This bonus has changed in the past year to be specific to the Premium Cash Game tables at Bet365.

Simply head over to the lower stakes Premium Tables (one that offers a maximum buy in of €5 is ideal – such as the €0.02/€0.04 stakes games).

Now one of two things can happen with this bonus, most likely you’ll play at the tables and lose your deposit over one or more sessions. That is absolutely fine as remember, this is a no deposit bonus so you have not lost any of your own money.

However, if you are proficient player, then you may start to make a bit of money at the tables. That’s good news as once you have earned more than the ticket was originally worth (€5) you can leave the table and continue without losing your bonus. Furthermore, if you can earn 75 or more Merit Points using your original bonus money, then the cash you have played your way to earning will become withdrawable.

Earning and Spending your New Player Bonus

This is where things get a little more complicated, but if you do this correctly, you can realise all or as much of your bonus as possible, without having to spend a massive amount of additional cash on top of what you have already deposited with Bet365 Poker.

First off, the important thing to note is that you earn your bonus from Bet365 by earning Merit Points. Once you earn a set number of Merit Points, you receive a chunk of your bonus until either 60 days passes, or you have earned the full bonus. Therefore, to earn your bonus, you need to play real cash games on the site.

It is here that realising one of the other bonuses available to you as a New Player on Bet365 Poker can be a great way to get the ball rolling earning merit points. That being the Welcome Mission.

For the Welcome Mission, you need to log in to the poker software twice, deposit or transfer at least €10 into your Poker account and of most interest to you, play in two Sit & Go events (with three entrants or more) during two different qualifying periods (which are usually different days).

This means, you need to play in two sit & go events over two different days. The good news is there are a wide number of Sit & Go events to choose from which you can buy into using your deposit money. Remember the more you pay in tournament fees, the more Merit Points you will earn.

Once you have completed these tasks, you will not only have earned some Merit Points towards the first chunk of your New Player Bonus, but you will also have done enough to earn the €5 worth of additional tournament tokens available to you as your Welcome Missions reward.

To claim the rest of your New Player Bonus, it is important to remember that you have 60 days within which to claim the full bonus, otherwise it will expire. You can then use your deposit money to play a number of different games (Sit & Go games are excellent places to start for beginners, especially the Double or Nothing matches).

What you are aiming to do in any of the games you play for real money, be that Cash Games, Speed Poker, Twister Poker, Sit & Go games or Multi Table Tournaments is to try and earn money to keep your balance topped up. If you can do this, then you can earn Merit Points, without spending a huge amount of money and as you progress, you’ll start triggering the rewards as you accumulate a greater number of points.

As to which games to target, that is entirely the choice of the player. My tip would be to start on the Twister Poker lower value games and low price Sit & Go games initially alongside Cash Table games for smaller amounts of money. This should give you a solid grounding in the site before you take on more volatile challenges, such as large scale Multi Table Tournaments, or more expensive options in the Cash Table, Sit & Go or Twister Poker games.

Do my free tournament tokens count towards earning Merit Points?

There is some confusion about this, but my instinct is that using your tournament tokens earned with Bet365 Poker, and your Cash Game ticket bonus of €5 does contribute towards your total of Merit Points and thus to unlocking your user bonus.

The reason I say this is because in the Cash Game Ticket Full Terms and Conditions it does state that Merit Points are earned at the rate of 15 for every £1 or €1 paid in rake. This suggests that Merit Points can be earned in this way.

However, even if they are not, you are still not losing anything by using up these tickets and you could indeed make money, which then becomes ‘real cash’ and you can then use this money to earn merit points towards your deposit bonus.

And don’t forget your 10 free spins too!

On top of all that poker, it is also worthwhile remembering that as a new customer you get 10 free spins on a wide choice of slot games available from within the Bet365 Poker client software. There’s no need to log out or visit Bet365 Casino, Games or Vegas, simply play the slots direct from your Poker menu.

Your 10 free spins should be available from the moment you make your first qualifying deposit and it is confirmed by the site.  You have seven days from the time you are allocated the free spins within which to use them, so do take the opportunity to play as it is ten extra chances to win some bonus cash, all of which will go straight into your Bet365 Poker account.