PDC Poker offers a 100% up to $600 matching bonus on initial deposit bonuses that use PDC coupon code “IP600FREE”. For example, if you use PDC bonus code “IP600FREE” and make an initial deposit of $300, you will receive a $300 pending bonus. Then you must play PDC poker tournaments and cash games to earn VIP points and clear the pending bonus for it to be released into your real money account. Every VIP point you earn clears $0.02 of the bonus.
You earn 10 VIP points for every dollar you spend in tournament fees at PDC Poker. For example, if you play in a $2 + $0.20 tournament you earn 2 VIP points. Since each VIP point clears $0.02 of your bonus, you are clearing $0.20 of your bonus each time you spend $1 on tournament fees. This ratio isn’t very good when you compare it to Full Tilt Poker’s $0.42 cleared per $1 paid ratio or Everest Poker’s $0.56 cleared for every $1 paid, but it starts to look a lot better when you compare it to Aced Poker’s $0.04 cleared for each $1 paid in fees.
In cash games you also earn 10 VIP points for every $1 you contribute in rake. This means that you are still clearing $0.20 for every $1 the poker room makes off of you. You can figure out how much rake you contributed by figuring out the percentage of the pot you contributed and applying that percentage to the rake taken from the pot to find how much of the rake you generated. For example, if $1 was taken from a $50 pot that you contributed $10 to, then you are said to have contributed $0.20 in rake and you would earn 2 VIP points. The rate of $0.20 cleared for every $1 of rake generated in cash games is not very good compared to most other online poker rooms.
Your bonus is cleared and released into your account in increments of $10 each time you earn an additional 500 VIP points. You have 90 days to clear as much of your bonus as possible. Any amount that you couldn’t clear in this time is forfeit.
PDC Poker’s initial deposit bonus doesn’t have very player friendly clearing conditions. The maximum amount and the matching percentage are at the industry standard, but the clearing rate of the bonus isn’t very good. That being said the bonus does clear much faster than fellow Merge Poker network room, Aced Poker, so if you want to play with the fish on Merge, PDC is the better room to go with.
