This May, RPM Poker is proud to bring you yet another full slate of special promotions to reward you for your play on the Merge Network.


Reimbursed fees

* 1 Reimbursed check withdrawal fee. Request must be made within 7 days of check approval. (E-mail Manager@RPMPoker.eu with this request)

* Fee reimbursements will be paid directly into your RPM Poker account. Check reimbursement applies to checks requested in May.




* Burnout Monday – Play 1,000 real money ring game hands and earn a $200 bonus applied to your bonus account

* Talladega Tuesday – Play 2,500 hands and earn $10 paid directly to your account

* Wheelin’ Wednesday – Play 4,000 hands and earn an $11 satellite ticket and Wheelin' Wednesday Accolade

* Turbocharged Thursday – Play 100 real money tournaments and earn a $200 bonus applied to your account

* Pit Crew Friday – Play 2,500 hands and earn $10 paid directly to your account

* Supercharged Saturday – Play 500 real money tournaments of $1.10 or higher and earn a $109 ticket applied to your account

Read more about the RPM Poker daily promotions.




Flop quads while playing poker in May and earn cash based on your starting hand!
2222 = $5

3333 = $5

4444 = $5

5555 = $5

6666 = $5

7777 = $10

8888 = $10

9999 = $10

TTTT = $20

JJJJ = $30

QQQQ = $40

KKKK = $50

AAAA = $100

In order to claim your prize please email manager@rpmpoker.eu with the hand number within 24 hours and your account will be credited with the corresponding prize.

Terms and Conditions:
-Your two hole cards must be a pair along with a matching pair on the flop.
-Only Texas Hold'em ring games count towards the QUADRABUNGA promotion
-Quads must be flopped in a real money cash game. SnG/MTT's and play money will not qualify.
-Hands do NOT have to reach showdown but must see a flop against at least one opponent.
-Hand histories must be emailed within 24 hours

Read more about the Quadrabunga promotion!




Starting Sunday March 25th, we are proud to announce we will be running a weekly "150 Seats to the $150k" Freeroll. Qualifying for the freeroll is simple. You need to earn 250 VIP points between 00:01 on Sunday, and the freeroll start time of 15:00 on Saturday. The Freeroll will be listed in the lobby as "150 Seats to 150k Freeroll".

Read more about the 150 seats to 150k promotion!


Free Poker Training with LeggoPoker

Knowledge is power. And, in poker, knowledge is money. We’re giving you a way to increase your knowledge base by teaming up with LeggoPoker in April to offer free poker training.

Access LeggoPoker’s extensive library of poker training materials from some of the game’s best, hone your skills, improve your game, and make more money.

Existing players can win their LeggoPoker membership by earning 10,000 VIP Points throughout the month.

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In addition to these promotions, don't forget about all of the other promotions that add value to your experience at RPM Poker.

These promotions include:

Tourney King, Overdrive Club, the SNG Leaderboard, and much more.

Have a great time in May!

Is the Friday promo applies to tournament hands as well?

what is the Wheelin' Wednesday Accolade?

Major thumbs down on having zero double points days this month. I guess all the micro guys who complained in April must be thrilled with their $200 Monday bonus but for anybody playing higher this is the worst set of promos since I started grinding on this site last year.

I've been pretty happy with RPM for the past nine or ten months but if there aren't any double points days next month I just might be jumping ship to Black Chip for a while.

It's always only been cash game hands for these kinds of promos

A stupid little accolade for when people click on you at the table, they know you played a bunch of hands on a certain Wednesday some time in the past.



Also, glad to finally have promos with bonuses!

I thought the Monday bonus was sweet.

+1.

Not really playing at RPM this month because the promos just aren't worth it. Moved my play to a different skin and also a different network for this month. These promos are mostly disappointing. Although maybe I'll grind out a couple of the Monday or Thursday promos to grab an extra bonus into my account.


On the Saturday promo: 500 tourneys of basically $2.20 super-turbos and higher? I guess it can be done but it will sure take awhile to get into enough tourneys at those stakes. If I'm doing it on every Super-Turbo I can at $2.20 and $5.30 (because the $1.06 aren't eligible) how many can I get in an hour?

I think you could probably get around 40-60. You probably need about 8-14 hours to get the 500 tourneys.

Haven't played much this month because this month's promos have been the worst in recent ones. I am excited to see what Lock poker does with their new site and I will contemplate a switch over to it.

has anyone been credited the bonus for the play on monday yet?

FK me then. I played extra hours to get there, and suffered my worst downswing of the year, running 13 BI under EV.
Also the 500 tourney is ridiculous. I can play about 10-15 FR/hour if the games are running well.

Yeah, my rough estimate was about 50...just eye-balling the lobby and seeing how frequently they are going off. So you and I are on about the same page here.

If you did it all on the $2.20's then that is still a good rakeback percentage. $0.20 X 500 tourneys = $100 rake-paid for a $109 tourney ticket. So 100%+ rakeback just on the ticket alone which doesn't include the points earned and other tourney value like the leaderboard.

But a 12+ hour commitment for that is really a lot. I can crank out 10k hands in way less time than that.

Not me. It says they are processed the following Saturday. How long does it usually take?

All bonuses from Monday and Thursday are stacked and credited at the end of the month unless otherwise requested. If you wish to have your bonus credited immediately please chat in or PM me directly and I would be more than happy to take care of that for you.

I LOVE the 150 seats to 150k freeroll. I hope that becomes a regular thing and not just a May promotion. I would much rather have the freeroll be Sunday morning instead of Saturday evening tho, but that's just imo

These promos work really well for a micro stakes grinder like myself, so a huge thanks for that.

It sounds like higher stakes players aren't happy with them though, I didn't realize that double points were more valuable than a bonus that should be easy for then to clear. But if it is than that's not really fair either. I know it has been mentioned in months prior but why not have low limit promos and high limit promos so everybody can be happy?

Double VIP Point days have been discontinued across the entire Merge Network.

RPM currently has a Double VIP Point Happy Hour promotion in development, and that should be released shortly.

You have to do it at super-turbo games or else 500 games isn't going to get done. Fifty an hour is reasonable, but at the end of ten hours I can't imagine not wanting to blow your brains out. The rake isn't $0.20, though, it's $0.12 for a $2 game. So you're really only paying $60 in rake to earn a $109 ticket. If you can handle that kind of grind.

the math isn't hard to figure out. And it double points are probably better than bonuses for far more players than you realize. I mean, are you even 9-gear? If you are drooling for these bonuses so much and eventually clearing them then you are at least earning a fair amount of points, right?

It's like 15k points to clear a $200 bonus. So if you are able to clear that bonus then you are a 10-level player (if you are in the VIP program) and therefore the double-points are EASILY worth more than the bonus.


If you are at a VIP level that is 22.5% rakeback value on RPM (10 gear) then double-points are worth another 22.5%.

Bonuses only clear at a 13% additional rakeback rate I believe.

Obviously it's even better if you have both going at the same time. But do not be fooled by the whole "Get $200 bonus" thing. It's also important how fast the bonus clears. 13% extra is nothing to sneeze at. But it's not even close to double-points for pretty much any player.


Compare two players earning 3,000 points in a month (this isn't much, right? Remember that you are the one who loves the $200 bonus so much ni the first place which takes WAY more than 3,000 points to clear):

10-gear level player who earns his points exclusively on double-points days: $75 extra. 22.5% + 22.5% = 45% for $150 total

10-gear level player who receives no double-points but is clearing a bonus while he is doing so: $40 extra. 22.5% + 13% = 35.5% for $110 total



Really disappointing that RPM will not be doing double-points anymore. LOL at Merge and their belt-tightening on the promos. WTF? Do they just want to lose ALL of their players?

At the beginning of this VIP stuff a year ago, we were told that the value of the program would easily be way better than before...including better than 35% straight rakeback for many players. This is hardly turning out to be the case. Not sure how much I will be playing on RPM in the future without better promos. It's still kind of okay with an extra 13% slapped on there with a bonus but definitely is not a no-brainer or anything even close.

Really sick of all this Merge shooting-selves-in-foot nonsense.

Yeah, you're right on the $0.12 rake part. Thanks.

Other part with the "10 hours" aspect is that I have to think the games are little deader at some point in there and not as many going off as frequently. So 50/hour slows down to 40/hour at a certain point (or begins at 35-40/hour if you are starting the grind early enough in the day). Just a hunch anyway. If you are starting at noon RPM time to give yourself a little cushion, then probably not as many going off at that time...and probably slows down again by 21:00 or so as well.


Anyway, I've done the 500 tourney thing before when one could still go about it at micro-stakes if they wanted. Adding the $0.11 and $1.06 tourneys in there you can load them up much faster and get to 100+ an hour. Think it took me 5 hours total or so. Was a definite grind but just powered by way through it.

But yeah, I don't really want to have to double that time commitment for the $109 ticket which is essentially what the $2-minimum is forcing me to do because they don't fire off nearly as quickly.

And my experience with the 500 tourney thing was so "meh" that I ended up saying, "well, I gave that a try but it wasn't so fabulous. Think I'll go back to the 10k hand thing next time around" (back when the player had the choice to do one or the other).


Last month (or month before) it was 500 tournaments of ANY real cash + a 750 point requirement. I played a bunch of smaller ones to crank through the 500 tourney requirement faster and then threw in some cash-games and slightly higher tourneys to get to the 750 points.

750 points is still $75 in rake paid. So it works out to about the same in value in the end (in other words, RPM isn't completely giving away the store)....and I am able to make it to the finish line much faster and without having to slog through only 40 tourneys an hour during slower times.

All of this strategy-talk of how to make it through the points and number of hours involved and so forth reminds me of the Party Cruise Marathon thing in 2005.

PartyPoker gave a free cruise/tourney package to Mexico. It was for the first 20 players who could earn 20k points or something. Old point structure (way different than current points) and with a whopping 4-table maximum on the site at the time (haha).

I figured it all out and played for like 60 out of 72 hours or something to get there. Cruise package was worth $12k. Plus I cashed in the tournament to get $5200 back...and GF and I had an awesome vacation.


So yeah...

Grinding out a really hard 60 hours for a $12k reward = Bring it on

Grinding out 10 hours for $109 extra = Meh, maybe if I have nothing else to do AND the weather is bad AND there aren't any other worthwhile promos going on elsewhere.

They will and they know that. Once the US players can play on other networks again, Merge will be dead. I guess they want to grab as much money as they can while these "golden years" last. These promos cost them nothing. The amount of extra rake they get, cover all the bonuses.
And nothing is better than straight rakeback. For an average player at least. I compared some old rakeback systems with these new VIP systems all the networks forcing on us. With rakeback, you get the 30 or whatever % even if you raked only $10. But these VIP systems start with 4-5% rakeback equivalent, and you have to rake a ton to get close to the normal rakeback. That's often impossible for micro players.

Every month either the low stakes players or high stakes players complain about the promo offerings. Each day should have a low stakes promo and a high stakes promo. Someone last month suggested a "high road and low road" path which for RPM seems witty and right.

Also, I don't know the clearance rate on the $200 bonus, but if it is 75 VIP per $1, change that to 30 VIP per $1 and a lot of complaining would ease. I'm not going to explain why, but trust me it is a good middle ground to the high and low players.

RPMJon, since my 2+2 account is new, I'm not in PM mode yet but it let me e-mail you. Check your e-mail. Thanks.

I am not at all a high stakes nor high volume player. I play NL25 and NL50 mostly and am 10 Gear in the VIP program. So I guess that makes me higher than a micro player but that's about it.

I believe that the vast majority of people who don't like the double points promos and prefer the bonuses are not understanding the value involved.

Regardless, RPM said in this thread that Merge is banning double-points days. So the point has been made moot by Merge's own utter incompetence.

Wish I could give more business to RPM/Merge. They are making it very difficult for me to do so.

Arrgh. The U.S. poker scene just sucks so much.