The requirements for Overdrive Club are 100,000 hands of cash or 1000 combined MTT's/SNG's in any month.

I e-mailed them and asked what the requirements for which SNG's could be played were and they replied that ANY SNG counts.

The award for making Overdrive Club is:
- $1500 Bonus (75 VIP Points/$1)
- Waived Withdrawal Fees
- Overdrive Club Accolade
- Recognition in the RPM Hall of Fame

Not sure what (75 VIP points/$1) and maybe that's what I am missing, but why wouldn't someone play 1000 11 cent ST's which would cost you a max of $110 if you managed to brick them all and you would still bank the $1500 bonus?

Hi Pensfan!

The bonus that you win for reaching Overdrive is a bonus that clears at a rate of 75 VIP Points per $1, the fastest clearing bonus on the Merge Network. To clarify, it's not $1500 into your account, but a large bonus that you can clear at a fast rate.

You are fully within your rights to play 11 cent STTs in order to win Overdrive! The Overdrive Club rewards loyalty based on volume in addition to being able to qualify based on rake. We understand that players at micro and lower stakes won't always rake as much as others, but it doesn't mean that we don't recognize that you've chosen to play poker with us too.

Seth,
Is it still possible to get the $1500 bonus every month?

Yes, you can qualify every month.

I appreciate the answer. I assumed it meant 75 points to clear $1 but wanted to be certain. Still, if you are an RPM player it's almost silly not to do this and get 15-1 on your money.

Seth- will it be legal or abuse of the promotion to"flip" 2.10 hu hyper sngs. It'd be profitable but will that be allowed? Also is flipping in general against rules or not

What do you mean by this?

The bonus just adds 13.333% for those without rakeback and 8.667% for those with rakeback.

Losing money getting the bonus won't do much good.

An arranged "all in" every hand

That would be collusion and likely result in your account being frozen pending an investigation! The promotions are there so that players who would like to reach goals are being rewarded, not so the players can find a way to bilk RPM Poker out of a few bonus dollars. Widespread abuse of any promotions will only result in the promotions being discontinued, and those abusers will likely not be credited with their promotion winnings if they came to it in a fraudulent manner. To be frank, I don't see this becoming a widespread issue that would result in the stoppage of any promotion.

Can't see anybody doing it.

Not really. The bonus even at it's fastest rate does not clear terribly fast. All you are getting is an additional 13% rakeback. That's what the bonus is. It clears at a rate that is about 13%. So knocking yourself out with 1000 micro tourneys isn't exactly going to make you rich. And it is completely inaccurate to say that you are getting 15-1 on your money. You still have to clear the $1500 bonus. And if you are still playing super-low then you are only going to get maybe $20 through it or something.

It's not the worst plan in the world if you want to land that bonus which takes practically forever to clear. But it's not the no-brainer or get-rich-quick scheme that you evidently think it is.

It would absolutely not be profitable. You should not have any interest in doing this even IF rpm were to let you.

You can't just look at the size of the bonus. you have to look at the rate at which it clears.

RPM could give me a $1,000,000 bonus for all we care. But if it clears at 500 points per $1 then it is borderline worthless. I didn't really make $1,000,000.

A lot of you are getting fooled by the "$1,500" thing. For most of you playing at lowish stakes they might as well call it, "13% rakeback increase for the next 12 months" because that is how long it will take you to clear it (if you're lucky). It's not exactly the worst offer in the universe. But don't mistake it as being hugely generous of them that is a totally sick giveaway where you can't understand how they can afford to do this... because it just isn't that big a deal really.

EXACTLY.....minus the 12 month thing. 3 month limit on bonus $. Plus ...even if u flipped and won exactly 50% yer still down 100$ in rake with the HU flips.You "could" get the bonus by playing 1000 tournies..Losing EVERY one and still being down 110$.

I would say that it is still a good value from RPM specially if you can clear the bonus at a decent rate. Thank you Seth!