Thinking about doing this. It's $1 per 75 VIP points and released in $5 increments.

Anyone know the rate at which points are earned on Lock?

100hands of 50NL = X points (etc.)

glad to know poker sites are really doing good promos. I am curious about this as well.

good promo

How are people depositing onto Lock?

I emailed support and they help me set up a 'usemywallet' account, I deposited that way.

You get 1 VIP point per $.10 contributed rake.

This means it is equivalent to 13.3% rakeback.

Not a great promo at all.

Do you have to have a bank account to deposit to UMW? Or can you use Netspend?

Well......if it doesn't effect the standard 35% RB, then you're getting almost 50% RB during the bonus clearing.

Well it actually does effect RB in a way.

RB players earn VIP points at 65% of the rate a non-RB player earns them. Therefore you are going to clear they FDB slowly. For example if a non-RB player earns points at 10 VIP Points per $1 in Rake a Rakeback player will earn 6.5 VIP Points per $1 in Rake. Therefore it kinda does effect RB.

Your right though, overall all the Merge deals are very good. The Bonus's on Merge do clear very very slowly though but when everything is factored in its a great deal. Merge Network limits the Bonus clearing rate so no skins can have a huge advantage over others.

There are better First Deposit Bonus's that clear a lot faster then the First Deposit Bonus's on the Merge skins, but in long term value, your probably not going to find a better overall effective RB.

Dunno I used my CC

How long did Lock take to get you the invitation to usemywallet?
I have been waiting all day as my friend got his done in 20 minutes about a week ago.
Is this normal?

took me a day or so, but that was because I sent them an email I didn't do live chat. Just be patient their traffic has doubled and they are probably really swamped right now.

I'm participating in this 200% bonus, does it ever expire?

The deposit bonuses should be the least of your concerns. You are never going to clear the whole amount and it's not going to be much.
the first step is to figure out the best skin. Most players make mistakes when selecting the best skin because they do not understand that there really are many difference from skin to skin. It's funny because all of these different things that the skins offer are very unique. Some are taylored toward the grinders who will put in high volume, like 100k hands month after month (RPM poker). Some are tailored toward players who are just going to be slow steady horses. And yet others are for players that just want to deposit, grind for a couple of months and then leave the network.

US players should try to move fast because the skins are changing policies toward US players. They have been targeted at new sign ups only, as of yet.

hey Aggromonkey, you seem to have done some research which one taylors towards slow steady horses?

thanks