Bonus Offers
Promotional offer: Bad Beat Jackpot
Bad Beat Jackpots are offered by various poker sites and they make your worst nightmare as a poker player into a dream come true.
Typically you win a Bad Beat Jackpot if you are playing at a ring game table (they are usually designated) and you get an absolutely killer hand that ends up being second best.
An example would be pocket kings on a board with two kings and two aces and another card.
In that case you would have quad kings and of course you would be raising and calling another player's all in right? What if, all of a sudden, that player springs pocket aces on you and his quads are better. Usually you lose your entire stack and in a way that still happens to you, but with a Bad Beat Jackpot at least you get it back (many times over).
This is how your qualify for the Bad Beat Jackpot at Stan James Poker:
1. At least four players have to be dealt hole cards in the hand.
2. The losing hand, the hand that takes the 'bad beat' must be at least quad eights.
3. The hand of the winner and loser must use both hole cards and the hand must go to a showdown.
4. The hand must have contributed to the jackpot to qualify (you have to be playing at a table where a portion of the rake goes into the bad beat jackpot).
5. 50% of the jackpot is awarded to the loser of the bad beat, 25% to the winner of the hand and 25% goes to the rest of the players in the hand. (A portion of the jackpot is retained by the house in rake and to seed the next jackpot).
Some players get confused by the third statement. Basically what it means is that both of your hole cards have to play in your hand in order for the Bad Beat Jackpot promo to apply. For example say you have 9s 2s and your opponent had As 5s on the board was as follows:
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Both of you have a straight flush, your opponent's being a Royal Flush yours being to the king. However, since your 2s does not play because you play four cards on the board, you would not qualify. Also since your opponent's 5s doesn't play that would also disqualify you as well, even if you weren't already.
Reload Bonus
The reload bonus is by invitation only and our staff believe that it will be used by Stan James to retain the interest of customers that may be moving on or are dormant. The reload bonus is subject to change but for June 2009 you had to make a $100 reload deposit and then earn 3000 loyalty points (more on earning loyalty points in the "Sign-up bonus" section) in the month that the bonus is applied to. Basically to earn those kinds of loyalty points you will have to either play tons and tons of poker on a $100 deposit or you will have to play at really high stakes against good competition and risk losing your deposit quickly.
Unless you're some kind of wicked poker ace this 'bonus' isn't going to work for you.
Signup Bonus
100% up to $500
Bonus Payout
The first deposit bonus is 100% up to $500, so if you deposit anything between $20 and $500, Stan James will match it.
To complete the bonus, you have to earn Loyalty Points (i.e. accumulate a certain amount of rake) to the value of 25 times your first deposit. So if you were to deposit $20, you require 500 Loyalty points to receive your $20 bonus.
On completion (you have 60 days), you must email poker@stanjames.com. Should you fail to complete the bonus in the designated time frame, you have a further 30 days to earn the required points for 50% of your initial deposit.