Empire - $100, clears at 10x, gotta deposit during January 1 or January 2.

Bet365 - $50, clears at 10x. Need to play $100 NL or above, or $1/$2 Limit or above. The last few months the bonus was exactly the same terms, except it was $100 max bonus clearing at 5x. So, play the same # of hands and get half the bonus.

When you hear of other January reloads that are worth mentioning, post them here please. Be nice to keep things in one spot. Thanks.

So is Empire worth it? Is it still a rockfest w/ dick for table options?

They didn't pull the $10 30x trick on me. Maybe cuz I hadn't played there in over a month. I did the 100% to $100 and am about 1/2 way done clearing it. Place is nuts though. Either the table is a rock garden or there are so many loose suckout artists at it that it's hard for me to do better than break even. Oh well, the bonus will be cleared shortly and I can go back to BetFred's.

when I went to Empire there were only 2x $50 6 max and 2x$100 6 max running - and the stats on the players were awful - no thanx - plenty better places to spend my time..

The Empire players are dreadful at the full ring $50 tables.

Here's one guy I could not believe. He raises to 4x UTG, I call with 33 in LP, it's heads up, and the flop comes 322. He bets, I raise, he re-raises, I call Turn K, he checks, I bet half his remaining stack, he calls. River 7, he bets $2 into the $75 pot (!!!), I push the rest of his stack, he calls. He was on KK!!!! I had to INSIST on putting his stack into the pot when he had the top boat and I had been showing strength on every street. Unreal.

Empire is still a site for making money. The uber-tighties can be pushed off of hands all day long, and 2/3 of the rest of the players are ATMs.

a poster on BW said the ppa party bonus worked 2 days ago