Bonus collection is a common and fairly lucrative practice among many low-limit online poker players today. Nearly every online poker room offers first-time players a deposit bonus and the majority of the rooms will offer reload bonuses to existing players on nearly a monthly basis. A player willing to take some initial time to establish a Neteller or Firepay account and download a number of sites, can open up a source of additional money ranging from $50 to $1,000+ per month depending on the amount of hands played. Bonus collecting is not all glitz and glamour though. You will often times find yourself on sites that have less-than-spectacular software or low traffic where finding a game of your choice is difficult. You will many times be playing against hordes of bonus whores who seem to care less about playing poker and more about trying to accumulate raked hands and the sessions become so tedious with players so tight that poker feels less like a game and more like a chore. Despite the few negatives, so many bonus dollars are available that it seems foolish to ever be playing poker without getting paid so to speak. Bonus money can make your good runs exponentially better, while hedging your losses during your bad runs. How do you make sense of all these bonuses and, better yet, how do you maximize the opportunities to obtain these bonuses for playing a game you already enjoy? That is where this guide comes in. The information is provided to you for free. We simply ask that if you decide to sign up at a poker room, please click our link to get there. Doing so will have no adverse effect on you or the bonus you receive, but it will help keep this site running. We have gathered information regarding the types of bonuses currently being offered and have simple, structured plans to assist you, the common on-line poker player, in maximizing your return from the available bonuses regardless of your initial investment or the number of hours per month you wish to play. We affectionately call this the Common Man Bonus Plan, or CMBP. While this information is intended for all online players, the low stakes player ($5/$10 Hold ‘Em and below) will likely reap the biggest “return on investment” since many of the bonuses from sites are capped. Large stakes players who routinely win (and lose) pots of $200 or more will find a $50 monthly bonus to have less impact to their bankroll than the player at a $0.50/$1 or $2/$4 table. Higher stake players or players who play thousands of hands a month, but only want one site on which to do all of their playing may want to consider a rakeback relationship. I hope you take advantage of at least some, if not all of the bonus opportunities you will find within these pages. Find the schedule that is appropriate for the amount of your starting investment and start building your poker bankroll! Next: Getting Started | 
