subject: Poker Bonus Codes And Their Workings Explored [print this page] Many online casinos that offer poker as one of their games are increasingly giving their members the so-called poker bonus codes.' Encountering such codes for your very first time can leave with lots of questions, with regard to what the said codes are, and how exactly they work. It is towards answering those two major questions, and other minors ones they give rise to, that we will be concerning ourselves with for this discussion.
The basic workings of bonus codes, on the user side of the equation, are not really that hard to understand. What the casino management tells the casino's patrons is that upon performing certain actions, the casino system will be generating certain codes, whose entry into the system would yield for them certain bonuses. In some cases the required action, on the users' part, is registration with the online casino in question. Upon confirming their registration, the system generates a code for them. They then enter the code at a place provided for it on their interface to the system, and instantly find some starting money' loaded into their playing account: this being a no deposit account,' which they have earned by the simple virtue of their having registered with the casino. In other cases, what is required of the members is for them to deposit money into their playing accounts, an action which similarly generates a code, which upon being entered on another screen, yields a bonus.
So, on the whole, if you get a poker bonus code in an online casino, don't ignore it. It is a potentially beneficial thing to you. The thing for you to do would be to proceed to the relevant screen, enter the code through that screen,' and thereby get to access the free money therein.
Of course, on the casino's side, the implementation of these poker bonus codes is a much more involving affair. To make the poker bonus possible, the programmer who created the software that runs the online casino will often have to be called, and told to programmatically implement the bonus. Modern casino management software does come with capabilities to do this without touching the code, but most of the casinos are still working with the sorts of software that would require such programmatic intervention to make these bonus codes possible.
The question is bound to come up, at this point, as to why the online casinos actually offer the said poker bonus codes. And as it turns out, the offering of the bonus codes by the online casinos is motivated by their strategic business interests. When an online casino starts offering such codes, it may be looking to draw more people into its membership. A casino can only grow inasmuch as it can attract more people into its membership. Alternatively, such a casino could be reacting to a similar move by a competing casino. In doing this, the understanding would be that the easiest way for an online casino to go under is for it to lose its members. So if what it takes to keep a hold on them is offering the poker bonus codes and other such codes, it has to do just that or risk going under.
