Taking advantage of the free cash made available to you through the Poker Stars and Titan Poker bonus offerings is one way to maximize your online poker dollars. In order to get that free money into your hands, you need only follow a few simple steps.

First, of course, you have to install the Titan Poker and PokerStars download software. Once you’ve done that, you need to make your first deposit into the respective real money poker account. At this point the sites will credit you for the bonus dollars you’ve earned, according to the current bonus offering. For Titan Poker, that’s 100% on your first deposit up to $500. For Poker Stars it’s 100% on your first 3 deposits within 90 days up to a total of $600.

After you get credited these bonus dollars you can only use them to play online poker at the awarding site. You cannot withdraw that money into your bank account, for example, until you’ve played enough online poker to earn the required number of points to clear that bonus. For Poker Stars that’s 17 times the bonus; for Titan Poker that’s 600 points for every $5.