Mansion Poker wave farewell to the UK

[redsimon]

Anyone remember the free bet up to 1k on the Steelers in the first game of the NFL season. Maybe 2006?

Pittsburgh Steelers 2006 Superbowl Champs Promotion

 Simply visit the MANSION Sportsbook and place a minimum Point Spread (Handicap) bet of USD 1,100 to win USD 1,000 (or currency equivalent) on the Pittsburgh Steelers for their game on Thursday 7 Sep 2006. (00:30 GMT 8 Sep 2006)

 If your bet is not a winner, MANSION will refund your losses of USD 1,100 (or currency equivalent).

Took $5.5 million in bets. They sure had deep pockets, and that daily tourney was a gold mine.

[DropTheHammer]

Anyone remember the free bet up to 1k on the Steelers in the first game of the NFL season. Maybe 2006?

Yuuup. I hedged for the guaranteed ~$500(?) profit but those that let it ride must have loved life!

[DropTheHammer]

Their Site Pro was Mark "Mr Cool" Goodwin, who had, if the rumours were true, the best deal any poker pro ever had, private jets & all sorts.

Talk about right place, right time!

I remember playing a little GUKPT side event and 'Mr Cool' went potty at James Browning because James limped AK utg. Marc: "You'll never trap anyone playing like that!". James: "But I just trapped you!"   haha

[DropTheHammer]

they used to have that tourney that overlayed a fortune every night, was sick

I took a fair few shots at the $100 BI but mainly used to just play 6-max cash back then. I seemed to remember thinking it was once a week, good job I never knew it was every night! It ran for a long time...

[Sheriff Fatman]

Anyone remember the free bet up to 1k on the Steelers in the first game of the NFL season. Maybe 2006?

That was a fantastic offer, once you'd called them and established that yes, it was really too good to be true!!

Must've read the small print 50 times trying to find the catch.  Turns out there wasn't one!!

[arbboy]

Anyone remember the free bet up to 1k on the Steelers in the first game of the NFL season. Maybe 2006?

Pittsburgh Steelers 2006 Superbowl Champs Promotion

 Simply visit the MANSION Sportsbook and place a minimum Point Spread (Handicap) bet of USD 1,100 to win USD 1,000 (or currency equivalent) on the Pittsburgh Steelers for their game on Thursday 7 Sep 2006. (00:30 GMT 8 Sep 2006)

 If your bet is not a winner, MANSION will refund your losses of USD 1,100 (or currency equivalent).

Took $5.5 million in bets. They sure had deep pockets, and that daily tourney was a gold mine.

That actually moved the global line for that game that promo.  Quite incredible and people think the game wasn't easy in this era.  Gl finding a promo like that now.

[theprawnidentity]

Are people from Goole, goolies ? 

Even if they are they're still better off than people from Scunthorpe.

gtfo

[engy]

Was the best site ever for overlays when it first started, and it let me have my own account and one with bad beat as well Mark Goodwin was involved with bad beat as some sort of mentor for a bit. Him strummer and action Jack all finaled the hi roller in Monte Carlo backed by Chris.Was the hand vs Ivey and aj. Think the next year Mark won the gukpt Manchester in fact he walked it knocked me out near bubble

[arbboy]

Anyone remember the free bet up to 1k on the Steelers in the first game of the NFL season. Maybe 2006?

That was a fantastic offer, once you'd called them and established that yes, it was really too good to be true!!

Must've read the small print 50 times trying to find the catch.  Turns out there wasn't one!!

It literally was too good to be true but it wasn't.  I remember a £100 risk free no rollover sign up bonus to ladbrokes casino in the same era.  No 50 times roll over requirements and 5000 times if you played blackjack,  You had to bet £100 on blackjack to get £100 cash (totally withdrawable) bonus.  Glory days.  Now you would have to play £25k on blackjack to get the same withdrawable bonus.  It was such easy money football hooligans were talking about it on their own forums to fund their next trip in 2004.

[DropTheHammer]

Anyone else rinse Pacific Poker for $150 a pop (instantly withdrawable) just for signing up people who deposited $25? MMmmmm

[engy]

I hit every bonus in both mine and the wife's name on every site, they really were good days. Now as arboy says rollover a 1000 times before you can withdraw

[redarmi]

Their Site Pro was Mark "Mr Cool" Goodwin, who had, if the rumours were true, the best deal any poker pro ever had, private jets & all sorts.

To be fair that wasn't even that great for them.  The staff football team won the bookies league in Gib and they took them got a weekend to the World Cup on the Jet all expenses paid.  The year before Stan James won it and Pete Fisher bought the. First drink on their night out.  Although if you have ever met Pete Fisher you will know that was probably more remarkable than the Mansion trip!

[madlondoner]

Who owned them? They sponsored spurs for a while! How did they have so much money to punt off?

[redarmi]

Owned by an Indonesian billionaire Putera Sampoerna who owns Sampoerna cigarettes.  Pretty sure he didnt punt it off though.  Be pretty amazed if it isnt a very profitable company now.  His personal punting, however, is the rock Betvictor was built on.

[Marky147]

Owned by an Indonesian billionaire Putera Sampoerna who owns Sampoerna cigarettes.  Pretty sure he didnt punt it off though.  Be pretty amazed if it isnt a very profitable company now.  His personal punting, however, is the rock Betvictor was built on.

Didn't his son get well into poker?

Seem to remember reading somewhere that he flitted about in the big cash games a for a while.