To be honest, I don't remember (it was over a year ago now), but I think they actually did give me a $100 credit.
Here's what I'll say after playing there for a year:
1) I think their RCG sucks. It's probably no worse than any other site's, but it sure feels like there are a ton more coolers and bad beats than on some of the bigger sites. There also seem to be an inordinate number of garbage
hands that flop into made hands, so much so that you kind of have to alter your pre-flop strategy and rid yourself of the idea of ever trying to trap with a monster. If you size your pre-flop bets to try to price in marginal hands, you just wind up getting burnt a ton of the time. I can't tell you how many times I've seen a priced in small blind or big blind flop the nuts. I know it happens, but you can only have your big pairs cracked by 4-6o so many times before it starts straining believability.
Then again, maybe what the naysayers always say -- that this stuff just happens because you see so many more hands in online poker -- is true. It is, for sure, but it does seem to happen with greater frequency on Ignition.
2) Having said that, unless you live in
New Jersey, I don't know a better place to play online poker in the US. It's not PS or FT (at least, not what they were before they were banned in the US), but it's still decent. Pretty good variety of tournaments with good minimums and good-sized fields. Plus, except for in the more expensive tournaments, there are a lot of soft players, so...
3) If you can avoid tilting (which isn't always easy with all the morons who go all-in pre-flop when the blinds are 10/20 and the calling stations who will pay any price with any hand to see a flop), and you have any skills whatsoever, you'll probably do fairly well there.
