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Get some rakeback!

Hey everyone. I get a lot of people sending me free play money chips on poker palace and I thought to myself . . . I can send you free REAL money on REAL poker sites.

Intrigued?

If you look above--There's a banner that refers you to Rakebrain.com.

If you click on this page and sign up with them you will receive a portion of the money you pay in rake on Online Poker Rooms. What is Rake? The rake is a commission that an online casino charges the players to play the games. This is how they make a profit. Brick and Mortar casinos usually charge a rake, but sometimes charge "time" at the higher stakes. T

Technically it's not really free money they give away--it's a portion of the money you pay. This is something you can't do at a brick and mortar casino. If you can break even, playing your opponents--you can make a profit with rakeback.

Online, the rake is based on the limits you play. Usually there's a cap of about $3.00. If you play on full tilt .50-1.00 Limit Hold Em short handed games like me the rake is typically 3BB/100. So for every 100 hands you play, the rake is $3.00. It gets very expensive. With rake back, however you get 27% of that back approximately 81 cents.

A lot of people sign up on a poker site because of commercials on TV. They don't sign up through an affiliate and don't get rakeback. There's a lot of players that don't get it. You don't want to be one of those players.

The other thing is, you can get4% of the rake that the people your refer pay. This includes tournaments as well as cash games. I've known this, but I really only recently started referring people. Most people start playing for play money--that's what I did, but most sites don't rake the play money. A lot of people complain about the cards being rigged at the play money games. They say they let you win more when you play for play money. This isn't really true, but. . .they don't take anything away either. You could easily turn 2000 play money chips into a million against players who don't have anything to lose, and a site that doesn't take rake.

Eventually, those players will play for real money. When you do--make sure you get rakeback. Also get some poker training. The site I like is stoxpoker.com and you can get it for free at trulyfreepokertraining.com Here's a tip though--sign up for a free cardrunners account and a free stoxpoker accoount before you sign up with this site.

I can't get the cardrunners for free because I didn't do this. for one month of Stoxpoker you need to earn 2500 FTP points. you can earn portions of this in with 25% increments as well.

You should also sign up with twoplustwo.com Check out the forums, Ask questions. This si another advantage of real money games. You can track your history with a program called Hole Em Manager. They also make an Omaha Manager. You can replay the hands and copy and paste the hand to a fourm like twoplus two and ask people for advice.


One other thing I should mention, Bonuses also give you money back. It's a form of rakeback onbly temporary. Bonuses expire, but still worth trying to clear. Poker Stars also has a program that can give you some of your rakeback if you grind a hell of a lot of hands at high enough stakes to clear it, but they don't ahve a montthly transfer of money to your account.

Peace out.

Game Selection

Becoming a Grinder

A week ago, three days ago, I realized I have been playing poker, for money, for three years. Small stakes—the smallest of the small, just above the micro stakes. You don’t see the players I play with on TV and I’m not the best player in the world, but I’m not the worst player in the world. I decided I’m no longer trying to be the “best player in the world.” Skills are important, but to me being the best player in the world meant being the best bluffer, the most aggressive, highest VP$IP style. I wanted to be dougnutz.
I play limit hold ‘em, mostly.
I’ve read all the books.
I watch instructional videos almost everyday and I thought I knew everything.
The truth is, I will never know everything about poker. For one thing, poker is a game of incomplete information. You can never know everything. You certainly can’t know your opponents cards. The best player in the world, if there is one, does not the hole cards of their opponents. At best they can come up with a range and determine which hand is more likely.

The best player s in the world are the ones that get the worst players to play against them for the most amount of money.
With this epiphany I’ve decided to play the worst players in the world. I’m not trying to pretend I’m Phil Ivey. I’m going to build my bankroll through rakebacks and bonuses. The first one I’m clearing is UB. There’s no expiration. I have 1100 to clear, $1195 more to go. IT takes about 600 hands to clear $5.00. 132,000 hands to clear.
I’m going to do it in six months.
This is approximately 5000 hands a week. I can play 4 tables at once, or about 500 hands per hour. 10 hours a week, and my expected win rate is 2BB/100.
This is my blog about achieving this goal. I also am going to publish some short videos on Youtube showing my play.
This is not the first micro stakes blog. I’ve seen others and they seem to peter off after about two or three posts. I need help getting the word out. If anyone has some advice on how to publicity I’d appreciate it. Also if you have any questions on how to play feel free to send me an email.
gotmarc@gmail.com
I’m always looking for poker buddies and people to exchange sweat videos with. I can also be reached at the two plus two forum or stoxpoker under the username gotmarc.
Peace out.

VP$IP% /PFR%/ AF

VP$IP%--Acronym meaning Volutnarily put money in pot percentage. This is a statistic used in poker to describe a range of hands someone chooses to play.

PFR% --The percentage of hands played that are raised, as opposed to calling.

AF--Aggression Factor. The amount of bets and raises divided by the amount of calls.

These are the stats most used at the poker tables. You can use these stats to determine the way an opponent plays or how often they will have top pair or a flush draw.