How Sites Make Money with Rake

Online gaming sites make money from most of their games because the odds favor the House. After you have played a game like blackjack long enough, your luck will usually run out and the House will start winning more of your money.
With online poker, the players compete against one another instead of the House. The sites make money no matter who wins because they take a percentage from the total pot (usually between five and ten percent but never more that $3-$5).
The amounts are pretty small with most games. The House might take a $4 cut on a $40 pot. While this is not much when looking at an isolated pot, it certainly adds up over several hands. At the end of the month, a regular player might look at his earnings and recognize that a sizeable amount has been raked from the top. Someone who plays poker almost every day with fairly high stakes pays thousands of dollars to the poker sites on a monthly basis.

How Rakeback Benefits You

When you sign up with a new poker site, you can do so through a rakeback affiliate. This still means that your hands will still be raked, but you will have some of that rake returned to you at the end of the month. This makes it easier for players to increase their earnings.
Say that you sign up at Cake Poker with their 33% Cake Poker Rakeback deal and play for a month. When the month is over you have paid $500 in rake, something that is done a lot quicker than many think. Then you can expect to get a refund of $165 added to your bankroll.
Compared with regular poker bonuses, rakeback deals are far superior. When a bonus is cleared, you will not get any more money whereas a rakeback deal runs forever. It doesn’t matter what your skill level is as far as benefiting from rakeback. If you are a losing player, you will lose less. If you are a winning player, you will win more.

Why Offer Rakeback?

The most important thing to online poker sites is signing up new players. They know that every player on their site is a new income stream for them. They are willing to settle for a little less in order to guarantee that income stream, so they are happy to give a portion of the rake back both to the affiliate site and the player.
This, you have the chance to exploit.

Looking at an online poker room offering Paysafecard is Bet at Home Poker. They have been involved in poker for a very long time and have established a huge player base and with that being said the bonuses and offerings are quite out of this world. Another big name is Party Poker which is available in different languages, so it should cater for the bulk of online players out there. Some  benefits of playing at Party Poker is the fact that they offer various gambling deposit options via different currencies and to top it off, there is a nice bonus as well for online players.

Another big name in Poker and even online casino is Bwin – They are well known all around the world with their huge brand Bwin Poker. Their Sportsbetting division is also called Bwin and their casino is called Bwin Casino. A great payment method that works well at Bwin Poker is Moneybookers and by using this preferred payment method online players are entitled to scoop up huge bonuses.

Saying things at the end of a hand is after all so useless. The thing that is really hot these days, but at the same time very rude, is saying “Ship it!”. If you’re playing online and you tell that to yourself while being alone behind your computer screen it obviously doesn’t matter. If you are in a casino however and you win a big pot , saying “ship it” or “send it” or any of that kind of remarks, is considered very discourteous. As if your opponent doesn’t try his best to win that pot?

Another very anoying thing are excuses. If you were lucky and won a pot in which you started out as a big underdog, just be  quiet and be glad you won the pot. “What did you want me to do? I did had an ace right?” This is an example of a situation in which you just shut the f^ck up. It’s very contrarily that the person who won the pot starts complaining! “So what, you were lucky the previous time!”, is such an unnecessary thing to say as well. Just show some respect towards your opponent and be happy you won the pot.

Finally, talking about a hand in which you are not playing yourself, is a no go as well! Do not give hints about the hand you folded or about what you think everybody is holding. Every player has to play for himself and the players in the pot are the the only ones who are allowed to talk about it. Do not say things like “Yeah, I understand you’re thinking cause he’s been raising you for the past half an hour” or “Wow, did you flop a set?”. It doesn’t get you anywhere and it doesn’t concern you at any point. Even if you are in the pot, but you’re not heads up, it isn’t considered polite to be thinking out loud or asking your opponents questions.

Be sure to play with respect towards the other players at the table and imagine you being your opponent once in a while. If you lose a pot cause your opponent hits one of his two outs, you don’t want to see some idiot dancing on his chair and laughing about you. So do not do this yourself.

When you won a pot, celebrating this should be done in a modest way. If you lose a hand and your opponent gets up, yells ‘YEAAH’ and high fives some of his friends you’re without doubt considerably irritated. Off course it’s all right to be happy when winning a hand, don’t get me wrong. You’re allowed to celebrate when winning an important hand in a tournament which doubles you up. You can for exemple say ‘Yes’ and make a fist, that way you keep it a bit discreet. If your aces stay up in an important hand or a big pot it’s normal there’s a certain amount of stress release. However, nobody is waiting for someone who gets on his chair en goes screaming. The rest of the room doesn’t care about you winning a hand !

Not celebrating is especially important when winning an all in with a hand that goes in as the worst hand. If you win with against , both all in preflop, DO NOT stand up and start yelling you’re the best. You don’t want to point attention to the fact that you trew everything in the pot with the worst hand and just go lucky. So again, out of respect, you just stay calm. Saying sorry doesn’t work eather cause you absolutely have no regret winning the hand. When your opponent looks at you after a sick showdown, often a polite nod for saying you got lucky does the trick.

Next time a final post about etiquette concerning Speeches!

A lot of people, especially recreative players, do not know there are quite some no-go’s in the pokerworld. You can’t really blame these players and you’ll have to crop up with these people in exchange for the action you get from these amateurs
When playing with professionals, you can expect that everyone at the table will be treated with respect. Unfortunetely, this is more an exception than a rule. Quite often people don’t realise that certain actions at the table are low and impudent.

In this post and a few to come, I will point out to you beginners out there some important poker etiquette issues.

The slowroll

A lot of people don’t know the true meaning of this word. After all, there’s a difference between Slowplaying and Slowrolling. Slowplaying simply means you hide the strength of your hand in an attempt to get more money in the pot.

Slowrolling means you have the last action in a hand and you wait with calling while holding the nuts. E.g. someone goes all in and you’re holding , while the board is . More money can’t be put in the pot and still you’re waiting with your call while you know there’s no way you can lose. Doing so is extremely low, because you can give you opponent the idea he indeed has the winning hand. Why in godsname would you do such a thing?!

You can’t lose the hand and your getting nothing out of waiting with showing your hand. Some people say it’s part of the psychological aspect of poker, but no, it’s the lowest you can do. It serves no purpose at all and you’ll lose all the respect off the other players.

Next time I’ll be talking about Celebrations so be sure to tune in again!

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Great interview by the way!

When playing SNGs you always have to keep your bankroll in mind. The buy-in may never cost you more than 5% of your bankroll. This means that if you have $100 you should not choose SNGs with a buy-in of more than $5. The bigger your bankroll gets, the smaller the percentage gets. So if you have $500, you should opt for SNGs with a $20 buy-in.

- Bye Bye impatient ones

The first thing that happens when playing a SNG is the elimination of all the impatient opponents. These are players who prefer to push all-in on the first hand, hoping to double up quick or save time and effort to build up a stack the usual way. Usually it doesn’t take long for these players to be eliminated so just sit tight for a couple of minutes.

- Multi-tasking

Don’t make the mistake of thinking that you can do everything at the same time. Sit N Go’s need concentration. If you are playing while watching TV, chatting with friends, making a meal you’re missing a lot of valuable information. Always focus on the poker game !

Notes are small scribbles which you can make with every player. So every time this player sits with you at a table, you can review your notes, review that information and use it to determine how you will play against that player. There are a few basic rules:

- be as clarifying as possible

- be as short as possible

- keep adjusting and updating your notes

This all sounds very obvious, but in fact many people do it wrong. By the first basic rule I want to point to boardtexture. There’s a difference in calling an all-in with on a board than on a board with . So if you make a note saying “calls KK as overpair allin on the flop” then it’s a bit of a shame cause you could state it that much clearer. Just by adding the word “drawy” or “dry” makes the note that much better! Perfection is impossible but the strive for is essential. So make optimal use of the information you get.

The second basic rule is about people who find telegraphese difficult. The sentence I gave you as a note in the previous paragraph isn’t good because there is more information you can put in it and the way it is written is way to long. You can list the same information by stating: “C AI w/OP KK dry F” Some of you will find these form of notes unpleasant, but is necessary to persist with a short form of notes. Otherwise, you will be scrolling in your notes, taking away precious time for more info gathering.

Then our last rule, adjusting and updating your notes. Even if you know somebody pretty well, you have to keep on gathering small parts of information about him. Strive for perfection. Your contestants keep on improving as well. Keep this in mind and keep updating your notes !

When playing at a table, other players will pay attention to the way you behave. Are you in every pot or just a small part of them? How do you play your hands? Although a big number of players will be busy with their own play, you have to bear in mind that the way you play has an effect on the way your contestants will play against you.

I’ll clarify to you the four most used playing styles that you come across playing poker.

- The Nit  (ultra tight) : these are the people you barely notice at the table as they play nearly no hands. If they come into a pot, you know almost for certain they have a premium hand. Although this looks like a “good” way of playing (as you only play the best hands), there are defintely a couple of disadvantages. After all, you will be very predictable and because of this, get little action.

- The Calling Station  (weak loose) : this is the kind of player with which it comes to a showdown almost every time he is in a pot. He will almost never bet himself, so the size of the pot depends on the others. Given that people are inclined to put a lot of money in the pot with a big hand, this image will not earn you very much.

- The Regular  (tight agressive) : this are actually the people who play the ‘best’ poker. They are very good in their hand selection. They’ll have variation in the way they play their hands and earn a lot of  money of inferior hands because the chance they have a worse hand than the one they imitate is bigger. Disadvantage of this style is that players who pay attention will try to avoid you.

- The Agressor/Maniac  (loose agressive): these players are often the “Table Captains”. They will play a lot of pots with marginal hands, and they will play these very agressive. The disadvantage here is that in general you are holding a worse hand than your opponents, so you will have to have good reading skills if you don’t want to pay off you opponents every time. The advantage here is that your big hands will be paid off extra, which is always nice

Later on I will explain to you what the best playing style is and how to obtain it.

For now, definitely check out this video which shows you some pro’s who explain to you how important it is to be aware of your table image.