Rakeback

So, I'm still debating back and forth about Rakeback. I don't get it at fulltiltpoker but I prefer playing there over pokerstars. I actually started playing online poker on pokerstars back in 2004, but eventually moved over to fulltiltpoker because of the poker bloggers (see my list to the right) and their regular tournaments. So now when I play on pokerstars, the sounds of the chips, and timers, and everything else take me back to my beginning days playing online. I'm thinking I may start playing exclusively at pokerstars.

And of course, there is the rakeback issue. I don't get it at fulltiltpoker. I've asked for it several times, and have been denied. I even opened another account name to get it, but fulltiltpoker support found out and shut down my new account. Luckily they gave me back the $1500 I had in funds with them. With the heavy promoting of VPP's on pokerstars, I've been thinking of moving exclusively to stars. I think the time is now.

I know this player told me he moved to stars. But I haven't seen a post from him in some time so I'm not really sure how it's going.

Anyway, if you have any advice either way, I'd be open to it. I just want to make sure I'm getting the most bang for my buck. I haven't had a big withdrawal from online poker in over a year, but I've also played a lot less over the last year. I'm ready to start playing more again and need to find a place worthy of doing it.

Let me know if you have any opinions for me. Thanks,

Jamyhawk

New site I'm playing on

In an effort to get some rakeback, I signed up a while back at CAKE Poker. I never loaded any money in because I was really focusing on tournament play and Full Tilt has the best variety of tournaments and SNG's.

But now I want to start trying to develop my skills at Omaha, especially in ring games, so I bought chips in CAKE Poker. I get my rakeback through RAKETHERAKE. It's funny that FTP and Pokerstars are so diverse in their interfaces. CAKE actually reminds me of Party Poker. I actually laughed when I heard the clapping for winning a hand.

Anyway, so far it seems to be a pretty decent site to play on. Especially if you want to wear blue high heels like you can see me wearing in the picture above. At this table, I sat down with $30 and cashed out over $100. We'll see if that continues. I'll keep you updated.

Stay patient....

Moving to Bodog

It's Monday night so tonight is the MATH (or FMATSH). Come play as we go 6max turbo. Super shove fest and I love it!

Tournament: Mondays at the Hoy

When: Every Monday. 10pm ET

Game: 6max turbo

Buyin: $24+2

Password: hammer

Now a few different things:

First, Go Check this Chica out! She cashed in FTPOS event #15. 2600+ players and she finished 24th. Very impressive.

Second, congratulations to VinNay for winning the Big Game last night and a TOC seat. Check out jeciimd, who finished 2nd. Jeci took 1st in the last Big Game and now comes back with a 2nd place finish. Another impressive run. And special kudos to my buddy TheCloserX5 who bubbled but managed to make the final table. Look out for him. He is dead set on getting into the TOC.

Third, I missed the Big Game as I had a football banquet to attend. If you followed the Friday Night Lights posts I did, you will know that attending the banquet was sure to be full of drama for me. Well, it wasn't really. The coach did make a comment on the starting running back "could never get a run for over 10 yards" that made everyone go "oooooohhhhhh". So why is he starting again? . . . Cal got All Conference Honorable Mention for Kickoff/Punt returns. Funny thing was, he had 5 Kickoff returns all year and NO punt returns. He took 2 of the 5 returns for TD's. Hopefully the coach will let him run back kickoffs next year.

Fourth, Here is the response I got from FTP about getting rakeback. I sent them 4 different e-mails over 2 months and they finally responded to the last one:

So, I have opened an account at Bodog. Smokkee has been promoting them hard so I am going to give it a try. I want to get rakeback for the ring games I am playing, especially if I start moving up to higher limits (which I am thinking about doing). I loaded in Friday night VERY easily. Simple Visa Check Card transaction and they auto loaded 10% bonus in (no playing to earn the bonus).

So far, the tables have been extremely loose. Lots of pots with most or everyone limping. Some of the tables were showing 77% of the players seeing a flop. Unfortunately, I dropped a buy in when I was holding QQ and saw a raggy flop. I jam hoping for the usual call from a small pair with crap kicker, but instead run into AA. It is not unusual to see people calling to the river with draws or top pair any kicker. You have to be careful in those situations also. Play a top pair top kicker and you can get rivered very easily at these tables. I plan to write more about my play there. I don't know the software very well (as I am used to Pokerstars and FTP only) so I haven't figured out hand histories and screen shots, and I haven't reloaded Pokertracker from my dead laptop. Hope to soon.

Hope everyone starts doing good at the tables. Seems most bloggers have been writing about bad beats lately (except these hot runners: Kajagugu, jeciimd, XxMagiciaNxX, and Astin -or at least they have been hot in the blogger tourneys).

Stay patient....

New Site to Play on

I'm looking for a new site to play on. I like FTP, but no longer get rakeback. I will keep some funds on FTP, but would like to accomplish a couple of things here:
1)Get rakeback
2)Play in the rakeback freerolls (a lot of free cash)
3)See if I can find some softer cash games (although FTP has some pretty soft ones)
4)Find some more aggressive frequent player rewards than FTP has

I would like for YOU to tell me where else you play and why you like it (or why you think I would like it)
I greatly appreciate any feedback you have.

Raketherake freeroll

I have much more detail to go into later, but here is how I finished:


Not bad for free money. Right now, I will just say: "Thank you HOY".

Stay patient....