Gamble Tips
The recent explosion of online poker has seen poker companies listing on the stock exchange and everyone trying to get a piece of the action. You will discover now hundreds of poker sites on the web to select from but at the end of the day they all offer exactly the same thing - the chance to gamble several of our hard earned money against faceless opponents, sitting miles away in some other involved in the globe. In our underwear if we so wish.
The adrenalin rush of sweating it out on the turn of a card with a small fortune at stake is now reachable without having to leave the home. We do not have to travel, go out in to the cold, worry about dress code or a taxi home. We can play any time of the day or night - there's no closing time. We aren't required to miss Corry or Enders. As long as there is money in our poker account we can play till our hearts content.
But that's the problem isn't it - how do we keep money in our account. The very first few times of playing we're feeling our way in, learning the guidelines. But it seems so fast and furious. We're always being told to hurry up through the computer - "Hang on I'm thinking! He is probably got an ace but I am really not sure. Give me a second to think! Oh I fold then."
But as time goes by, and we begin to worry about how many Neteller transfers we seem to be making, we gradually get the hang of it. We win a number of hands; we begin to work out our opponents; we actually come off a table in profit!
We up our stakes, we start playing the bigger tables - no limit even. We enter a tourney or two - even get to the final table. Cannot quite win however. But we're not feed for the sharks any more. We have not made a deposit for days now and we're still playing online gambling!
But this really is all reliant on winning - at least now and after that. Poker is all well and good once we win, but as we have to keep clicking that 'Deposit Funds' button it becomes rather tiresome. If only there was some way to ensure that funds are deposited into our account without the bank card taking the hit.
Well actually there is and it's amazing how lots of people are now playing poker (right at this very second even) that do not know about Rakeback. It appears to be just a little known fact that many of the poker companies, who are desperately vying for our business, actually offer money back just for playing.
Well it's time to spread the great news.
The profit that the poker companies make is called 'The Rake'. They take a portion of the pot of every game which is played. We don't even notice it's gone. But it builds up into quite a little pile of profit for said company. The term Rakeback actually comes from the method used in casinos where the dealer would use his chip rake to drag a couple of chips in to a bucket...only to cover their costs. And make the odd million.
Online poker companies do the same thing, albeit electronically. And as being an incentive for us to sign up with their site, they offer referral incentives, in the form of Rakeback, through various online Rakeback sites. This is exactly what it says on the tin - we get a bit of 'The Rake' given back to us. Thus, for every single hand that we play, the poker site takes their share and gives us a little back throughout the affiliated Rakeback site. If you play enough poker this may add up to a tidy little sum and come the end of the month, our poker account receives an excellent little injection of money.
It doesn't matter whether we have won or lost - we have played. And that's all we need to do to get our Rakeback. If we play enough it can fund our poker for the entire month. We can even lose but still not be out of pocket. Imagine that.
