Quality Poker Strategies 4

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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 available but at the end of the day all of them offer exactly the same thing - the possibility to gamble some of our hard earned money against faceless opponents, sitting miles away in some other a component of 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 don't have to travel, go out into the cold, worry about dress code or perhaps a taxi home. We can play any time of the day or night - there is no closing time. We do not have to miss Corry or Enders. As long as there is money in our poker account we can play till our hearts content.

But that is the problem isn't it - how do we keep money in our account. The very first few times of playing we are feeling our way in, learning the guidelines. But it appears 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'm not really sure. Give me a second to think! Oh I fold then."

But as time goes by, and we begin to be worried about how many Neteller transfers we seem to be making, we gradually get the hang of it. We win a number of hands; we start 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 although. But we're not feed for the sharks anymore. We haven't made a deposit for days now and we're still playing!

But this really is all determined by winning - at least now and after that. Poker is all well and good poker online (browse around this site) whenever we win, but once we have to keep clicking that 'Deposit Funds' button it becomes rather tiresome. If only there was some way to guarantee that funds are deposited into our account without the card taking the hit.

Well actually there is and it's amazing how many individuals are presently playing poker (right at this very second even) that do not know about Rakeback. It appears to be a little known proven 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 for you to spread the great news.

The profit that the poker companies make is called 'The Rake'. They take a percentage of the pot of every game that is played. We do not even notice it's gone. But it builds up into quite just 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 number of chips into a bucket...just to cover their costs. And make the odd million.

Online poker companies do the exact same thing, albeit electronically. And as an incentive for us to sign up with their site, they offer referral incentives, within the form of Rakeback, through various online Rakeback sites. This is just what it says on the tin - we get a bit of 'The Rake' given back to us. Thus, for each and every hand that we play, the poker site takes their share and gives us a little back through the affiliated Rakeback site. If you play enough poker this can add up to a tidy little sum and come the end of the month, our poker account receives a good little injection of cash.

It does not matter whether we've won or lost - we've played. And that is all we need to do to get our Rakeback. If we play enough it can fund our poker for the whole month. We can even lose and still not be out of pocket. Imagine that.