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Saturday, September 09, 2006

RakeBack and Project Sun Day1

After taking a two week break from poker, playing only Video Games... my Bank Account has been slowly dwindling... (cuz no money is flowing in from Poker) lol
With school almost over, and no Job lined up... I've been thinking more and more of ways to make money as a Poker player.
I know of course you may say the only thing a poker player can do is play poker. While that is True, its not telling the whole story. It's all about How he plays Poker, and Where he plays Poker.
In July, I browsed many Pokerlisting sites learning about Deposit Bonuses that Sites offer. But only recently I have discovered the world of RakeBack. Basically Rakeback gives you back some of the rake money at the tables you play at, aprox 27-30%. I know most of you know this but I just wanted to quickly explain in case any of my non-poker-pro friends view my blog. The cool thing is: the RakeBack program Stacks with Deposit and Reload Bonuses for a lot of sites.
Pokerstars is still my main site, but right now i'm playign on Stars without Rakeback, and without bonus claiming. If I spent my time instead playing at these Rakeback site, I would make it more worth my time.
So I think, at least in the next 3 months, I'm going to explore new sites (with RakeBack) and playing mostly there and little or none on Stars.

Here are the sites I've got my eyes on:

Sun Poker: 32% RB, $50 Signup Bonus, $100 Monthly Reloads
Absolute Poker: 28% RB, $750 Signup Bonus, Frequent reloads, good FPP Program
Full Tilt Poker: 27% RB, $$600 Signup Bonus, Good Traffic and Software
Ultimate Bet: 28% RB, $650 Signup Bonus, Good Traffic and Software
123 Poker: 50% RB, dont' know much about the site yet

There are some other Sites that are really good also, but these 5 should keep me plenty busy in the next 3 months.
I may have spoken too soon about how good RB is, because I havent even gotten paid yet through RB. But I know it must be legit because many 2+2ers are discussing about it.

Yesterday I put the spare 300 I had in Neteller into SunPoker. I would say this is a sub-par site. But I'm here for the money unfortunately, and not any aesthetic reasons.

Pokerstars BR 2575

SunPoker BR 595 +295
Bonus Cleared: 33% 77% more to claim $50
I still need: 405

Pokeroom BR: 800

Neteller: 80-something

I think I need to make another deposit on SunPoker to claim another 100 bucks. When the money from Neteller goes through I'm going to do so.
I am seriously considering withdrawing about another 600 from Pokeroom into Neteller as Bonus claiming money. Playing at that site is kind of a waste.
Anyway, my last final is on Thursday, so my goal for this week is to definitely clear the Bonus for SunPoker and move on to Absolute Poker or Full Tilt Poker by next Sunday.
I also plan to make another 400 in this process. So my Target BR is 1000.

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