“He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight. He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces. He will win, who prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.” – Sun Tzu, The Art of Poker
Having a strong poker network is key to becoming a great poker player. It will allow you to get into the best games and allow you to make friends with the strongest players who can help you further improve.
And I’m writing all this, because “Andrew Robl”, “Good2CU” and “From Busto to Robusto” has been the three phrases that provides me the most traffic from Google for quite a while now. Fourth is: “poker player strangles competitor in fit of rage”. No kidding!
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But anyway: How is your own poker network? Mine is shit all – present online-company not included, of course.
So I get my rakeback through RaketheRake.com. They recently added a new poker room, PlayersOnly Poker, which is part of the Cake Poker network.
For now they only accept american and canadian players, so I can’t take advantage of this. That doesn’t mean anyone else shouldn’t though:
In January we will be running a $15,000 race on PlayersOnly
The $5,000 race we are running in December is currently going to be won by someone raking only $450 as we stand, meaning they will pick up a $750 first prize. And when you add in the rakeback and bonuses they are getting an overall rakeback of 200% on their rake!! The person in 14th place has raked $0.18 and they are going to pick up $100 or a return of 55555%!
So there is still a chance for you to rake a bit and win a decent prize before the year is out!
In addition all new members who sign up before Jan 31st and play a hand will get access to a $5k freeroll in February.
Sounds like af fairly sweet deal to me. Of course other people read the same newsletter so you’re probably going to have to rake a little more than $0.18. But still, for December you could probably clear the bar within a few minutes of play.
Ssssh! I’m supposed to be working, so don’t tell anyone…
I was wasting time researching on the net, when I came across Sharkscope. They’ve been fairly unreliable when it comes to accurately reporting my game – which I don’t mind at all, since I generally don’t like these types of sites that collect your stats without asking you first.
Well, I’m still not convinced, but it seems they have tidied up and are now somewhat closer to the truth.
And Sharkscope thinks I’m hot, so who am I to complaint?
Do any of you readers out there research opponents using sites like Sharkscope? And does it help your game or is it mostly just for boosting your own morale?
