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7 Great Reasons To Switch To A Poker Rakeback Deal

Rakeback is a great way to fully maximize your time at the poker tables. No matter what skill level you’re playing at you can improve your bottom line by choosing a profitable rake back deal.

In fact, here are seven reason that you need to get signed up to get part of your rake back.

Small Rakes become Big Rakes Overtime!

　

Let’s say you’re playing a couple of cash tables online, now it might seem like you’re not really paying a lot of rake, and you’re right, during the hour you’re playing online, you’re not.

But small amounts of rake add up to BIG amounts of rake! Add up that rake throughout the week, then the month, and the year. You’re now talking about what could have been hundred’s of dollars in monthly income that would amount to thousands of dollars in +ev added to your bottom line.

Say you play 2 tables a night, for 3 hours after diner, just before you hit the sack. About 4 nights a week.

Return your tournament Fee’s to your Bankroll


Online poker websites like Absolute Poker also pay a rake back on tournament entry fee’s. This includes both MTT’s and SNG poker games. Absolute Poker in example gives players back 1/3 of their tournament fee.

Now imagine you’re multi-tabling at just 4 absolute poker $50 SNG’s, when you sign up with this site, you get a $1.50 refund for each tournament. If you’re grinding these out all day long, then it’s safe to say you’re probably playing at least 40 tournaments a day. That’s $60 back into your bankroll, Or one freeroll a day + profit.

Rakeback Poker Players Still Qualify for Bonuses and Promotions

Many online poker rooms, such as NoIQ poker don’t deduct for bonuses and online poker promotions, giving you rake back, and all the same bonus deals that hobby players qualify for.

If you do the math, clear the bonuses, and really play at an optimum profit level, you can boost your bankroll by 60%. That makes even a break even poker player a profiting poker player.

Ready.. Set .. Race!

When you sign up here as a rake back poker player, you become eligible for our rake races. A Rake Race is a contest is put on by the different rakeback poker sites. The race will last a specific amount of time, and the players that accumulate the most rake during that amount of time win cash and other neat prizes.

　


Private Freerolls Less the Freeroll Whores

If the rake races aren’t a big enough bonus, rakeback players also receive special invitations to members only freerolls with big pots, and small fields. Prize pools are generally upwards of $1,000. However, more commonly prize pools are $5k and $10k.

These tournaments are great because they are invitation only already, but then… many of the poker players that do qualify, opt not to play, making the fields even smaller.

　

Rakeback Players gain more when winning, and lose less when losing

When you’re signed up with a great rake back deal, you gain more from your wins, and you lose less from your losses. When it’s all said and done, if you’re not taking advantage of a solid rakeback agreement, you’re leaving a big chunk of money with the poker room that could be yours. The more you save, the larger your bankroll grows. The faster you grow your bankroll, the faster you move up the stakes ladder and into the nosebleeds.
Ante Players are perfect for Rakeback Nits!

Many online poker rooms, like Absolute Poker now offer Ante tables, at first glance, it seems as though these tables will just work as tiny pot builders.

That’s nice, splashing a little money into the pot, but is it really a big deal? To a rakeback player, YES IT IS! Rakeback players playing at rooms where the contributed method is used get credit for every single hand they’re dealt at these tables! That’s an amazing amount of rakeback for hands you didn’t even play in!

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Outs & Pot Odds

As far as poker strategies are concerned, understanding outs and pot odds is an essential part of your game. We’re going to cover each of these topics in detail, and discuss how they work together to increase your skill and strategy on the felt.

What Are Outs
An “Out” in poker is any card that will substantially improve your poker hand. Whether it is taking a top pair to top set, or a flush draw to a flush, if you are well aware of your hand situation, and the cards potentially available to you, you’ll know exactly how many outs you have, and how to bet the pot accordingly. The betting strategy comes with pot odds, which we’ll talk about in the next section.

Counting Outs
Counting your outs is a simple process of determining every card that would give you confidence in staying in the hand. As soon as the Flop comes down, you should be developing potential hands in your head. Combine you hole cards with the cards on the board, looking at every possible avenue.

You are looking for possible flush draws, straight draws, pairs, two pairs, sets and full houses.

Pairs: If you don’t even have a pair, what is the potential that you’ll hit top pair? If there’s a King on the board, and an Ace in your hand, you could potentially hit a top pair with 3 outs (the 3 Aces remaining in the deck). Now a pair of Aces isn’t the strongest hand, especially in a multi-way pot, so you also want to look at your kicker, and its strength should it pair as well. This is a fairly weak hand at this point, so if your opponent’s are showing confidence, don’t bother.

Two Pairs: If you already have top or middle pair, what would it take to jump to a Two Pair hand? If you have middle pair, you need top pair with it. Do you have a higher card than the highest on the board? If not, you can’t hit top pair. If you do, that’s 3 outs to a two pair with top pair hand. If you have top pair already, you can hit an out with the net highest card on the board, or your kicker. That’s 6 outs to a better hand.

Sets: If you have a pair, you automatically have 2 outs to a better hand.

Flush Draw: when you have 4 cards of the same suit, you have good flush potential. That’s an instant 9-Outs. There are 13 of every suit, and you have 4, leaving 9 more.

Straight Draw: These come in two categories – Outside/Open Ended Straights and Inside Straights. An inside straight is one that needs a card in the middle, meaning only one number will help you. These give you only 3 outs. An Outside Straight, however, would be something like 5-6-7-8, where a 4 or 9 would help, doubling you to 6 outs. These are much better to work with.

Full House: If, after the flop, you already have two pair, you’re in pretty good shape. Of course, the strength of your pairs does matter. Having top pair in the mix is always best or at least middle pair. If you can set either pair, you have a very strong full house. You’re looking at 4 outs in this situation.

Be sure to look at your hand from every angle, after the flop, and again after he turn. Count up all of your outs. It is possible to have near 20 outs or more in a single hand. You just have to be able to recognize them. The more you practice, the faster it will come to you, without hardly a thought towards the matter.

What Are Pot Odds
Pot Odds are directly associated with Outs. They are your exact odds of hitting an out. When you know how likely you are to hit an out, you’ll know exactly how many chips it is worth wagering to see if you can hit one of those outs. Basically, a player uses pots odds to determine value bets - the amount a player should confidently risk on any given hand.

Using Pot Odds
Okay, we’re going to an example to make this as simple to understand as possible. We’ll start with a basic Flush Draw after the flop.

We know that you have 9 Outs at this point, as there are 9 of your needed suit left unseen. After the flop, there are 47 cards unseen, including those in your opponents’ hands. Since we can’t see them, we assume them all to be optional draws.

We divide 9 outs by 47 cards; 47/9 = 5.22

Your odds of hitting an out are 1 in 5.22 cards. In order to make a value bet, it is easiest if we convert this to a percentage. So, we take the 47 cards left and turn them into a full 100% by dividing 100 by 47. That’s about 2.13%. Now multiply that by the number of outs (9x2.13) and you get 19.17%.

You have a 19.17% chance of hitting an out. This is a very important number because we will now use this percentage to bet the pot. You’ll want to round this out to make it easier, so we’ll say “about 20%”.

Now how much is in the pot? You want to bet/raise 20% of the current pot size – no more, no less.

If the pot is $100, you want to wager $20.

If the pot is $40, you want to wager $8.

If the pot is $500, you want to wager $100.

This is value betting, and is proven to net a player more profits than losses through mathematical probabilities. Chris Ferguson, former WSOP Champion, has been using these methods for years, and has many millions in live tournament winnings to show for it.

You don’t have to be genius, and you don’t need a calculator up your sleeve to pull this off. Using simple estimations will get you close enough to the answer. A good way to practice is to play online poker, where you can actually use a calculator if you wish. As you get used to the numbers – and you will because the flop percentages are always the same, (47 cards = 2.13% per card), as is the turn – understanding outs and pot odds will become second nature to you.