David Williams led a somewhat charmed life on his way to scooping the WPT Championship on Saturday night at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. After a gruelling heads-up battle with Eric Baldwin Williams’ pair of deuces pre-flop was able to improve on the turn to bottom set and ship the title to the Vegas pro.
The final table was a veritable who’s who of 2010 rakeback poker tournaments as David Benyamine, Billy Baxter, Shawn Buchanan and John O’Shea made up the final six. It was the Irishman O’Shea who was out first on the final table as his aggressive do-or-die attitude from the outset proved to be his undoing. After pushing all in first hand he eventually found somebody willing to call after a few more hands and was left hoping his 63 offsuit would improve against Billy baxter’s A-T. The board hit nobody and left O’shea going home with a shade under $200k in his pocket.
Baxter was next to go after Williams flopped the broadway straight but the veteran pro was rewarded with a quarter of a million dollars to soothe the pain. After these two left early on the stacks ensured there was plenty of play before David Benyamine was sent to the rail as his QJ was unable to improve against Buchanan’s A5.
Once again the winner of the confrontation was knocked out by Williams as Buchanan committed pre-flop with a pair of Queens but ran into Williams pocket 9s which binked a set on the flop and left Buchanan ruing his luck. After this hand Williams was left with a 3:1 chip lead going in to heads up with Eric Baldwin.
Bladwin was the 2009 rake back Card Player of the Year but he was never able to get to grips with Williams and found himself out of the tournament in the cruellest of fashions. Baldwin moved all in pre-flop with A5 and found an optimistic call from Williams holding 2-2. When the ace fell on the flop Williams needed one of the remaining twos to take home the title. The turn showed a 2 and for the second time on the final table Williams had his set and with it the title.
Williams takes home $1.5m with Eric Baldwin collecting just over a million for his efforts.
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Monday, May 10, 2010
Monday, April 5, 2010
Defeat Reveals our Strengths and Weaknesses
In 2009 Tom Dwan suffered some very heavy losses, millions of dollars disappeared from sight into the pockets of Isildur1 and others. His game was being called everything under the sun, from predictable to wild but one man knew things would turn around again. Dwan has maintained his confidence in his game ironed out some errors and has seen the rewards this year for the pain he endured in 2009, already in profit by well over a million dollars.
Every time a rakeback poker player suffers a bad beat a normal thought is why no, or not again or perhaps something a little more colourful. Often the bad beat will come at a very inopportune moment – deep in a tournament or with a large stack in front of you at a cash game. It is at these moments players discover where their real weaknesses lie.
After a bad beat many players will then blow the rest of their stack whilst going on tilt and this is no new thing. Even those players who are actively aware they may go on tilt and will try and set the mind straight will often play hands that before the bad beat would have been seen as marginal at best. It is these hands which must be carefully monitored to try and prevent a similar occurrence going forward. A great German polymath once stated: “He who does not draw on a thousand years of history lives from hand to mouth.”
These words should work as caution to players to stop committing the same mistake. To record their beats and also their wins, to try and gain a much firmer understanding of their game. If you play cash games you need to know whether you play better against more or less players, more or less aggressive players and at what time of the day. You need to record just how much you are earning from your rakeback deal. If you don’t have one yet, that needs to be addressed. There are lots to choose from and a quick visit to www.rakebackpoker.com will highlight your options.
Learning and fighting from setbacks to become stronger and more well-rounded is part of life and definitely a large part of poker. Only by realising the holes in your game will you be able to take it to the next level. A great play or book can never be written without the author first suffering from the injustice of the world. Hundreds of ideas and scripts will be disregarded before the final copy is set in motion. This has to be the same with your poker game, you need to take a long look at the state of your game and pay special attention after a defeat, relive the pain and use it to channel your desire to improve.
For More Details Please Contact at : http://www.rakeback.co.uk
Every time a rakeback poker player suffers a bad beat a normal thought is why no, or not again or perhaps something a little more colourful. Often the bad beat will come at a very inopportune moment – deep in a tournament or with a large stack in front of you at a cash game. It is at these moments players discover where their real weaknesses lie.
After a bad beat many players will then blow the rest of their stack whilst going on tilt and this is no new thing. Even those players who are actively aware they may go on tilt and will try and set the mind straight will often play hands that before the bad beat would have been seen as marginal at best. It is these hands which must be carefully monitored to try and prevent a similar occurrence going forward. A great German polymath once stated: “He who does not draw on a thousand years of history lives from hand to mouth.”
These words should work as caution to players to stop committing the same mistake. To record their beats and also their wins, to try and gain a much firmer understanding of their game. If you play cash games you need to know whether you play better against more or less players, more or less aggressive players and at what time of the day. You need to record just how much you are earning from your rakeback deal. If you don’t have one yet, that needs to be addressed. There are lots to choose from and a quick visit to www.rakebackpoker.com will highlight your options.
Learning and fighting from setbacks to become stronger and more well-rounded is part of life and definitely a large part of poker. Only by realising the holes in your game will you be able to take it to the next level. A great play or book can never be written without the author first suffering from the injustice of the world. Hundreds of ideas and scripts will be disregarded before the final copy is set in motion. This has to be the same with your poker game, you need to take a long look at the state of your game and pay special attention after a defeat, relive the pain and use it to channel your desire to improve.
For More Details Please Contact at : http://www.rakeback.co.uk
Omaha Pot Limit on Rush Poker
This may be jumping on the bandwagon a little but I have just started playing Omaha Pot Limit and thought the best way to learn is to head over to Full Tilt and use their Rush rakeback poker facility. Having never played Rush Poker or PLO before it was a bit of an initial shock but very quickly I started to figure out the nuances not only of Rush but also of PLO.
Having come from No Limit Hold Em it took a bit of getting used to. Normally I’m eight tabling at pretty low stakes so thought I would just sit down at the $0.10/$0.20 to try and figure out what was going on. The biggest differences are obviously the number of flops that were seen and also the quality of hand that wins the pot.
With four cards in the hole you essentially have four usable hands as you have to use three of the community cards to make your best five card hand. First up I was dealt three aces and my old hold’em brain took over and i was raising away but quickly realised I had slim chances of finding my own set and was then hoping the board would pair to at least give me two pair – but then the risk is that somebody has a set or even a full house.
Once these initial teething problems were out the way though the pace of Rush Poker was really helping me get to grips with the game. With the ability to open two tables both on Rush I was playing constantly, rarely waiting more than 5 or 10 seconds for a decision to come my way. For anybody else that is looking to start on a new format I heartily recommend it as I managed to play something like 2,000 hands in just over two hours which is a great way to get some very fast experience at low levels.
The two hours were definitely well spent as very few players seem to have a fold button and if you do hit a good hand you are more than likely to get paid. I also signed up for a rakeback deal from www.rakebackpoker.com so looking forward to my cheque at the end of the month after some sessions on Rush.
I used the same site before to get a rakeback deal at Cake Poker and the customer service has been awesome – although that really pales in comparison to the boost to my bankroll I receive every month.
For More Details Please Contact at: http://www.rakebackpoker.com/
Having come from No Limit Hold Em it took a bit of getting used to. Normally I’m eight tabling at pretty low stakes so thought I would just sit down at the $0.10/$0.20 to try and figure out what was going on. The biggest differences are obviously the number of flops that were seen and also the quality of hand that wins the pot.
With four cards in the hole you essentially have four usable hands as you have to use three of the community cards to make your best five card hand. First up I was dealt three aces and my old hold’em brain took over and i was raising away but quickly realised I had slim chances of finding my own set and was then hoping the board would pair to at least give me two pair – but then the risk is that somebody has a set or even a full house.
Once these initial teething problems were out the way though the pace of Rush Poker was really helping me get to grips with the game. With the ability to open two tables both on Rush I was playing constantly, rarely waiting more than 5 or 10 seconds for a decision to come my way. For anybody else that is looking to start on a new format I heartily recommend it as I managed to play something like 2,000 hands in just over two hours which is a great way to get some very fast experience at low levels.
The two hours were definitely well spent as very few players seem to have a fold button and if you do hit a good hand you are more than likely to get paid. I also signed up for a rakeback deal from www.rakebackpoker.com so looking forward to my cheque at the end of the month after some sessions on Rush.
I used the same site before to get a rakeback deal at Cake Poker and the customer service has been awesome – although that really pales in comparison to the boost to my bankroll I receive every month.
For More Details Please Contact at: http://www.rakebackpoker.com/
Play Poker and Win Money
How many times do I keep telling myself to fold a hand to the pot sized bet on the river absolutely certain that I’ve lost the hand and then somehow my hand drifts and I’ve hit the call button. Sure enough the other guy has the nuts and I’m clicking add more chips.
There really can’t be a worse feeling in rakeback pokerthan knowing you are going to lose, telling yourself you are going to lose, then calling and then losing exactly as you just told yourself. A bad beat is a bad bead and can be explained away or vented out by breaking something, having a cigarette or listening to some soothing music. Calling when you know you are losing is just so stupid and so painful and yet I keep doing it.
I think it could be to do with the whole grinding grinding grinding I’ve been doing recently as I try to build a bankroll and I’m playing so many hands and seeing players bluffing all the time and the loose aggressive players getting away with it time and time again. This must be adding up in my mind subconsciously because even as I tell myself, no this time just fold I click call and there go my chips.
I’ve been putting in minimum four hour sessions on between 4 and 8 tables depending on how I’m playing for the whole of March and right now all i can think about is my rakeback bonus at the end of the month. I need to run a check and see just how many hands I’ve played but I can imagine my rakeback must be nearing the $1,000 mark.
I have also just signed up with a site using http://www.pokerrakeback.com/ again and may be switching my MTT SitnGo attentions over there as fees are included in rake with that site. Will let you all know how it goes.
For More Details Please Contact at: http://www.pokerrakeback.com/
There really can’t be a worse feeling in rakeback pokerthan knowing you are going to lose, telling yourself you are going to lose, then calling and then losing exactly as you just told yourself. A bad beat is a bad bead and can be explained away or vented out by breaking something, having a cigarette or listening to some soothing music. Calling when you know you are losing is just so stupid and so painful and yet I keep doing it.
I think it could be to do with the whole grinding grinding grinding I’ve been doing recently as I try to build a bankroll and I’m playing so many hands and seeing players bluffing all the time and the loose aggressive players getting away with it time and time again. This must be adding up in my mind subconsciously because even as I tell myself, no this time just fold I click call and there go my chips.
I’ve been putting in minimum four hour sessions on between 4 and 8 tables depending on how I’m playing for the whole of March and right now all i can think about is my rakeback bonus at the end of the month. I need to run a check and see just how many hands I’ve played but I can imagine my rakeback must be nearing the $1,000 mark.
I have also just signed up with a site using http://www.pokerrakeback.com/ again and may be switching my MTT SitnGo attentions over there as fees are included in rake with that site. Will let you all know how it goes.
For More Details Please Contact at: http://www.pokerrakeback.com/
Monday, March 15, 2010
The world stands up for Haiti
In the last month and a half celebrities, charities, individuals and even rakeback poker sites around the world have been generating millions of dollars to help the disaster stricken people of Haiti. With internal strife caused by looting and rioting adding to the devastating consequences of the initial earthquake, the tiny and poverty laden Caribbean island is badly in need of this help.
President Obama was quick to pledge the full support of the United States of America and offer "the deep condolences and unwavering support" of the American people. The president continued: "Our thoughts and prayers are also with the many Haitian Americans around our country who do not yet know the fate of their families and loved ones back home." Americans, moved by their president’s address, have donated millions of dollars to help provide aid and regenerate the devastated country.
People from as disparate places as New Zealand, England and Madagascar have been putting their hands in their pockets, organising fundraising events and showing their support for the people of Haiti. A seven year old boy called Charlie Simpson who lives in London was so horrified at the suffering he saw that he told his parents he wanted to do something. They suggested riding around the park and a month on Charlie is still receiving money. The young lad has managed to raise over £150,000, just a little in excess of his target of £500.
Stranger still as more details of the disaster started appearing in world news, rakeback poker sites globally stood up as one and instigated a series of tournaments and promotions to not only encourage its players to play and donate but also matching donations out of their own back pocket. Doyle Brunson’s site Doyle’s Room were one of the first to show their support for Haiti with the old timer stating in his blog “All you see on the TV news channels are about the earthquakes in Haiti. It is a real disaster area and America is trying to help and the online poker sites are no exception. Come play with us and help some unfortunate people.” All tournament fees were donated to the people of Haiti.
These often maligned software programmes that rake away players money for staggering profits have shown their face and their personality in helping out this destitute island. Millions of people around the world have reacted positively to this tragic disaster so it is hard to highlight the effects of just a few but the willingness of the poker community to stand up together has to be admired.
For More Details Please Contact at : http://www.rakebackpoker.com/
President Obama was quick to pledge the full support of the United States of America and offer "the deep condolences and unwavering support" of the American people. The president continued: "Our thoughts and prayers are also with the many Haitian Americans around our country who do not yet know the fate of their families and loved ones back home." Americans, moved by their president’s address, have donated millions of dollars to help provide aid and regenerate the devastated country.
People from as disparate places as New Zealand, England and Madagascar have been putting their hands in their pockets, organising fundraising events and showing their support for the people of Haiti. A seven year old boy called Charlie Simpson who lives in London was so horrified at the suffering he saw that he told his parents he wanted to do something. They suggested riding around the park and a month on Charlie is still receiving money. The young lad has managed to raise over £150,000, just a little in excess of his target of £500.
Stranger still as more details of the disaster started appearing in world news, rakeback poker sites globally stood up as one and instigated a series of tournaments and promotions to not only encourage its players to play and donate but also matching donations out of their own back pocket. Doyle Brunson’s site Doyle’s Room were one of the first to show their support for Haiti with the old timer stating in his blog “All you see on the TV news channels are about the earthquakes in Haiti. It is a real disaster area and America is trying to help and the online poker sites are no exception. Come play with us and help some unfortunate people.” All tournament fees were donated to the people of Haiti.
These often maligned software programmes that rake away players money for staggering profits have shown their face and their personality in helping out this destitute island. Millions of people around the world have reacted positively to this tragic disaster so it is hard to highlight the effects of just a few but the willingness of the poker community to stand up together has to be admired.
For More Details Please Contact at : http://www.rakebackpoker.com/
To Avoid Failure First Get Right Information On Poker Games
Another bad day, another bankroll gone and another lesson learned. If like me you have experience your fair share of struggles on the rakeback pokertable. Seen some fish swim away on the river with your hard-earned cash and generally felt dispirited by the game you may well have turned to some advice from those players that have already made a success of their poker.
Poker players have been reading poker books for as long as they have been printed to try and gain a better understanding of the game and to try and gain an advantage on their potential victims. Books like Harrington on Hold ‘em and Doyle Brunson’s Super System have become bibles for generations of poker players. However, there has been a change of late as the latest stream of online players are placing as much faith if not more in the sheer volume of hands they play. Online players are now able to play in excess of a million hands a year online by multi-tabling on as many screens as their out of poker pocket can afford.
This shift has been well noted by the old-timer like Brunson, Negreanu and others in their own blogs as they state how difficult the newcomers are to play. There is now potentially more fear for some of these players in coming up against a table of young 20 somethings who have learnt their trade online than being drawn with players they have battled with for years. These online whizz kids have played millions of millions of hands and devised new methods to beating others and the system. Having read all the books they have found that these really aren’t encyclopaedic and there are alterations that can be made to reflect the zeitgeist of poker.
These changes in the way poker is played would be looked upon favourably by Nietzsche and others who followed the beliefs that all that has gone before can prevent the invention of new ideas by its acceptance in modern culture. For all struggling poker players out there Nietzsche did also explain that for any real pleasure in life the individual must first experience pain. That to climb a mountain is to experience the labour, manoeuvre around obstacles, feel your head go light in the oxygen deprived air. Without these difficulties we would not truly appreciate the view from the top.
However, if you are going to struggle your way to the top there is no harm in having a bit of extra bankroll to help you along. I have just recently discovered rakeback and it has helped my struggles quite tangibly. I went to www.pokerrakeback.com and after finding the site I play on signed up and now receive monthly deposits in my account from the rake I have contributed whilst playing. I think of it as my walking stick and with it in my hand I am back to climb another mountain.
For More Details Please Contact at : http://www.pokerrakeback.com/
Poker players have been reading poker books for as long as they have been printed to try and gain a better understanding of the game and to try and gain an advantage on their potential victims. Books like Harrington on Hold ‘em and Doyle Brunson’s Super System have become bibles for generations of poker players. However, there has been a change of late as the latest stream of online players are placing as much faith if not more in the sheer volume of hands they play. Online players are now able to play in excess of a million hands a year online by multi-tabling on as many screens as their out of poker pocket can afford.
This shift has been well noted by the old-timer like Brunson, Negreanu and others in their own blogs as they state how difficult the newcomers are to play. There is now potentially more fear for some of these players in coming up against a table of young 20 somethings who have learnt their trade online than being drawn with players they have battled with for years. These online whizz kids have played millions of millions of hands and devised new methods to beating others and the system. Having read all the books they have found that these really aren’t encyclopaedic and there are alterations that can be made to reflect the zeitgeist of poker.
These changes in the way poker is played would be looked upon favourably by Nietzsche and others who followed the beliefs that all that has gone before can prevent the invention of new ideas by its acceptance in modern culture. For all struggling poker players out there Nietzsche did also explain that for any real pleasure in life the individual must first experience pain. That to climb a mountain is to experience the labour, manoeuvre around obstacles, feel your head go light in the oxygen deprived air. Without these difficulties we would not truly appreciate the view from the top.
However, if you are going to struggle your way to the top there is no harm in having a bit of extra bankroll to help you along. I have just recently discovered rakeback and it has helped my struggles quite tangibly. I went to www.pokerrakeback.com and after finding the site I play on signed up and now receive monthly deposits in my account from the rake I have contributed whilst playing. I think of it as my walking stick and with it in my hand I am back to climb another mountain.
For More Details Please Contact at : http://www.pokerrakeback.com/
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Great Tips for You When Looking for a New Poker Website
Even seasoned poker players make a basic mistake when they decide to go for a new poker website. One wrong decision can cost them thousands of pounds over a period of time. This money can convert a winning player into a complete loser. You can easily avoid this mistake if you are a little careful. If you are playing at a website which allows you to claim Rakeback, you can effectively get the rakeback poker website to pay back certain percentage of rake charges you have already paid to them while playing.
Let us explain what is Rake
If you are still not sure, you need to first understand what rake is. If you are playing on an online poker website for real money, the website will charge you certain percentage depending on how much money you are playing for. For example, if you are participating in a $10 ten seater tournament, you will actually have to pay 50 cents extra. This extra amount is the rake charge to you by online casino website for hosting the game. Also, at the end of every hand, the poker website will charge you five percent of every hand played.
The Deals that are Never Advertised
Now you can understand how an online rakeback website actually makes money. If the same online poker website pays back a certain percentage of rakes to you, it is called rakeback. These deals are never advertised anywhere which means you will have to personally check with the online poker website before you start playing there.
How much you could save?
Rakeback deals differ for every poker website though you can follow any single example to actually understand how rakeback deals actually operate. In the first glance, rake appears to be very small fees and you feel you need not worry about it. Even if you take a small volume player into account who pays 50cents for $10 games, and if he plays ten games every night for five nights a week, the total rake would become $5 per day and $25 per week. Obviously, you are paying $100 for one month. If the online poker website is offering you a 30% rakeback deal, you will get $30 back every month. The figure becomes $360 for one year. Remember, the figure that we have arrived at is only for small volume players and will be even higher for those who play poker for more money.
For More Details Please Contact at: http://www.rakeback.co.uk
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