Full Tilt Poker in April

There will be another Take 2 promotion this month, running from April 3rd to April 11th. Play at least 2 ring games at the same time or any Rush Poker game and you'll earn double Full Tilt Points and up to $25 in cold, hard cash.
On April 23d FTOPS XVI will start with $18 million guaranteed prize money. This is a series of big buy-in tournaments. Splash around or try winning a qualifier to get in cheap.
Satellites are running all month.
Lastly, there's the Iron Man Challenge. You can already qualify by collecting as little as 100 Full Tilt Points a day and be on your way to cash bonuses and lucrative freerolls...

Make sure to register for all these promotions by clicking the 'My Promotions'-button in the cashier window of the Full Tilt Poker lobby.

Good luck at the tables!

Sign up for a Full Tilt Poker account here and get 27% rakeback every week...
Already have a Full Tilt account but still playing without rakeback? 
Now is a good time to do something about it.

Sunday Recovery

Yesterday was a disaster..
Just like I couldn't win a single hand.

Variance can be brutal.
That's easy enough to understand.
Shit happens; especially if you're willing to wager mood-affecting amounts of money on the turn of a few cards... Staying emotionally unaffected while rapidly sliding downhill on the profit-graph, that's the hard part.
To make matters worse; I had promised to attend a party somewhere deep in the Flemish country side. Nothing like looking for directions on a dark, rainy night while still on tilt.
Hey, at least, it got me out of the house and mixing with the party people.

Today's an all new and improved day.

After a good, long run I reviewed my game extensively (rock solid, as expected...) and spend a lot of time watching PokerVT-videos. No Rush Poker just yet. I made it to the highest level of the Iron Man Challenge this month. There's no real need to put in any more volume.

Just a couple of big multi-table tournaments tonight to finish of the weekend in style...

Rush Poker Strategy Continued

This is a follow up to the previous Rush Poker Strategy post.
Here are a few more tips and tricks on how to beat Full Tilt Rush Poker:

• Make sure you have rakeback on your Full Tilt account. You'll be seeing a lot of hands, even in a short period of time. Every single hand counts towards your rake, even when you hit the 'Quick Fold'-button... Getting 27% of that rake back every week will have a huge impact on your profit. (If you already have a Full Tilt account, you can still get rakeback here)
• Don't outplay yourself. The action is fast-paced. Even when you're used to multi-tabling your regular games, start out with just 1 or 2 tables of Rush Poker and take it from there...
• Player pools tend to be rather small beyond  NL50. Keeping notes on your opponents can make you a lot of money.
• When things go bad: walk away! The nature of Rush Poker is fast and brutal (especially when multi-tabling). The time you need to recover from a nasty bad beat can multiply your losses. Blowing a few buy-ins is just a matter of minutes. Going on tilt while playing Rush Poker is to be avoided at all costs.

Rush Poker is the most innovating and exciting (aka 'addictive') form of online poker. Try it for yourself and stay on the lookout for more Rush Poker strategy in the near future...

Good luck at the tables!

Farewell to Sit 'n Go's

This week's episode of the 'Deuce plays' podcast finally made me decide to abandon online sit n' go's completely... The show features an interview with DeucesCracked-instructor Casey 'Bones' Diener about the current state of online sit 'n go's.
There's no more money in those games,
everyone's sort of solid.
Well, most players have a least a few vague but correct ideas about push/folding these days. Figuring out when to go all-in and when to fold is about all it takes (besides running good, of course).
The edges are getting thinner. Even the fish have heard about ICM.
A Return On Investment of about 3% on mid- and high-stakes games is the best one can expect. Making good money this way becomes a long and hard grind. Multi-tabling up to 12 tables, playing at least 100 games a day and having a good rakeback deal are bare necessity's to get some cash out of sit n' go's.
Playing poker is all about easy money.
Grinding sit 'n go's turns it into just another day job.
No more of this for me.
Cash games are the way to go...

Dry Season Ahead?

The first day of spring.
Temperature's on the rise.
I think I even saw the sun today.
Speeding down the highway
with the window rolled down.
Finally freed from cold and darkness.
Enjoying spring and
still beating NL100 Rush Poker
at about 12 big blinds won/ 100 hands.
Good times.
Winning money is always fun.
Although the dry season might be ahead...
I despise the winter more than anything
but it does keep the fish inside.
When the sun comes out
the pool dries up.
Less fish in the sea.
Bad poker players tend to have a life away from poker.
Sunny days make them want to spend their money elsewhere.
Like offline or something...
Only degen gamblers and nerdy poker geniuses stay behind.
Redistributing each others money until rain or storm drives the fish back online.
So I do wish for lots of hot and sunny days in Brussels,
as for the rest of Europe and North America:
let it be rainy and miserable all summer long!
The way to filthy richness is long and hard.
Every fish counts.

Full Tilt Rakeback On An Existing Account

To celebrate the launch of Filthy Rich Fish Rakeback we offer rakeback on existing Full Tilt accounts...
Everyone deserves a little extra, not only those who were already in the know when they started playing.  So even if you signed up a long, long time ago you can still get Full Tilt rakeback today...

It doesn't matter if you play high-stakes daily or try to start up a bankroll by playing micro-stakes. Get 27% rakeback for the rest of your life on any raked hand you play, paid out every Friday directly to your Full Tilt account...

Simply complete this form and allow between 2 to 5 working days to process your file.

Welcome to the - all new and improved - Filthy Rich Fish Rakeback!

Bad Beat for Belgian Poker Players

I was just reading this article at Gambling911:

"Belgium to Allow Online Gambling Operators in 2011"

The title might seem promising but actually it's bad news.
When the officials show up, the party's over.

Too many rules in this little place.
Just wanna drink when I drive,
eat when I'm hungry
play poker wherever I want
pay some bribes if necessary
and quietly go my way...

Rakeback Explained

Online poker rooms make their money by automatically taking a cut of the players' stake money; this is called the 'rake'. Typically the rake is 5% of every pot. Playing a few hundred hands a month soon accumulates a large amount of rake, and you could be paying tens of thousands of $$$ a year in rake. Most players don't realise they can get up to 60% of their rake money back with a rakeback professional...
Earning your rakeback is quiet easy.
Simply select a poker room trough a professional rakeback site and follow the sign up instructions.
Start playing poker and start earning rakeback.
It's that simple; like getting payed for playing poker!
You'll receive your rakeback money promptly every month by your chosen payment option. You can even sign up to many different rooms and get rakeback on all of them!
In some cases (for example Full Tilt Poker) you can even get rakeback on an existing account.
So stay tuned,
Filthy Rich Fish is working hard to offer you the best rakeback deals available any time soon... (or check out the beta here)

The Rush

There's nothing but the rush.
Everything else is irrelevant.
Playing NL100 6-max Rush Poker for about two weeks now.
Deep into the rush..
The highlight of my day.
Reason of that smile on my face.
Loggin' in and cashing in.
Playing at least 500 hands a day.
Winning heavily and steadily.
(18 big blinds won/ 100 hands, according Copilot)
Most likely I'm just a giant luckbox
but maybe, possibly - finally - conceivably, this might be it...
At the very least I'm winning.
Never mind the reasons why.
Time will tell if this is just another lucky run.
For now
it's all about, and nothing but, the rush.
Beating the game hour after hour,
night after night.
Can't stop. Can't resist.
Forget about tomorrow.
Just a few more hands...
Totally addicted
to the rush
It sweet, it's profitable,
it' the nuts.


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