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.


Play Online Poker

Winter's almost gone

Winter's almost gone.
The snow went away.
The grey skies and rainy days remain.
Lots of time to play poker again...
In the Cambodian sunshine, a few big leaks sneaked into my game. Luckily, PokerVT helped me find and fix them quickly. Jon Ettinger's video series on six-max cash games improved my game tremendously.
Even made a nice, little three-figure profit for the month of February. Supposedly, it was going to be a month without poker so I'm happy I earned some cash nevertheless.
The future is looking bright.
Never mind the weather.
My bankroll is back up to a solid level (after a disastrous January).
Tomorrow I'll move up to the $0.50/$1 Rush Poker games on Full Tilt.
I feel ready.
The sunshine's gone.
Nothing left to do but poker.
Building up my my stash of cash for another run
to sweet, seedy Sihanoukville
somewhere in the far and distant future...

No Money Heads Up (Everyone's Solid)

Things are going well (+$$$!).
In Cambodia, I struggled a bit to get used to Rush Poker. Back in Brussels, my profit graph is going up again. Nice and steady, just the way I like it.

The Casino Clandestino Heads Up Challenge, on the other hand, is annoying me tremendously...
Small-stakes live poker should be irrelevant. But getting owned by that same villain, time after time, is not fun at all...
First I thought my heads up game was getting sloppy.
Then I found out:

There's no money heads up.
Everyone's solid.

(Check out the hilarious Two Plus Two-thread or listen to the song...)

Walled World

Living on the green side of the wall is just like a winning lottery ticket...
(picture credits: the very cool 'Information is Beautiful'-website)

After The Sunshine

Arriving in Brussels, early one morning.
Outside temperature: -4°C. Snow everywhere.
Fuck, everything exactly as it was.
No more perfect sunsets. No more tropical beaches.
Back to the dayjob.
Life in the big, grey city continued...
It will take a miracle to get out of here anytime soon.
Alas, I don’t believe in miracles.
So return to the daily grind it is
wake up/ work/ poker/ chill out/ sleep (repeat indefinitely)
At least, there’s still Rush Poker at Full Tilt.
Playing a billion, zillion, trillion hands until this fucking winter finally goes away.

The Long Way Home

Someway Outta Here

Originally uploaded by VagabondBXL

Only a few days left...

I almost forgot all about that cold, dark city far, far away.

Alas, time to leave sweet Sihanoukville behind...

Filthy Rich Fish got a huge boost in visitor numbers over the past month.

Thanks to all of you for stopping by and reading my daily ramblings!

Running out of time

Running out of words

Nothing left but

The long way home...