Can't win at internet poker?

So you think you can't win at internet poker? Ok, don't worry - we are here to help.

There are many things that you can do to turn your online poker play into a profitable venture. For example, being smart about the various poker deposit bonuses that are available can provide a big boost to your bankroll.

There are other things that you can do, too. Have a look around the various articles here - all of them are written with a view to improving your online poker experience, either through improving your game or just being clever about the various bonuses and promotions that are available to you.

Basically, if you are smart, and you know what you are doing, you can make money playing online poker - you just have to know how.

This is not going to be a long discussion on poker money management – despite the title.

As the holidays are almost here, it is a good time to remember why you play online poker. If you are playing just for the fun of it, then by all means use the extra free time that you should have to enjoy yourself with a few extra games.

If, however, you feel the need to always be a profitable poker player, then you must be careful when deciding to play during the festive season. The extra time off from work, mixed with maybe an extra drink, or two, can be a disastrous mix when it comes to managing your online bankroll.

One of the top ten rules for playing profitable poker is to NOT drink and play.

Another poker axiom is that not losing your money is mainly how you will win at poker.

The other side of that is that you win by taking money from players that are making the above mistakes.

Of course, these holidays will not be a happy time for everybody, and playing a bit of online poker can be a great way to get through the next few days if this time of year is not quite your thing.

If that is the case, then by all means do have a few games and enjoy yourself. But take a few simple precautions first.

If you have a large bankroll online, and you know that you will most likely be drinking and playing, then before you start playing withdraw some of that bankroll. Leave in your account whatever amount that you would feel ok about losing. A good measure would be to play with the amount that would equal the cost of a good night out, fifty dollars, or a hundred, whatever your tastes run to.

That way, if you play and lose all of that amount, so long as you enjoy yourself, it will be the same as if you went out and blew that money on a good time.

It will make your hangover a little easier to bear if you have not gone and lost your entire stack over the holidays.

Check back in the new year for some good advice on making money from playing online poker from ActionDonkeyPoker.com

We have just heard about another one of those free poker bonus promotions, this time at Celeb Poker. We don’t have the details here, and I’ll explain why in a minute.

But first, the free bonus: All the details for this free bonus can be found on No Deposit Poker Bonuses, which is, as you might have guessed, a site dedicated to this type of no deposit bonus from poker rooms.

Briefly, this bonus is for $19 up front with no deposit required, and a further bonus amount of $180 if you can earn the necessary points.

The offer is available on the Celeb Poker room which is not known for hosting this kind of free offer, at least not until now.

Remember though, that you can’t get the bonus direct from Celeb Poker – you have to go through this No Deposit Poker site and get the instructions from there.

So that’s the deal. Now, the reason that we are not promoting this deal here on this site is simple; we are only a small poker blog with limited time to spend on this, so we really don’t want to have to sign up for and manage a new affiliate program for the few conversions and dollars that it will bring. Simply put, we’re lazy.

The guys at NoDepositPokerBonuses.net are into this type of thing full time, or at least we think they are, so they can deal with this one.

Have a go; it’s free money.

The PokerProfessor no deposit bonus that was available at Titan Poker has ended now.
This was a quiz-based bonus offer and maybe because of that was not as popular as some other no deposit bonuses that are available at Titan Poker.
The most popular of these bonuses at Titan is the one from PokerNetOnline. You can [...]

PayNoRake.com is a new poker room with a twist – they give their players up to 100% rakeback every day!.

We have written a bit more about this poker room here – PayNoRake Poker Room – but this post is just an update to discuss the paynorake.com deposit bonus.

The initial deposit bonus currently on offer is a deposit match offer of 100% up to $1000 which looks pretty nice. When we signed up for an account recently we followed the instructions on the site and emailed support in order to claim the bonus.

Within fifteen minutes of our email we got a reply which pointed out that the rakeback would not start until after we had cleared the bonus amount (which we already knew) and that the deposit bonus amounted an equivalent rakeback amount of 82%.

That wasn’t a problem rally, as we didn’t know at that time how much rakeback we would receive there anyway, as it would depend on the level of play. The final point (which we also knew, but had forgotten) was that the bonus is only cleared in one go. A lot of poker rooms pay out their deposit bonus in increments of $10 or similar. So if you make a big deposit but don’t play all the required hands in the allotted time, then at least you will have gotten some of the bonus amount.

But needing to clear the whole bonus in one go would mean that if we missed the requirements for any reason then we would not get any of the bonus amount at all.

On balance then it seemed like the right choice was to forego the deposit bonus and then automatically get paid the rakeback amount due every day. That is what we chose, and sure enough the rakeback amount for our first days play was placed in our player account at about 10 minutes past midnight.

The player numbers are still light on this site, though it is early days yet. It might indeed have been difficult to get enough games in the allotted time to clear the full bonus.

You can signup for a player account at PayNoRake.com Here.

Ok we’ve had a few problems so far and we are a bit behind schedule.  That is to be expected though, and as it is our own schedule it’s not really a problem.

Getting used to the software that we bought, Holdem Genius, took a bit longer than expected.  And as neither of us had ever used a calculator before this, it took us a while to realise that the Holdem Genius software is rubbish.

But it did finally dawn on us that this software isn’t really very good at all.  The purpose of these articles isn’t to rate and review poker calculators, so there isn’t really a need to say the calculator was no good for us, but in the interest of fairness I guess I should really point out the problems that we had. (more…)