What some affiliates don't know

[RakeReduction]

I'll chime in my 2 cents. I saw this post at another place, I think PAW. You are leaving out some important details.. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Anyways, this is the story as I heard it. You were advertising to people that, like you said, you don't even need to play to get rakeback!!

While this is true as pointed out, you are leaving out one very important detail, you do have to play. You cannot just sit down and get dealt cards. You have to actually put money into a blind before this cycle starts.

I believe it is a simple miscommunication between your advertisements and what this other affiliate is saying. I believe you are both right, just your advertisement is a bit misleading.

Again, correct me if I am wrong.

[thegreatwarnzini]

true i suppose. you can't have cards dealt without posting something. As far as I concerned, the chicken came first and the egg was merely an afterthought.

however, if you read his comments I posted above, he himself mentions posting blinds and just folding, saying this will not work. Since you already read from the other site....you probably know that people there didn't even know what the correct rake % was for the tables I was speaking of and wanted to argue with me on that too.

[Komodo]

Ok, I got another question.
Lets say you dont know how to play, but just sit there for rakeback and bonus.
How much would you lose sitting there just posting blinds and folding vs how much would you get back in RB+bonus?

[thegreatwarnzini]

It would really depend on your limits, table structure, rake structure, # of people at the table and amount of action.

The only place where you can make a profit by just sitting and folding would be at the .5/.10 tables at FT......and even at those tables there is often not enough action to make this happen. You have to stick to the craziest omaha tables. But if you do the math.....

9 handed table
.5/.10 blinds
10% rake
once the avg. pot reaches about 5.50 you will be making about what you need to cover blinds.

rake does not increase proportionally for the most part as you increase limits...so if you sit down at the $400-800 NL table...you're not going to become a winning player by getting rakeback setup

[freecard4all]

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true i suppose. you can't have cards dealt without posting something. As far as I concerned, the chicken came first and the egg was merely an afterthought.

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OFFT, but an egg was first


(i.e. we had an egg and then we had an chicken).