Of course, there will be many more events taking place over the next few days with Omaha, Razz, HORSE and Stud games and there are satellites going all the time if you would rather win your way in than buy your way in. These are the biggest bang for your buck that you will find on the internet Full Tilt is also giving you the ability to deposit for as little as $10, so if you have a couple of $5-spots burning a hole in your pocket, now is the time!

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   Some of the smaller limit PLO 8 games tend to be very profitable on UB due to the large number of players who have no idea how to play the game. You will find many players who will ship you chips every time they are dealt A-2 and have nothing but that low draw. This is a sure sign of amatuer PLO 8 players and you can really capitalize on this at the cash games. I always seem to make good money at these tables, they fill up fast and the players rotate in and out pretty quickly.

  I have noticed 28k-30k players on UB lately and that is up about 10%-15% so maybe if the numbers keep growing, we will see some PLO tournaments. Until then, try the cash games at UB, especially PLO 8.

     I have a number of different methods set up to analyze your poker game, so shoot me an email at chris@internetpokercoach.com and lets talk about what would work the best for you. Much like a pro golfer needs a swing coach, poker players, be in amatuer or pro, can benefit from having some one coach them through their game at times. It is always beneficial to have an un-biased party looking at your game.

     So, let me know if you have any questions and until then, good luck at the tables.

However, in recent weeks, a smattering of complaints about FTP have been brought to bear on this site, including allegations of hand-rigging, unfair hand generation (ie-the favorite keeps losing at showdown), profiling, and (most concerning) the withholding of earnings from players.

I'd like to hear more stories about how FTP has conducted its business with you as you play.  Having run hundreds of scenarios with an actual deck of cards, I'd like to steer away from suck-outs to focus more on times you felt you were treated unfairly.

1.  Learn your HORSE limit games.  Why?  By learning your limit games, you protect yourself from a micro-bankroll's worst enemy: variance.  By playing No-Limit Hold'em and Pot-Limit Omaha, you expose yourself to a greater upside with a staggering potential for loss.  By playing Stud variants, you have less upside potential over a given period of time, but can protect your bankroll because the suck-outs won't hurt you nearly as bad.  I am not an advocate of playing limit Hold'em simply because you will see an enormous number of ridiculous suck outs--raise your aces all you want, and that jackhole wit 7-4 offsuit will still shoot for the straight.

2.  Exploit benefit programs and promotions.  Happy hour on FTP is a perfect example of this.  If you can fit in some cash games during happy hour, you can rack up points that can be used to enter tournaments or sattelites.  Even playing micro-limit games, I have been able to rack up thousands of these useful little things to enter larger tournaments, and nothing feels quite as good as cashing in a tourney you didn't pay to enter.

Add rakeback to the equation, and you have a sure winner.

   Rakeback is simply what it sounds like it is: you get a percentage of the 'rake' that goes to the poker site back. You get it back automatically and you get it back once a month. Cash. In your account. All you have to do is make sure you are signed up through Inernet Poker Coach's rakeback program found at the top of our home page or in the bottom right hand corner. Just click the links and follow directions. You MUST sign up through our program to receive rakeback. If you signed up for a site some time ago and are not receiving rakeback, yo umight want to think about playing a different site that you sign up for through Internet Poker Coach so that you can take advantage of this free money. Internet Poker Coach is a proud affiliate for RaketheRake, the largest rakeback site in the world.

    Here is an example of what rakeback can do for your bank account. Let's say you play $10 Sit n Go tournaments. There is a $1 rake that goes to the site. If you are playing on Full Tilt through our rakeback program, you will get 27% of that $1 back. So, lets say you play 20/day, you get back $5.40 EVERY DAY, multiply that times the number of days you play in a month etc etc. Well, you get the picture.

    If you play larger tournament, more money back. Obviously if you play cash games, there is a rake every single hand, so you wan to make sure you are getting this percentage back. You are playing the games anyway, this is a very important way to build your bankroll online. With rakeback, even if you go through a bad swing of variance and you are losing a number of games, you still have this money coming in every month.

   Full Tilt offers 27% back, but other sites offer 30% and more, so even 33% or 37% Again, if you are a volume player, this is huge and money that you just cannot afford to miss out on. PokerStars DOES NOT offer rakeback. They have programs based on play for their players which may or may not reward you like rakeback does, but apparently they feel they are big enough that they do not have to offer rakeback. While PS is a great site, I personally feel that rakeback is too important to miss out on so I tend to play the majority of my play at other sites that do offer the rakeback.

    Internet Poker Coach offers a full listing of the sites that award rakeback and the percentages associated with them. All you have to do is go to the link at the top of our home page (or the lower right), click on it and then click on the site you wish to start playing on. You set up and fund your account and it is that simple. If you are playing without rakeback, you need to get in on it. There is just too much cash to pass up.

   If you have any questions about rakeback, please feel free to email me at chris@internetpokercoach.com

    I am going to try the poker room at the new Aria in City Center, although I have not played there before. As nice as the hotel is, I am expecting big things from the poker room, so hopefully it will live up to my expectations.

    I will be taking a few days off from blogging next week to concentrate on live play rather than online play, so everyone, try not to miss me too much. Expect some tweets on my progress at various games in various casinos, but otherwise Rick will be taking up the blog for a couple of days.

    You do have to make sure you sign up to get the bonus, everyone is elegible, but if you don't click on the 'my bonus offers' they won't automatically give it to you. Anyone who reads my posts knows I am a big believer in taking poker money when it is given away, so if you play on FT make sure you are in on this promotion.