Archive for February, 2008
It Was More of a LeCheese Disaster
Thursday, February 28th, 2008I wish I could whine about a bad beat, but I can’t. I wish I could say that I got knocked out by a donkey, but also that would be a lie. The truth is I committed a large portion of my stack with top-bottom two pair in Omaha. Clever?
The expected value for folding was sky-rocketing when I decided that this was my hand. I mean, it was so obvious he had AA and nothing more. What did you say, top-two and two outs for me? You must be kidding…
The following hand I caught a set and doubled up. Back again. And the next I managed to get almost all my chips in with AAxx. The flop came J88 with two diamonds. I went all-in, Pking called with all sorts of outs, caught a full house on the river, and received the $100 bounty.
Never mind, this was a nice freeroll altogether. Although certain people seem to give the guy from Donkey Puncher a hard time…. don’t know why.
The LeCheese bracelet went to BadBlood – congratulations!
I’ll be back when it’s time for the next event: LeCheese Revenge.
Thanks y’all
- LeCheese
LeCheese Challange – Battle of the Bloggers
Monday, February 25th, 2008On Wednesday, a unique tournament will take place at Full Tilt Poker. Myself, and a few of Internet’s best poker authors, are going to play a two table sit’n’go and determine who the best poker blogger is … best at playing poker that is. Not writing.
The tournament is sponsored by RakeBrain.com and has the slightly narcissistic name LeCheese Challenge. We’ll play a mixture of Texas Hold’em and Omaha, both in pot-limit format, with stacks a bit deeper than normal. That combination requires a lot of poker skills and it’ll be impossible to go all in all the time. Instead, we have to see flops! Something certain poker players don’t like.
I really look forward to this – $500 to the winner and $100 to the player who knocks me out, if anyone manages to accomplish that.
Participating poker bloggers so far:
John - BadBlood
Drizztdj - Nickle and Dimes
Byron - Biggestron Writes
Scott - Doubleas
Dave - PokerKingBlog
Jason Turner - TripJax
John - SeattleJohnPoker
Jeff - DonkeyPuncher
MrSubliminal - MrSubliminal
Mookie99 - Mookie99
NightRanger - Beer City Poker
Katitude - Katitude
GCox25 - Low Limit Grinder
Frost2 - War Poker Room
Two of the most prominent RakeBrain players will also participate in LeCheese Challenge: JJProdigys Gran and td8507.
Fellow poker bloggers; those are the players we’ve got to take down to stand a chance. I know they play quite a lot of poker – maybe more than all of us combined.
I carry on with low-limit Omaha grinding by the way…
Bankroll: $1,047
Rakeback: $177 (February not included)
- LeCheese
WSOP Freeroll With Sun Poker!
Thursday, February 21st, 2008This is your great chance to play in the WSOP 2008 for free. RakeBrain.com is sending 3 players to the $5000 WSOP Freeroll at Sun Poker on March 16th!
There will be a Freeroll for RakeBrain players on March 15th and the top 3 players will then play for the WSOP seat in the Sun Poker WSOP freeroll on March 16th.
The RakeBrain freeroll is open to both existing and new Sun Poker players, all you have to do is earn 1 MPP (My Poker Points) as from today up to March 15th.
RakeBrain Freeroll Info:
Name: Rakeback WSOP FREEROLL
Time: 1900 GMT
Min players: 10
Max players: 500
Password: rakebr
Registration: 3 hours prior
Listed in software: 24 hours prior
You can find more info about the Sun Poker WSOP freeroll on March 16th here.
Temporary Problems With Full Tilt Poker Web Site
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008Dear RakeBrain members playing on Full Tilt Poker. As you might have noticed the Full Tilt Poker web page has been up and down the last couple of days. We are not too sure here on RakeBrain.com what is causing the problems and there are different thoughts on the major poker forums out there.
We hope that Full Tilt Poker will solve this issue soon and until then we hope that you will bare with us not being able to show updated rake stats.
RakeBrain.com
Is Four-Card Straight Better than One Pair?
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008Some opponents at the Omaha tables are quite weak, and some are just terrible. Minutes ago, I played Omaha heads up against one softest opponent I’ve ever been up against. I won a few hands, and he made a couple of crazy calls with absolutely nothing. Then he wrote.
Vilias: first time playin omaha
Vilias: i get 4 cards
Vilias: and use how many from the flop
Vilias: ?
LECHEESE: 3
LECHEESE: must use 2 from the hand
Vilias: max 3
Vilias: total 5
LECHEESE: only three
Vilias: right?
LECHEESE: best 4 card hand wins
LECHEESE: four straight beats one pair
Vilias: ok
I won a couple of more hands before my newly-found friend said:
Vilias: goin for holdem
Vilias: cu
Vilias, sorry for lying about that straight
Bankroll: $944
Rakeback: $177 (February not included)
-LeCheese
My first AAKK Double Suited
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008Yesterday I reached a milestone in my Omaha career. I got my first Ace-Ace-King-King double suited – the best possible starting hand in Omaha. Whatever, you might think. But this isn’t Hold’em where the best starting hand comes around every 250 hand or so. This is goddamn Omaha, and statistically I have to wait 50,000 hands before I receive it again.
Yes it’s true. The odds against getting A-A-K-K double suited are 50,000 to 1. And still, you’re not always that big favourite with it. If you’re up against some sort of middle connectors like 8-7-6-5 double suited, your advantage is somewhere in the range of 3 to 2.
So how did it go for me? Well, the flop came Q J T rainbow. In other words, stone-cold nuts. The turn came 5h, still the nuts. The river came Ah. Now there were three hearts on the board.
My opponent had J T 9h 4h. Bummer!
I’m not mad; I’ll just patiently wait for my next opportunity to play AAKKds. Unfortunately, I’ve only played 2-3,000 Omaha hands; so statistically, I have to wait almost 100,000 more hands…
I’ll get back to you when it happens.
Bankroll: $885
Rakeback: $177 (February not included)
- LeCheese
NO MORE HOLD EM
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008No more holdem, no more holdem, no more holdem, no more holdem, no more holdem.
no more holdem, no more holdem, no more holdem, no more holdem, no more holdem, no more holdem, no more holdem, no more holdem, no more holdem, no more holdem, no more holdem
Bankroll: $708
Rakeback: $177 (February not included)
- LeCheese
I Can Not Believe How Much Money People Rake
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008According to my RakeBrain stats, I’ve raked $160 so far this month, which is quite a lot at my level. I’m looking forward to a whopping $62 in rakeback this month. But unfortunately, I just took a peak at the Full Tilt Rake Race leader board and realized that I don’t rake that much after all.
The RakeBrain rake race, which is underway at Full Tilt Poker, is a competition about raking the most money during February. The winner will receive $2,000, the runner-up $1,250, and all in all, 50 players receive prize money.
This is obviously a great deal for those who play a lot of poker. Personally, I’m quite far away from battling in the top-rakers’ division. Currently, the best player, JJProdigys Gran, has paid almost $9,000 in rake this month.
That is utterly unbelievable and very impressive.
Keep up the good work goddamn grinders!
…and my bankroll has shrunken a bit…
Bankroll: $851
Rakeback: $177 (February not included)
- LeCheese
Ultimate Bet Rakeback Now Paid By UB
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008Attention all RakeBrain.com players that still gets rakeback through Ultimate Bet!
Starting in February Ultimate Bet will now pay your rakeback directly to your poker account. This means that your January rakeback will be paid by Ultimate Bet and not by us. Prior to this your rakeback was sent from our player account “futurevis” now your rakeback will be stated as “RBN Jan” for January “RBN Feb” for February and so on.
Also, Ultimate Bet will not notify the players through email when the rakeback had been paid.
As always, if you have any questions regarding Ultimate Bet rakeback payments please contact the support.
Increase Your Rakeback with Bonuses
Monday, February 11th, 2008Sometimes you don’t have to choose between bonuses and rakeback, and instead get both. When selecting a poker site that allows you to clear a bonus while earning rakeback, you will increase poker profit substantially.
If you’re in the process of finding the best rakeback deal, try to choose one where bonuses are NOT deducted. Information about this is found in the RakeBrain reviews.
In some cases, you can also earn bonuses after you’ve created an account, so-called reload bonuses. I’ve seen that Inter Poker, where I currently reside, offers a monthly $200 bonus players can earn on to of their regular rakeback.
Since it’s quite hard to earn the higher rakeback percentages at InterPoker (you must rake over $1,000 per month,) this is a great way to increase the winnings. If you can be bothered with the hassle of making new deposits every month, there’s always extra money up for grabs.
I’ve carried on with my low-limit Omaha grinding by the way, and it still pays off. Search for LeCheese at Cryptologic’s $0.10/$0.25 tables, and chances are good that I’m sitting there pushing around chips with all sorts of draws.
Bankroll: $896
Rakeback: $177 (February not included)
- LeCheese