The RakeBrain Rakeback Blog by: LeCheese
Can I Spike My Poker Heaven Bankroll?
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008During May, players from RakeBrain have the opportunity to take down a piece of the ten thousand Euro Rakebrain has added to the game. Is that my chance to get back on track?
I’ve been just as unsuccessful at Poker Heaven as I’ve been in the Lecheese Poker Challenges, but I have the opportunity to win it back in May. On top of the game, and the regular rakeback, new and existing poker heaven players have the chance to take down some extra cash.
But it means around-the-clock grinding.
This is how it works:
The first 20 players to rake €500 receive a €100 bonus (€2,000 total)
The first 10 players to rake €2,000 receive a €400 bonus (€4,000 total)
The first 4 players to rake €5,000 receive a €1,000 bonus (€4,000 total)
We Will Have to Wait for the Revenge
Friday, April 18th, 2008It wasn’t an utter humiliation this time, and for that I’m glad. But when I re-raised Jacsup with middle-connectors, and unfortunately enough ran into aces, it was all over. He made trip deuces on the river and I went out in 7th place. So much for the revenge.
So, the second Le Cheese Challenge is over.
Here comes a brief recap of the event after my sad departure:
When the game was four handed, Katitude lost in a brutal way. She was all in pre-flop with QQ against Jackup’s Tc8c. On the flop, Kat was in good shape with her over-pair, but the turn and river changed it all – T T – typically full tilt, so rigged and all that.
Please visit Katitude’s blog for hand history and some top-notch whining 
Jacksup now had a bit over 20k against RakeBrain player Td8507 with 13k and Huntsvegas with 5k, and as the true gentlemen they are, they spent the following ten minutes swapping blinds with each other.
When the blinds were 250 – 500 (Omaha,) td8597 busted hutsvegas. They were all in pre-flop with AQQx against 3456 or something like that. Anyway, the board was all high cards and jacksup and td8597 could go into heads-up mode pretty even in chips.
A bit later, td8507 managed to get paid off with a full house and established a 3 to 1 chip lead.
In the last hand, td8507 bet out on the flop: 4h 7h 6d, and Jacksup raised all-in with a straight draw – Qd 5s. Td8507 called with 9h 3h.
The turn and river came: 9c Jc, and td8507 won the tournament with a little pair of nines.
Thanks everybody for a great tournament and see ya’ll next time.
- LeCheese
Time for Le Cheese Revenge
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008A while ago, Rakebrain and I arranged a tournament called Le Cheese Challenge. We invited a few poker bloggers and a couple of Rakebrain players, and I felt quite confident in taking home the two-table sit-and-go. But I busted out first. Now the time for revenge has come.
Since that unfortunate torney a month ago, I have been on a losing streak and haven’t been able to get my game on track. Superstitious as I am, I think the problem lies in my terrible play in the Le Cheese Challenge. It messed up my game.
Two reverse the spell, there’s going to be another tournament at Full Tilt Poker on Thursday. The game is Hold’em/Omaha Hi with a $1,000 prize pool; and this time, I’ll probably win…
Invited players to Le Cheese Challenge are:
Schaubs
TNSpaceman
huntsvegas
garycarson
Buddydank
Pokerpeaker
VinNay
Donkette
katitude
pking19
willhopper
Gcox25
Kickasspoker
Drizztdj
NightRanger
BadBlood
mookie99
AlCantHang
SirFWALGMan
ToastOnTilt
Short-Stacked Shamus
jacksup
MrSubliminal
Crazzynesss - RakeBrain staff
td8507 - RakeBrain Rakeback Member
Sexy Sabrina - RakeBrain Rakeback Member
A new site, a new beginning … or not
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008It has been silent here for a while. Inter Poker decided to lower my rakeback, so I turned elsewhere. I just opened a Poker Haven account, part of the Boss Media Network – a good site with decent player traffic.
The Omaha action at Poker Haven is focused to the turbo tables, which I think is a bit too fast at least when playing at many tables simultaneously. But players who are more experienced in the Omaha field might beg to differ.
As usual when I start playing at a new site, I lose. And this move obviously put a large dent in my bankroll.
This is due to bad calls and millions-of-outs-wrap-draws that never seem to fill up.
I’ll start struggling again.
Bankroll: $965
Rakeback: $348
-LeCheese
How NOT to Treat a Good Customer
Monday, March 3rd, 2008I’ve played at Inter Poker for one and a half months and was planning on carrying on. The Omaha action has been quite decent and I like the software. But I just changed my mind. No more Cryptologic for me.
When I was looking up my rakeback, I saw that the network – Cryptologic – had decided to lower my rakeback from 39% to 30%. If I would have collected more than 1,000 MPPs during November, December or January, my rakeback deal would have stayed the same. Unfortunately, I’ve only collected 2,000 … but during February.
So obviously, my rakeback is lowered by almost 25%.
Well mr. Cryptologic, or whatever your name is, I got a rake deal for you: 0%!
I won’t rake another penny in your network. Feel free to take whatever cut you like.
- LeCheese
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
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