An Exciting New Room On The Entraction Network - Tricky Play

Today I'm going to talk about stepping outside the poker box somewhat. You see I started writing this blog as an online journal if you will. I talked (sometimes moaned) about the ups, downs, thrills and spills of my poker life. Then one day, rather unexpectedly, the blog started to gather a following and before long a Google page rank.

So what does this actually mean? Well I could post a tonne of bright, flashy banners all over the place to promote poker rooms and/or plaster my beloved blog with Google AdSense to earn a little extra money. However, that's not going to happen. The point I'm trying to illustrate is that if you have a love for poker there are so many different ways you can make money from it that you may not even realise.

So let me tell you about a site that I've come across called TrickPlay.com. Tricky Play is not simply a poker room, it's a poker room and so much more. Let me give you a little background on them before I tell you all that they have on offer.

Last Year the well known Entraction network was the fastest growing network in the industry and decided to press its dominating position in the European market. Then not too long ago a new Entraction poker skin, TrickyPlay.com was launched.

TrickyPlay has a fantastic affiliate scheme which delivers excellent affiliate support and not just any standard deals and promotions. This should be a great chance for affiliates to promote a fast growing network and earn a lot of money doing so. One thing that stood out for me was when I discovered that TrickyPlay is offering an affiliate school where you can find lots of useful articles about the affiliate industry and -techniques like SEO (search engine optimisation), building websites, and so on.

TrickyPlay not only offers an Entraction poker room but also a Netent online casino with games like Icy Wonders, Voodoo Vibes, Vikings Treasure and so on. If you’re a gambler and looking for online casino action you will have tons of fun in the TrickyPlay Netent casino. Currently they offer a 50 % up to 50 Euro instant cash bonus for the casino.

There are some good reasons to play at TrickyPlay and the Entraction network merits its fast growth. If you’re talking to European players most of them love the Entraction software because it’s fast and clean with nice action where you can make a lot of money as a good poker player. You won’t find any avatars or dealer at the table. Most of the players don’t even care about that. They prefer to play online poker rather than watching at virtual female dealers. Less is more according to these players who are happy because of the reduced distractions especially while multi-tabling.

A new trend seems to becoming more and more popular in the online poker industry which is what's known as browser poker. That means that you can play poker in your web browser without downloading any poker client. For Players who want to play on other computers, this is a big selling point. There are not many software providers that offer a browser based client. Even the likes of Full Tilt doesn't offer it right now although they may do in the future. At TrickyPlay you can play in your browser – from anywhere you want to.

I for one share Trickyplays vision for stepping outside the box and offer more choice to their players and of course players that one day may want to become affiliates themselves.

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The Future Of American Poker Players

As many of you avid readers know, I spend a lot of time thinking about poker. I think about all aspects of poker from where to play, what deals are out there to be had, what games are looking juicy and as of late where Americans are soon going to go to get their poker fix?

Right now the US players must feel like the English do about football (soccer to my American fans), we invent the sport, share it with the world and now find ourselves in a position where we can't even qualify for a major tournament.

For those of you that aren't up with current affairs, a couple of years back the Bush administration brought UIGEA (Unlawful Internet Gaming Act) into effect. This act essentially makes it illegal to play online poker in America. Now I could go into detail about all the ins and outs of this bill but the truth is that right now, all is not lost for our colonial cousins.

Firstly the introduction of UIGEA has unfortunately had an impact on the games to a certain extent because a lot of poker rooms have now withdrawn from the US market. But before we panic too much, lets look at what's going on behind the scenes to put things right. Firstly the Obama administration are looking to over turn a lot of the Bush administrations last minute bills and secondly there are still a few die hard USA poker rooms that are in fact willing to take on American players.

One of the many rooms included is a site called Bodog Poker and they are really growing at a rapid pace where the likes of former online giants have slipped considerably due to no longer allowing the massive US market to play at their tables.

I can't wait to see Obama get things straight on the poker front and bring an end to the UIGEA. It's a sad day in history if people from Dallas are left unable to play Texas Holdem.


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Beat The Recession With RakeBack!

When times get hard you need to start playing smart.

I think we've all been touched in one way shape or form by the global economic crisis but despite the doom and gloom that the worlds media portray I'm happy to still see plenty of people the world over filling up the online poker rooms.

I imagine some are there to let off steam, to chase the dream of riches, to supplement their income or just hang out and relax with other poker enthusiasts.

No matter why you find yourself at the green baize one thing remains the same, and that's the fact that the poker room will still be helping themselves to your hard earned money by way of the rake.

We all know the poker rooms take their slice otherwise why would they be there? it's not as if they're a charity, they too are in business after all. What does surprise me though is the huge amount of poker playing veterans who don't realise that you can take some of this money back.

The term used to describe this is aptly named rakeback. The rates of rakeback offered by different rooms vary quite a bit from around 25 - 50%. What you have to take into account is that some rooms that offer the higher end may only have a small amount of traffic/games running. Bigger rooms such as Full Tilt who only offer 27% on the other hand make up for the lower percentage by the sheer volume of games that seem to be endlessly running.

So you're probably wondering how you go about getting your money back now? There are many companies out there that will go between you and the poker rooms to ensure that you have the best deals available here's a link if you really want to find some of the best rakeback deals.

Now go, enjoy this extra money. Perhaps treat that special person in your life with a little something, if you're anything like me, they may feel a little like a poker widow at times and a good bottle might be just what they need (just don't let them know that your poker room bought it for them)

Good Luck

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Tom Dwan - Durrr

I've recently been thinking about who I really admire and love to watch play poker. As a kid you always have your favorite action hero, football player or actor, someone that you like the idea of being someone you could emanate.

I always saw myself as a Maverick style, adventurous, risk taking wild child so you may imagine that I'd be more of a Stu Ungar fan or some flash, extrovert, loud, ostentatious young pro. However it surprised me when I found myself thinking that if I had to pick my favorite poker player right now it would be the rather plain looking, softly spoken Tom Dwan aka Durrrr.

When you first lay eyes on Durrrr the man that you'll see looks decidedly normal even boarder line geeky. If someone pointed him out and said he was a train enthusiast or has seen every episode of Star Trek you probably wouldn't doubt them.

But you see that's just it, he's understated (thinking about it, maybe not the best choice of picture to illustrate his understated, low key style). Much like an Aston Martin compared to a Ferrari, (one day that DB9 will be mine!!) the Italian machine snarls and grabs attention with it's normally flamboyant coloring and attention grabbing design, whilst the Aston is just that little more reserved with it's understated style yet still a very capable beast.

For me Durrr may in fact be one of the smartest poker players out there. He learnt the game whilst only in his teens and in no time at all found himself in the biggest games going. He doesn't have the mouth of Mike Matuso or the brat like character of Phil Helmuth yet everyone still knows who he is, all this and he's never even won a WSOP event.

It seems now that every time I watch poker on TV, he's there or whenever I pick up a poker magazine there's an article about him in it. His latest $1,000,000 challenge open to all comers has indeed made many headlines where even the likes of the great Phil Helmuth have already declared that they will not play Durrrr. Helmuth (the often self proclaimed greatest tournament player) went as far as to say that Durrrr is the best player under 30 right now and may even be the best player there is. I think the man has done a terrific job of marketing himself and knows precisely what he's doing, all this and clearly a talented player.

Whilst searching google for the latest news on what Durrr is upto at the moment I stumbled across a site that really sums up what a great job he is doing with his self promotion. The site is simply called Tom Dwan and if you want to know more about the guy then you should check it out.

Durrr clearly loves playing heads up poker and here is an amazing heads up poker course with some insane videos on how to crush the games.

Good Luck

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Full Tilt Is Easy To Beat

OK so the title may be a tiny bit misleading in as much as you have to do some work to make money fromFull Tilt but as long as you're willing to learn then there is a second income waiting to be had at the low stakes games on Full Tilt Poker.

I love the simplicity of this site and the absolute plethora of games that seem to be running endlessly. Myself and a few fellow players have got together to bring you guys a blog filled with free poker training videos which will show you exactly how to find the weak players then how to exploit them.

The site/blog is called freepokertrainingvideos.com which is a bit of a mouth full but does what it says on the tin.

There will be five coaches at the moment making tutorial videos. I have made and will continue to focus on micro - low stake, 6 max to full ring cash games. Agexg113 will be making small stakes cash videos focusing on playing a loose/aggressive style for anyone wanting to learn a more exciting style of play. El Wayneo is our resident, micro stake sit and go expert. He has fantastic results in these games with one of the best graphs I've seen. He wins consistently and will show you how to do the same.

We also have two more coaches who are in the process of making videos, one will focus on heads up poker and the other will be specialising in multi table tournaments.

The videos are free so all we ask in return is that you become a fan/follower of the site or better yet, link to it if you have a site/blog of your own so that we can continue to bring you free poker training videos.

Enjoy