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Casino Gambling Web News Story Deceiving For Online Casino Gamblers
I know it may be hard for some of you to imagine but I’ve made a few mistakes. I’ll pause for a moment to allow some of you to come to grips with that or phone [...]
How to Become a Rakback Affiliate
At the meta level there are really two major ways to get into the rakeback game: 1. Develop your own accounting system and go negotiate deals with all the major poker rooms 2. Use a pre-packaged [...]
Why Affiliates Will Always Trump Online Poker Rooms
Before I got into the online poker industry I was always amazed at how much money poker rooms threw at affiliates. I thought they were stupid because most of the sites that were promoting them would [...]
The Online Poker Industry’s Love Hate Relationship With Rakeback
Exclusive Report Learn how you could make a living playing poker. There’s probably no single topic that divides the online poker industry more than rakeback . Seriously, in many companies rakeback is a dirty [...]
Bonus Whoring vs. Getting a Paper Route
Abulafia made some interesting observations in a post that was in response to some of my previous bonus whoring commentary. Specifically he says: I’ve lost count of the amount of posts I’ve read of people multitabling [...]
It’s All About Class
Last week I made a tongue-in-cheek comment about my post regarding bonus whoring being the cause of the Empire crackdown. It seems my recent post on bonus whoring has set off a industry-wide chain of events [...]
The Wisdom of Bonus Whoring
Exclusive Report Learn how you could make a living playing poker. One of the common topics you’ll see mentioned in the poker blogosphere is bonus whoring. Of course, bonus whoring is the act of playing on [...]








Hi, my name is Bill Rini and this is my poker blog. I've been blogging about poker and the poker industry since around 2003-ish. Like most people I started out playing poker as entertainment in home games whenever we wanted to sit around and smoke cigars, drink beer, and eat pizza, and needed a good excuse. I started playing online shortly after the first online card rooms opened and it wasn't long before I was playing 20, 30, or even 40 hours a week or more. One day I received a phone call about a program manager position at Tiltware which was the company that consulted to Full Tilt Poker on software development and marketing. After Tiltware I spent about 2.5 years working at Party Poker where I was the poker room manager.

Proof That Online Poker Is Rigged!
why do so many aces always come out in online poker? yesterday i co
It’s a question of range: Guest Post by Carl "The Dean" Sampson
A great book on ranges is Ed Miller's Playing the Player http://www
It’s a question of range: Guest Post by Carl "The Dean" Sampson
Consideration of ranges has improved my game. I'm always learning so I
Book Review: The Mental Game of Poker 2
Hey Jeff, Yeah, it's difficult to review a book that some people ma
Book Review: The Mental Game of Poker 2
Great review Bill! Thanks for saying what needs to be said about bein