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Casino Gambling Web News Story Deceiving For Online Casino Gamblers

August 10, 2009 Bonus Whoring

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 your therapist and work out what that means for you but I’ve said it and it’s out there. Are [...]

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How to Become a Rakback Affiliate

June 29, 2009 Bonus Whoring

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 backend solution like Poker Affiliate Solutions (PAS) and set up your own rakeback site. Even though I have a [...]

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Why Affiliates Will Always Trump Online Poker Rooms

May 5, 2009 Bonus Whoring

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 have been happy to take a flat CPM deal if some site hadn’t been dumb enough to offer to [...]

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The Online Poker Industry’s Love Hate Relationship With Rakeback

April 20, 2009 Bonus Whoring

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 [what is rakeback?].  Seriously, in many companies rakeback is a dirty word.  At one company I know it’s jokingly referred to as “The Unmentionable” by the poker staff because to [...]

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Bonus Whoring vs. Getting a Paper Route

June 10, 2005 Bonus Whoring

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 to clear bonuses. Sitting down and baking in the glow of several screens on a Saturday morning to hit [...]

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It’s All About Class

May 17, 2005 Bonus Whoring

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 resulting in many players being booted from online poker sites. Ok, maybe I’ve got delusions of grandeur (actually, I’m [...]

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The Wisdom of Bonus Whoring

May 3, 2005 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 a particular site in order to take advantage of a reload or some other type of promotional bonus. Many [...]

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