Online Rakeback

I finally got signed up for rakeback. People seem to think it's a big deal. I get the impression I was insane for not playing with it before. I remember one week I had paid in about $800 in rake. Paying Stars $800 a week to play means I have to grind out some serious winnings to profit. I'm switching to Full Tilt to get the rakeback. I heard there were a lot of regulars grinding it out, even at the low stakes (for rakeback obv), and I really don't like that you can't filter as well as Stars for better table selection, but we'll see what happens.

I got a pretty good figure on the rakeback calculators, but I think those are probably very exaggerated. We'll see how much in about a week or two. I know that I'm a winner at 100NL and below on Stars, and feel that I would be a winner at 200NL as well, even though my bankroll was not big enough to try it. Unless FT is far harder, the winnings + rakeback should give me a healthy boost. I really can't wait to get started and see.

I'll be getting 27% rakeback plus a $600 deposit bonus. I plan on playing about 8 hours a day, 5-6 days a week. I'll probably be playing 4-6 tables, but between open, closing, and switching tables, I'll probably only average about 3.5-5. The goal is about 15,000 hands/week. At 2000/day average over the entire month at 25NL 6max, thisisthenuts.com rakeback calculator says I'll recieve about 986 in rakeback. I think this is far too high, but I hope not too much. I may actually start with more full right just to clear the deposit bonus since Full Tilt uses the dealt method for rake and I read you could clear the bonus faster at FR due to that.