Rakeback... Need Some Here!

I never claimed to be an expert poker player. I need help...

For years I have played at the poker tables and I have paid the price. I have been raked for full price at full tilt poker, pokerstars, and in a previous life I was raked at bodog. I finally found an online poker site that I like at Full Tilt Poker and thats when I heardd about rakeback for the first time.

Unbeknown to me, apparently you can get paid back a percentage of the rake that is taken from you on every hand you play. I have seen as high as 27% back on some website offerings. I would love to sign up but I briefly searched the web and found that already existing accounts might get the shaft and may be unable to participate?!?!

I now ask the blogosphere, and pray that someone will happen upon my relatively new site and either comment below or email me about how I can participate in rakeback with an already existing account. If I could be so bold as to ask for a few good participating sites that may be of interest that would really make my week!

You Know What Really Grinds My Gears? Getting walked on AA

When I read Gus Hansen's book, Every Hand Revealed he mentioned several times that he enjoyed getting a walk - basically everyone folds to you and you take the pot down without any further cards dealt. Maybe that feels great at higher stakes, and maybe that feels great later on in tournaments, but when you are playing ring games at my limits it SUCKS. I sit and try to play halfway decent poker and finally, when i get the best starting hand in poker, I get a walk! How frustrating that I have to go back to semi-bluffing with straight draws, KQ suited and low pocket pairs. Now that is much harder work than starting out undoubtably on top with best pocket pair.
On the flip side, I have run into way too much trouble holding aces as well. I have had my aces cracked on many occasion. They are a very hard hand to lay down; and to be brutally honest I don't think I have ever laid down that starting hand. Ahh getting no action with Aces in the hole; it's both a blessing and a curse.
What do you think?
 Getting walked on AA - Blessing? Curse?

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You Know What Really Grinds My Gears? Rail Chat at Low Stakes

I cannot tell you how many times I have stared down at the chat box and found one player berating another for their poor play at the micro levels of NLHE...??! Nothing gets me more aggravated than one moron berating another. These guys think they are gods gift to poker and that the only reason they are at the lowest stakes is b/c of a bad beat. Truth be told, they are the ones that tend to pay me off the most. They think they can out-bluff, out play and out think everone at these levels when they are probably the ones who reload their account every week.
The truth is they are terrible players with terrible attitudes. These players tend to get scared when I come back at them and point out how bad they really are. The one and only thing that probably puts me on tilt is rail chat rantings of a moron...


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