Thank you CD poker and thank you blind monkey!

This site also boasts some of the best promotions in terms of number of points.  The Costa del Poker gives 4000 savvy points once you complete the purchase.  4000 points equates to $400 at Amazon.com.  A fairly nice little promotion (although the requirements would take sometime).

The drawbacks of the site are two fold

• You must login to view any of the poker rooms.  This isn’t a large drawback but if you don’t want to have to register you won’t be able to see the current promotions.
• The forum is fairly small and has very little traffic.

All in all this is another great poker points program.   You are almost guaranteed to find a poker room you haven’t played at at Pokersavvy.

Poker Souce Online (PSO) has 12 different promotions that you can take advantage. The requirements vary depending on the room and vary from easy(party poker) to hard (Sun Poker).

PSO also has one of the most active and informative poker forums on the internet. The information on the forum varies from support-to-hand analysis-to-casino gambling. Most of the people on the forums are helpful and great information can be found.
PSO also supports the Instant Bankroll program. This basically gives the player a set amount of money (usually $100).  This is considered your money WHEN you play a certain amount of raked hands. This works out to a really good deal and should be taken advantage of if you haven’t played at the site previously.
The best part of the PSO site is the customer support. From my experiences they provide accurate and fast customer service. If you have a question or a problem about a poker room they are able to provide an answer quickly.  As well, the process of getting your account verified (at a poker room) is usually done quickly.
PSO is definitely worth checking out if you haven’t done so already.

These programs work on a player - middle man - Poker room marketing strategy. Basically the poker room pays a middle man (the sites listed below) a fee. The middle-man directs new customers to the poker room. Finally the middle-man returns a portion of their proceeds to the player. A symbiotic relationship.
The general principle of these sites is you join a poker room, play a certain amount of raked hands and get this free bonus. The three major sites that I have use are

• Pokersourceonline
• Pokersavvy
• Boogster

The next few articles will be reviews of the sites listed above.
To be fair with the other authors of pokahblog links will not be provided for a referral. If you are interested in joining any of these programs it’s as simple as doing a quick search.

Through all of this many of the players that are bonus hungry (or commonly know as bonus whores) who capitalized on the generous bonuses have since left do to the changing requirements. Therefore, one could assume that Absolute Poker would have a decreasing number of players. However, this has not been the case due to the introduction of new skins on the Absolute Poker network.

The new sites on the Absolute Network include Big Chip Poker and Vegas 24/7 poker. With the introduction of these sites and the loss of bonus whores (who are typically tighter) the games at Absolute Poker are now easier. This is in large part due to the ratio of bonus hunters to fish and has thus created easier play.

This weekend is the first bonus that Absolute Poker has released in March a long stretch from when three bonuses were released per week. If you are interested in using the reload this weekend you must deposit on March 10th. Use promo-code MARCH10 (or if you’re VIP MARCH10VIP).

As classy as Doyle’s page is, I find it hard to comprehend how tacky Todd’s is - a purple pirate background? I could understand it (maybe?) if there was some basis in his image for it. Something he’s endorsing? I don’t get it.

Yeah, so you can see design is fairly lame. But, I do like the music choice, “Crazy Bitch” by Buckcherry, so that’s cool. On the other hand, there’s a video of dogs singing that I just don’t get.

Of course, there’s the obligatory friend of Pamela Anderson and big breasteses from back when Pamela thought online poker was a good thing but now, not so much.

The comments section is huge, because anyone with a lot of profile views geets a lot of comments spamming all kinds of crap. And this section is so wide that you have to scroll sideways to see it.

I don’t get it. The only reason for a celebrity to have a myspace page is Marketing (well, two, if you’re trying to pick up college chicks) - so wouldn’t you pay a little extra to have someone throw together a decent-looking site? Or, alternatively, ask your dad for his html and change the colors?

Yeah, Todd hasn’t added me as a friend yet, either, just like his father. Don’t suppose I’ll be getting that add now, will I?

Yeah, so I begged to join this site thinking I might write a post or two about Low-limit SNG Strategery, but that’s been done.

I could talk about how I just played 3 SNG’s on Full Tilt, only cashed in one, but got eliminated on 2-outers in all 3. Nah, who am I kidding? Nobody wants to read that crap.

I could develop a drinking problem and cut-and-paste the crap out of RGP and 2+2, but nobody wants to read that stuff…

I could pimp the hell out of my own poker blog, or my dormant weight-loss blog, or my dormant blog about how to buy various stuff, or troll for friends for my MySpace page.

Yes, I have a MySpace page. So does Doyle Brunson, so hush now, y’heah?

In fact, Doyle’s got the classiest MySpace page in poker. Simple, cool earth-tones, no flashy crap like the “Fat-Bottomed Girls” video on mine. Unless you count the picture of Doyle wearing all 10 of his WSOP bracelets.

Now, that’s flash!

He’s also got, like 7300 friends… I’m not one of them…. Ahem, Dolly, could you see your way clear to approving me?

Yeah, so it figures my first post was review of a MySpace page. That’s the kind of Quality writing y’all can expect out of me. 

MPP’s are accumulated

• 1MPP for a dollar rake
• .25 MPP for anything less then a dollar rake

The question is how many hours would 500 MPP’s take?
After playing many many hours playing at the Crypto’s I’ve determined an approximate conversion ratio. These are all at the Fixed Limit tables which tend have weak-tight players.

• 1/2 Full ring (10 players) -> 15 MPP/table/hour
• 1/2 6-max -> 18 MPP/table/hour
• 2/4 Full ring (10 players) -> 25 MPP/table/hour
• 2/4 6-max -> 30 MPP/table/hour

Obviously these ratios are dependant on the type of players at the table and the speed of play. However, these what i’ve observed. If you’re playing more then one table at a time multiply by the number of tables.