Free Money

Freerolls are a great resource for building a bankroll, but they are just the tip of the iceberg. The real money is being made by professional players all over the world who are getting paid to play, some as much as $10,000 a month. And that number does not include any winnings!

The pros know about rakeback and they play a lot of poker, so that rakeback money adds up. Many pros these days are simply break even players who are putting in a lot of hours and making enough money from rakeback that they can make a good living. Our sister site at pokerwhip.com has a large number of players who make a good living from their rakeback payments, and yet we still hear people lament how tough it is to play for a living and amateurs often ask us how they can go pro.

The best way to get started is to get a good rakeback program on a good site, deposit a few bucks and start grinding out the hands at lower levels. If you can beat a $2/4 fixed-limit or $50 buy-in no-limit game, you can make a living playing poker. If you can play 8 tables of that $2/4 game, you can make $20 an hour just in rakeback at a typical site. And that doesn’t include any winnings or player loyalty programs from the site itself.

Once you put in the hours, the game starts to get easier and you cn become very comfortable with the typical opponents in your game. Then you can start playing a few more hands, mixing it up, and bluffing. If you can win one big blind every 100 hands, a trivial win rate, in the $2/4 fixed-limit game, playing 8 tables, you can make an extra $12 an hour in winnings, giving you a $32 an hour job that you can work at from home. Simple math and yet so few people figure it out. Most players think they need to ply the Sunday Million every Sunday and wait for their big break that usually never comes, while those of us who know where the real money is are grinding it out and playing for a living instead of depositing paychecks on to Stars every month.

If you already play cash games check out our rakeback calculator on the right side of the page at Pokerwhip.com and find out how much money your are missing out on.