As an online poker player of almost ten years standing and many of those years as a full time pro then I know all too well what it takes to be able to make money. I have made many mistakes in that time and so I actually want to pass on the benefit of my mistakes and the knowledge that I have acquired over that time. At the outset of my career then I ignored the importance of outside financial factors for far too long. However the games were so good back in 2001-2004 that you were never dependent on sign up bonuses and rakeback for your income.
So what this meant was that you sort of become blasé about how you made your money. It was only when the games started to become tougher that I can could see how important it was to be able to make money from poker in other ways. These ways were sign up bonuses and rakeback. At the end of the day then you make money by your opponents making mistakes but the mistakes that players were making were getting thinner and thinner on the ground.
When you are maybe getting $1000 per month in rakeback then it simply takes all the pressure off you to have to make money on the actual tables. It is exactly the same with sign up bonuses because at the end of the day then this is money that the sites are giving to you so it is certainly in your interests to take advantage of it don’t you?
