Breaking Online Poker Review Sales Pitches

I have been about in the online poker industry as a player to know when something that I read about one of the online poker sites I’m interested in is actually truth or just sales patter and it seems that there are just so many UK poker reviews out there that are looking to push players into the poker room without really offering them a clear view of what the player has in store.

I guess this is down to the huge affiliate market that is now in operation within the industry that has seen online webmasters create sites that are purely designed to usher players to the online poker room that is offering the best affiliate reward for the players that they are able to send. 

The ‘Black Friday’ happenings that saw the DOJ take control of the top three online poker room domains while they were investigated over financial matters suddenly caused a huge shift in the way in which online poker affiliates were willing to push their visitors, suddenly the site that they had listed as the ninth best online poker room before the introduction of the regulations has become the number one place to play poker… Shocking but true. 

So when looking about for a new online poker room, I always look to find a site that seems to have an open selection of online poker reviews, a site that has given you the insight that you need specific to each UK poker room and left you with the choice of which online poker site to play at, not passing you through a funnelling process which will ultimately result in you heading to the same online poker site that they are tipping as the best at that present time.

To break through the sales pitch you have to think about the terms used within the review, look at whether the review has been written by someone that sounds like they have played on the site and make sure that they have both good and bad things to say about each site… No online poker room has no faults! Remember that!  

Who Knew Blackjack Was So Much Fun?

I have been a dedicated poker player both on and offline since the time that i turned legally old enough to be able to gamble at the local casino close to where i leave but after recently returning from a trip to Amsterdam by ferry i seem to have unlocked a new excitement in my life. Blackjack.

Now i know that the game is not new, hasn't been hidden in a dark corner of the far away lands or even been altered in terms of how it is played but the simple fact is that with my love for poker being as strong as what it is, i began to fall into a sheltered vision when i came to gambling, all i wanted to play was poker.

Whether that was down the the fact that i have a good success rate at the poker tables or whether i have never really given much thought to just sitting at a chair and facing off against the dealer alone, i have always enjoyed the competition of challenging more than one opponenet.

Well as any of you who have ever been on a ferry overnight will know, the casinos on the ship don't tend to have poker games available and this ferry only had Blackjack and Roulette tables in operation so decided to follow the crowd and join the Blackjack table.

Adopting the stick above 17 tactic when the dealer was showing a low card, i quickly realised that the success to Blackjack was not completely in your hands if you were not the first player to act, other players were unknowingly influencing the outcome of your hands.

Well that is something that i can really get my head around and at the time of closing the table, i found myself up £230, not a bad nights work for someone that wasn't really interested in Blackjack at the time of bording the ship.

Now the winning has sunk in and i have worked out the small amount of work that i really did during the game, i know that i will now look for the best online casino that i can find in order to fuel my new found Blackjack obsession.

Not quite as big as my poker one for the moment but i will be playing online blackjack much more than i was before the trip and hopefully i will have an even better time at the tables than on the ferry!

Any suggestions for where to play? Let me know!

Need New Website Idea, Anyone Suggest Anything?

Well the time has come where it need to consider gaining a second income and that for me means that I will have to create a website or something online that can be managed from home, after all, working one job during the day is hard enough! 

Now I have been thinking about what I could potentially offer to readers but without going too personal and boring you all with what I had for breakfast and who said what while at work, I obviously need to choose something that is going to be easy for me to write about.

So with that in mind, I have been looking to what I could possible advise others on based on the knowledge that I have already and I guess that I can either offer a football skills related site or something to do with my online poker experiences.

Like many kids these days I have played football since I could run in a straight line and my poker playing experience has seen me pocket a pretty penny over the past few years, so this is what is making me think that I should share a little poker knowledge with others that are looking to increase their win rate?

Would there be a call for this if I was just another of the millions of online poker players that won’t disclose the full winning value of my earnings or will my daily poker tip really help others to improve their game? 

There is so much work that will have to be put into the site to compete with some of the biggest sites out there on the market and having a lazy streak in me at the moment I’m not sure that I am ready for that battle just yet…?

Do any of you guys have any ideas on what I should include on either of the two sites?

Surely there needs to be more content on the site than a poker tip here or a how to football exercise there…?

Answers on a postcard please!