Poker Curious News and Promos
PokerCurious.com is back up. I apologize for the miscommunication with our former server host that had the site down. I'm thrilled that we are on a new server that is quick again.
Join us this Sunday, January 29th at 20:00 CET (2 pm EST/11 am PST) for our third week of our six week $65 freeroll Minted Poker Freeroll League.
Due to the site being down, I wasn't able to send the usual newsletter announcement so only 65 members played each of the first two freerolls. That...
F.A.Q.
Rake is the term for what poker players pay to play poker on a poker site. Rake is how poker rooms make money. The poker sites deducts a certain amount from every cash game pot, or have the player pay an extra fee on top of the buy in for every tournament and Sit and Go. The poker sites average a 5% rake across all their games. With the volume of players and hands, that accumulates into a tremendous amount of money. Rakeback is simply a discount you receive back from the rake you pay in.
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability. - Vannevar Bush, architect of the Internet
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