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Leading poker rakeback site RakeTheRake has announced the launch of what it hopes will be the web’s most definitive Poker Wiki on its site.   RakeTheRake has developed the Poker Wiki so that the ever growing number of online poker players can get together and share information about the game they all love, including celebrities, tournament dates and game types.

The idea is to offer existing and novice online poker players definitions and tips on poker strategy, types of poker game, poker resources and playing terminology.  As with any good Wiki, the more the audience contributes, then the greater the pot of knowledge will become.

To encourage participation in the Poker Wiki, RakeTheRake will pay 50 US Dollars directly to the respective RakeTheRake account of the top ten players contributing the most entries.   All entries have to be original works by the author and of course the author must already have a RakeTheRake account up and running in order that they can receive any prize money.

RakeTheRake is now inviting all poker players (experts or not) to visit its new Wiki and add their own tips, and show how good (or not) they are.    Any contribution will be gratefully received so RakeTheRake’s Poker Wiki can grow into a genuinely useful online resource for poker players of all levels.

What a brilliant way of keeping in touch with likeminded people and learning about all the games you love to play.   You can write about all the games you love to join in with – be it Online Poker, Party Poker and of course PKR Poker. Go on you haven’t really got anything to lose.  In this instance absolutely nothing, after all you could end up actually adding to your account.  What a great way to maybe earn yourself 50 Bucks, just by keeping in touch about something you are passionate about.

Good poker players need a good deal of skill and expertise. To win at poker you need to have a really good memory and be great at reading other people whilst all the while maintaining your own unfailing ‘poker face’. Given all this, you have to wonder how online poker rooms can work – if the whole point of the game is for players to be able to read each other’s expressions, surely playing online against unseen opponents would make it impossible to win? But this could work both ways, and being invisible to your opponents could make it easier to keep that poker face even when you think you’ve got no chance.

Whichever way you look at it, playing poker online is a very different game. If nothing else, poker sites like Full Tilt Poker have brought the game to a much wider audience and give them the chance to bet as much or as little as they like. It’s much more tempting to take risks playing poker online, as the other players can’t see you so won’t be able to tell if you’re telling the truth. The downside to this is that you can’t see them either and have no way of telling if they have been dealt a good hand. You need to rely heavily on your memory but with a little bit of practise it’s possible to become as good at online poker as you can offline.

The danger of course is that a player who was new to the game and lost a lot of money could be tempted to go back and keep trying to win until they have nothing left. But provided you limit yourself to betting only what you can afford to lose then playing poker online could be a great chance to have some fun, make some money and learn something new. The only disadvantage to playing on popular sites like Party, Betfair and Absolute Poker is that they make their money by taking a cut of every pot, called the rake, as commission. It’s worth looking around for a good rakeback deal before signing up to a poker room, sites like raketherake.com have loads of great rakeback deals for most of the main online poker rooms.