I knew Prima would fuck me

[rookette22]

But if I lost it; how can they take the $10 back?

[Hawt]

What happens is, they give you $10 for free to play with. But to keep that $10 you have to play 100 raked hands (the rake has to be more than 25 cents too). If you lose the $10, then the loss is on them. But say you do what I did. Say you turn that $10 into $160 like I did, but you don't have the 100 raked hands to keep the $10.

So when I go to withdraw, they will let me take what I have won (after I make a deposit which is stupid), but the $10 stays in my account since I didn't clear the 100 raked hands requirement. It is still there for me to play with until I clear the raked hands.

My problem was that since I made the $160 off of the free $10 they gave me, I wasn't allowed to just take it out. I had to make a deposit first. Which is stupid, since I am just depositing the $20 then withdrawing it along with my $160. It's not like I am going to play with that deposit.

To look at your raked hands on RoyalVegas, go to Menu then click "Raked Hands" and enter the date you started on.

However if you are only playing with the $10, I doubt you have any raked hands. I was playing at the .25/.50 tables with about $130ish dollars, and I only have like 20 or so raked hands. The pots just aren't big enough at that level for them to take a .25 cent rake. My only raked hands were real big all in pots and such.

My guess is that with the $10 you are playing either tournaments (which don't count for raked hands) or at the microlimit (ie. .05/.10) where they take very little to no rake.

[rookette22]

k I finally understand what you're talking about.

Well I did the 2 freerolls, which I don't think count for anything. And I've been trying to go into the Omaha H/L .25/.50 tables but they're empty. No one plays them, I know I can win in Omaha H/L I'm real good at that game, so I went to play just some regular .25/.50 Hold'em tables and made like $2.50 at first, then lost the 2.50 + another buck from the $10 that's why I wanted to know what happens if I lose the $10.

thx for the info, I'm gonna go play only the .25/.50 tables from now on.

[Hawt]

I wouldn't play the .25/.50 tables with just $10. You will be short stacked and have only like 20bb where as most people will have a couple hundred BB's.

I would go play the $2 sitngo's and build your bankroll by cashing in those. THen once you have more money, like $40-$50 then sit at those .25/.50 cash tables.

At least that's what I did.

[rookette22]

Hawt? I went to look to see how many raked hands I had so far and this is what it says:

Your Raked Hands:
You have played 14 raked hands in this period (excludes hands played in the last 15 mins)

[Hawt]

I think what might of happened, is...

Say you're in the big blind, and it gets raised really big so you fold. The two people in the hand really go out it and build a pot big enough for the .25rake. Since you have money in that pot even if it is only your .50 big blind, it counts as a raked hand for you since you were a part of it. Same thing for if you are small blind or if you fold on the flop or something like that.

I just checked my raked hands and it says I have something like 44 of them so I think that must be the case.

I still think you should play sitngos (specifically the 30 person $2 ones) to build your bankroll.

[jillaj]

Hawt just open a new bank account that your parents won't have access to and use that for net teller.

[Hawt]

Yeah thats what I have been thinking of, and I might do it once I get enough of a bankroll to start playing poker on a more serious level. I know that with Bank of America you can deposit straight to your Neteller account when you go into the bank.

I talked to my dad about it and let him know that I was just deposit to withdraw my $160 and he actually seemed kind of proud, but made me promise that I would at least put the $20 back into my account.