poker propping

Hello, 1st time lurker,

I was asked to prop for onlinepropping.com and was curious if anyone knows of these guys and if they are legit to work for. Any advice would be aprreciated.

Thanks, Stan

I've never seen that name before, but if you've got a half decent offer to prop I'd suggest that you consider it very carefully and if it seems good for you and the company seems legit, GO FOR IT!

Nick,

I appreciate the advice and info. Yeah I actually went ahead and signed up with them. They seem to be legit and were real nice in how they set everything up. Ill let you know how things turn out.

Stan

Sounds great Stan, is the pay any good (if you don't mind me asking).

Nick,

They are payin 100% rake payback. Im so excited. Ill keep you posted with more details or you could always just go check it out yourself.

Stan

Heh, not a bad deal I could check it out myself but it'd be better for you to keep me updated so that I can here "first hand" experience of propping (which is a first for me).

Hey Nick,

Just an update. I started my 1st shift today and it went pretty well. I ended up winnin around $80 at the table and had about 900 hands so was a pretty decent day. No complaints here.. :-)

Stan

Nice one!

The thing is with propping is you lose the advantage of picking where you play who you play against etc.

You will often find you have to leave a juicy table to start a new one and also play shorthanded a lot. Not really a problem if you can play short handed well, but if not then you will find it tough going against people who do.

Otherwise its some extra money so why not ;]

Sorry to sound such a n00b, but what is propping?

Here's a definition:

Hey Nick,

Why would a House pay a poker player to play poker for them? Do they do this often? Also do they do this alot online?

They do it because people don't usually like to start a new table up.

Heads up play, you are going to pay the blinds a lot more and its tough if you don't have enough experience.

So the more tables that are started, the more players will be sitting and playing. Which in turn means they will get more rake.

Generally online propping, they don't actually get paid as such. They get to play and get all their rake back. Of course this does vary from place to place and only the sites are going to really know how much propping goes on.

Yeah I checked into those deals and to be honest just didn't seem to be worth the trouble. I did see one type of player who would benefit that is a player who likes to play shorthanded anyway, you might as well take advantage and get a little of your scratch back.

I guess this makes sense but not sure to me if its kosher or not? Seems like it might hurt the Real players on these sites. Oh well guess you can't fight the system.

Well Lady if you look at it relative to the amount of money you win or lose we are talking about 5% or so depends on that particular site's rake structure, 5% is for arguement's sake. So a. We aren't talking about alot of money relative anyway b. There is no real competitive advantage and c. Having to play shorthanded means you will be involved in ALOT more hands which means in theory you should lose more. So most likely you will actually come out behind at least that's the way it looked to me but again a good player against good players we aren't talking about much money at all. The point to my rambling it's not a big deal.

Thanks XDman

makes it alot clearer for me