WorldPX: improved post
I've been a member at the exchange for nearly 4 yrs. I'm a big fan and do not play anywhere else. I just dont see the point in paying to play if I dont have to. How the no-rake system works is pretty cool. Rake is taken out of every pot and from each tournament buy-in. This amount is tracked in your cashier window so you may see how much you have saved. You receive your rebate on Monday each week. I typically play 20-30hrs/wk at 100NL games and many tournaments w/ buy-ins of $5+1 and $10+1. I would say my avg rake rebate falls between $200-350/wk. What other site do you earn bonuses like that? You can estimate what your savings would be based on my stakes and if you play higher or lower. There are players who earn $1,500-2,500/wk. In your weekly rebate email they tell you your rebate and the week's highest rebate paid out. Its fun to see these guys raking $5,000+ each month. I'd say there are typically 300-850 players online actually playing w/
real money. Sometimes you'll see the number spike to nearly 2,000. This is due to as many as 1,800 players joining the freerolls that are held every 4hrs. For people looking to build a
bankroll from nothing this is a great site to start on because of the frequency of freerolls. 6 $50 freerolls a day. Most of the real money players here are limit hold'em players w/ stakes from $0.10/0.20 to $100/200. The bulk of the traffic plays $2/4 and $5/10. The no limit hold'em games carry 30-100 players w/ stakes from $10Max to $2,000Max w/ the bulk of traffic playing 100max and down. Tables offer 10 or 6 seats. Most of the higher stakes nl games are shorthanded and full of action. The play on the ring games is of average skill. The main portion of the business is a giant sportsbook, leading to many fish who are at the table to blow their winnings from the weeks NFL action. This leads to the sharks at the tables. Being a small traffic site, you can learn who they are quickly and just wait for the fresh meat instead. The King Fish on the site is a player called Massagestud. Huge sports gambler who seems to make a small fortune a couple times a month on one wager or another and blows a few hundred at a time on 200NL tables afterwards. He's a certified maniac and you may feel free to do a lil dance if you see him sit at your table. The tournament scene here is great. Most games are guaranteed prize pools and rarely fill up to the quota. Added money is common place. Average tournament size is probably 50 players. The ones I played in tonight had, 89, 32, 60, and 28 players. With the games this small you dont have to commit 7 hrs to play like you do on the larger sites. 2-3hrs will see the end of nearly all tournaments here. A big plus for those of us who are limited to only a couple hrs a night to play. Most of the buy-ins are $5 or $10, w/ a nightly $50 buy-in game. They have implemented higher stakes tournaments at $200, $300 and $500 buy-ins but I have yet to see one actually get under way due to lack of interest. The largest and most lucrative game on the site is by far the Sunday 5k guarantee $25+2 buy-in. A 200 player target typically falls short and ends up w/ around 170 players in the field. This means $750 added into the pool spread over 18 paid places. Winner takes home $1,500. This is a must play each and every week. The sit n goes are either 5 or 10 seat games paying 2 and 3 spots respectively. They range from $2 to $100 buy-ins. In the 5 seat games you can often fold into the money at the lower buy-ins. The only pro I've seen playing here is Max Pescatori. You may recognize him from a couple tournaments on ESPN. He was in the episode w/ that really lucky young kid Ricky Zilling. There were other pros at the table such as Jen Harmon and Scotty Nguyen. Max is one w/ the really goofy World Poker Exchange cycling cap on backwards. Its not exactly FullTilt over here, what can I say. But, this is the best bargain anywhere for online
poker sites, especially since many of the major sites have become unavailable in the US. World Poker Exchange is still accessible to stateside players as its based out of Antiqua. I believe the owners of the company are wanted men in the US. Don't worry, they aren't bad men or anything. Just making money the government thinks they should have a piece of. I suspect this is the reason you don't see advertising here in the states. Sort of a blackball thing perhaps. That is just speculation however. You can read more about the site, its owners, and their story w/ the US government in the article in Card Player Magazine found here,
http://www.worldpx.com/promotions/cardplayer.asp. If you play significant hrs of
poker online, you'd be a fool not to check this site out immediately. Bring a friend too. How could you not share a deal this good?