blonde poker forum

Hi All,

I'm sure you have all been offered rakeback deals from random people cruising the sites. Are these genuine or some sort of scam? I struggle to see why a site would pay a third party to give me some money back for playing on their site.

Thanks in advance for any advice

Woodsey

If you are an affiliate of a site you can offer rakeback if you can attract other players to a site.... for example i can offer rakeback if people want to join betfair

MilkybarKid (Ben),

I had well over 25000 FPP on pokerstars last year, what approx. would that equate to in rakeback from Betfair?

Thanks
Steve

What exactly is rakeback? I took a couple of m8s to the Gala a couple of years ago. Does that count? Should I go back and collect?

hi woodsey,

rakebacks are all the rage now - if you pass me on your details i can post you a cd that enables you to get 20% back on the william hills site.

snoopy, where u been?

Julian

You offered me a CD with 40% rakeback the other day.

Guess i must be one of your favorites  ;)

40%!!

nah, not me i'm afraid - although you would be one of my favourites...
20% is the max, even for the wife!

cu at gutshot

lol

I must have misheard. Maybe you were offering to swap 40% with me in the biggie at the Vic!

Yeh will be at Gutshot no doubt... catch up there.

hey ben surely a world famous (ok blonde famous) player like yourself with good IT skills to boot would have there pic up by now

Well, apart from spending my time posing for silly photos, I've moved away from Notts, got myself a job (gasp! A what?), and focused my attention on internet poker.

I also had a maaaaaaaasive break from the game to freshen up. Lots of reading, and lots of challenge tv was endured over those months. :D

Starting to get back into the groove now though and may see the Notts crew for the next 100 pounder.

Played a 100 freezout in Luton recently. Thoroughally enjoyed it and it was great to get my poker face back in action. :)

My pic is up now.... no-one can survive a staredown like in that photo.....  ;)

Damn its not working again! I don't have a pic at a specific URL so will have to be faceless for now!

you dont get away that easy this is a link to the same pic add it

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/pictures/BenGrundy.jpg

Its back again now.... its the one i tried adding earlier. Be afraid.... be very afraid!  :)

Thank Ironside.

Just a small point though, are we "allowed", or is it "done", to copy pics from The Hendon Mob? I suppose the Pic origianlly came from the owner, & he would not object, but I am keen to remain on good terms with Joe & the boys - they have been extremely helpful, & fair, to blonde, and I belong to the "do as thou would wish to be done" club. So we don't spam on HMF, or take any liberties with them, & they behave in kind.

It's not usually good form to link to images on other peoples websites without asking (some sites have measures in place to stop people doing it), this is especially true in cases where the image will be used repeatedly. Aside from copyright, the main reason for this is that hosting the image and serving to people costs money.

Sites like http://paintedover.com/ and http://www.imageshack.us/ offer image hosting services for free.

If you really get stuck give me a shout and i'm sure I can host a picture for you.

Bad form, besides it may even duplicate hits on their ailing site!!

Thanks Bongo.

The "angle" here of course is that the pic which has been taken from The Hendon Mob actually belongs to, in this case, Ben Grundy, so it's a moot point as to whether we have crosssed the line of acceptable behaviour. Ironside is a well-known & respected poster on both blonde & HMF, so he has some crediblity with HMF, & I think they will understand that he would always act in good faith to both parties.

An interesting question, eh?

Just to be safe, I will drop a private note to Joe tonight, to make sure there are no misunderstandings. He has been as good as gold towards blonde, so I am sure we will not have a problem.

Hi Ian,

"HMF "ailing"? - I don't think so!

But they are having a tough time with the legal battle & stuff, and the last thing they need right now is more problems. I think we all need to remember that The Hendon Mob, as a whole, have helped to fuel the poker boom, live & internet, & for that, we can all be grateful.

It was a joke, never mind.

Ah, my apologies Ian. Just out of bed here, sense of humour button not switched on yet!

2 easy ways round this if the mob object to the blonde forum linking to pictures in there database of there forum then you can set aside a little server space to host the pics or another way would be send the pic or tell me what pic you want linked to you and i'll post it up on some free hosting website (like yahoo/geocities) and therefore no problem


i would think that seeing the mob has a limit of 20kb on the picture size it wouldn't be a problem

the fact some members have been linked to there p[ic in the mob database since the forum started here makes me think the the little requests from this site to there is a drop in the ocean of there current traffic

Thanks Ironside, we can bear that in mind for the future.

And yes, blonde's traffic is but a drop in the ocean compared with HMF's traffic. It's as if they are Man United, & blonde are, I dunno, Aberdeen, or Notts Forest, if you get my drift........

i meant the small amount of request you make for photos is a drop in the ocean

1 of the DB photos is a fraction of the size of a single webpage

the total requests from reknewed hitting on that photo during a live tourny update wont reach the size of there front page

Proper overslept for your 9am meeting that day...