I've been playing on Full Tilt for about a month now and after a steady 3-4 week losing streak while learning the ins and outs of 2NL, I'm finally starting to regularly beat the game.

Not knowing anything about online poker when I first signed up, I didn't sign up through a rakeback affiliate. I e-mailed Full Tilt and other rakeback sites to see if there was anyway I could still get rakeback and have been turned down. My goal in online poker is to keep moving up in stakes and make a nice supplementary income


My question to you guys is what do you suggest w/r/t lack of rakeback at Full Tilt? I've come up with 3 options...

1. Move my $35ish current bankroll over to a place like ultimatebet, get rakeback, build it to $600, then move to Pokerstars.

2. Bypass the suspicious non-full tilt/pokerstars sites, suck it up and grind away at Full Tilt until I reach $600 then move to Pokerstars.


3. Just move to PokerStars now and not worry about getting max. initial deposit bonus, since it is so tough to profit at microstakes w/o rakeback.


...or anything else I didn't think of.


Thanks guys