I hope everyone had a good Easter weekend. I enjoyed a few days in northern Michigan with my family. On two of those days I played in $5 tournaments with my brother and his friends. Each of the two tournaments had 7 players total. I had never finished in the money with these kids so I was itching to win some of my money back. Not only did I finally finish in the money, but I did it in both tournaments.
Mario – Power Up!
I wore this shirt out to the bar on Friday night and every single person I talked to made a comment about it. Most laughed actually. I just bought it the day before and happen to love the shirt. It brings back a lot of childhood memories.
Tag, You're It!
Since I started using Flickr earlier this month, I’ve falling in love with tags. Using categories in WordPress has always been a burden, so made the move to rid the site of them. Using tags is much better way to classify things in my opinion. You can view a heat map or full list of the tags used here at MDV.
While looking for a plugin to do the job I found quite a few, but they were all done wrong. Just bout every tagging plugin out there for WP used the meta data to store tags. I just didn’t get it. All of the functionality is already built into WP with categories, so why not just use what is already there?
After much searching I finally found a solution. All it takes is a simple edit to post.php and one plugin file.
Bonus Clearance & Bankroll Buildance
Just a quick post for an update of the last two days.
In addition to hitting royal flush #6 on Tuesday I was able to clear about 400 more raked hands for the Party Poker bonus. In the process I also took down a profit of $20. Nothing spectacular, but always better than a losing day.
Last night I had to split my play up in order to go out to Hooter’s with some friends. Wednesday is All-You-Can-Eat wings and fries for $8.95! Before dinner I was crushing the $0.50/1 tables and sorry I had to leave. In addition, I only needed to play another 90 raked hands to finish off the bonus. After dinner I jumped back into the fish bowl and was down early. I hit a few big hands and turned another profit. It didn’t take long to clear the bonus and I logged off right after. After 4 solid days of play I cleared the required 1400 raked hands and $200 of bonus cash was transferred to my account.
In addition to the bonus I took another $187 in profit from the tables for a total of $387. Not bad hey! I’m still leaving money on the table at times though. If a bluff doesn’t work right away I need to learn to give it up. Accepting defeat is never easy though.
Since starting my bankroll over at $300 I’ve been able to find my zone again at the tables. I’m starting to “feel” my way through hands, which is a good sign. With the help of a few bonuses and winning days at the tables my bankroll is back up to nearly $800. Only $200 more and I’m moving back to the $1/2 tables.
I won’t be playing any online poker until at least Monday with the Easter weekend. The next stop on my bonus whoring tour is MultiPoker.
In My Bag
What’s in my bag.
Take On the Fives
How many 5 year-olds could you take on? One of the greatest hypothetical questions I’ve ever come across. I think I could take on quite a few more than 30.
GameTime+ 1.4
GameTime+ 1.4 is out.
Johnny Chan Poker Chip Trick
New poker chip trick over at Poker Chip Tricks. It’s the Johnny Chan!
Johnny Chan Poker Chip Trick
Over the last couple of months I’ve had quite a few requests for the Johnny Chan trick we’ve all seen in the movie Rounders. I was finally able to work on it and have posted a video, photos, and tutorial.
Go check out the Johnny Chan Poker Chip Trick.
Royal Flush #6
I’m don’t even know what to say. 3 royal flushes in the past 50 hours. Online poker must be rigged! I’m going to have more Party Poker hats than I know what to do with. I should go buy a lotto ticket…
