Check out this guy’s comment about online poker being rigged. Imagine that…he lost. It couldn’t be that he’s not good at online poker could it? If online poker is rigged so that we lose, how come so many of us have been winning players since we started? I just sit back and laugh at these […]
Ultimate Bet is having another reload bonus. It’s a 50% bonus up to $100. I was quite suprised to see this one since the last reload bonus was less than a week ago. I now have $425 in bonus funds sitting at UB!
After clearing the Empire bonus last weekend I decided to make Poker Stars the next stop on my bonus whoring tour. I’d need 600 FPP to clear the $120 bonus.
On Monday night I fired up Poker Stars and went looking for $0.50/1 tables. The first thing I noticed was there weren’t many full tables to choose from. Next, I noticed the tables were much tighter than those found at Party Poker. Oh well, we’ll give it a shot.
Fly like an eagle
Let my spirit carry me
Steve Miller – Fly Like an Eagle
Saturday was my brother’s 18th birthday and he wanted to play some live poker. The Soaring Eagle Casino in Mt. Pleasant is the only Michigan casino that doesn’t have an age limit of 21, so Isaac and my Mom made a day trip down. The plan was to meet them there in the afternoon, but they weren’t leaving Rogers City until 2:00, so I decided to head over earlier. Ever since Soaring Eagle opened the poker room last February I’ve been talking about going to play with my friend Dave from work. It’s only about a 45 minute drive from Saginaw for me and less than a half hour for him from Midland, so it’s actually pretty sad we’ve hadn’t gone yet.
I don’t feel like going through hand histories from Friday night’s 9th place finish so there won’t be any tournament recap. There wasn’t much interesting content anyway. I had a few paragraphs typed up for a post about tournament mistakes but have deleted it. I didn’t like the way the words were coming out.
After clearing the reload bonus on Empire Poker tonight I noticed a $10,000 guaranteed tournament with very few people signed up. It was $75+7 and since Empire had just given me $150 in free money I said what the hell and signed up. When the tournament started 120 people has signed up, so Empire had to add $1000 of their own cash to the prize pool. Sweet! The top 20 places paid, so my first focus was on making the money, but I made it all the way up to 9th before making a bonehead mistake. 9th place paid $300 for a nice $218 profit. It’s late and I have a lot to get done in the morning before heading off to the casino, so a tournament recap will just have to wait.
Or am I?
On Tuesday night I finally cleared the 2250 raked hands for the MultiPoker signup bonus. It took me a week. Ridiculous! I’m definitely not taking advantage of the reload bonus they’re running right now. 20x raked hands. That’ll take forever. Tuesday was one of those nights where you wonder how you don’t lose your whole bankroll. I couldn’t get a hand to hold up. Big slick only flopped top pair once out of 8 times. Mrs. Slick did it one out of four. Cowboys were 0-2 as were the ladies. I played for a about three hours or so. Finally around midnight I cleared the bonus and cashed out. Considering how my good starting hands performed, I was glad to only lose 20 big bets for the session. During my stay at MultiPoker I finished $0.04 ahead. Woohoo!! I was up over 70 BB about halfway through the bonus clearing, but went a little downhill from there.
A small leak will sink a great ship. Zen and the Art of Poker : Timeless Secrets to Transform Your Game
I signed up for MultiPoker about a week ago and I’ve already been given a reload bonus. 100% up to $100 through April 10th with bonus code APR05RELOAD. Great bonus even though they require 20 raked hands for every bonus dollar. At least they give 20 days to play the hands.
Has anyone else been following Dutch Boyd’s blog? He seems to be on a downward spiral, out of control. It’s one thing after another. I’ve recently been in touch with Dutch through email. He had even given me his cell phone number to discuss some things about Poker Chip Tricks. I don’t think I’ll be calling him anytime soon though. I hope he can get his life together…
Nick Momrik 