Party Time
Thursday Night Summary
Party Poker $1/$2 6-max Limit
522 hands played, 2 tabling
+$89
I posted this last night but blogger ate the post, so this will have to be a very quick summary.
A 20% to $100 maximum bonus popped up for me at Party last night, which was pretty decent timing as I was planning on heading over there to work on some $1/$2. I am much more comfortable taking shots at that level at Party for some reason as compared to any of the sites I play just to knock off a bonus. Much of that has to do with me winning far more at Party than anywhere else, so that is where my confidence is highest. I'm not sure it really matters where I play, but I'm all about staying in my comfort zone with poker, so this is how I will be doing it.
I loaded up two tables and quickly went up $20 on one and slowly slid downwards on the other. There was a LAG raising every hand and playing it to the end on the 2nd table which gave me all kinds of trouble. I knew he was raising weak holdings and I knew he was betting out with crap but any time I pushed back he had a better hand than I did. This didn't work out so well for me and I steadily slid to just under 10 BB's at which point I was thinking I had better reload or get the hell out of Dodge. I have trouble leaving a table down though so I stuck it out and very gradually climbed back up. For most of the first two hours on that table I was around, or below $30 when I had sat with $60.
Eventually the composition of the table changed (many times over of course) and for the last 45 minutes or so I found myself sitting with 5 very loose and very passive players, which I love. At this point I went on a +$120 run to end the night on that table. I was hit with a few nasty beats along the way as they were calling everything but I knew that it should work out in my favour eventually, and it did. What beat me up more than the bad beats were the strong 2nd best hands I made and couldn't get away from. I got most of those out of the way early in the evening though.
By the end of the night I was up almost $90 with the vast majority of those winnings coming in the last half hour of the three hours I played. For most of the session I figured I'd be posting a loss and it was just a matter of how much I could minimize it, so I kind of love the way things worked out in the end. Yay Party!
I also registered at Ladbrokes last night to take advantage of the $100 deposit bonus in addition to a $50 refer-a-friend bonus plus 50% of the referrers' $100 bonus. They also offer $15 ($25 with picture) for completing a profile there. So, for 500 contributed raked hands, I can knock off $215 in bonus, thanks to 2+2 posters willing to split that referral bonus. I'd be all for getting $50 for nothing too, so if anyone happens to wander by here that plays low enough limits that $215 or $225 bonus for 500 raked hands looks really nice to them and they don't know anyone else with an account there for the RAF bonus, hit me up and I'll pop an email your way.
The casino experiment is still underway as well with my two deposits at two separate casinos. So far, I pretty much think the whole thing sucks. Bad experiences with registering, bad experiences with gaining access to the players club in order to see how much I have wagered and bad experiences with their tracking of wagering. All that said, I can still see how it could be profitable for people but it just isn't going to be worth the headache for me.
Party Poker $1/$2 6-max Limit
522 hands played, 2 tabling
+$89
I posted this last night but blogger ate the post, so this will have to be a very quick summary.
A 20% to $100 maximum bonus popped up for me at Party last night, which was pretty decent timing as I was planning on heading over there to work on some $1/$2. I am much more comfortable taking shots at that level at Party for some reason as compared to any of the sites I play just to knock off a bonus. Much of that has to do with me winning far more at Party than anywhere else, so that is where my confidence is highest. I'm not sure it really matters where I play, but I'm all about staying in my comfort zone with poker, so this is how I will be doing it.
I loaded up two tables and quickly went up $20 on one and slowly slid downwards on the other. There was a LAG raising every hand and playing it to the end on the 2nd table which gave me all kinds of trouble. I knew he was raising weak holdings and I knew he was betting out with crap but any time I pushed back he had a better hand than I did. This didn't work out so well for me and I steadily slid to just under 10 BB's at which point I was thinking I had better reload or get the hell out of Dodge. I have trouble leaving a table down though so I stuck it out and very gradually climbed back up. For most of the first two hours on that table I was around, or below $30 when I had sat with $60.
Eventually the composition of the table changed (many times over of course) and for the last 45 minutes or so I found myself sitting with 5 very loose and very passive players, which I love. At this point I went on a +$120 run to end the night on that table. I was hit with a few nasty beats along the way as they were calling everything but I knew that it should work out in my favour eventually, and it did. What beat me up more than the bad beats were the strong 2nd best hands I made and couldn't get away from. I got most of those out of the way early in the evening though.
By the end of the night I was up almost $90 with the vast majority of those winnings coming in the last half hour of the three hours I played. For most of the session I figured I'd be posting a loss and it was just a matter of how much I could minimize it, so I kind of love the way things worked out in the end. Yay Party!
I also registered at Ladbrokes last night to take advantage of the $100 deposit bonus in addition to a $50 refer-a-friend bonus plus 50% of the referrers' $100 bonus. They also offer $15 ($25 with picture) for completing a profile there. So, for 500 contributed raked hands, I can knock off $215 in bonus, thanks to 2+2 posters willing to split that referral bonus. I'd be all for getting $50 for nothing too, so if anyone happens to wander by here that plays low enough limits that $215 or $225 bonus for 500 raked hands looks really nice to them and they don't know anyone else with an account there for the RAF bonus, hit me up and I'll pop an email your way.
The casino experiment is still underway as well with my two deposits at two separate casinos. So far, I pretty much think the whole thing sucks. Bad experiences with registering, bad experiences with gaining access to the players club in order to see how much I have wagered and bad experiences with their tracking of wagering. All that said, I can still see how it could be profitable for people but it just isn't going to be worth the headache for me.
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