Weekend Play

It was a descent weekend at the tables. I played at three different poker sites; here’s the recap.

Pokerroom
I finally used my $150+$12 ticket in the Euro Grand Prix on Saturday. I lost half my chips in the first three hands but struggled along. Then I doubled up 3 times in a row and found myself in 5th place with about 45 people left out of the 191 that started. I lost a few hands when we were down to 25 left. Blinds were getting big; I went allin with an AK and had one caller with A9o. And of course he hit’s his 9 on the flop to take me out. Had I won that hand I would have been in excellent shape to finish top 10.
I made $286 for my 25th place finish.

PartyPoker
Finished clearing the November reload; up $148 which includes the $75 bonus.

William Hill
I got in my 5 hrs of play and finished up $67, which includes the $47.50 bonus

So overall it was a profitable weekend and I am pretty happy with my play.

Party Store

If you have any unused Party Points lying around, now might be a good time to use them. They now have CD's and DVD's in the store as well as a few other new items. If you ever wanted any of their tacky clothing, most of it is on sale right now at 40% off the regular points price.

Perhaps this a great time to get the missus an Xmas gift....Kidding!

Bowmans Sportsbook

Betcorp (Betwwts) was sold to Bodog and our Canadian accounts were transferred to Bowmans.

Bowman’s has two great contests going right now.

NFL contest – It’s probably too late for the overall prizes, but they have weekly prizes of $2500USD for the most correct selections.

NHL contest – they provide a list of 10 games for each weekend with an $800CDN weekly prize.

The also have a 15% reload bonus going right now for you sports gamblers.

Booya League event #4 & risk free bet

Played like a DONKEY….nuff said

This weeks $10 risk free bet at Linesmaker.com is

Reggie Wayne (Colts) +1/2 reception
Vs
Terrell Owens (Cowboys) -1/2 reception

This is a tough pick…I’m not sure who to take here....thoughts?

Eurolinx - Linesmaker - Paradise (weekend update)

Eurolinx
I cleared the November reload at Eurolinx on the weekend. Again, what a rollercoaster. I ended up $819 clearing 3 bonuses. The total was made up of $550 bonus $'s and $269 from playing. I think some of those Europeans think they are playing with tournament $'s instead of real cash. Time to cash out!

Linesmaker
I went 4 for 4 in College football, 1-2 in NFL (all $5 bets), and won the weekly risk free $10 free bet; which was Grossman (+1.5) over E. Manning for most completions.
This is not a money maker for me, but rather just a fun way to play a little, make the games more interesting, and also get the weekly risk free bet.

Paradise Poker
Is offering daily $1k freerolls and a weekly 5k freeroll by making deposits.

Depost $50 using MAKEMYDAY1 for the daily 1K freeroll
Deposit $100 using MAKEMYDAY5 for the November 19 5k freeroll

The interesting thing is every deposit also rewards you with 100 Player Club Points. Right now they can only be used in Players club freerolls. But you never know if they will open a store or something in the future.

On a stupid note, as I was playing in the 1k freeroll a $3 satellite came up for a $20,000 ($30 buyin) tournament. I decided to enter and was doing ok. It was a rebuy/addon tournament. There were donkeys continually going bust and double rebuying. Now that would be ok if the entry was a lot more than $30, but my thought was why not just buy in directly for $30 instead of continually rebuying and not qualifying anyway.

Sportsbetting (Risk free bets) & BooyaPoker

Most sportsbooks have signup bonuses and redeposit bonuses, but what I’ve also been doing is making at least 5 bets per week (usually $5/game) this allows me to place a risk free $10 bet per week. This essentially gives me an additional 40% bonus every week (based on $25 worth of wagers). I’ve been doing this at http://www.linesmaker.com, but there are others in the Sportsbook.com network with the exact same offer. Let me know if you want a referal.

I played in the BooyaPoker NHL ticket tournament last night. There were only 15 people playing, so your odds were very good. (not for how I play, but for others who know how to play poker...lol)

I will definitely play in more of these tournaments as well as the CPT events and I’ll give the league (PNIC) a couple of more tries before it’s mathematically impossible for me to finish near the top of the leaderboard. BooyaPoker has only been around a couple of months and is geared to Canadian players. I like what they are trying to do with their promotions and their CS seems really good.

My week of play

Eurolinx
What a rollercoaster ride at Eurolinx. I was down $650 trying to clear the $250 signup bonus, had a couple of good runs and am up $175 with the bonus. So I actually lost $75 playing, but am glad to get most of my money back. I am now clearing the $200 OCTOBER bonus. I’m basically even playing with about 30 FPP’s to go to. I was 3 tabling for quite a while on the weekend just to clear the bonus. I’m undecided whether I’ll try to clear the $100 NOVEMBER bonus. I don’t know if my stomach can handle the ride!

I’ve changed my play on that site. I’ve decided to not raise too much pre-flop because these guys are calling with anything and when you don’t hit they’re pounding it with their 6 – 9 o. So I’m playing more of a post flop game and it’s worked in my favor a lot of the time.

Pacific Poker
I played in the $10+$1 PokerSavvy $500 guaranteed tournament on Sunday. I think there were only about 11 people signed up for this, so the overlay was great. Unfortunately I stunk it up and finished around 8th. I didn’t think there would be many people playing with Pacific banning US players.

Booyapoker
I played in the $5+$.50 CPT tournament on Sunday. Once again I stunk it up and finished at the back of the field. Like the Pacific tournament there were not many people signed up for this.
I think I’ll try this again, as well as the Hockey ticket tournaments.

I have to decide if I should join the Poker night in Canada league. I’ve missed the first two events, so I’m behind the eight ball on this one. Any thoughts if I should play in this league?