PSO League

I just received 80,000 ($800) PSO points for finishing 2nd overall in the spring league. This is by far my biggest cash to date playing online poker. I feel very lucky to have finished in 2nd spot because the caliber of players in this league is exceptional. I have learned a lot from playing against other PSO members and look forward to playing in the next league.

Thank you PSO for organizing the league and for adding such generous prizes for the various winners!

Paradise

I received an e-mail from Paradise giving me a free $20 the first time I transferred some $ and sat at a table. I figured why not it’s a free $20; but thought I wouldn’t play much now as the bonus really sucks, as they just moved to the Boss Network. (100FPP’s/$5 contributed)I still had $395 of uncleared bonus that won't be cleared now.

But I decided to play for a little while to check out the new software; and couldn’t believe what kind of donks I was playing against. I played for a total of about 1 ½ hrs at different 50NL tables and different times over the weekend. I ended up making another $100 with no really big pots just players calling down nearly every hand.

I was going to withdraw my $, but now I’m thinking I might just leave some there to play with. They also have a few interesting MTT’s going on, so I might try to qualify for them.

You might want to check your e-mails to see if they've given you some free $!

Contests (Part 3 of 3)

Online entries can be very time consuming & boring. Filling in your personal info all the time sucks. Fortunately there is free software to help you. Roboform.com is a free download, where you enter your personal information once to create an idendity and then you can fill forms in with one click of the mouse. Just be sure to look over the fields to make sure they are correct as well as unmark the spam newsletters, etc.

If you are entering the same contest on a daily basis you can also set up passcards. It saves your exact information for that contest and every time you go on the web page you click on that passcard and the information is filled in for you. It only takes seconds to enter these contests.

Roboform saves you a lot of time and makes entering contests a breeze.

Good luck!

Contests (Part 2 of 3)

I know a lot of you probably enter the contests you see on Poker/Casino sites like Casino on Net. (win and ipod, etc) But where do you find other contests? There are many places that have contest entries, both online and in paper format.

Most major companies have contests going all the time. So surfing the web you will come across many of these contests. There are also many sites that post contests. I use contestcanada.com to find new contests.

I also like to enter contests that are in my local newspaper and other local contests such as the one’s you see in liquor stores. A lot of people won’t take the time to enter these contests, which gives you a much better chance at winning those than some of the big online ones.

In part 3, I will explain some easy online entry techniques.

Good Luck

Contests (Part 1 of 3)

Have you ever noticed the huge amount of contests out there? Everyone has a contest going and it has grown much like poker has.

I started entering contests about a year ago when a lady I work with started talking about all the contests she enters and what she has won. Over the past 3 years, she’s won about 38K worth of stuff. Yes, you read that correctly 38K. Everything from trips, electronic equipment, and tons of smaller prizes.

So far I’ve won about 1K worth of stuff. My biggest win was in last years NHL playoffs where I won Oilers gold tickets worth $450. I’ve won concert tickets, movie passes, DVD’s, etc. I'm still waiting for the first BIG win, hopefully it will come soon.

In part 2, I will discuss where to find these contests.

April Update

April was an interesting month for me. With Neteller closing to Canadian customers April 9, I felt if I was going to do some PSO promo’s, I better start them before the 9th, because I wasn’t sure if I could move money around very easily after that. I started & completed 3 promo’s each for 12000 PSO points. In the past I’ve tried to space out the promo’s to one every couple of months.

Here’s a summary:

Full Tilt – +$133 plus PSO points
UB – -$105 plus PSO points (but +$ from MTT) Thankfully I completed this promo before UB’s change to raked hand requirements.
PokerStars - +$95 plus PSO points. (I finally have a Stars account!)

I also did a small reload at Interpoker +$75 as well as the monthly bonus at William Hill +$115.

PSO Freerolls & League – I played in one $1000 freeroll and didn’t cash. I have also played in 4/5 league events. I have made 3 final tables with a third place finish in the last one. I don’t know how I lucked out finishing third but it happened. That’s an additional 9000 PSO points for third (Thanks PSO!) Unfortunately for me Wednesday night is a really bad night for me to play poker; that's why I missed last Wednesday’s game. I am going to have to try to make at least one of the last two Wednesday night games if I want to have a shot at an overall prize.

MTT’s - the only other tournament I played in the month of April was a $15 MTT at UB. It was a $3000 Guaranteed tournament with 199 players. I was short stacked around the bubble (paid top 20) but sqeaked into the $ and then got lucky when I tripled up shortly after that. I ended up finishing in 2nd place for $480. This was my biggest payout to date and I was very happy with this finish. I’m still looking for my first MTT win. It might be hard with me playing in very few of these (just a lack of time), but one day I will win one.