Paradise/Sportingbet

I'm not sure if I'm some kind of preferred customer with Paradise, but they have been very generous to me since they switched to the Boss network. Before the switch I had about $400 in outstanding bonus with them, but they switched to contributed hands for the bonus. I play 5 handed so it's not too bad. I think it clears 1pt/$.25 rake. Meaning if it's raked a $1 then you get 4pts which clears the bonus faster. ( I could be wrong on this but I think I'm right). I started off running very lucky and have just kept playing off an on ever since.

I thought I would come up with a list of freebies/offers they have given me since the switch last summer.

1. Free $20 to try the new site (no rake hands required)
2. Free $100 superbowl pick (took San Diego at 8:1, should have picked the Pats)
3. Free 300pc chipset
4. Couple of private freerolls
5. 25% rakeback on top of the bonus for 3 months. It stopped at the end of Oct.
6. And the latest offer of $100 sportsbook reload and free 10 euro bet on blackjack (which I lost the first hand)

2 Good Paradise offers this weekend

10% extra up to 100 to use in the sportsbook...3x bonus rollover. Very good offer as most books have at least a 5x rollover.

Free 10 euro bet on blackjack...must use it from paradise poker only. Good for the first 10 euro bet you lose.

"If win on your first 10eur bet, we will still return the first 10eur bet you lose"

Not sure if this is account specific, so check your e-mails. :)

Where’s your game at?

After playing online poker for almost 3yrs. it’s interesting to reflect on where I’m at now. I started off bonus chasing and building a bankroll, usually at 25NL or 50NL. Now instead of flipping from site to site, I now find myself sticking to a couple of sites that I enjoy playing and where I’ve had the most success at, usually playing 100NL, 200NL with a little 500NL thrown in there.

I know a lot of people don’t like Paradise Poker, but I’ve had the most success at this site. I’ve also been playing a bit more at PokerStars, and have recently been playing a little 7 Card Stud there. I haven’t played 7 card stud online before, only in our home games, it’s been a nice change of pace from Texas Holdem. The other site I tend to play at is Interpoker, mainly because of the bonus & rakeback. I haven’t been as lucky at this site but haven’t been getting crushed either, usually making a small monthly profit. I still have a few sites through PSO that I want to try (Cake, Carbon) but I am in no rush to join them yet; especially after recently joining GNUF and having a bad experience there & dropping 5 bones.

The biggest thing I’ve noticed is that I want to play at a site that I’m comfortable with and feel I can win at. This is probably the case with a lot of players starting out; we chase bonuses and then realize that it’s important to play good poker and the bonuses aren’t as important as they once were. They are as the word is a "bonus".

I’d be interested to hear where you’re at with your game?

GNUF poker

I decided to do a new PSO promo over the weekend and decided on GNUF. What a mistake; up and down like a rollercoaster playing $1/2NL. Took a few bad beats and I'm down about $500 trying to clear this stupid bonus. Worst beat was when my set of fours got beat by a guy holding AA only to get another A on the river. - $300 ):
If that hand holds I'm back to about even...but no such luck. I guess one other hand comes to mind only because we were ALLIN; my flush gets cracked by runner runner 6's to give a guy holding K6 a boat.

I'll be clearing my 400 GNUF points to finish the promo and then I'm done with this site.

Oct poker results & other things

October started off very bad, I was down about $900 after the first week. This was a combination of some bad beats and going on tilt at $200NL & $500NL. I took a step back and started playing 100NL again and recouped the $900 plus a small profit for the month.

I played pretty much just at Interpoker & Paradise. Paradise has been really good to me. Not only have I won at their site (bad players) but I was also getting 25% rakeback along with their crappy bonus. I also received my chipset and they've had a couple of private freerolls that I've played in. I haven't played at Paradise in Nov yet, as they haven't offered me the rakeback offer again. They are offering cash back on FPP's and supposed to open a store in early 2008. I hope they do as I have almost 10K FPP's to use (even after the Euro conversion they did). They've been saying they would open a store for a long time, so who knows if it will happen.

I still haven't signed up for any new promo's through PSO & I've only manged to play in one league event. I think I'm getting a little bored with poker, plus I'v just been busy doing other things. I have been doing more sports wagering; playing both the NFL and CFB. I'm down a bit, but it has been fun and a nice change of pace.

On the contest front I did have 4 small wins. Movie passes ($25), Football tickets/Jersy, etc ($400), Concert tickets ($440), Cdn tire gift card ($10). I'm still waiting to win a trip or something really big.