2007 Poker Year in review & 2008 Goals

With only a few days left in 2007, I thought I would reflect on 2007 and share some goals for 2008.

2007 – I didn’t build my bankroll as much as I’d hoped to do.
2008 – My goal is to build my current bankroll (at least double it or hopefully triple it).

2007 - I moved up my NL game from $25 or $50 NL to mainly $100, $200, with some $400 & $500NL sessions. I also played a small amount of Limit games, mainly $2/4 with some $5/10 sessions as well. I feel I can play at the higher levels and enjoy playing there, however I took a few really bad beats and that reduced my bankroll to a point where I wasn’t comfortable and had to drop down a couple of notches on occasion.
2008 – Maintain the $100 or $200NL level of play & if I can double my bankroll by mid year then I’ll try the higher levels again.

2007 – I still haven’t won a big MTT (however I haven’t played in many either)
2008 – I plan to read more on tournament play & hopefully get my first win

2007 – I pretty much stuck with Texas Holdem until November when I was getting bored of Holdem & played a bit of 7 card stud.
2008 – I might read more on 7card stud and Omaha and play these different games for a little variety.

2007 – The first half of the year I played at quite a few sites, bonus chasing and doing PSO promos. The 2nd half I concentrated my play at a couple of sites.
2008 – I will continue to play like I did the 2nd half of 07 and may add a couple of new sites like Cake. I will continue trying to play better poker and building my bankroll that way instead of bonus chasing. I will still take the extra bonus when it’s offered at a site I want play at. I am very glad I didn’t chase promos like the Wingows one. I don’t need the hassles like a lot of players are having with them.

2007 – I funded a trip to Vegas with my poker winnings.
2008 – I will probably do another trip to Vegas this summer. Funding already in place.

Happy New Year and all the best at the tables in 2008!

Check your account

You might want to log into your Pacific Poker and CON account from Dec 12 -21 as they have a promotion called 888 Santa's Prize Surprise. They are giving away amounts of $8, $88 or $8,888.

I've been playing at Pacific Poker this week anyway as they sent me a 5K freeroll offer last weekend, which I donked out really fast. But along with that I also received a reload of 20% up to $50.

I'll let you know if I get anything from this Santa promo.

Attitudes of different sites

It always amazes me how some sites are really good at keeping their customers happy and others just don’t give a crap about them. If you have problems with a good site they will probably offer you a bonus or give you a ticket to a tournament as compensation for your troubles.

On the other hand I had received an e-mail from Pokerroom yesterday about some holiday promotion. I hadn’t been on their site for a while but know that I was accumulating Player points (PP) over a period of time when I was playing there. I decided to log in and check my account and noticed I didn’t have any PP’s in my account. I decided to use the live chat and inquire about them. First the guy told me that “YES” they are still in my account. But I told him my balance showed 0 and was unable to use them. He then informed me that any points accumulated in 2006 expired. This is BS because I knew that they probably would have expired sometime in 2007 under their old scheme but since Jan of 07 the points don’t’ expire and they didn’t have an expiry date on them like they had in the past. So instead of trying to give me my points back (probably only $15 worth) or offering me some other form of compensation; it was “sorry can’t help you” to which my response was “no problem, I’ll just keep playing at PokerStars then”.

In a saturated market of Poker sites, you’d think these people would try a little harder at retaining players.