Sunday, July 09, 2006

What a Massive Week!

The first week of my attempt to derrive my income from only poker and bonuses has come to an end with an amazing profit of... +$18.76... Oh... Yehh.. Ok, so it wasn't that great, however I am glad the I managed to finish in the black, after a week of crazy ups and downs. Heres an overview of my stats:

Casino Bonuses: -$78.00
Poker Bonuses: +$89.26
Poker Play: +$7.50

First of all I should first review my goal for the week, which was to acheive 10 000 hands. I really don't know whether I reached my target, as I still haven't got Poker Tracker yet, but I doubt it. I started off the week playing Full Tilt Poker to unlock as much of the sign up bonus as possible before it expired on friday. Over the first two days of the week I managed to win $60 and unlock $40 of bonus to be up about $100. Then wednesday brought be a massive losing streak of $150, to fall back down to -$50 for the week. I think this was a result of some bad play, bad luck, and playing too many tables (I was multi-tabling at 3-4 tables most of the time). I then decided to drop back to only two tables and concentrated on playing well and making good decisions. This, combined with the fact that I was getting less hands per hour than I orginally thought (see previous post), as well as not as many hours put in led me to not getting as many hands in as I had originally planned. I continued playing thursday and friday and unlocked 40 more of the bonus, finishing up a total of 50 for Full Tilt, however down 30 for actual poker play.

Saturday I set up a Titan Poker account and deposit $500 for a $500 sign up bonus, and started to chip away at that. I finished up $8.75 for Titan Poker for the week, however only played a few hours, and none of the bonus unlocked yet. I also deposited $200 into Will Hill Poker for their great monthly bonus where the pay you 5 pounds for every hour you sit at the tables (not raked hands). I unlocked 1 hour of this ($9.26) and finished up 28 bucks 74 from poker play.

Poker Summary:
Bonuses:

Full Tilt: +$80
Will Hill: +$9.26

Play:
Full Tilt: -$30
Will Hill: +$28.74
Titan Poker: +$8.75

My week was all over the place (generally bad) for casino bonuses. First of all I had to finish the WR for Ace club and Windows casino's sign up bonuses which I'd started previous to the beggining of this blog. I busted out of Ace club pretty quickly, betting $5 a hand- it was a run of really bad luck. My experience at Windows casino was much worse, a combination of bad luck and my stupidity, mainly my stupidity. The WR was massive ($10500, but still +EV) so I'd decided to bet $10/ hand which is already pushing it. I had some pretty good runs throughout clearing the WR, twice making it up to $500 but then dropping back down to the original $300 ($150 deposit + $150 sign-up bonus), but my lowest point had only been about 250. Finally as i was reaching the end of the WR I hit a bad run and ended up clearing it at $210, a profit of $60. I was pissed off that I'd up so high ($500) twice and my losing streak and brought me to my all time low as the WR was finished, below my EV ($100). However I still had a profit, so I decided to play one more hand then cash out. I played one more hand and won it to be at a total of +$220, but then I thought that I was only $30 away from my EV point, so I thought I'd play one more and try and get a bit closer... you know the rest. I proceeded to lose that bet, then a string more till I found myself at $160 (+$10 overall). I thought what the hell and bet $100 which I lost to a dealer blackjack, then bet the remaining 60 which I also lost. So in a matter of minutes I went from a perfectly safe +$70 to -$150, and a waste of time. This is an examply of what not to do with casino bonuses- absolutely terrible- NEVER NEVER NEVER up your bets to chase losses. NEVER keep playing after the WR is cleared (except for cover in certain situations). I beat myself up about this occasion for the following two days, so hopefully I've learned my lesson for next time.

I went much better with the Intercasino monthly bonuses and finished up $189. I didn't do so well with the monthly Will Hill casino bonus and finished the WR at -$17, so in summary my casino bonus results for the week were as follows:

Ace Club: -$100
Windows Casino: -$150
Intercasino: +$189
Will Hill Casino: -$17

I probably won't report my Casino Bonus happenings as I have above in my normal posts, except in passing comment. I'm going to post a running account of all my bonuses from start to finish, and put a permanent link to it in the side bar. I will use the posts for mainly poker play results and poker bonus results. Poker bonus results will always be easy, as you can't lose a poker bonus, only unlock it slowly- so there won't be much to report. I'm almost done certifying my Neteller account so I can pay for Poker Tracker, I'll hopefully get this done in the next couple of days, so I'll be able to analyse my play and the play of others which I'm very excited about. It will also allow my to create some graphs, which I'll start to post up here when I can enough hands down.

I've also been thinking of some more goals which I was going to post here, but I've run out of time, so I'll post them another time. Also look out in the sider bar as I've added some links and something that shows my current bankroll- I'll update this as I go along. I hope this coming week as more fruitful than the last, however it is all a learning experience so i'm not particularly upset with this weeks results. I'll post again soon.

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