For you degenerate blackjack monkeys out there, there's a group of casinos owned by SportingBet offering some pretty nice cashable blackjack bonuses right now, just for downloading their casino. Here's the list, followed by basic details:
1) SportingbetUSA.com: $50 free for downloading casino
2) PlayersOnly.com: $50 free for downloading casino
3) Superbook.com: up to $30 free for downloading casino
4) Aces.com: $50 free for downloading casino
To get the bonus, download the casino at each site, create an account and deposit a minimum of $50. Then you have to wager a total of $10. Within 48-72 hours (and they usually take the full amount of time to give you the bonus, so don't freak out if it takes a day or two to show up), they'll automatically credit your account with the bonus. They don't notify you by email, the bonus is just inserted into your account.
To withdraw the bonus, you have to wager 20xb (1000 WR for the $50 bonuses). What's nice is that the software is lightning fast if you increase the speed, so it's very easy to grind through the WR playing BJ with minimum sized bets.
If you're going to do these you might hurry, as these bonuses appear to be a one-time sort of deal, as an incentive to get players to try out the downloadable casinos.
If you play poker, all of the above sites also offer poker bonuses, so you can hit the casino side first for the bonus, then bang out some raked hands on the poker side to get the $20 bonuses they offer for playing 200-250 raked hands. Not the greatest poker bonuses, but free money is free money.
Wednesday, July 06, 2005
Tuesday, July 05, 2005
Where is My Mind?
Let's just say that I'm having a bit of trouble focusing on my day job monkey work this morning. I'm sure I'm alone in this feeling, amongst all the peeps returning to work after a long, extended holiday weekend.
Got lots of Webby stuff done this weekend on assorted projects. If any of you folks don't have an UltimateBet account yet, I'm running a contest this month over on BonusBug for people creating new UB accounts, giving away a poker chip set and Copag cards. Gotta be a new account, though, and you've gotta click through the links there to be in the running.
I finally broke down and got a nice 11.5g chip set for myself last week. I'd grabbed a big stack of chips and had just been clinking them together neurotically while playing/working at the computer for a day or two, when my wife pointed out that not only was it cute, but that it was funny that I was playing with $1 chips, when I had a whole rack of $100 chips that would look much more impressive. Good point. So now I neurotically clink together a stack of $100 chips. Because I'm cool like that.
While I'm getting a goodly bit out of Ciaffone Middle Limit Holdem Poker
, there are a few points where I'm left scratching my head, thinking the advice is horribly tight. Especially in regards to blinds play, as far as the range of hands he reccommends to play. I still don't have a good feel for that aspect of play, but at 15/30 (or any limit where the small blind is 2/3 of the big blind) I have to think you should liberally call from the SB with just about anything, especially if there are a few limpers in front of you.
The chapter on bluffing is pretty interesting, though, as far as particular situations in which to check-call flop bets in order to set up a check-raise bluff on the turn, regardless of what card actually comes. The main point isn't that bluffing is cool and fun but that if you sit there and play tight, aggressive poker, you're leaving money on the table if you don't take a few stabs here and there with complete bluffs when the opportunities are ripe. You're doing all the hard work, playing tight and disciplined, so it's a waste not to take advantage of some of the side benefits of respect that you'll get when you check-raise on a scary looking board.
Got lots of Webby stuff done this weekend on assorted projects. If any of you folks don't have an UltimateBet account yet, I'm running a contest this month over on BonusBug for people creating new UB accounts, giving away a poker chip set and Copag cards. Gotta be a new account, though, and you've gotta click through the links there to be in the running.
I finally broke down and got a nice 11.5g chip set for myself last week. I'd grabbed a big stack of chips and had just been clinking them together neurotically while playing/working at the computer for a day or two, when my wife pointed out that not only was it cute, but that it was funny that I was playing with $1 chips, when I had a whole rack of $100 chips that would look much more impressive. Good point. So now I neurotically clink together a stack of $100 chips. Because I'm cool like that.
While I'm getting a goodly bit out of Ciaffone Middle Limit Holdem Poker
, there are a few points where I'm left scratching my head, thinking the advice is horribly tight. Especially in regards to blinds play, as far as the range of hands he reccommends to play. I still don't have a good feel for that aspect of play, but at 15/30 (or any limit where the small blind is 2/3 of the big blind) I have to think you should liberally call from the SB with just about anything, especially if there are a few limpers in front of you.The chapter on bluffing is pretty interesting, though, as far as particular situations in which to check-call flop bets in order to set up a check-raise bluff on the turn, regardless of what card actually comes. The main point isn't that bluffing is cool and fun but that if you sit there and play tight, aggressive poker, you're leaving money on the table if you don't take a few stabs here and there with complete bluffs when the opportunities are ripe. You're doing all the hard work, playing tight and disciplined, so it's a waste not to take advantage of some of the side benefits of respect that you'll get when you check-raise on a scary looking board.
Monday, July 04, 2005
My Country 'Tis of Thee, Sweet Gambling Blissery
Got all kinds of crippety-crap done in the last four days, not the least of which was logging some good quality gambling time.
Pretty damn profitable extended weekend, all the way around. It's a little embarrassing that most of it came from video poker, but hey, I'll take it. I was clearing a signup bonus at King Neptune's, auto-playing 50 play Aces and Faces video poker on max coins, when I hit two pat straight flushes within 30 seconds of one another. I also signed up in pounds, which, umm, works out to a goodly number of dollars.
I've been on a nice, steady upswing the last week or so at the 15/30 tables. Nothing spectacular but I keep stringing together decent sessions, with no real implosions. I can't say I'm doing all that much differently, but I am trying to get the VPIP down a bit, and get the aggression up a bit. Also working on respecting the data I've accumulated a bit more, and not just chalk up aggression to mindless aggression, especially when it comes from obviously tight, aggressive players. I'm calling down with too many second best hands, when it should be obvious that the person representing strength, does, in fact, have strength.
Got kicked in the junk hard at UltimateBet, though, playing PL Omaha. I need to cut that crap out, as while I enjoy playing Omaha, I really don't have any business playing it, at least not PL with a decent chunk o' money in front of me. For whatever reason, I always seem to get clobbered on UB. I get suckered in to play occasionally due to the mountain of bonus dollars I have stacked up there, but quickly get kicked in the junk and run away for a few months, only to have the process repeat itself later.
I also bought a chain saw this weekend. Vroom vroom. Or, you know, whatever noise a chain saw males. The mimosa tree in our front yard suddenly decided to shed a big limb, and I'd been thinking about buying a chain saw anyway for general chainsawing.
Which is just about all I know about that. Time to go enjoy the remaining weekendy goodness.
Pretty damn profitable extended weekend, all the way around. It's a little embarrassing that most of it came from video poker, but hey, I'll take it. I was clearing a signup bonus at King Neptune's, auto-playing 50 play Aces and Faces video poker on max coins, when I hit two pat straight flushes within 30 seconds of one another. I also signed up in pounds, which, umm, works out to a goodly number of dollars.
I've been on a nice, steady upswing the last week or so at the 15/30 tables. Nothing spectacular but I keep stringing together decent sessions, with no real implosions. I can't say I'm doing all that much differently, but I am trying to get the VPIP down a bit, and get the aggression up a bit. Also working on respecting the data I've accumulated a bit more, and not just chalk up aggression to mindless aggression, especially when it comes from obviously tight, aggressive players. I'm calling down with too many second best hands, when it should be obvious that the person representing strength, does, in fact, have strength.
Got kicked in the junk hard at UltimateBet, though, playing PL Omaha. I need to cut that crap out, as while I enjoy playing Omaha, I really don't have any business playing it, at least not PL with a decent chunk o' money in front of me. For whatever reason, I always seem to get clobbered on UB. I get suckered in to play occasionally due to the mountain of bonus dollars I have stacked up there, but quickly get kicked in the junk and run away for a few months, only to have the process repeat itself later.
I also bought a chain saw this weekend. Vroom vroom. Or, you know, whatever noise a chain saw males. The mimosa tree in our front yard suddenly decided to shed a big limb, and I'd been thinking about buying a chain saw anyway for general chainsawing.
Which is just about all I know about that. Time to go enjoy the remaining weekendy goodness.
Friday, July 01, 2005
Thumbs up to 4 Day Weekends
Thank you, old patriotic dudes, that fought some English peeps and decided throwing a party on the 4th of July was a righteous idea.
(Technically I'm telecommuting today but Friday before a three day weekend + Quarter ending yesterday + All bosses out of the office = me not doing a damn thing.)
Many thanks to Scott for hosting a home game for Austin bloggers (plus Big Slick Nuts, who was visiting) last night. I managed to only completely screw up dealing once, and I would have put the over/under at 3, so I guess that's good. That's about the only highlight, though, as dubious as a highlight it is, as I was completely card dead the whole damn night. I think 88 was the biggest hand I picked up the entire evening. April, and Broke Gambler chopped the SnG and I don't know who came out ahead after the cash game, as my $20 donation went pretty quickly, even with Broke Gambler doing his best to re-donate at the end. Good times, though. As I warned previously, I ain't much of a talker, even when enjoying myself (especially when I'm concentrating and trying not to do anything idiotic as far as dealing and all that jazz.)
I gots to play me some more live poker. 'Tis embarrassing to play the limits I do online and have the live game savvy of a ten year old orangutan.
Crunched the degenerate numbers for June, which ended up being a bit surprising. Ended up about +$800 as far as poker goes, which was all at 15/30. Add in around $400 for rackback and somehow or other I ended up clearing $1,200 or so. Which, funnily enough, is just about what I'd averaged in the past, hitting up tons of bonuses, grinding out tons of multi-tabled hands at low limits. I honestly didn't think I'd show much of a profit at all for the month, especially after the last prolonged junk kicking I endured. I guess I'm happy to survive with my sanity intact, more than anything, as I was up over +$4,000 at one point, but also stuck about $2,000 at another later point, so I guess I'm ahead of the game.
That said, I think it may be time for a bit of a break. I really, really need to get some websites up and running for affiliate stuff, and I keep falling into this trap of playing poker in my free time, when I should be working on that stuff. I also want to study some more, get through Middle Limit Holdem Poker, and just generally absorb data and get my head straight, as far as what's most +EV to be spending my time on.
How much ass does Doyle Brunson kick?
A lot, that's how much.
(Technically I'm telecommuting today but Friday before a three day weekend + Quarter ending yesterday + All bosses out of the office = me not doing a damn thing.)
Many thanks to Scott for hosting a home game for Austin bloggers (plus Big Slick Nuts, who was visiting) last night. I managed to only completely screw up dealing once, and I would have put the over/under at 3, so I guess that's good. That's about the only highlight, though, as dubious as a highlight it is, as I was completely card dead the whole damn night. I think 88 was the biggest hand I picked up the entire evening. April, and Broke Gambler chopped the SnG and I don't know who came out ahead after the cash game, as my $20 donation went pretty quickly, even with Broke Gambler doing his best to re-donate at the end. Good times, though. As I warned previously, I ain't much of a talker, even when enjoying myself (especially when I'm concentrating and trying not to do anything idiotic as far as dealing and all that jazz.)
I gots to play me some more live poker. 'Tis embarrassing to play the limits I do online and have the live game savvy of a ten year old orangutan.
Crunched the degenerate numbers for June, which ended up being a bit surprising. Ended up about +$800 as far as poker goes, which was all at 15/30. Add in around $400 for rackback and somehow or other I ended up clearing $1,200 or so. Which, funnily enough, is just about what I'd averaged in the past, hitting up tons of bonuses, grinding out tons of multi-tabled hands at low limits. I honestly didn't think I'd show much of a profit at all for the month, especially after the last prolonged junk kicking I endured. I guess I'm happy to survive with my sanity intact, more than anything, as I was up over +$4,000 at one point, but also stuck about $2,000 at another later point, so I guess I'm ahead of the game.
That said, I think it may be time for a bit of a break. I really, really need to get some websites up and running for affiliate stuff, and I keep falling into this trap of playing poker in my free time, when I should be working on that stuff. I also want to study some more, get through Middle Limit Holdem Poker, and just generally absorb data and get my head straight, as far as what's most +EV to be spending my time on.
How much ass does Doyle Brunson kick?
A lot, that's how much.
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