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Poker

So yesterday I cleared $200 in bonus money at Bet365. Now that I no longer play $1/$2 I despise going back to play at that level. I always have a hard time with it. This worried me for a while but a few weeks ago on ITH someone started a post about losing at the $1/$2 level and a lot of people posted they had the same experience. Technically, I am still in the black at $1/$2 but my earn rate is pretty low. Not sure off the top of my head what it is, but I am positive it is below .5 BB/Hr.

I enjoyed going back to the Prima network again. I just love the mini-view feature they have on their tables. I have had a very attractive rakeback offer on the Prima network for some time now and have been reluctant to sign up, but I think I will now. They don’t have many mid level limit games, but they have a lot of NL games, so I think they will be my NL site from now on. If anyone wants in on the rakeback deal it will probably be around 37-38%. The best you can find now on the Prima network is 35%. So drop me an email and we will discuss it.

Later today when I feel like it more, I am going to deposit some money into Check N Raise Poker. They are offering a 100% first time deposit bonus up to $600. I think this one is 9x, so it is a bit worse then the Holdempoker one, but this one clears in chunks of $10. That is much better because I don’t have to finish the whole bonus if I don’t feel like it. Cybrarian was dead on correct when he left a comment earlier this week talking about how long that Holdempoker bonus chase took, it was brutal.

Sports

Well, I went 3-3 last night. That doesn’t sound all that bad, but I will eventually go broke at that rate. I won’t go broke anytime soon, I am only risking about 5% of my betting roll every day, but it would happen eventually if I kept that up. Here are todays plays:

NBA
(L) Portland vs Atlanta Atl -3.5 (-103)
(W)Portland vs Atlanta Under 185 (+103)
(L)Indiana vs LA Clippers Clippers -1.5 (-110)

EDIT: I have added the New Jersey vs Lakers game for tonight. I took the (L) Lakers -1.5 (-107).

NFL
(W)New England vs Kansas City Kansas City -3.5 (-105)

I’m real strong on the Clippers pick. I had them at about -4 so this was a good bet in my book, if my system is half way decent, and I’m sure it’s not. I was a bit confused on it though. I could have gotten them at -2 (-107) instead of -1.5 (-110) Not quite sure what the better move was. I guess if I was positive about the -2 I should have taken that line. Oh man, so much to learn.

Record to date: 4-4