More Casino Goodness

I have been hitting the casinos up pretty hard on the bonus side lately.  The other day I deposited $100 into Golden Palace for their 300% bonus, but I busted out fairly early.  I then deposited $100 into Planet Luck for their 100% bonus and again busted out.  With this one, I was literally down to my last dollar at one point.  I then ran that up to about $140 and eventually busted out.  After that it was onto Starluck Casino and I deposited $100 for their 100% bonus.  I managed to do quite well with that one and ended up clearing $509, so $409 after my deposit was subtracted.

I then moved onto Bet365 casino and deposited $200 for their 100% bonus and for the first time, I played blackjack switch.  Now, the sites running Playtech software and blackjack switch, the house edge is supposed to be .02% pretty darn good when you consider Pontoon is around .18% and regular blackjack is even higher then that.  So I felt pretty good about my odds of making some coin on this bonus.  Man, was I right.  I ended up cashing out $1,188, so $988 after subtracting my deposit.  Not bad for a few hours work huh?

Blackjack switch was a fun game to play.  It takes a bit longer because you need to figure out if you want to switch the cards or not, but you are also betting 2 hands at once, so that speeds things up in terms of clearing your WR.  So that is another $1,200 or so in my pocket.  April has been quite the month for me and the casinos.  I have taken them for almost $4,000 this month alone.  I'm sure I wont see a winning bonus chase now until sometime in December.

Put Me In Coach 

In the past few days, I have agreed to start coaching a friend in poker.  He has been playing 3 or 4 months and his game is pretty good to be honest.  He just needs some pointers here and there to help refine his game a bit.

I was a bit concerned about doing this, because I am not all that sure I am a good poker player.  I would sure hate to screw someone up because I suck at poker and then they would blame me forever.  I guess we will just see how it goes.

All In 

I have been playing some short handed NL the past few days.  Dropped about $150 right off the get go.  $96 of that was on KK three different times.  All the big hands I have lost so far, I got the money in when I was ahead.  That is all you can ask for, right?

I played maybe 50 hands tonight on Full Tilt and I ended up stacking a guy when my QQ held up to beat his AK.  He reraised me before the flop, I raised him on the J high flop and he called, then he pushed when a 2 came on the river.  I called and he flipped over AKo with no draws other then the A and K.  But, another Q came on the river and it was lights out for him.  I fully expected him to flip over AA-KK or a set, maybe that wasn't such a hot call on my part.