a couple of monthly updates
February: wasn’t bad. Turned $400 into almost $800, with 23 good days and 5 bad days. I started a new account at UltimateBet for rakeback (my first rakeback account). Their bonuses have been good.
March: Took it almost to $1000, but that’s only a gain of $200, which is kind of slow growth. UltimateBet’s bonuses are insane: they’ve been offering crazy reloads non-stop.
I realized at the beginning of March that I had two weeks to burn off my FTP initial deposit bonus. They pay off you bonus in 10% chunks, but at a very slow rate, and I think most players give up before their four months is up. I burned it off playing .05/.10 NL, mostly because I have a better winrate there than .10/.25 NL, and because they rake double at the .05/.10 level. (Nasty.) I actually lost $80 to recoup my last $20. That happens.
Leaving FTP for UB, I was still thinking about maxmizing the rake to get the bonuses burned off. At the same time, I was getting a little burned out on .05/.10 NL after four-tabling it for a week straight. So I took up limit. UB has kill games, which seem to me to be one more way to play poker bingo, but I don’t know enough about that game to really say. Maybe it’s a nuanced and subtle way to play poker bingo.
I reread Small Stakes Hold’em, and seriously used the starting hand chart in the middle. My first couple of hours were unreal: with three tables open, it seems like there’s very little variance, and my win rate seems pretty generous. I’ll have more to say at the end of April, but at the end of March, it was my new favorite.
Getting better at limit meant I could play more solidly at Canterbury, and I did, picking up $60 in about 90 minutes out there on a Friday afternoon. That’s another story, but I think live $2/$4 might be enough to live on professionally if I ever had to do it.
I am getting real bad about updating here, so I have a new system (yay!) and I’ll try to keep in touch better. Thanks for reading, whoever you are.