The Poker Bonus Chaser's Journal

I have been playing quite a lot at some small obscure sites recently.  Tropical Poker, Wingows Poker , Jungle Poker, etc...  Also at Absolute Poker.  I have been finding some tables there that are looser than normal.  Playing mostly micro-limit NL at the smaller sites.  That's all they have available for the most part.  I can get a .25/.50 NL game from time to itme, but usually its smaller stakes than that.  Anything goes at Absolute.  They have enough traffic and I can play comforatbly up to $5/10 limit.

I have been tearing it up.  I have been single tabling.  I really think my poker play has been excellent, and my cards have been running above average also.  I have been very satisfied for a while.  And I have been up about $400 as a result.

I did get stacked for $120 at an Absolute $1/2 NL table last weekend, though.  I was playing after a night out with my neighbor Bubba (which involved several bottles of wine, of course.)  Probably not my best choice, going to a $200 NL table with a snoot full, but it looked like the loosest table going at Absolute, so I took it.

There was one player who was being very aggressive.  He was making big raises quite often, and stealing lots of small pots.  I was waiting for my opportunity to get him.  He limped into a hand from EP, and this sent some warning signals off - he never limps.  With several callers I limped from MP3 with 43s.  5 of us saw the flop.  334.  He bet out $1 and I smooth called.  3 of us saw the turn A.  He bet the pot and I raised.  He called.  River was a blank and he bet.  I raised and he re-raised me all in.  I called and he showed pocket AA.  He had turned a bigger boat and got me!

I am not unhappy that I slow-played this and got outdrawn.  I think a flopped boat is a decent slow-playing hand.  Even a mini-boat like mine.  It was a bummer to get stacked, of course, but doo doo happens.  Had this happened when I was in a slump, I might have a different opinion, but I had been running well, so it bugs me less.  Strange thing that, eh?

Posted by Bullajami at 03:34 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Last night I was checking the traffic at Wingows Poker again, and I noted that I had 30 cents left in my account.  I also noted that there was a .25 + .02 10-seat SNG with 9 players in it, waiting on a tenth.  I jumped in...and won.  Now I had $1.28.

I took that stack to the .02/.04 FRNLH table and went to work.  It was everything you'd expect:  6 - 8 players seeing the flop every hand.  The kind of table where you can play 32s profitably...which I did, much to the dismay of the man who played his hand awfully and never raised me out of the pot.

An hour later I logged off with $6.78.  So, what dow you thgink?  Should I make this a quest?  30 cents to $300 or something?  It's amusing to contemplate, but the bonus clears very slowly at Wingows.  I have $100 pending, but I am not sure its worth it.  Could be fun, though.

Posted by Bullajami at 07:42 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)