Another basically shitty day at the SH tables. One big loss wipes out lots of little wins. For some reason I can't seem to avoid that 1 big daily loss anymore.

Noble Poker 2/4 Limit 6max, 44 hands, 31 minutes, -$29.50
Paradise Poker 1/2 Limit 5max, 224 hands, 2 hours 11 minutes, $3.50
Paradise poker 3/6 Limit 5max, 152 hands, 1 hour 18 minutes, -$150.00
Paradise Poker 3/6 Limit 5max, 134 hands, 1 hour 12 minutes, $24.50
Paradise Poker 1/2 Limit 5max, 243 hands, 2 hours 23 minutes, $4.00

RB: 0
Various: $40.00

Bonus Progress:
99 more crowns earned at Noble Poker. 414 total so far.
$40.00 cleared at Paradise.
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Total: -$107.50
Time: 7h 35m

Oh HELL YEAH! Finally posted a full set of sessions without that one big loss that wipes all the others out. Did lose $4 at Paradise during lunch but after work it was all good with the exception of a couple of hands that I posted in the Limit forum. & . But even with those I still came out on top for that session AND cleared the last hour of the Will Hill bonus this month. Unfortunately, this is probably the last month for the Crypto hourly bonuses. Next month they will probably all be using the stupid raked hand point system.

After that Will Hill session, I decided for the hell of it I would play a little NL20 at Noble since I haven't done much of that lately. Played the real low stakes as I have probably gotten really rusty in my NL game these last 5 months. Anyhow, played 2 sessions of it, more than doubled my full buyin in the first session and won some at a very tight table in the second. Also cleared a few crowns for the Noble bonus too. I'd forgotten how much I like NL. I still don't like the feeling of being able to lose an entire stack because of one mistake though. Limit has NL beat in that respect hands down for me. But I think I will start playing NL a bit more now unless I really start losing a bunch at it.

Paradise Poker 1/2 Limit 5max, 40 hands, 24 minutes, -$4.00
William Hill Poker 1/2 Limit 6max, 94 hands, 1 hour 1 minute, $28.25
Noble Poker NL20 6max, 20 hands, 8 minutes, $28.78
Noble Poker NL20 6max, 42 hands, 36 minutes, $8.20

RB: 0
Various: $8.73

Bonus Progress:
Cleared 5th hour of Will Hill Monthly bonus, $8.73
Earned 23 more crowns at Noble Poker. 437 total now. 500 needed to release $10 in bonus.
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Total: $69.96
Time: 2h 9m

Just 3 short sessions tonight. I was too busy going out to dinner and watching "24" dvd's.

I got an email from my rakeback affilliate for Rakeback Poker telling me if I played 500 hands in the month of february they would increase my rakeback % to 40% for life. I hadn't ever made a deposit at a Prima site before so I deposited $200 and played some 1/2 Limit 6max and NL50 6max. Not sure what I think of that site yet but I made money so I guess I like it well enough so far.

Played a bit more NL50 6max at noble Poker as well to knock out some more crowns towards my bonus. Did ok.

Noble Poker NL50 6max, 58 hands, 37 minutes, $15.95
Rakeback Poker 1/2 Limit 6max, 36 hands, 22 minutes, $0.01 WOOHOO!!!!
Rakeback Poker NL50 6max, 49 hands, 45 minutes, $13.45

RB: 0
Various: 0

Bonus Progress:
Earned 36 more crowns at Noble Poker. Brings total to 473. This bonus seems a bit lame so far.
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Total: $29.41
Time: 1h 44m

Just read about the hernia,

I gots one too... Had it for a couple months - makes my sack look bigger...I'll get it looked at once it becomes a problem. When I first saw / felt it I thought it was testicular cancer, but my buddy had one....and he said if you lay on your back it goes away...so I lay on my back and it went away.

Let me know how surgery goes

Just had 1 session today. But it was exciting. I won my biggest ever pot. Click this link if you want to see how it happened, forum/viewtopic.php?t=11122 , won $131 before the rake which was $3. Unfortunately there was a major bad beat earlier that had me down enough that I didn't clear a whole lot from that session although ~$30 per hour is nothing to sneeze at as far as I am concerned.
Anyhow, I can now tell you that ukbetting doesn't pay their monthly bonus by the hour anymore as I played for 67 minutes and did not receive anything. But at least I made $31 for my time spent trying.

ukbetting NL100 6max, 98 hands, 1 hour 7 minutes, $31.00

Bonus Progress:

Cleared 25.75 raked hands towards the monthly bonus. Not sure how many are needed to finish though.
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Total: $31.00
Time: 1h 7m

This NL100 6max game at the cryptos is really starting to grow on me.

Started the day out by playing a freeroll $250 NL MTT at bodog today to see if they have improved their new crappy software at all yet. ABSOLUTELY HAS NOT HAPPENED YET!!!! EVERYTIME I got switched to a new table the entire bodog client would totally shutdown and I would have to restart it. Very annoying. I do appreciate how they have given the user the ability to change the color of the table finally though. That is the only improvement that I can see to the new software though.
Anyway, was doing pretty good and had survived from a starting # of players of around 850 and had gotten down into the money (barely) with 52 players left. I had a midsized stack and got all in preflop with pocket T's with a guy who had AK of diamonds. He managed to catch a flush and I was done. Pocketed a whole $0.62 for my 2.5 hours. Yay.

After that I decided to go back to ukbetting where I had one well last night and see about clearing more of the monthly bonus playing NL100 6max. As much as I like to play Limit 6max, I am loving NL100 6max even more because of the much fewer suckouts! And it's easier to fold a hand as well when someone can bet bigger against you so you don't have odds to chase something you probably shouldn't be chasing anyway. I'm still going to play Limit 6max of course but at the moment I am a bit infatuated with the NL 6max game.
Don't know whether I played this hand all that great or not but the size of the pot I won made it one of the highlights of my day.

Table "Purple" Seat 2 is the button.
Seat 1: Fatchoi1 ($64.50 in chips)
Seat 2: Seb ($111 in chips)
Seat 3: Cowley004 ($56.86 in chips)
Seat 4: kegTAP ($47.87 in chips)
Seat 6: Cru54d3r ($53.16 in chips)
Cowley004: posts small blind $0.50
kegTAP: posts big blind $1
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to Seb
Cru54d3r: folds
Cru54d3r sits out
Fatchoi1: calls $1
Seb: raises to $3
Cowley004: folds
kegTAP: folds
Fatchoi1: calls $2
----- FLOP -----
Fatchoi1: checks
Seb: bets $5
Fatchoi1: raises to $10
Seb: calls $5
----- TURN -----
Fatchoi1: bets $17
Seb: raises to $34
Fatchoi1: calls $17
----- RIVER -----
Fatchoi1: checks
Seb: bets $30
Fatchoi1: is all-in $17.50
Returned uncalled bets $12.50 to Seblime
----- SHOW DOWN -----
Seb: shows (Two Pairs, Kings and Nines, Ten high)
Fatchoi1: shows (Two Pairs, Tens and Nines, Jack high)
Seb collects $127.50 from Main pot
----- SUMMARY -----
Total pot $130.50 Main pot $127.50 Rake $3

Stats for the day:
Bodog Poker, $250 Freeroll NL MTT, 135 hands, 2 hours 30 minutes, $0.62
UKbetting, NL100 6max, 98 hands, 1 hour 4 minutes, $47.04
UKbetting, NL100 6max, 103 hands, 58 minutes, $101.00
UKbetting, NL100 6max, 57 hands, 31 minutes, $22.25

RB: 0
Various: 0

Bonus Progress:

33 more mpp's (crypto raked hand points) cleared towards the monthly £25 bonus. 115.5 to go.
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Total: $170.91
Time: 2h 33m

Well SOB!!!!! No luv for me at the tables today as Piers would say.
Played a lot but got practically no cards to speak of. Final hand of the day cost me over $80 when my TT lost to 77 who caught a 7. Just cold decked like I was living in the arctic all day long! The asshole who ended my night was one of those creeps who plays 71% of the hands yet walks away with $351.40 in only 95 hands! I hate those bastards when it isnt me! But then it NEVER IS me because I don't ever play 71% of my Phucking hands! I just don't get how those guys can do that and still win so much. It very much seems like they know what I have in the hole like those ads for that software that purports to let you do just that! I know that stuff is BS but sometimes it really seems like thats what they are doing. They never get involved with you when you can squash them but they are ALWAYS in there to the end when all they have is 64o and you have AK and the flop comes down A66 and you raised big preflop! Just gets aggravating. The sessions I did win money in were very draining as I really had to fight hard to win anything. Only good thing about the day really was that I cleared most of the rest of the UKbetting monthly £25 bonus. Would have finished it but the players started leaving and the only ones left were the good regulars who were almost impossible to take any money from.

Anyhow, here's the days stats.

UKbetting NL100 6max, 89 hands, 1 hour 8 minutes, -$80.00
UKbetting NL100 6max, 118 hands, 1 hour 14 minutes, $2.50
UKbetting NL100 6max, 39 hands, 20 minutes, $15.00
UKbetting NL100 6max, 73 hands, 51 minutes, $41.25
Rakeback Poker NL100 6max, 94 hands, 1 hour 25 minutes, -$100.00

RB: 0
Various: 0
Bonus Progress:

cleared 91.75 more mpp's (raked hand points) at UKbetting. 176.25 total now, should finish this up tomorrow.
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Total: -$121.25
Time: 4h 58m

Now to just to make sure it keeps going that way!

Signed up at a new site today. Doyles Room Poker. I deposited $400 through NETeller the full $135 bonus but I can't seem to find where it says I even got a bonus. Gonna need to find out about that for sure soon. I am signed up to get rakeback though so even if the bonus doesn't work out at least I'll be getting something for my trouble besides winnings. Play for just over an hour and made ~$22. Couple of tough beats or it would have been a really nice session there. Oh well.
Did manage to finally clear the UKbetting monthly bonus tonight. You can read about it here, . Best crypto bonus I've ever cleared when all was said and done.
Also had a little Paradise session to start the day off which netted me about ~$27 as well.
All in all a pretty nice day.
Got preregistered at the hospital for my umbilical hernia surgery on Thursday. That should be good for a lot of poker hours as I won't be able to do much else but sit around anyway. Wish me luck! I did buy my own copy of "The Theory of Poker" today. Seriously! So I guess I could read that again while I'm laid up.

Today's Stats:

Paradise poker NL50 5max, 46 hands, 26 minutes, $27.50
UKbetting NL100 6max, 18 hands, 15 minutes, $21.00 Got called away for dindin.
UKbetting NL100 6max, 63 hands, 39 minutes, $54.32
Doyles Room NL100 6max, 73 hands, 68 minutes, $22.41

RB: 0
Various: $43.53

Bonus Progress:

Finished off the UKbetting monthly £25 for 200mpp bonus
Cleared a few points towards another $10 release at Paradise
Started (I think at least) on a $135 bonus at Doyles Room.
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Total: $168.76
Time: 2h 28m

Not much I can say good about tonight. Got beat every which way but loose. Didn't matter if I had the nuts on the turn, by the time showdown came, I would have the 2nd best hand. Over, and Over, and Over...... Fuck this game.

Maybe I just need some sleep.

One of these days I am going to beat some of these bastards who are killing me with 70% VP$IP stats!

Doyles Room NL100 6max, 49 hands, 33 minutes, $32.00
Doyles Room NL100 6max, 39 hands, 23 minutes, -$42.75
Doyles Room NL100 6max, 46 hands, 43 minutes, $73.37
Doyles Room NL100 6max, 60 hands, 40 minutes, -$80.00
Paradise poker NL100 5max, 90 hands, 52 minutes, -$80.00
Paradise poker NL100 5max, 18 hands, 12 minutes, -100.00

RB: 0
Various: $10.00

Bonus Progress:
Cleared $10 at Paradise
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Total: -$187.38
Time: 3h 23m