30.000 hands and counting

NickyOD

Horrible week for me overall really. I don't think I was playing badly at all, I just seemed to come out the worst of more than my fair share of marginal situations,as well as some expensive all ins like Aces cracked by T5o and 56o after preflop reraises. The two hands combined lost me $260. That said I definitely made mistakes, I made some bad calls, but I still feel my game is improving. My 10,000 hand average is still over $1,000 and that's the aim. This is why I need to put in 100,000 hands, so I can be sure that weeks like this are not the norm and that I will normally do much better.

I've decided to withdraw my money from Pokerstars and Full Tilt so that I'm not tempted to play more MTTs. I'm on a bad tournament run at the moment and they are not worth the time I'm putting in. If I have a nice week then I can move money to a site to play a large Multi but otherwise I will stick to cash games from now on.

Profit from .5/1 NL 6 max tables $286.20

Bonuses $100

Rakeback $303.17

Total $689.37

Total after 30,000 hands $3618.97

10,000 hand average through 30,000 hands $1206.32

karlh

nice work nicky.

you getting rakeback on full tilt too!?

jimbling

NickyOD wrote:

Horrible week for me overall really.

are you actually doing the 10000 in a week now are is this a metaphorical week... just asking cause would like to know how you find the change to full time poker.

NickyOD

jimbling wrote:

are you actually doing the 10000 in a week now are is this a metaphorical week... just asking cause would like to know how you find the change to full time poker.

It's a metaphorical week, but actually I think I would probably play more than 10,000 hands a week especially if I'm 4 tabling.

NickyOD

karlh wrote:

nice work nicky.

you getting rakeback on full tilt too!?

I heard they cancelled it. Do you have the details?

karlh

not at all sorry, just wondering if you are. i havent seen any details of a scheme.

it really adds up!

Spiritus

I'm on a rakeback scheme on FullTilt, if theyv cancelled it they havent informed me.

karlh

howd you sign up mister piggy?

Rodge

how does one go about joining one of these rakeback schemes?

karlh

if you're signing up to empire for the first time go through www.poker.ie

for full tilt i dont think they are offering it anymore. think they got phil ivey's bling bill.

jimbling

its def worth signing up for.... i re signed up to empire, through poker.ie, only a few days ago... and have made $35 already in rakeback... i coudn't get over the rate it goes up at..... you don't notice it when your playing.... so its like getting a bonus....

mewso

As far as Rakeback goes are you stuffed if you have been a member of these sites for a long time. I mean I have accounts with Pokerstars, UltimateBet, PartPoker, PokerChamps, Ladbrokes, VC and Paddypower. So I assume I can't get rakeback on any of these now?

Lafortezza

sign up a new account?

NickyOD

musician wrote:

As far as Rakeback goes are you stuffed if you have been a member of these sites for a long time. I mean I have accounts with Pokerstars, UltimateBet, PartPoker, PokerChamps, Ladbrokes, VC and Paddypower. So I assume I can't get rakeback on any of these now?

I had a previous account on Empire as well as accounts on the Party and Eurobet skins before taking up a rakeback deal with Empire. All I needed to do was create the account on a different computer and use a different email address. Sorted! I've also had 2 different accounts on several other sites in order to get sign up bonuses including Full Tilt and Absolute poker. I haven't treid it on Pokerstars (and don't want to risk it because they seem to be on the ball with everything) and VC/PPP also seem to be very clever as I haven't managed to remove all trace of VC from the registry.