Back To Poker

I have not made a post for a while, and the reason for this is that I haven't played any poker, live or online for a good month. My girlfriend and I have just bought a house (sick brag :) So grinding the micros hasn't really been a priority.

I haven't been completely out of the gambling game though, I've spent a bit of time last month bagging all the sign up bonuses on sport books. Its been quite an interesting project and I have made approximately $500 completely risk free by bonus whoring a few different sites.

For those who don't know how to do this, its quite simple. Most sports books in the UK offer some sort of sign up promotion. For the most part these are in the form of a free bet. So for example, Ladbrokes offer a free matched bet up to £100.

The method that I used is by no means the most +EV way to exploit the free bets, however I just guaranteed myself the maximum amount of profit possible. So in order to do this you need to create an account and make your first bet of £100.

You want to find a bet that's close to a coin flip, so lets say you bet on a tennis match with your £100 first bet. You then need to go onto another betting site or betting exchange such as Betfair and bet on the other side of the game. Now you have both outcomes covered, It doesn't matter who wins the match, you will lose roughly about 10% to 20% of your £100 due to the bookies edge.

So whatever the out come of the match you will only lose a small amount but you are now credited with your free matched bet of £100. Simply repeat the process again with your free bet and you will end up with anywhere between 60 to 80% of the free bet as profit, which in this case would be £80. I did this on about 6 or 7 of the big sites, its important to make sure there's no wagering requirements in the terms and conditions and to spend some time trying to find the good bets where the bookies don't have to big an edge. The next month will be a great time to start doing this as the bookies will offer some great sign up deals with the world cup going on.

As for poker, I'm just getting back into the swing of this back at 10nl Zoom. I've had 3 solid days of grinding and it's been fairly smooth sailing so far.
 

Simply just getting the volume in and playing the hands is always the hard part for me. Should have a decent month of grinding 10nl before I have to move into the new pad! So that's it really, should be more frequent updates now anyway. GLGLGLGLGL

Irony/ March Review

So my last post I showed off my office set up and my new pc. Ironically a few days after that post my PC started having problems where it would freeze and then blue screen. Not ideal for grinding online poker, despite only being a very simple problem to fix it took 2 weeks to get sorted so with lots of free grinding hours in March, it was a volume write off after an already slow start to the month :(

I managed to play a few live £1/1 sessions where I came out a small loser. I spend a bit of time on my old crappy computer researching 6 max hyper turbs and experimented 4 tabling the $3.5's. Seems to be reasonable money to be made in these at least if your playing $7's and above. Not sure if a positive ROI is achievable in the 3.5s with the rake being higher, maybe 1/2% if your good which I would be happy with as you can play so many. I played 200 of these and won about $5 LOL. At the very least they are lots of fun to play and a nice break from the sometimes tedious zoom grind. 

Also played about 100 micro MTT's over the month, a few cashes but nothing major netting me another small loss. Thankfully the one live MTT I played I binked a chop which pretty much saved the month from being a loss. 

   

Online Cash losses: -$129

Online Tournament/ SNG losses: -$75

Live Cash Loses: -(£50) -$83  

Live Tournament Winnings: +(£400) +$664

FPP Value +$10

March Total: +$387

So a pretty terrible month that was only in the green thanks to a Live ROFALMENT bink! Oh well. Lets see what April will bring :) GL everyone!