Festus22
12-12-2005, 06:31 PM
I was thinking about my poker “career” the other day and out of curiosity, I dumped all my Neteller transactions into a spreadsheet and sorted by site. Below are the results (net winnings):
15,671 (Party and skins except EuroBet)
2,667 (Casino-On-Net – Banned /images/graemlins/frown.gif)
2,467 (Paradise Poker)
1,766 (EuroBet)
1,153 (PokerStars – 1,140 of this is from bonuses. A net +$13 from playing. /images/graemlins/tongue.gif)
688 (Starluck, Planetluck, Ace Club)
375 (Intercasino)
368 (Reef Club)
356 (Casino.Net)
214 (Bet365)
210 (Pacific Poker)
115 (Will Hill)
42 (Ultimate Bet – No wonder I hate that place. Around $2K in unclaimed bonuses that will rot.)
<u>642 </u> (Various small casinos. Names withheld lest they be whored to death.)
$26,734
Amazingly no losers in the group. I never played Absolute, Gaming Club, Crypto’s, etc. so I missed out on a lot of bonus money. I was pretty late in doing casinos and never did a sticky casino bonus. My record keeping was pretty crappy in the early days but I’d estimate around $11K of the total was bonuses. Also, 99% of poker play was $2/4 and under. Interesting what mediocre poker, bonuses and A LOT of time added up to.
On another note, it’s hard to get this game out of my mind. I’ve been away for a number of weeks and found myself thinking more and more about “what if?”. Could I have beaten bigger games? Why didn’t I go for it? I never gave anything above $2/4 a serious effort. So I think I’m going to give it one last shot. A personal OIC starting with $100 at 0.5/1, moving up at +50 BB’s per level and dropping down after losing 25 BB’s. What the hell – if I bust or get discouraged, at least I know I gave it my best shot. I’ll also limit myself to 2 tables to focus on reads and non auto-pilot play. This will probably be tough after doing 4 – 6 for so long but it will be necessary to play my best at new levels (hopefully). Since I still feel strongly about not committing too much time to poker, I’m looking at 5 or 6 hours per week so this might take a while. That doesn’t really matter though.
I also get the feeling that this will be difficult since the games have become tougher. I’m amazed by the posts now in the Small Stakes forum and up. Lots more headsup play, blind defense, steals and resteals, etc. Sure wasn’t like that a year ago but the times are a changin’.
I’m starting after the New Year. I’ll post updates if anything eventful happens.
Anyone have any words of wisdom on this?
15,671 (Party and skins except EuroBet)
2,667 (Casino-On-Net – Banned /images/graemlins/frown.gif)
2,467 (Paradise Poker)
1,766 (EuroBet)
1,153 (PokerStars – 1,140 of this is from bonuses. A net +$13 from playing. /images/graemlins/tongue.gif)
688 (Starluck, Planetluck, Ace Club)
375 (Intercasino)
368 (Reef Club)
356 (Casino.Net)
214 (Bet365)
210 (Pacific Poker)
115 (Will Hill)
42 (Ultimate Bet – No wonder I hate that place. Around $2K in unclaimed bonuses that will rot.)
<u>642 </u> (Various small casinos. Names withheld lest they be whored to death.)
$26,734
Amazingly no losers in the group. I never played Absolute, Gaming Club, Crypto’s, etc. so I missed out on a lot of bonus money. I was pretty late in doing casinos and never did a sticky casino bonus. My record keeping was pretty crappy in the early days but I’d estimate around $11K of the total was bonuses. Also, 99% of poker play was $2/4 and under. Interesting what mediocre poker, bonuses and A LOT of time added up to.
On another note, it’s hard to get this game out of my mind. I’ve been away for a number of weeks and found myself thinking more and more about “what if?”. Could I have beaten bigger games? Why didn’t I go for it? I never gave anything above $2/4 a serious effort. So I think I’m going to give it one last shot. A personal OIC starting with $100 at 0.5/1, moving up at +50 BB’s per level and dropping down after losing 25 BB’s. What the hell – if I bust or get discouraged, at least I know I gave it my best shot. I’ll also limit myself to 2 tables to focus on reads and non auto-pilot play. This will probably be tough after doing 4 – 6 for so long but it will be necessary to play my best at new levels (hopefully). Since I still feel strongly about not committing too much time to poker, I’m looking at 5 or 6 hours per week so this might take a while. That doesn’t really matter though.
I also get the feeling that this will be difficult since the games have become tougher. I’m amazed by the posts now in the Small Stakes forum and up. Lots more headsup play, blind defense, steals and resteals, etc. Sure wasn’t like that a year ago but the times are a changin’.
I’m starting after the New Year. I’ll post updates if anything eventful happens.
Anyone have any words of wisdom on this?