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JoeDeertay United States. Oct 24 2008 14:05. Posts 1730

It's been a looooooooooooooooong time since my last update because I haven't really been playing all that much this semester because of school, but I figure now is a perfect time to get back up to speed. I think the last time I made a blogpost was last semester. Since then I've been doing some big things.

At the start of the summer time I decided that I was going to move from stars to FTP to get the deposit bonus and rakeback after paying Ja Hunta's stake money back. So after I paid him I got my roll to $600 playing NL10 on stars and cashed it out to deposit on FTP for the bonus and to get some RB. I played on NL25 and NL50 and started a small shot at NL100 when I hit $3k, got my roll to about $2500 before getting kicked off of FTP because I apparently had an old account that I deposited like $20 on 2 years ago that I forgot about. FTP moved my money to the old account and closed the RB account, so I decided to just cash it out and go somewhere else.

Then I had the bright idea of bonus whoring for the last month of the summer and did some research. I decided to split my roll on UB and PlayersOnly and grind out their bonuses+rakeback and try to clear the bonuses within a month, so by the time I got back to school I would have a big roll that I could move back to stars, play like NL200 and try getting Supernova before the end of the year.

PlayersOnly went great and I got my $500 deposit up to about $1550 before cashing it out (and I forgot to get rakeback there too so I didn't get anything from that). However, I first tried cashing out like 6 weeks ago, and I had to cancel it once because they were backlogged and wanted to give me a free $230 bonus (15%) which I decided to just take and try withdrawing again. I still don't have the check, but it says that it takes them 3-5 weeks to process it so I'm not calling BS just yet. Overall, despite them taking forever to process my cashout request I really liked the site and esp the software and would definitely play there again if I didn't need the liquidity.

As for UB....I completely and utterly hate that website and their software with a passion. I deposited $1k on there, got it up to like $1400, then went on an epic lifetilt downswing to like $130 total on the site. There was a point at which I literally could not win a hand and I was playing terribly as a result of the tilting that occurred. Needless to say, things were not going according to plan, and as of about a month ago I was close to busto (or at least had no access to any kind of real BR to play with considering how my Players money was locked up) because by this time I also used the rest of my liquid roll to pay for rent and other things that I needed money for irl. What I ended up doing was just moving my UB roll to stars and grinding NL5 lol.

I was literally busto after I had to once again withdraw all of my stars roll to make more irl payments. The only stimulus I got was a $5k RTR freeroll on UB last month in which I won $90 for getting 6th or something. I moved that to stars and got it up to like the $125 I have there now by playing just a few random sessions and playing the 200k every sunday for kicks.

And then this week happened. I somehow was able to play in the RTR freeroll again on UB last sunday, and I ended up taking 2nd for $960. The next day I played a few tourneys, one of them being a $27.50 7.5k guarantee that I got 4th in for $600. Then last night I played a $44 deepstack 3k guarantee (500BB starting OMGGGGGGGG loved it =] ) and took 2nd in that for another $600. Less a -$150 session at NL50 and 2 other tourneys I busted, my BR went from $0 on UB on saturday to $1933 and change as of midnight last night XD. Also, PlayersOnly emailed me and said that my withdrawal was processed and that I can expect a check for $1780 and change within 10 business days. So basically my roll is going to go from $0 to about $3800 in like 2 weeks lol.

I'm planning on moving back to FTP to play NL50 on a deeeeep roll while also maybe taking some shots at NL100 again on like $3k of that roll, since FTP decided to give me their own kind of rakeback deal that everyone got in the emails. I'm going to cashout like $800 to pay for rent and some other things that I need this month and the rest is going to go to grinding FTP + rakeback. Since I have a real job in Food Services at school I don't really NEED to make money by playing, so I might just spend the month datamining FTP games for my expected playtimes and trying to keep pwning UB MTTs and such in the meantime trying to get a big score (I still have $790 of pending bonus money there, too). Either way it feels reall nice to have a BR again and I can't to get back to full-time grinding!

GL all,
-Joe

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Artanis[Xp] Netherlands. Oct 24 2008 14:11. Posts 4697

read the whole wall of text. GL at FTP!

terrybunny19240 United States. Oct 24 2008 15:32. Posts 13829

lol sick