Well it has been 10 days since I last played poker. For those of you who don't already know, I've decided to take the summer off of online poker. I still will play in the occasional home game, but I won't be going to the casino.
This is a personal choice and now that I've made it through the first week, I'm feeling good about my decision. I'm managed to get several things done for my wife, which I had been procrastinating about, so already some positives have come from this.
As for my challenges, well they are done. I did not succeed in them, but that is fine.
Understand that I am not quitting poker, I'm just taking a break. I fully plan on coming back in the fall and working harder at making money at this game. Before I come back I also plan on reading several of my poker books to hopefully put me in the right frame of mind to play a solid winning game. I'm using this as a detox period to rid myself of many of my leaks/bad habits. I will see once I come back if it has helped.
On another note, my friends at pokerBRB are just about ready to start their freeroll league, so check them out and support them if you can.
So this will be my last post for a while, but come the fall, check back to see if I'm back.
Good luck at the tables.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Monday, June 1, 2009
Why do I bother with them
Well Mansion is at it again. Pissing me off, that is.
I just received an e-mail from them, since I'm on their 'members' mailing list, and they just informed me that their bonuses will now be paid out in $10 increments for every 1000 MCP I can accumulate. That is a 54% increase in MCP just to get the same bonus. That means to get $20 more dollars in bonuses I will need to reach 2000. The old way would have given me $30, which is what I was aiming for this month. There is a caveat. It states that if I am currently in an ongoing bonus hunt, then once the time has expired for my current bonus (June 30th in my case), they will honour my old agreement, meaning if I hit 2000 MCP, I will get $20 plus they will give me a 1 time bonus of $10 to make it what I expected (1950 MCP would give me $30 in bonuses). But for anyone crazy enough to deposit money on Mansion starting June 1st, 2009, they get the 'new and improved' rate. Suckers for thinking Mansion is all about keeping their members happy.
I really don't understand Mansion, unless they are increasing the number of points you get per rake, then this increase in MCP to get a bonus will only turn people away from depositing money on their site. First they don't offer any rake back deals what so ever, and now in order to get $10 in bonus money you need to generate $50 in tournament rake and more than than in cash game rake. That is ridiculous.
All I know is that I only have 1 month to finish my bonus hunt on Mansion, and after it is done, I will gladly withdraw ALL my money and deposit it on a site that will offer me some better incentive to play there.
I wish Mansion luck with their new bonus payout option, but I really think this will hurt them more than anything. That is too bad, because I like the fairly soft games there, and their user friendly software. Oh well, time will tell if Mansion can fix this.
See you on the felt, just after this month it won't be on Mansion, again.
I just received an e-mail from them, since I'm on their 'members' mailing list, and they just informed me that their bonuses will now be paid out in $10 increments for every 1000 MCP I can accumulate. That is a 54% increase in MCP just to get the same bonus. That means to get $20 more dollars in bonuses I will need to reach 2000. The old way would have given me $30, which is what I was aiming for this month. There is a caveat. It states that if I am currently in an ongoing bonus hunt, then once the time has expired for my current bonus (June 30th in my case), they will honour my old agreement, meaning if I hit 2000 MCP, I will get $20 plus they will give me a 1 time bonus of $10 to make it what I expected (1950 MCP would give me $30 in bonuses). But for anyone crazy enough to deposit money on Mansion starting June 1st, 2009, they get the 'new and improved' rate. Suckers for thinking Mansion is all about keeping their members happy.
I really don't understand Mansion, unless they are increasing the number of points you get per rake, then this increase in MCP to get a bonus will only turn people away from depositing money on their site. First they don't offer any rake back deals what so ever, and now in order to get $10 in bonus money you need to generate $50 in tournament rake and more than than in cash game rake. That is ridiculous.
All I know is that I only have 1 month to finish my bonus hunt on Mansion, and after it is done, I will gladly withdraw ALL my money and deposit it on a site that will offer me some better incentive to play there.
I wish Mansion luck with their new bonus payout option, but I really think this will hurt them more than anything. That is too bad, because I like the fairly soft games there, and their user friendly software. Oh well, time will tell if Mansion can fix this.
See you on the felt, just after this month it won't be on Mansion, again.
June Goals
It's that time again, so here are my goals for June.
NY Giants Game Challenge and getting my combined BR as close to $500 as possible. Also, to reach 2000 Mansion Club Points so that I can receive 3 more $10 bonuses. That is it.
See you on the felt.
NY Giants Game Challenge and getting my combined BR as close to $500 as possible. Also, to reach 2000 Mansion Club Points so that I can receive 3 more $10 bonuses. That is it.
See you on the felt.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
May Goals Review
Now that May has come to a close, it is time to see how my play stacked up to my goals. If you missed my goals for the month, you can check them out here.
As you can see from my original post, I didn't set too many goals. 1 for that matter. And how did I do in reaching that 1 goal you ask? Well, on Mansion I managed to bring my BR up to 180.79, while I didn't play on Stars during the month. Even though my Mansion BR is not at the $360 I was shooting for, my combined BR (Stars and Mansion) is close to there.
On a side note, I did manage to get my 1st installment of my bonus money from Mansion. Hopefully I will be able to get a few more installments before the deadline (June 30th).
Overall, I would say that I came pretty close to reaching my goal for the month (combined BR), and I am somewhat happy with my progress.
See you on the felt.
As you can see from my original post, I didn't set too many goals. 1 for that matter. And how did I do in reaching that 1 goal you ask? Well, on Mansion I managed to bring my BR up to 180.79, while I didn't play on Stars during the month. Even though my Mansion BR is not at the $360 I was shooting for, my combined BR (Stars and Mansion) is close to there.
On a side note, I did manage to get my 1st installment of my bonus money from Mansion. Hopefully I will be able to get a few more installments before the deadline (June 30th).
Overall, I would say that I came pretty close to reaching my goal for the month (combined BR), and I am somewhat happy with my progress.
See you on the felt.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Quick Challenge Update
It's been 20 days now that I have been playing on Mansion trying to get some bonus money and after a rough start (lost +$35 the 1st week), I've managed to move up my BR to over $170. The interesting thing is that over those 20 days, I didn't play in 12 of them.
The last couple of sessions I have been 2 tabling Mansion's $5+1 Jackpot SNG, and to my surprise, I've cashed in 75% of them. That has definitely helped. As for my bonus, I'm over 50% of the way to my 1st installment, which at this rate, should take me right to the end to reach. LOL. I'm still confident that I will reach $30 in bonus money, especially now that all the TV shows are done for the summer, giving me a little more time in the evening to play once the kids go to bed.
With my BR moving up, I've decided that once it gets over $200, I will move up to the $10+1 games. I know I set some rules, but time is starting to become a little shorter, so a little push into a level of games I'm comfortable at/with (played many hours at the $10 level on Mansion before moving over to Stars) shouldn't be a problem.
See you on the felt.
The last couple of sessions I have been 2 tabling Mansion's $5+1 Jackpot SNG, and to my surprise, I've cashed in 75% of them. That has definitely helped. As for my bonus, I'm over 50% of the way to my 1st installment, which at this rate, should take me right to the end to reach. LOL. I'm still confident that I will reach $30 in bonus money, especially now that all the TV shows are done for the summer, giving me a little more time in the evening to play once the kids go to bed.
With my BR moving up, I've decided that once it gets over $200, I will move up to the $10+1 games. I know I set some rules, but time is starting to become a little shorter, so a little push into a level of games I'm comfortable at/with (played many hours at the $10 level on Mansion before moving over to Stars) shouldn't be a problem.
See you on the felt.
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