[ashmc2]

Is the rut still here?

I don’t know but I’ve had my best week ever.

I usually average $60 a week at friends’ cash game. This week I scored $412. My friend Pat would go up $50 - $75 with his aggressive style, while I played tight. Then I would check the flop with a monster and he would bluff all in, trying to win $5 - $10 pot. I pulled this same move 3 times that night. I don’t know if they will call me back after this? lol

I played 8 SNG’s – 1st 3 times 3rd once and rest losses. I didn’t fair as well as I thought I should. So I thought of a new strategy to make money. I decided to make a bonus trip.

I took my $180 bankroll and went to Paradise Poker to claim the 25% first time bonus up to $50. I played at the .1/.25 NL table so they could get their .25c rake and I would accumulate points towards bonus. I played 3 tables at a time and in 1 day I received $40 free bucks to go along with the $35 that I made playing super tight while just watching the points add up. I noticed that there are a lot of very loose tables at PP. Up to 70% in for the flop, even with pf raises. Possibly very lucrative for a tight/semi-aggressive player like myself.

I know this is just chump change to most of you, but it is good at this stage in my poker vocation. (Infancy stage) lol Earning almost 1/3rd of my bankroll in a week is an accomplishment on any scale.

Yet to guess if I’m to be a consistent winner – it’s still too early to tell. But as long as I remain open minded and a student of poker I should grow into a consistent winner over time.

I’m about to move site’s to gather another free sign-up bonus. I’ll keep you posted on how this bonus strategy works for me.

PS. I’m learning a lot by reading your contrasting opinions in this forum.

Good luck to all and my your bankrolls bulge.