Getting Screwed by the Man

Boy, Ben Roth’s appendix sure picked the right time to burst didn’t it? You almost wonder if Mansion dumped boatloads of money onto the Pittsburgh Steelers to have their guy sit out the opener. Maybe they setup that motorcycle accident too, you can never be to careful when money’s involved after all.

What a train wreck.

The games are played for a reason, right? If not, they’d give Brazil the WC every four years and my Ottawa Senators would have, at the very least, three Stanley cup banners hanging from the rafters. Que sera sera, I’m not hedging the bet (fairly impossible anyways since I locked it at -4.5 for the Steelers - good luck finding that line somewhere) . I’ll let the chips fall wherever they may and I’ll pick up the pieces afterwards.

This weekend was pretty relaxed as far as gambooling is concerned. I wasn’t around much so I squeezed all that I could to some pretty decent results.

First up was completing the Party Poker reload bonus to the tune of a 200$+ profit. Quite nice, but the rake, Jesus Christ, that rake...

How bad? I somehow payed MORE money in rake than what I actually deposited in my account when it was all said and done. Unless there’s a reload of some kind over there, it’s pretty much a no go for the low limit grinders. That rake will suck your bones dry. It seems I’ll only be back to grind the full ring 10/20$ games and up. I figure you should be safe from that nonsense up there.

I also finally started grinding the casino bonuses and so far it seems to be going good. I’m down 11$ a little less than halfway through the whole thing. I was up to 50$ at one point but variance caught up in a nasty way and I kept running into blackjacks, 21's or 10's for the dealer for a long while to knock me down to where I am right now. It’s nothing major really, 1$ a hand and follow the chart. It’s pretty mindless fun. I figure a regular Casino bonus can be completed in two days. I’ll set my target a 5 for this month and we’ll see how that goes.

So on tap for tonight should be more Blackjack and maybe an appearance at the WWDN. We’ll see!