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Online-Casinos.com - A Guide to Online Gambling 2007-05-27 00:09:00 The following is a paid review for Online-Casinos.com:There's many online gambling review and instruction sites but most of them just give the most basic of information and stock reviews and expect you to trust and use their services.Well, Online-Casinos.com is NOT one of those sites! Their reviews of real money gambling sites are comprehensive and you can tell they have played on the sites they review. I haven't read every review but when I read the site's review on William Hill's online casino, for the fact that I've been playing at WillHill since last May, even I learned something new! If you've been following my blog, you know I'm a sucker for any chance at free casino money, so I was happy to find out about WillHill's daily free 1 in 1 billion chance at $100,000 in their Break the Bank free game.The site also has free casino game training programs for blackjack, video poker and roulette.A feature I really like is the site's visualized casino game rule instructions for ...

Like Riding a Bicycle 2007-05-18 21:55:00 After two months in Toronto, I finally found a stable Wi-fi connection. There is two relatively stable free public wifi networks in town. They are wirelessnomad and wirelesstoronto. But you need to be in the areas where they provide a node.The solution I found is provided by a pub downtown called Good Tymez at Church and Dundas.After taking a prolonged break from playing any online poker, and as I got back to playing a couple of freerolls, I realized that I needed to remind myself of some key points to get back into the money. Namely:You can't win early in a tourny... so patience is key to work thru the maniacs.Mid tourny, depending on your stack, play potentially dominated hands carefully. So be careful and be ready to fold with AJ, KJ, and any small pocket pairs.Late tourny it's all about position and stack size. So DON'T get into a pissing contest with the big stack unless you have the nuts.So after playing around 10 freerolls over the past week to relearn these points, I ca ...

What Got You Here Won't Get You There 2007-04-10 09:30:00 Ok, I've copied the title of my post from this book I saw at a bookstore.It perfectly summarizes my poker status. I've realize that the person who played freerolls and built a bankroll from zero to over $6K in one year is not the person who can grow a $5K bankroll to say $30K!Changing one's mindset is not as easy as it seems. ...

Why playing freerolls in public is bad for your game 2007-04-07 11:37:00 The number of free public wifi spots in Toronto sucks compared to Vancouver; thus my lack of posts and not much poker. And the free wifi spots that are available... whether at a cafe or Toronto hydro's OneZone are undependable.Even with my connection difficulties, I have played a couple of freerolls in each city. If you just want the results, that's easy, I didn't last to the one hour break in either of them. For my excuses... read on...In Vancouver, I was at a cafe in Davie Village playing in UKB's March monthly raketherake freeroll. They've changed the prize pool again and it is now £1000.Shortly after I started, a couple of guys sat down at the table next to me and started to debate the merit of the various private members clubs they belong to. Like any good eavesdropper, I realize that their conversation about the local bear community and fine distinction between the term bears, cubs, and otters were far more interesting than my £1000 freeroll.Thus my first quick freerol ...

Still Here 2007-03-12 13:51:00 Wow. It's been a month since my last post.I've been traveling and am presently in Toronto, Canada.On the bankroll front, It's taken a month, but I've managed to get back above the 6K mark after my last blackjack tilt-off.I'm still on my reading binge as I try to get comfortable playing with a 5K+ bankroll.It was easy last year when I started with nothing and had no expectations.Now with a bankroll, the only way to continue to grow it meaningfully is to play higher stakes cash games and more buy-in MTTs.But it's taking me longer to get comfortable committing $$ into poker than losing it playing blackjack! I'll get there.Thanks for your continued comments and emails. I am still around, but it's taken longer than expected for me to move onwards in poker. ...

Darn Second 2007-02-13 10:50:00 I haven't been playing much poker... no bonus chasing ring games, not much freerolls.And when I played any freerolls, I found myself playing worst than a donkey pushing drawing hands even after I had tripled up or better early in the tourny... and when you do that, you lose chips and your tournament life quick.So today, I decided to settle back down and consciously play a freeroll tight... get rockets twice that hold up, laid down 99 and AJo out of position and avoided confrontation with the table's big stack (unless he was the table's ATM)...I found myself one of the short stacks with about 40 left... the bubble was at 18 out of 1061 entrants...And by playing the ultra tight sneak up the standings poker that is only possible in freerolls, I find myself breeze past the bubble and on the final table, dead last in chips. (for a more detailed look at what I mean by this ultra tight sneak up style around the bubble in a freeroll, check out what I did for my 5th win... it's almost exact ...

How to tilt away a #@$%-load from your bankroll playing a freeroll 2007-01-30 06:41:00 It's been three days, so I can post this now.So after spending this whole month thinking about my growing bankroll and reading alot of psycho-babble, this Saturday, all that reading and thinking got to me and... well read on.By the middle of this month, I was wondering about what happened to raketherake's monthly freeroll at ukbetting, the one where I had won my biggest payout ever last month. I had cleared the required 250MPPs in Dec to be eligible for this month's freeroll. So it was a surprise that I finally get an email from RTR on Jan 24th announcing that they were going to hold the freeroll on Jan 27th instead of the usual middle of the month.Well late is better than never, so I prepared as I did before and hoped for another good tourny. This month, there were 42 entrants... another good small field, with payout to the top 5.First big thing I noticed was that they've changed the prize pool! Instead of £2500 like last month, it was only $2500. That's nearly a 50% reduc ...

Handy Firefox Translator Add-On 2007-01-30 06:26:00 Thanks maka for both your link to this blog and your comment explaining what was being discussed in the German poker forum.Wow, I'm getting Austrian and German readers!I've now got maka's Tight Is Right blog in my reader. If anyone is using firefox, this translator add-on is perfect for a quick translations of other languages to your own. ...

Welcome German Readers 2007-01-25 21:28:00 I checked my recent webstats and find that I was mentioned in a German poker forum discussion recently and I've been getting many visits from the link.With a handy online German-English translator, I gather the jist of the discussion is around the original poster's claim that he grew his bankroll to over $3700 starting only with freeroll winnings, never making a deposit and progressing to SnGs.One thing I would add to that discussion is the growth rate of one's bankroll is solely due to the speed that one can learn how to play winning poker.I believe freerolls are the most +EV step for a beginner to learn how to play poker AND start a bankroll with no money down, if you have patience, time and is a do-it-yourselfer.Why should a beginner have to pay the 'tuition' of poker when all these sites will pay you their marketing dollar in freerolls as you learn?Only if you are a winning player in poker would starting a bankroll by playing freerolls be -EV. ...