PartyPoker $1k Bonus Day 1

So as I mentioned before, I have 15 days in which to play 21,000 hands at Party.

Because I have played 2,000 hands so far all month I figured that drastic measures were needed to attempt to even get close to this target. I moved my PC to Slats house. With some early teething problems aside (took all afternoon to connect the internet) everything got up and running ok.

I started off playing really. And won 5 buy ins in a very short period of time. I was on top of the world, playing lots of poker and winning too (I'd be more than happy to breakeven whilst unlocking my bonus at Party) However, I had a last longer bet with Slats to see who can play for the longest. The stipulations were that there needed to be a minimum of 4 tables at a time and we had 5 minute allowance per hour for toilet breaks. It just recently ended, with Slats not being able to hack it for anylonger.

During this last longer bet I started to go on autopilot and play kinda spewy, I wasn;'t double barrelling enough and I had my paranoid hat on thinking that everybody who bet on the river obviously had a busted flush draw....

I soon lost back all the money I'd won earlier and finished about $10 down (not a bad result overall) I didn't really lose that many stacks, I was just spewing and more importantly, not winning big pots myself!

Overall, really happy with my day though. I played ~3,500 hands, which PartyPoker says is 19% of my bonus completed in the first day! It was a total of 7.5 hours though... Basically a working day...


Bonus Complete - 19%
Party BRoll - $1070.69

You may wonder why my roll is $70 up when I said I finished $10 down. Well I had a quick spin on roulette and had a few chips on 29 which promptly came in.

<3 Party

A not so perfect start

Well, to say I started badly would be an understatement. I didn't play well after writing my recent blog. I basically lost about $1k @ 100nl. Putting me right back to 1,900 and firmly back @50nl.

However, I had a session with Luke which I thought went quite well. And I read Gus Hansen's book, which I really enjoyed and since then I have ran quite well. I have played maybe 4k hands in the past week (nowhere near enough btw) and ran at ~7.5ptbb/100 it has boosted my roll to $2,600. I have a $400 bonus to unlock at Lucky Ace.

I also got an email through today from Party Poker saying that I have a 100% reload bonus up to $1,000. Now that's pretty huge for me, but @ 50nl requires me to play a LOT of hands. I'm looking at 21,000 in 15 days. I need 14,000 if I play 100nl, but I can only deposit $1k and I don't really want to lose that grand and have no chance of unlocking the bonus.

I would be really really happy if I broke even during those 21k hands. I'd win $1k and perhaps a few hundred dollars in RB. This would push my roll up to $3.5k and give me a another shot @ 100nl maybe...

Not sure what I'll do about the $400 bonus @ Lucky Ace. I may just merk it after the Party bonus, I'll have to see how things work out I guess.

So definitely optimistic about the future, unfortunately university will have to take a back seat again...Sara won't be happy!