Rags to Riches: My Quest to Poker Glory

A friend of mine introduced me to Noble Poker over the weekend. The site is good because there are a lot of Eu players on it so I can play it at lunch time over here and have it be evening for them (where I can hope that they just getting home from a night of partying and are drunk enough to donk off chips to me). I had a pretty good weekend there Running $200 up to $300+. I'll be posting proofs again soon. The Blog site was running very slow this weekend and I got too frustrated trying to update.

A friend of mine introduced me to Noble Poker over the weekend. The site is good because there are a lot of Eu players on it so I can play it at lunch time over here and have it be evening for them (where I can hope that they just getting home from a night of partying and are drunk enough to donk off chips to me). I had a pretty good weekend there Running $200 up to $300+. I'll be posting proofs again soon. The Blog site was running very slow this weekend and I got too frustrated trying to update.

So I took another $200 out of the roll to pay for more bills but then got [most of it] right back thanks to a reader's BoDog referral bonus! Thanks Zeke and I will get you your share of the bonus asap.

I have had zero time to play in the past few days. Been working 14-17 hours a day trying to get ready for this big code release we have at work. Will give more updates as soon as things settle down in my professional life.

Ok, since I took money out of my roll to pay some bills (and also lost some obviously), the best way to report my status I think is by showing my BoDog screen. I have a small amount of money (less than $50) in a few other sites and my 'Poker' dedicated savings account but you'll just have to take my word for that. Anyways, here is the pic. I think that having people to report to is going to keep me in check. It worked wonders when I first started doing this plog, so let's get back to basics.

In a way I feel a bit like I'm starting over.



Note: I plan to replace the money that I took out of my roll as soon as I can.

I will be posting updates as soon as I sort out some bills at home. I ended up deciding that I wanted to buy the MLB package with my digital cable (basically lets me watch every single game all season) but didn't have the room in my budget for it so I took it out of my roll. So once every settles back down here I'll be back with the regular updates.

Bodog is awesome by the way. If anyone wants to join me there email me at dh098017@yahoo.com and we can split the referral bonus (I'd get 40% of your initial deposit up to $200. So if you put in $500 you can max the bonus and we can split it 50-50. The best part is BoDog gives you the bonus up front, you can start playing with it right away. The only stipulation is that you have to play X amount of raked hands before you can withdraw it. So email me and we can make some free money!!)

I put $500 onto the site last night. For the deposit I got a $50 bonus (10%), and I also worked it out with a buddy of mine to split the referral bonus. How this works is I tell BoDog that this guy refferred me and he gets 40% of my initial deposit up to $200. The guy agreed to split it with me if I maxed the bonus, so I did. BoDog deposits $200 into his account and he transfered me $100 into my Stars account (thanks Grima!). So right off the bat I'm up $150 just for making the deposit. This is a huge deal for me mentally. Just seeing that I am back up close to $1k as opposed to down around $750 is a great feeling (even though I didn't technically earn it, it helps psychologically).