Empire Bonus: November 14, 2005
Empire was advertising a deposit bonus. The bonus paid 100% up to $100. I deposited $400 so I could maintain my normal 4 table 2/4 routine. The bonus was released after you played raked hands equaling ten times the bonus amount in ten days or less. My bonus was $100, so I had to play 1000 hands before Nov 20. Since I have been 4 tabling, this would be no problem. My only hesitation revolved around having to play at Empire instead of Party Poker.
If you read my blog below, Party Poker became their own entity recently. Therefore, if I am playing at Empire, I am only playing against other Empire players instead of the party network. Party Poker was the overwhelming leader for number of players before they broke away from the party skins network. Now, they are probably slightly ahead of Poker Stars. So by playing at Empire instead of Party, I was worried about being forced to play against better players instead of the typical party fish.
I finally concluded that the guaranteed $100 bonus would be greater than the difference in winnings I would be giving up by playing against slightly better competition at Empire. End result? I will have to check my poker tracker database, but I believe I made about $120 over 1000 hands playing at Empire. There were not as many open tables at Empire so I ended up playing some 0.50/1.00 tables as well so I could clear my bonus. Let's assume I played 700 hands of 2/4 and 300 hands of 0.50/1.00. I think I made about $100 playing 2/4. So 100 is 25 BB. I played 700 hands so my bb/100 ratio is 3.57. Not bad, but I felt like I had been running a bit better at Party (closer to 4BB/100). All of this is speculation on my part, so I will need to check my poker tracker database to be sure.
The point of this post is to serve as a reminder for future bonus opportunities. I played anywhere from 5-7 hours of poker from Friday night until Sunday evening. I won $120 + the $100 bonus. If I could have made over $220 during that time by continuing to play at Party Poker, I should not have deposited money at Empire.
Current Emotion: Extremely happy and confident. I am slightly in shock to realize that I can play well enough to make some good money by playing poker. I keep waiting for the bubble to burst. Am I getting lucky and this is just short term experience? The more success I have seen playing limit poker is only verifying that I am playing well. I have played nearly 10,000 hands of limit poker and my bb/100 is around 3.8. I am crushing the 2/4 game and at some point before the end of the year, if this streak continues I will need to move up to 3/6.
If you read my blog below, Party Poker became their own entity recently. Therefore, if I am playing at Empire, I am only playing against other Empire players instead of the party network. Party Poker was the overwhelming leader for number of players before they broke away from the party skins network. Now, they are probably slightly ahead of Poker Stars. So by playing at Empire instead of Party, I was worried about being forced to play against better players instead of the typical party fish.
I finally concluded that the guaranteed $100 bonus would be greater than the difference in winnings I would be giving up by playing against slightly better competition at Empire. End result? I will have to check my poker tracker database, but I believe I made about $120 over 1000 hands playing at Empire. There were not as many open tables at Empire so I ended up playing some 0.50/1.00 tables as well so I could clear my bonus. Let's assume I played 700 hands of 2/4 and 300 hands of 0.50/1.00. I think I made about $100 playing 2/4. So 100 is 25 BB. I played 700 hands so my bb/100 ratio is 3.57. Not bad, but I felt like I had been running a bit better at Party (closer to 4BB/100). All of this is speculation on my part, so I will need to check my poker tracker database to be sure.
The point of this post is to serve as a reminder for future bonus opportunities. I played anywhere from 5-7 hours of poker from Friday night until Sunday evening. I won $120 + the $100 bonus. If I could have made over $220 during that time by continuing to play at Party Poker, I should not have deposited money at Empire.
Current Emotion: Extremely happy and confident. I am slightly in shock to realize that I can play well enough to make some good money by playing poker. I keep waiting for the bubble to burst. Am I getting lucky and this is just short term experience? The more success I have seen playing limit poker is only verifying that I am playing well. I have played nearly 10,000 hands of limit poker and my bb/100 is around 3.8. I am crushing the 2/4 game and at some point before the end of the year, if this streak continues I will need to move up to 3/6.
posted by Steve K at 2:54 PM
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