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No downtown train
Dec. 21st, 2006 10:38 amI suspect that Mr Ward is scanning the weather forecasts carefully as he awaits his Christmas Day flight to LV. Can we open some kind of spread on the length of his delay?
Actually, I'd probably be a seller. It's a known fact that poker players on business class jets are not forced to suffer the iniquities imposed on peasant travellers returning home for the holidays to their families.
Congrats to Joe Hachem on his WPT victory. Although Raymer is probably the main "ambassador" for poker these days, what little I've seen and heard of Hachem (he was around the Bellagio quite a lot this time last year) seems to indicate that he is also a stand-up kind of guy. Since I follow the opinion of the majority of long-standing poker players — that 90% of players on the circuit are shits who would sell their own grandmother for an entry fee to a major — it's nice to see a guy who does not fall into this category, winning again. And it also eliminates the "one-hit wonder" tag that always hangs around a big tourney winner these days, until they prove otherwise.
We are entering what is normally a golden eight or nine days for poker-playing regulars. The holiday season at the end of the year is the time when all those guys who have restrained themselves for a month or so, because they have Christmas to pay for, go mad with the money that they suddenly find they have spare. I know that it's the kiss of death to say so, but I don't think I've ever had a losing eight-day session from December 24th to January 2nd in the past five years.
It's often puzzled me why you get these special deposit offers at this time of year from the online sites, since it's fairly obvious that, come Christmas, many people will be playing anyway. Then I realized that the answer was to do with cash flow, not customers. In early December the family guys will denude their online accounts to pay for Christmas, which can hit the net bank balance of the poker sites. Therefore, they bring in a deposit promotion so that the cash-sensible (i.e., me) can put money in to bring the poker site's cash balance back up to speed. This is a good thing.
Party Poker has been throwing around such a confusing pot-pourri of bonuses that at one point they credited me with $18.24 as, it appears, an exchange for accumulated Party Points, that was part of no promotion of which I was aware. This was in addition to the $100 reload bonus, the $40 bonus for accumulating 750+ Party points, and the "surprize surprize" promotion (Birks earnings from the nine boxes so far — nil).
I couldn't help but laugh at the $40 offer. As you click the button to "claim your bonus" for 810 Party points accumulated in a week, a mere three hours before the offer expires, Party asks "Are you sure? You only need another 1,164.25 points for $150 bonus!"
By my calculations this would require four-tabling at $2-$4 for 15 hours straight. So, just the 12-tabling for five hours then. Whoops, no, too late. Offer has expired.
Gimme the $40, you bastards.
Actually, I'd probably be a seller. It's a known fact that poker players on business class jets are not forced to suffer the iniquities imposed on peasant travellers returning home for the holidays to their families.
Congrats to Joe Hachem on his WPT victory. Although Raymer is probably the main "ambassador" for poker these days, what little I've seen and heard of Hachem (he was around the Bellagio quite a lot this time last year) seems to indicate that he is also a stand-up kind of guy. Since I follow the opinion of the majority of long-standing poker players — that 90% of players on the circuit are shits who would sell their own grandmother for an entry fee to a major — it's nice to see a guy who does not fall into this category, winning again. And it also eliminates the "one-hit wonder" tag that always hangs around a big tourney winner these days, until they prove otherwise.
We are entering what is normally a golden eight or nine days for poker-playing regulars. The holiday season at the end of the year is the time when all those guys who have restrained themselves for a month or so, because they have Christmas to pay for, go mad with the money that they suddenly find they have spare. I know that it's the kiss of death to say so, but I don't think I've ever had a losing eight-day session from December 24th to January 2nd in the past five years.
It's often puzzled me why you get these special deposit offers at this time of year from the online sites, since it's fairly obvious that, come Christmas, many people will be playing anyway. Then I realized that the answer was to do with cash flow, not customers. In early December the family guys will denude their online accounts to pay for Christmas, which can hit the net bank balance of the poker sites. Therefore, they bring in a deposit promotion so that the cash-sensible (i.e., me) can put money in to bring the poker site's cash balance back up to speed. This is a good thing.
Party Poker has been throwing around such a confusing pot-pourri of bonuses that at one point they credited me with $18.24 as, it appears, an exchange for accumulated Party Points, that was part of no promotion of which I was aware. This was in addition to the $100 reload bonus, the $40 bonus for accumulating 750+ Party points, and the "surprize surprize" promotion (Birks earnings from the nine boxes so far — nil).
I couldn't help but laugh at the $40 offer. As you click the button to "claim your bonus" for 810 Party points accumulated in a week, a mere three hours before the offer expires, Party asks "Are you sure? You only need another 1,164.25 points for $150 bonus!"
By my calculations this would require four-tabling at $2-$4 for 15 hours straight. So, just the 12-tabling for five hours then. Whoops, no, too late. Offer has expired.
Gimme the $40, you bastards.
