Bought stocks

I recently bought stocks from Omico Mining (OM) at P.011/share and GMA Holdings (GMAP) at P10.00/share. I deposited P25,000 at CitisecOnline.com about a month ago but only made my first trades this week. Unlike No Limit Holdem, stock trading is definitely new to me. I'm just a novice investor testing out the waters. I hope I don't get drowned. If I can double my initial investment in 3 months that would be great. I'll keep you updated on my progress as a wannabee Chris Gardner :)

Reached $1000 target at Stars

Finally, I reached my target of $1000 at Stars after 75 days and 1,610 games at the $6.50s, Whew! I started playing at Stars last June 14, 2007 after getting fed up with the outrageous disconnections at Pacific. Pacific has probably the worst poker software around although I miss the soft games there. Anyway, I'm switching to FullTilt, all because of two things: $600 bonus and 27% rakeback. It sucks to know that after playing 1,610 games at Stars, I did not get a single penny for rakeback, however, I got to order some of their merchandise. I'm now waiting for my wire transfer to get processed at Click2pay to play at FTP. It'll probably have to wait until next week.

Do you think it would be feasible to be bonus whoring around poker sites? I used to bonus whore on online casinos and found it very profitable. Absolute, Ulimtate, and some other sites offer humongous 100% bonuses but their games are not that liquid compared to Stars and FTP. You think it's worth the hassle?

Power failure...

So one fine Saturday afternoon, while almost everyone is in Hyatt Hotel for the APPT event, I opened up the usual 6-table session at Stars. Everything was running goot. After doubling up on a couple of tables, boom! Blackout! Sucks! But what can you do? If your DSL goes down, you can always have a back-up dial-up connection. With blackouts longer than 30 minutes, you can only hope for the best. Hope that you get to the bubble and the other 3 players start feasting on your blinds with stupendous raises. Well, that's what happened. I placed 3rd on 2 out of the 6 sngs. Sh*t happens but as my friend mnlgrind used to say: "Nice guys run goot" (^,^)

Dumb and Dumber

I chanced upon this heads-up battle between Chad Brown and Kristy Gazes. Just wondering, is anyone of you guilty of such a booboo while multi-tabling?

Warning: The movie you are about to see contains outrageous sequences and is not suitable for novice poker players.



What the hell were they thinking? First, we had Kristy reraising preflop then check the flop with the somewhat nuts, then bets the turn with 9 high. On the other hand, Chad calls the turn with the nuts, then checks behind on the river with the nuts. NUTS!

Finished playing 12 $6.50-turbos

Finally got to play poker today, played two sessions 6-tabling Pokerstar's 6.50 turbo. I did quite well. Made 2 first places , 4 seconds, and 2 thirds for a total of $62.40. Not bad for an hour and a half's work. I just hope this happens everytime I play... unfortunately, like life, the game of poker involves ups and downs. It's up to you to minimize your losses when you get unlucky and maximize your winnings when cards keep coming.

My Online Blog Starts Here

Aug. 22, 2007

12:36 am - I am here alone in my room thinking about anything. What a boring and unfruitful night! I was planning to earn some moolahs by playing online poker at Pokerstars this evening. Suddenly, as though part of an evil plan, my big brother decided to use our Internet all night, all for his own contentment.. bummer. Good thing I made myself useful by writing my own blog. I just hope I won't be too lazy to post it later in the morning (not yet posted at the time of writing). Hope we can see this writing later at www.thebiggfish.blogspot.com.