Curse

The good and bad of being at Party, or rather a Party ‘skin.’

The good; I got my first rakeback payment efficiently and promptly, so I can now recommend rakerebate.net unreservedly. The bad; I requested a cashout by direct bank transfer last Friday morning, a service that promised the money in my account within five working days. Here we are five working days later and it isn’t there yet.This is a somewhat large inconvenience to me, as I don’t get paid til Monday and the entire point of the cashout was to make sure I had a little folding for this weekend. I am pretty pissed off.

I might be a little less pissed off if I hadn’t lost last night. Total lack of focus on the game(s), and I really must apply myself better. In my defence, I was catching up on all the websites and blogs that I had missed for the best part of a week, so I won’t usually be as distracted. Still, second set in a multiway action pot is clearly not going to win in PLO, never mind PLO8 when I’m likely only shooting for half the pot anyway. Bad, bad play. I might have to move up a level so that sticking my whole stack in with a ‘well you never know’ shrug isn’t quite so easy.

Or maybe I just lost ‘cause of the cashout curse. Yeah, that’s what it was…

Return of the.. oh who cares?

I’m back. Had a blast at the snooker, and when we played on our return last night I managed breaks of 27 and 23 in one frame – quite an achievement at my level of ability.

It seems unlikely that anyone followed my snooker betting picks, since most visitors arrive here having searched for ‘rude pictures’ or ‘stunning women’, but if you did you will have made a small profit on the first round match selections. If you are still awake, Jimmy White looked in excellent form and is being rather foolishly dismissed by the bookmakers with a quote of 7/4 to beat Matthew Stevens. In my view this match is as close as they come, so 7/4 has to represent good value.

Many of the American poker bloggers have written about filing taxes recently. I don’t know how different it is over there in terms of income tax, but it sure is nice not to have to worry about poker income in that respect.

Anyway, it is a while since I went an entire week without playing; I wonder if I will be rusty - or raring to go and full of application and concentration. I am embarking on another time-challenge. I want to get twenty hours in by next Friday, because I am going away again for a week on Saturday 30th April. My destination is a closely guarded secret on this occasion.

Oh, and it did feel good to spend quite freely at the snooker and know that every penny in my wallet had just been withdrawn from one of my poker accounts.