Topic: My Bonus Whoring Adventure

[Manpriest]

So as of about two weeks ago I went officially busto...whee.  $8 on PS, $5 on Cake and $0 on ftp.  I blew the last of my 'roll playing sats to the Sunday $4 mil with the intent to make a deposit within a week or two.  I failed to win a seat, got staked in the tournament anyway and went out about 800 spots out of the money, bleah.  Well, some personal shit came up as always and I'm unable to make a deposit.

Since that time I've been fairly bleah on the whole prospect of even playing which is fine, a break wouldn't hurt right about now.  Then, after a couple weeks I get a bonus e-mail from FTP.  They want to give me $100 assuming I earn enough points to clear it.  Well, as I said I have not even a penny on Full Tilt.  I got a monthly online payment a day early today and had it sent to me on Full Tilt.  So, this thread will follow me on my adventure as I try to clear umpteen billion ftp's with a $30 bankroll.

Starting Bankroll: $30
Starting FTP's: 246.17

[Manpriest]

Full Tilt was running another promotion where they give you $5 to try out rush poker.  Clear 10 ftp's on rush poker and they'll clear the $5.  I decided to take my first shot there and clear points for both bonuses simultaneously.

Sessions:
1 hr $5 NL 6 max rush - +$2
14 hands at $5 NL FR - +$2.20

I ran the second session because my HH's weren't set to save on this computer yet for Full Tilt so it didn't save any of my hands from my first hour session, bleah.  So all my PT graphs will be without that unfortunately but whatever, it's one hour.  I hit happy hour about halfway through the session and got double points, though unfortunately the bonus happy hour points don't count toward bonus clearing, so they're just points in the bank.

Total Winnings: $4.20
Amount of Bonus Cleared: $0.78
Bonus Money Earned: $5

Total FTP's: 264.43
Total Bankroll: $39.20

[Manpriest]

So I ran two more sessions, kinda.  One was just a few hands to fix a glitch on my HUD (does PT3 not import observed hands from ftp anymore???), the second was this morning and went much better than it should have.  The positive variance is good for me I think with the way I've been looking at poker recently, I really needed the confidence booster.  I got AA all in against JJ on a J high dry flop and rivered an ace, 3bet shoved with air against a button steal on a KT flop and he snapped with AK and I hit a rr straight...so yeah, I donked out a little.  Also got someone to play KK really bad against me and got his stack with AJ on a AJ9AK board after he slowplayed every street.

Sessions:
9 hands at $2 NL - -$0.03

1.58 hrs 475 hands $5 Rush Poker - +$20.07
$7.60 sat to T$22 - 1/161 - +$14.40

The tournament was above what I should be playing but for some reason my brain wasn't functioning and I didn't think of late registration when I pulled up the lobby.  30 seats gtd, 34 registered, starts in 2 mins...  Owell, ended up cashing it so that mistake didn't bite.

Net Winnings: $34.47
Amount of Bonus Cleared: $2.19
Bonus Money Earned: $5

Total FTP's:293.33
Total Bankroll: $73.64


Here's my graph with expected all in ev, which is really only the AK/J8 hand that's different at the moment.