(Sad?) Stories about onlinegambling by Natcracker

[Natcracker]

I dont mean to be rude or anything but why the **** you deposit 100£ for a bonus like this?

As theres no limits in deposits I deposit the minimum it takes to get the 500 or 1000 games played.

Ouch, you hurt my feelings .

But really, I deposited that £100 just because it had no limits and only thing that matters (to bonus) is number of hands. I thought that if I deposit enough to play that 1000 hands. Obiviously I was wrong. After all I can (in theory) withdraw any money that's left over after hands.

-Nat-

[Natcracker]

It's time to summarize february's results.

I first thought that it was pretty bad month, but afterall after I looked numbers it seemed OK.

Total bonuses played: 26 (14 reloads)
Total deposits: $4772 (I've rounded all currencies to dollars, 1€ = $1,5 and £1 = $2)
Total withdraws: $6631 (this includes coverplays)
Total EV: $2273
Total winnigs: $1859
Total winnigs vs EV -$414

So eventhough I ran 18,2% under EV, I'm still pretty pleased for final result. After all, all that counts is incoming money in this hobby. If you ignore thrill and fun ofcourse.

This brings me to one topic that I was wondering yesterday.
Intercasino offered 100% up to $100 WR 25xbonus or 50% up to $100 WR 60xbonus. Gag is that on that 100% offer BJ wasn't allowed to wager.

Thing that I was thinkin is that if you play that 100% bonus lets say on casino war (House edge 2,33%) your EV is about $42 and on another it's $70. Now here comes my problem: If you play non-BJ bonus EV is smaller, but if you bust you just lose that $100.

So this is just how much you are willing to risk.
I'm not sure that is my method mathematically correct, but I counted that in BJ-bonus your EV/$100 is $35 which is smaller than on another.
That and fact that I'm pretty bored to BJ right now sealed the deal. I played that non-BJ-bonus. Didn't manage to get any profit. Neither I didn't lose. All I got was experience and doubt about my mathskills...

-Nat-

[reijokinnas]

I take that intercasino 100% 25wager-bonus. First I played BJ aggressive(You can play that, it just didnt wager any bonus) and then grind it with Let Them Ride. Intercasino is quite slow(or is there some "turbo"button anywhere?), and grinding 6000 dollars will take too much time. So I think I will do same in future reloads.

[Natcracker]

I've been very busy this and last week at work. I've worked overhours almost every day. Damn it's good to have 8-16 job . I was working today (saturday) too. And same thig goes on next week. Goddamn Easter.

Last weekend I had time to play coulpe bonuses. Nothing special to report, except about -$800.

I busted to Plum $600, to Centrebet $150.

Like that's not enough I got yesterday email from Centrebet that I'm banned for bonusabusing. I think it's weird that it happens after I lost. Before I've had good runs at their casino, but why now? And week after last deposit. I wrote to them nice email (I think that it wasn't abusive mail) and told my opint of view. I'm not excepting them to answer me, but if they do, I'll report here.

-Nat-

[Natcracker]

Even this is pure luck and results doesn't change wether you are drunk or sober, tired to death or shape of your live, you can still ruin this by being stupid. Trust me, I speak with voice of experience.

At start it was easy: you just followed Asikainl's instructions step-by-step, and money keep coming. OK, some of it was good variance, but that way, you couldn't waiste your money unless you are coplete idiot. I still miss those instructions especially with reloads. Well, maybe you reaaly have to do something by yourself.

But now, when you think that you know something, you begin being that complete idiot. And sloppy.

Here's small list about my worst mistakes. I share them with you because, even if one promising gambler can avoid even one of 'em so that s/he remembers that has read about this, my mistakes have some value.

There's strong suggestion ing beginners guide that you should read T&C with thought. Now I know that there's a reason for that.
Plumgaming is great example for this. They send you emails about bonuses, but in T&C it says that you can have only one reload in month. Ofcourse theres other bonuses that you can have, but be really careful with this. I wasn't and lost 100€ more than I had to.
Also read carefully what games are allowed. I didn't and wagered $4500 for nothing, and lost. So at this point I've lost $750 for just not being aware about what I read.

At Microgaming (or whatever network Dash is in) there's "nice" thing atleast in roulette that it remembers your last bets. So please look that table, before you start palying. I logged in at Dash and was suprised that I had £144 on it's account. I was forgotten to withdraw. (Don't laugh, it could happen to anyone ) I thought that "Fine, I'll clear this bonus and withdraw all after that. Mistake. I made deposit, applied bonuscode, placed £2 for black and started autoplay. However I forgot to chek "quick spin"-chekbox and stopped autoplay. At this point I saw that my £194 was shrinked to £26. One shot, and I was broke again. So this mistake cost me about $390, making it total of $1140.

So read T&C, and make sure you understood what you read. And keep your eyes open, it saves you money. Lots of money.

-Nat-

[Natcracker]

If there's such thing as rigged BJ, I'm sure that Absolute poker uses it.
I doubled up that welcomebonus of $750 and started grinding by 3x$10 bets.

Busto.

Most of you guys know this finnish mentality after couple of breweries. "Goddamn casinos, I'll show you how to steal my money (hickup)!"

So later that evening I deposited another $750 and start grinding again. My balance was dropping like HIFK from hockey playoffs. I chanched my strategy to 1x$20. Lady Luck turned her sweet little ass away and started smiling to me.

Last $500 I wagered with 1x$100 and final result was nice +$1500.

My second biggest win so far.

I'll try to have some time to summarize some games later today but once again, I make no promises.

-Nat_

[Natcracker]

As sharpest knives have noticed, it's been quite quiet in this blog. I'm not dead or stopped gaming, I've just been busy and lazy.

I haven't forgotten this community, even if someone hoped for that.

I would ask your help. As this is gambligsite and thsi blog should concentrate to that issue, I'd like to hear from you how reports would be most intresting to read. Lets face it: I'm no Clancy.
Basicly all bonuses are played aggressive or passive method, and from that material it would be very hard to write something intresting. Example from aggressive bonus: "on Baccarat bet $200 to banker, lost. -End on bonus-"
If theres 3-5 of those in row, I'm pretty sure that theres no motivation to read them. And if I bust so many in row, I propably have no motivation to write anything. I just drown my sorrow to alcohol.

-Nat-

[Wakke]

I would ask your help. As this is gambligsite and thsi blog should concentrate to that issue, I'd like to hear from you how reports would be most intresting to read. Lets face it: I'm no Clancy.
-Nat-

I think the most interesting reports are those were people just gamble without bonuses and bankroll like some people do in pokerworld. Readers think that guy will go busto soon and everyday they come back to read next results. Writing EV+ bonushunting results can be quite boring but it is always nice to read how things are going.

[Natcracker]

So pretty much like I expected...
Just got to think some interesting stories to tell, because I hardly play without bonuses (except coverplay, but that's totally different).

Things are going pretty much neutral now. This weekend one big win and several smaller losses. Pretty much +-0. Absolute money didn't change much, but total running under EV just grows.

-Nat-

[Natcracker]

Long time no see.

Ok, that's last bad phrase I will use here. (That was _not_ a promise)

It's been quite quiet on gamblig for me. Atleast onlinegambling. First of all I've been too busy at work and second there's one big issue going on at my and my familys lives. It can be called gambling on some level. Pretty low risk, though.

Those few bonuses I've played have not gone so well. Only Party's bonus managed to make profit. Altough other casinos have been so expensive, that those winnigns are useless like balls of pope.

My bankroll haven't been this dry since I cleared first five casinos. Maybe I have to forget aggressive method for while and concentrate to more secure playing.

I started palying poker again, but this time I made clear to my self that I'm not gonna make big money with it. It's just fun.
So I opened account to PKR, cause I thought that games would be easier there. So far it seems that I was right.

Thing that has stuck to me from here is that I took a bonus that requies little bit more playing than I originally planned. But hey, tiger can't get rid of it's stripes and bonuswhore his greednes.

-Nat-