Sloe Times

July was an ok month for my online play, unfortunately the live play was too much to overcome for the amount of time I was actually able to put in.

I played on Ultimate Bet, Party, and Absolute online during the month.
I also played live at the Hollywood casino in Aurora and one home game tournament.

I didn't keep track of any stats on Ultimate Bet because the hand history recording is too much of a pain in the ass. I know I finished up when I left there for Absolute because those winnings helped me reach that $1k milestone earlier in the month.

At Party I played $0.50/$1 and $1/$2. I had primarily been playing $0.50/$1 since I was on a limited bankroll based off of a $50 bonus I picked up from my friend making his first time deposit via their tell-a-friend promotion. I was able to take that $50 and just about triple it ($149.66) playing 17 sessions (727 hands/11.8 hrs) of $0.50/$1. I made one attempt at $1/$2 with my limited bankroll there and flushed $40 ending up +109.66 on 7/15 which is the last play on Party for the month. At this point I withdrew everything from Party to cover the live play losses.

At Absolute I played just about everything they had starting on 7/13 through 7/29.
+60 @ 5/10, +50 @ 1/2, +22 @ 3/6, -15 @ $0.50/$1, -27 @ $0.25/$0.50, and -51 @ $2/$4. Somehow in all of that I managed +39 not including the bonus release which accounted for enough for me to break even on absolute after the withdrawal to cover my live play losses. All told, I played 1657 hands over 25.77 hours on Absolute. There really wasn't much action there and once I hit the break even/recovery point I cashed out and headed back to Party Poker. The total 'gain' here was +$2 over my initial deposit. This of course does not cover the $114 I had to pull out to cover the live play losses.

My live play cost me about $200 at poker, and another $200 at craps. Not much to say here that I haven't already said previously. Other than the upcoming blogger tourney I don't see too much moving me off of party this month so on that note, we'll close the books on July and look forward to a better August.

For the record, August is off to a good start, I opened my Pacific Poker account yesterday I haven't made my first deposit yet, but when I do, I assume it will get attributed to Iggy since I used his link to download the client. I did get an email today that they fronted me $10 so I may go see if I can turn that into "millions." Muahahahaha! Party has an anniversary reload bonus of 20% (code ABS) and I'm up $59 after clearing my bonus from a $100 deposit. I think I'll go toss another $500 in to pick up a full $100 bonus and start working that off as well.