Build a bankroll

If anyone reading this is looking to build an online bankroll a good place to start isVirgin Poker. Unfortunately it's not open to US players.

For more information on Virgin Poker see here

How to build your bankroll at Virgin.

You will need a small amount to deposit, the main deposit methods are credit/debit card and Neteller. To start building from your small deposit you then need to play in the 3 weekly V*Roll Satellites. Qualification for these is 25 raked hands on cash tables.

I find the best way to get the 25 raked hands is on the $0.10/$0.20 Fixed Limit Stud tables. This is so easy, if you can play Stud you will make money easily, if you can't play Stud you just pay the anti and fold. The anti/fold method will probably cost you a total of $0.50. (today I went to the Stud table with $2 and came away after playing 25 raked hands with $8, it really is that easy)

Once you have the 25 raked hands you can play the V*Roll Satellite (you need 25 for each game). These run on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday at 7.30pm GMT. These games are NL Hold'em with around 160 players in them and the top 10 get paid an equal share of £250 and a ticket to the V*Roll Final. The final is played on the last Sunday of the month and has a £1,000 prize pool.

If you play tight and careful poker stick to good hands and watch out for the more extreme bad player it is very easy to get to the final 10 in the satellite games. It is probably the easiest £25 you will ever win in online poker. Do this several times in a month and you are soon on the way to a decent bank roll.

FullTilt MiniFTOPS Event 7

Started my quest to play a few MiniFTOPS events at FullTilt today. The first satellite I played was a $0.50 + $0.10 rebuy. Had a slow start but then the hands started to come, needless to say in a $0.60 buy in the quality of play wasn't the best but I was chip leader or there abouts from about 3/4 of the way into the tournament. Towards the end I just needed to raise and everyone folded (lol the power). So a nice little win to start the campaign, getting entry into Event 7 with a $250,000 guaranteed prize pool. Event 7 wasn't one on my list to play but no matter.

FullTilt Mini FTOPS

FullTilt FTOPS is a very popular series of 25 games run over about 12 days and although there are loads of cheap satellites I have never been good enough to win through to one of the games. So it was great when FullTilt started to run the MiniFTOPS, the same series of games for 1/10th the cost.

Last time I messed around and qualified for one event but didn't do very well in the final, this time I'm going to make a real effort to qualify for several tournaments. The games I like the look of are Event 2 7 Game, Event 10 No Limit Hold'em, Event 14 HORSE, Event 18 No Limit Hold'em Cashout, Event 20 No Limit Hold'em, Event 22 No Limit Hold'em 2 day event and the Main Event. Satellites are running from November 15th and the MiniFTOPS Event 1 starts off the series on December 9th.

I'll keep the blog informed as to how I'm doing qualifying for these events.

Poor blog has been neglected

Poor blog has been neglected :(

Thanks Logan for reminding me I haven't posted in ages.

Best explain why not. As previously mentioned I'm currently out of work. I've applied for loads of jobs but just not getting anywhere which is no fun. I've always had an interest in computers and I'm able to learn things on them reasonably easily, so I decided now was the time to try and add the time I have to the skills I've learned and see what I can do.

So for the past couple of months I've been writing a website www.realpokerbonus.com I play at or have played at so many poker sites that it seemed like a good idea to detail some of the better ones and try and keep people up to date with news on promotions at those sites. Now it's out in the open I'll try and add notes on here when I update things.