I cleared my bonus last night, right at the stroke of midnight. I did so by getting 170bb all-in on the flop with TPTK, and before the guy even called my push I knew he had, at minimum top two and that I was stupid. He called and showed me I was stupid. Oh well, I played good for the last few days and I might play a little more until Monday, when I'll be cashing out and claiming my kickback bonus. All in all I'll be leaving Pacific with $650 dollars, which is $100 more than I deposited on their (once you count my bonus). Which sorta sucks, but is alright considering I played bad for a bit and actually lost money. So I'll live with it. If it weren't for that last hand I would have left with the $700 I was aiming for, but I'm not that far off.
I've changed my mind about putting my money onto chili poker for the moment, which was where I was planning on clearing my next bonus. Instead I'm going to be putting my cash onto GNUF, which I hadn't even heard of before yesterday. Apparently the bonus on their site is stupid easy to clear (one or two days), and after testing their software I like how it works, so I'm going forward with it. After that I'm going to go with Ladbrokes, and then with Chili. I should have my money on GNUF (what the fuck kinda name is that anyway) by Thursday at the lastest, and I'm hoping to have it out of there by Sunday at the latest. If so, I'll have it onto Ladbrokes Sunday or Monday and I'll try to get it off by that Friday.
If everything works out with both those sites (each adding $90 - $140, depending how long their in house bonuses take to clear) in bonuses, I'm hoping to be close to $1000 on my roll. If I get $90 from each in bonuses, that'll bring my account to $830, so maybe $1000 is a bit out of reach, but I'm going to do my best. If I'm going out with under $900 thought I'll be a bit pissed off, because it's gonna require some more bad play on my part to accomplish that I think. So lets realistically set my roll at $900. From there I have a bit of a conundrum that I have to think about what to do. I want at least $1200 before I start playing NL50 (.25/.50), and I'll be $300 short. I'm either just going to move my money onto Cake and start playing there with rakeback, doing my best to grind up from there, or I'll put my money onto one more site to bonus whore (such as Chili), before making that move. If I have $900, I clear one more bonus to bring it to $1000, plus let's just make it $1100 because I win a bit while doing all this, I'll be happy to move over to Cake Poker and grind a little more NL25 before making the jump.
One problem comes up with all this though, which involved the final step of this plan, playing at Cake Poker. I want the 33% rakeback they're offering, but their Poker Tracker doesn't work with them. I don't need PT, but it makes life easier. So I'm stuck wondering if I should just put my money onto Stars. I really, really wish I never set up an account of Full Tilt right now, cause I'd love to get their rakeback, but it's too late for that now. That's at least two or three weeks away though, so I might just worry about that more when I get to that point.
All in all, I think it's a realistic goal to be playing NL50 full-time before Christmas, and definitely very soon in the new year.
