I haven’t posted much about poker in a long time. Last time I played live, I spent all night at the $100 NL game and lost $30. Exciting, huh? I hadn’t really been playing online much, for various reasons. Mostly, I had just gotten bored of it. About a week and a half ago, my brother told me about eCasinoDeals.com, and asked me to sign up and refer him to get him some free stuff. I decided to do it, to get some free poker chips for myself, as well.

So, I signed up at eCasinoDeals.com. I clicked through their link to Sporting Bet Poker, deposited $100, and quickly played the 250 raked hands I needed for the free chips, and another 250 hands for the $100 deposit bonus. I lost about $30 doing it, so with the bonus, finished +$70. Not bad. I played the really low limits for the first time in a long time: .50/1 limit. After I completed the comp, I made the mistake of playing the .25/.50 NL for the rest of the raked hands for the deposit bonus. That’s where I lost the money. I signed up and played my raked hands just in time, though. Sporting Bet reports to eCasinoDeals every two weeks, and I finished my hands the day before they did it. They shipped out the next day.

Playing out that comp and bonus got me hooked again. ECD currently has a total of four poker rooms that they offer comps for (and are adding two more soon), and somehow they managed to pick four that I had never played at before. So this weekend, I signed up at Absolute, Golden Tiger, and Royal Vegas, and completed the raked hand requirements for those three as well. At Absolute and Golden Tiger I was three-tabling .50/1 limit, so it went really quickly. I’m amazed I ever had trouble playing at this limit. It’s amazing what just a year’s worth of experience will do. I was pretty much on autopilot, and pulled in about 12.5 BB/100 hands (or $25/hour, three-tabling), over around 2000 hands (lots of extra hands to clear the Absolute deposit bonus, as well). At Royal Vegas, I played 1/2 and 2/4 and broke even, but they have $10 free and a $100 despoit bonus as well. Overall, I’m getting lots of free chips, or something else from the Comp Store, and I made $466 including poker and bonuses while doing it. Plus, I made about $450 playing .25/.50 NL at the same time. A pretty good week.

Of course, that’s never enough. Here’s where I try to get other people to sign up for it as well. 🙂 It’s really easy:

1. Sign up at the ECD Forum.
2. Sign up a one or more of the casinos on the ECD Casinos page, clicking through their links to get to the casino and following all the instructions there.
3. Deposit the minimum required amount ($100), and then fill out the ECD Comp Form, before playing your raked hands. Please put “metsfan” in the Referred By box. 🙂 If signing up at Sporting Bet, don’t forget to use one of the upgrade codes found on the home page
4. Play the required raked hands, and then wait for the casino to report to ECD.
5. Get your comp, and hopefully make money playing poker and get lots of deposit bonuses as well.

That’s it. From what I’ve heard, the Las Vegas Pro chips are great. I should have mine Wednesday, according to UPS.

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