Hello internets. How've you been? Yeah? Glad to hear it.

I'll tell you how I've been, and how the whoring has been going. I finished my stint at paradise a while back, then decided to move to UltimateBet for their 40% (I think)up to $200. Played there for a while, but then I heard that FullTilt's 100% to 600 was expiring at the end of March. That won't do at all! So I packed up my things, got my roll, and deposited $595 there. Got that much in bonus, just had to clear it. However...

FullTilt bonus clears slowly. I mean, not just slowly. I'm talking frozen molasses slowly. I'm talking paint drying slowly. That site achieves new landspeed records for slowest fucking speed of anything ever.

So I'm plugging along there, making a bit of cash, run the balance up to a little shy of 700, then hit a 2 week long cold snap. I've never been on such a downswing...I got dropped all the way down to $300, had to drop limits, it was nasty. I pulled out of it though, and started working my way back. Worked the tables, made progress, worked the roll up to a little over 400.

At this point, let me talk to you about FullTilt. Let me be honest with you...I don't like playing there. The games are all really tight, with a much higher average skill level than anywhere else I've played, including UB (which is to be avoided if you want a fishtank). However, I think FullTilt has the potential to be the best site out there, hands down bar none. The interface is clean, if cartoony, the software is pretty fast, the connection is pretty stable, and, best of all, the tournament structures are awesome. You start with more chips than most places, and the blind schedule is, much like the bonus clearing, slow. You can play poker in tourneys. I love them.

So anywho, my stack's just above 400, and an ad pops up for a 10+1 limit hold 'em tourney with a bounty on Andy Bloch. So Danny and I decide to play. I like my chances to make it deep, since I think I'm a little better at limit than no limit, and most people don't know their asses from their elbows when it comes to limit.

Turns out I was right.

I did indeed make it deep in the tourney. All the way to 3rd place, in fact. Cashed in a nice $200 there. Then, a couple days later, I played in a 20+2 NL Hold 'em tourney and got 3rd again for another $250. So, with some more building in the cash games, I sit a bit above 700, and still on the rise. Hopefully I'll be able to build enough of a stack to move up limits and clear this damn bonus before I die of old age. Once that's done, I'll be moving back to UB to finish up my bonus there. After that, who knows?