Online Gambling Roundup Aug-30-09

Welcome to Sunday’s roundup post here at Golden Rule Of Gambling - let’s get straight to the action on today’s update. Hope you are all having a fun weekend and the prospect of work tomorrow isn’t bringing you dowwwwn (and hurray for a holiday Monday for all our UK readers!).

First up,

Betfair Admit They Got It Wrong

- which just goes to show that even the “experts” are only human :

Steve’s time off hasn’t helped his timing - his Tiger Woods bet yesterday was particularly ill-timed…

View Full Betfair Blog Post Here

Day of rest and relaxation? Not a bit of it - Ultimate Bet’s poker aces

have a top class Sunday offering next :

Prior to signing my sponsorship deal and joining an elite group of pros on Team UB, I had played some online poker. My play was quite irregular, consumed basically with Sunday tournaments and random cash games here and there. I have become known as a live player rather than an online one. However, since signing on with UltimateBet and post WSOP, I have really begun to dig into online poker and cash games much more.

At first, I was playing at my personal $5-$10 table on UB. I realized I wasn’t mentally prepared for it. I was coming off live play all summer at the WSOP. I had some less than stellar sessions, to say the least. I dug down, I refocused and began with some $2-$4 NL tables and started grinding; 5 tabling. What I found was that I was actually enjoying playing online for 10 hours a day. Not to mention, I was playing great. I was getting cards and I was winning. I moved back up to $5-$10 NL tables and still had success. This was about the time that I found some great heads up games. I have noticed since I started playing a ton on UB, heads up games have been the most profitable for me.

I have had some pretty decent online tournament results as well. In early August, I final tabled a UB $120.00 buy-in. I was just getting warmed up for the month and finished 5th for $2000. Things were progressing nicely. On August 16, I was playing the Sunday $500.00 buy-in with a $100k GTD. One particular hand in this tournament has gained notoriety within the Pocket Fives forums.

Find out about the hand in question by reading Sunday’s full length post at the UltimateBet blog. Sunday is supposed to be a day of rest, after all…

View Full UltimateBet Blog Post Here

Congratulations to the following players, all of whom had

Five Figure Wins At Ladbrokes Casino

in August :

Bob E (UK) - New Joker Poker

Richard B (UK) - Bonus Slot (Mermaid’s Millions)

Mark S (UK) - Roulette

Chris H (Hong Kong) - Progressive Table (Poker Ride)

If you haven’t already, then do check out Ladbrokes Casino - the tables are hot there this summer.

Time for Sunday dinner now here at Golden Rule Of Gambling HQ - see you next time.