Not much to say really. Last night I had my first session in ages where I won more husngs than I lost, with a nice streak of 5 games won at one point. Prior to that I’ve not been losing, but I’ve not been beating the rake either – a very round 50% ITM unfortunately. I’m still playing the $10 games, but rolled for $20s and hopefully will move back up soon – sadly no longer rolled for the $30s, and it’s going to be a bit of a climb to get back there.
Cellsino have pissed me off a bit as they’ve not paid any rakeback yet. My account there has jumped up and down a fair bit, and currently sits back at the amount I initially deposited. The Rakeback however would boost that by about 30% so it’s annoying that they’re not paying up. I’ll just have to keep pestering them.
On the finding a new job I’ve still not started as one of my website development clients has a CV writing service (here’s a plug 
http://www.citycv.co.uk), and she’s sorting out my CV in return for a few hours work on her site. Once I’ve got that back I’ll start firing it off – there seems to be a reasonable number of jobs in Cardiff so should be ok, although obv the economy isn’t making this the best time to jump ship. I still keep wondering whether I’m making a sensible move, especially because Cardiff seems such a random choice. If it’s all about the climbing then going to Sheffield makes more sense, but I’ve lived there and taking backward steps like that never works. Edinburgh was a possibility, but too far north and too expensive. My parents are up in North Wales, but it’d still be a 3 hour drive to get to them since it’s all hills and mountains that way. Living up there would be great for the outdoors, but there isn’t a decent city to live in at all. I learnt from that mistake when I moved from the centre of Sheffield to just outside in the peak district – all of a sudden I was completely stranded in the middle of nowhere & if I wanted to go to the pub in Shef I had to leave early because the buses were so crap. Much better to live in a city and have the countryside for the evenings and weekends if you want it (Sheffield was awesome for that really – great city and to get out into the hills was a quick 20 minute cycle!).
Hello! What is the catch on the rakebacks? How many games or how much do you have to put in for them to pay up?
I’m still new to the online poker scene.
No catch. You obviously have to deposit some money with them, but it can be the minimum. Sometimes there’s a minimum rakeback they pay each month or week, but it’s usually fairly small (like $5 or $10 say), and it’s carried over so you don’t lose out from it.
I find the sign-up bonuses more dodgy myself – when I signed up with Full Tilt it was great, I had about 6 months to clear the bonus and they paid out in $10 payments. However Ultimate Bet was awful – one month to clear the bonus in its entirety, and I didn’t end up clearing any of it. You still get rakeback no matter what happens with the sign up bonus though, so in my opinion I don’t really care much for the sign-up bonuses – rakeback’s the important thing!