Aka23, I hope you don't mind if I temporarily hijack your thread to post my own gambling log.
As you may have seen in the eternal Winner Screenshots thread (
here,
here,
here,
here,
here,
here,
here,
here and
here), I have had an absolutely
phenomenal week this week.
It started out on Sunday night, I did well in a poker tournament (3rd place) and won $150 or something, not much but it was from a $20 deposit. When the tournament ended it was already past my bedtime so I called it a night.
Monday after getting home from work I popped some of the tournament winnings into the Flash version of 4-hand Aces & Faces and that's when I hit the Royal Flush on one of those hands for $1,000 - which I promptly cashed out. I then played at Crazy Vegas and cashed out $800 from a $100 deposit. I also made my first deposit at Roxy Palace and some good wins at Thunderstruck, Spring Break and Tally Ho turned my $100 deposit into a $1500 withdrawal.
Sometime Tuesday morning the $1800 from the poker room and Crazy Vegas was waiting for me in my Neteller account. Roxy Palace's withdrawal had to go directly into my bank account because they treat Neteller like a credit card, that is, they only pay back into Neteller the amount that you have deposited using Neteller - but since I deposited $100 and withdrew $1500, they would have needed to pay me $1400 some other way so it was best to just have the whole thing go directly into my bank account.
So the $1800 that was in my Neteller Tuesday morning allowed me to play at various places on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday - although I did not win anything worth cashing out. But late Thursday I had worked a $100 deposit up to $400 at Cocoa Casino and iNetBet, both of which I withdrew.
And then there was Friday
I left work early so that I could come home and, well, gamble.
I put $100 into Casino Extreme and that's when I hit the $3,227 win on Fruit Frenzy. I cashed out $3000 and it was in my Neteller within a couple of minutes. So now there was $3000 worth of "seed money" in my Neteller account. My $400 payout from Cocoa Casino arrived about an hour after my Casino Extreme withdrawal did.
I put some more money into Roxy Palace, and that's when I hit the $2000 win on a bet of $11.25 at Spring Break. I promptly entered a withdrawal for the $2000.
I put some money into Crazy Vegas and hit about $800 on Thunderstruck, I ended up withdrawing $1000.
I deposited into Desert Dollar and was playing 4-hand Deuces and Joker and hit another natural Royal Flush, this time for $4000 because I had been betting $20 total ($5 per individual hand) as opposed to Monday's royal flush which was a total bet of $5 ($1.25 per individual hand). I promptly entered a withdrawal for the $4000 after saving a screenshot.
Back at iNetBet, I hit a win of $1067 on Ronin and withdrew $1000.
At 49er I used their 100% up to $200 slots-only match bonus, which has a $6000 wagering requirement. My bankroll was down to $3.25 at one point! I had been betting big at Fruit Frenzy but had to reduce the bet to $2.50 and that's when I hit the feature, winning $280 or so. Near the end of the $6000 wagering requirement I hit an $870 win on Aladdin's Wishes from a $20 bet. When the WR was met I was left with $950 which I was tempted to try to get up to $1000 but didn't dare - so I withdrew the $950.
That's when I called it a night.
And then there was Saturday
I woke up and put $100 into Club USA casino, and headed to Ronin for some $10 spins. I was down to $37 when I spun it again (bringing my bankroll down to $27) and that's when I hit the feature. My biggest RTG win to date. I got the feature where you get 5 spins with increasing multipliers (1x, 2x, 3x, 4x and then 5x on your 5th spin). If you're lucky enough to retrigger the feature, which you can only do once, you will get another 5 spins with multipliers of 6x, 7x, 8x, 9x and 10x on the 10th spin. I was lucky enough to retrigger the feature - on the 5th spin too. If it would let me I would have retriggered it again because I got the 2 red guy scatter symbols with the round thing in the middle
a second time during the free spins but I did not receive another 5 spins. When the reels stopped spinning, that $10 bet had won $4,558.
I withdrew $4200 because I had deposited $100 the night before (and lost it quickly) plus the $100 from today, so a net profit of $4000. The rest I played with, and I hit a good feature on some other game (can't remember) so I ended up reversing the withdrawal and then cashing out $4500. They paid me the weekly limit of $3000 and the other $1500 will come next week.
All week long I had been playing at Lucky Nugget, trying very hard to win something but I just couldn't get anything. Until today. I turned a $200 deposit into $4000, mostly by playing the single-deck blackjack game.
And then came the reversals
Too often, reversing a withdrawal has disastrous consequences. Fortunately for me, today they did not.
I reversed my $950 withdrawal at 49er Casino and played blackjack to get it to $1000.
I reversed my $4000 withdrawal at Lucky Nugget and played blackjack to get it to $5000. I was playing $200 hands of the single-deck game, and I did start to get nervous because I had dropped to around $1800 at one point.
I reversed my $4000 withdrawal at Desert Dollar and played blackjack to get it to $5000.
I reversed my $2000 withdrawal at Roxy Palace and played blackjack to get it to $4000, then a little later I reversed it again to get it up to $5000.
So that's an additional $5050 I won from reversing withdrawals. Just think, if they didn't have a holding period, they would have kept all that money.
Summary
Before this week, I was running a net loss of
$4700 over the course of the year. Right now I have
$18,500 in pending withdrawals. This puts me at a net profit of
$13,800 for the year - the bulk of which was acquired in only 2 days time.
When I think about the new law, I realize that there could not be a better time to have come out ahead.
I leave tomorrow morning on a business trip for a few days. By the time I come back I should have received some or most of my withdrawals, although I am bringing along a laptop so that I can play from the hotel room.
Thank goodness for free wireless internet and no-download Flash versions of the casinos!
