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While I'm sitting, waiting for a 6-hour Ladbrokes withdrawal to hit my NeTeller account in... another 3-hours time, and taking a break from Prima Poker and its every-other-hand is a cooler RNG cool so I'm on tilt, I decided to write about something that happened to me recently.
About 3 weeks ago on a very early Tuesday morning, with an empty NeTeller account, I put out a bunch of emails to different casinos I'd deposited to over the years (specifically ALL MG casinos at one time or another), in hopes that there was just a bit of chance that there was an unclaimed bonus waiting with my name on it. Desperate, yes, I know.
The good people at KingNeptunes - now with BelleRock - gave me $20 on the house, I thanked them (of course I did), but if anything, I just thought it would give me 20-30 minutes before I'd eventually bust-out. I wasn't thinking that I was about to go on a run, but that's precisely what happened.
Spinning away at .09 cents per at my unusual starting rotation of SpringBreak/LadiesNite/Thunderstruck/AgentJaneBlonde/TallyHo, I managed to get that up to $100 or so off a few relatively big hits. Over the course of that early morning, I was convincing myself that once the game gets cold, and I drop down $50 from whatever the highest point I've reached, I would cash-out. That didn't happen, and the run continued, and the session was over after about 12 hours without a break (I was convinced that they were going to suspect that there was a bot in play), I managed to cash-out with $5,000! It had been a long time since I made that kind of a cash-out, and I wasn't about to blow it.
Roughly 36-hours later, without the need of any approved ID, I had the $5,000 in my NeTeller account. No more than a day after that, I started with a conservative $60 deposit at AllJackpots casino (just went with that casino, picking-a-name out of a hat), and within a few hours, I managed to withdraw another $4,000. Luckily for me, I had to go to Japan on the Friday, which was a great thing, because I had enough time to organize my money and think about how I should manage my new-found funds.
I arrived back home 2 days later, and went to work on AllJackpots again, and managed to take it up to $11,000, and I withdrew $10,000 of that. As far as the remaining $1,000, I did in fact take that up to $3,500 while playing progressives and VP at $25-per-hand, but I was really just going for homeruns by that time with their money, and would eventually bottom out with those funds.
Since that spree, I've managed to pay-off some old debts, buy some much needed things, invest, and to maintain and protect a solid bankroll. I did go ballistic on over-depositing at Ladbrokes, which was completely stupid, but since that time, I've had much better control over my game play, and I've even (again) had some good luck there, albeit on greatly reduced deposits in the $20-60 range.
I no longer go to an old favorite of mine, and I have no regrets from walking away from it. If it's always the same thing - deposit, lose, deposit, lose (repeat this for years after years) - why bother.
These types of runs are quite rare for me, especially at MG casinos in general, so it's not like it's easy to win all of this. I'm just grateful for the $20 that started it all in the first place.
Steed
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While I'm sitting, waiting for a 6-hour Ladbrokes withdrawal to hit my NeTeller account in... another 3-hours time, and taking a break from Prima Poker and its every-other-hand is a cooler RNG cool so I'm on tilt, I decided to write about something that happened to me recently.
About 3 weeks ago on a very early Tuesday morning, with an empty NeTeller account, I put out a bunch of emails to different casinos I'd deposited to over the years (specifically ALL MG casinos at one time or another), in hopes that there was just a bit of chance that there was an unclaimed bonus waiting with my name on it. Desperate, yes, I know.
The good people at KingNeptunes - now with BelleRock - gave me $20 on the house, I thanked them (of course I did), but if anything, I just thought it would give me 20-30 minutes before I'd eventually bust-out. I wasn't thinking that I was about to go on a run, but that's precisely what happened.
Spinning away at .09 cents per at my unusual starting rotation of SpringBreak/LadiesNite/Thunderstruck/AgentJaneBlonde/TallyHo, I managed to get that up to $100 or so off a few relatively big hits. Over the course of that early morning, I was convincing myself that once the game gets cold, and I drop down $50 from whatever the highest point I've reached, I would cash-out. That didn't happen, and the run continued, and the session was over after about 12 hours without a break (I was convinced that they were going to suspect that there was a bot in play), I managed to cash-out with $5,000! It had been a long time since I made that kind of a cash-out, and I wasn't about to blow it.
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Roughly 36-hours later, without the need of any approved ID, I had the $5,000 in my NeTeller account. No more than a day after that, I started with a conservative $60 deposit at AllJackpots casino (just went with that casino, picking-a-name out of a hat), and within a few hours, I managed to withdraw another $4,000. Luckily for me, I had to go to Japan on the Friday, which was a great thing, because I had enough time to organize my money and think about how I should manage my new-found funds.
I arrived back home 2 days later, and went to work on AllJackpots again, and managed to take it up to $11,000, and I withdrew $10,000 of that. As far as the remaining $1,000, I did in fact take that up to $3,500 while playing progressives and VP at $25-per-hand, but I was really just going for homeruns by that time with their money, and would eventually bottom out with those funds.
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Since that spree, I've managed to pay-off some old debts, buy some much needed things, invest, and to maintain and protect a solid bankroll. I did go ballistic on over-depositing at Ladbrokes, which was completely stupid, but since that time, I've had much better control over my game play, and I've even (again) had some good luck there, albeit on greatly reduced deposits in the $20-60 range.
I no longer go to an old favorite of mine, and I have no regrets from walking away from it. If it's always the same thing - deposit, lose, deposit, lose (repeat this for years after years) - why bother.
These types of runs are quite rare for me, especially at MG casinos in general, so it's not like it's easy to win all of this. I'm just grateful for the $20 that started it all in the first place.
Steed
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