{"id":372,"date":"2004-06-02T21:24:48","date_gmt":"2004-06-03T04:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/?p=372"},"modified":"2008-11-20T23:26:20","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T07:26:20","slug":"back-on-empirepoker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/02\/back-on-empirepoker\/","title":{"rendered":"Back on EmpirePoker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who&#8217;s been keeping up with this blog will know that I haven&#8217;t said boo about poker (with the exception of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/28\/final-hand-at-the-wsop\/\">announcing the winner<\/a> of the World Series) since I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/02\/the-long-steep-decline-of-my-bankroll\/\">lost my bankroll<\/a> back in April and May.<\/p>\n<p>In case you&#8217;ve been wondering, I haven&#8217;t played a single ring game for a month. I did play a few freeroll tourneys on PokerStars, and actually came in second in the qualifier and the weekly, netting me $50. That went straight into my Neteller account. And while that was fine and all, it took about ten hours of play for me to get that $50, which really wasn&#8217;t worth my time.<\/p>\n<p>The other day I got an email from EmpirePoker alerting me to the fact that I had $10 sitting in my account. All I had to do was play 300 raked hands to claim it. Given my experience in April, I wasn&#8217;t sure I was going to last an entire session. But free money is free money, so I played it. Now I&#8217;m up $20 after 102 minutes of play, 119 hands, at a rate of 16.81BB\/100 hands. Got another 251 raked hands to go before I can cash out the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p>This is nowhere near recovery of my bankroll. I&#8217;m hoping, however, that I&#8217;ll be able to cash out another $50 and then rebuy for $100 when they send me a 50% deposit bonus. $150 should be enough to give me a fighting chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who&#8217;s been keeping up with this blog will know that I haven&#8217;t said boo about poker (with the exception of announcing the winner of the World Series) since I lost my bankroll back in April and May. In case you&#8217;ve been wondering, I haven&#8217;t played a single ring game for a month. I did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poker"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/psIKy-60","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}