I'm baaaaack! Back from my two-week vacation which included a Caribbean cruise. The trip was actually part of a wedding that I was in for a friend of mine and very fun, thanks for asking. I admit it was hard laying off the tables in the ship's casino, but I can be laying down my own cash given the freeroll from my employer Gamblera after all. I do admit that I joined the women in our group a few times for some roulette and bingo, but that was just child's play for fun. For a guy who is control of his gambling though, it sure is great to be back at "work" with my $23,309 stake as I review these sites and blog for you all.

Anyway, I dedicated the first three days back to the poker rooms for a total of about 20 hours. I played at my staples: sportsbook.com and fulltilt, and I pulled in a fair $900 for all my efforts. After that, I decided that I might as well make it a solid poker week. I tried a bunch of new casinos that gamblera.com had wanted to make a first screening of, and they were crap. I made some money with the help of a few small first-time despositer promotions, but the interfaces were garbage, the rakes were week and the tournaments were garbage. I told gamblera no need for a second opinion and no need to even list them here (one is actually now listed on our blacklist page for spam/illegal activies). From there I closed out the week at a site that gamblera has ranked No. 2 at the time of this writing, titanpoker.com. A few of our staff raved about it, but what I initially saw was another Playtech site (which are always solid) pleasantly surprised me. For a poker room that gets no pub and doesn't market much, the quality, players, support, rakes and touranments were great. I also made $3,234, but that's not supposed to factor into my opinion much according to my review guidelines here. I should say that gamblera.com is great about the reviews and doesn't get into affiliate parnterships unless sites are objectively ranked highly first, and if a site falls out of favor too far, we remove the site and the partnership altogether, so I would call it a great resource for you newbies and seasoned online players alike.


End of week:  $3,315 to $26,624