Well, somebody is rusty! I take one week off and it's like I completely forgot how to win. I lost some sports bets, but mainly I got wiped out in black jack and in the poker rooms. It's amazing how momentum seems to apply even to luck! At least I didn't start chasing!


End of week:  $920 to $16,246

No gambling or betting this week. Sorry all.


End of week:  $17,166 (no action)

I took the sports betting angle this week and I must say, I'm really getting my systems down on college hoops. I like February when the teams have established their true identities, and I started rocking parlays left and right! I didn't step foot in casino or poker room except for one night of hold'em, and in the end I pulled in $2,314 net.


End of week:  $2,314 to $17,166

I tried to build on last week's conservative play to continue building my base. Hey, it's early in the year after all. My goal is to push my base over $15,000 and then spice it up a bit. I should say as an aside that while this is my money for year, it's not all money which certainly takes some of the stress out of it. It's funny how it seems easier to win when you don't have to stress about it. But I think there is a valuable lesson here: Make sure you set aside a good base to play with, even if it takes you a few months to build up. Be prepared to lose this too. Not that you will of course, lol, but you need to play without budget dictating your decisions so that you can capitalize when the table is hot. An example of this comes from a roulette table I was on this week (I forget which site), where I debated pulling back on the one number I was playing big because it hadn't come out in like 40 spins or more. But I kept my cool and then it hit about 3 times over the next 10 spins and that pushed me over the top for this week.


End of week:  $1,480 to $14,852