Dang. So the King of Pop is dead. Michael Jackson went down within 10 minutes of me winning $4,000 on a ridiculous run at Caribbean Stud in the Riverbelle Casino. The software was in payout mode and I was getting one huge hit after another. Four of Kinds, Full Houses, Straights, Trips, etc. I told you there were advantages to this, and Jay Reese wrote a great article that touches on this on Gamblera.com which you can check out at http://www.gamblera.com/features/online-casinos-rigged.shtml.

Anyway, I spent the rest of the week losing sports bets and poker games and still finished up $3,200!

End of week:  $3,177 to $35,120

I'm back in action after a nice vacation from gambling and work in general. OK, that's a bit of a lie. I did play for fun in Atlantic City one night. And what I remembered from the experience is how much more expensive it can be! Between a hotel, meals, a few drinks at the bar and some entertainment, casinos really hit your wallet hard if you don't win, and seriously dampen your winnings if you do win. Alcohol plays a part in that of course, and the idea that they never post a clock anywhere and you are like prisoner. When I play online at home I have enough other distractions to keep things at a more leisurely, sporting pace. Maybe I'm bitter because I did take a beating in AC and of course that was on my dime.

Anyway, I was back to work this week and hit up Casino Las Vegas for a good portion of the time with my focus on black jack and a few other table games. I held my own and then got up on some sports bets, and feel good about getting back in the swing of things.

End of week:  $890 to $31,943

Incidentally, I've been working (and gambling online) in a few countries in Europe for the most part since January. Call me a jetsetter I guess. Anway, I'm back in the United States for the a few months where you would think that playing online could be a bit of a challenge. But it's not so bad. We get a lot of questions on gamblera.com about where people in the U.S. can go to gamble online. We have an excellent guide on this topic at www.gamblera.com.gambling-in-the-us.shtml. But here's a shortlist of some of the sites I have included in my mix recently from the U.S.:
bodoglife.com
sportsbook.com
Online Vegas
Golden Casino
Go Casino

I specifically mention the sites above because that's where I played this past week. Despite my success in the past at all of these sites, I got roughed up a bit this week in the casinos, mainly on the chill Free Ride which I love in a relaxing playing while watching a movie sort of way and in Three Card Poker and Spanish 21. I dropped about a grand, which is nothing giving my lead!

End of week:  $1,087 to $31,053