Gaming Club Casino Blog – Day 2

Welcome to Tuesday, and day 2 of my online casino blog for The Gaming Club Casino. I deposited $100 on Sunday, and thanks to their 100% match casino signup bonus, and 30 free spins, my balance now sits at $205.02.

Time to tackle those wagering requirements!

They also have various other tournaments running, like a Hitman slots tournament, which is free and has a 35 EURO Prize Pool, and a free entry to a Loaded Slots Tournament, with a prize pool of $1000! Amazing.

These tournaments are all free BTW, so feel free to sign up and participate! If you see my around, my alias is “DansBlog”.

For the Tomb Raider freeroll, all players receive 5000 coins and 5 minutes to play. We have 20 minutes till that starts, so lets hit up something else….

I decide to hit up the Texas Holdem Poker Bonus Table – Gold Series. It’s been awhile since I’ve played this but thankfully they list the rules, as well as the bonus rules, and make it nice and simple. Basically I get two cards dealt and can fold then, or keep going. Also there is the bonus bet where you can win extra cash too. So let’s get rolling.

The software is super easy to bet. No annoying dragging – just click the chip amount you want to bet, then click to place the bet, and click again for the bonus bet. The first hand:

I haven’t read up on strategy on this game – I really should actually, so I’m not even sure if I should play that or not. I’ll fold it for now. I remember reading awhile back that there was very few hands you shouldn’t play, due to the fact that you can check all the way through, and so you’ve already put down a large percentage of the total. Still, that does seem like one that I should be folding. I then get the option of “Rebet”, or “Rebet x2” which is an awesome idea for those people that like to Martingale.

Those people do NOT include me however.

I get dealt KT and raise. Flop is 5QQ, turn is a 2 so I check all that, then I hit the winner on the river!

The very next hand goes well, as I pick up J4 and hit a flop of AJA. I bet the whole way and am rewarded:

Nothing notable in my next few hands, except for when I have T8 and the dealer T9, and the board is 34578, giving me a pair at the death. Whee. Nothing like sucking out while playing against the house.

I then win my first bonus bet, with TT that flops a set..

After a few losses, I then pick up a nice win when I flop a flush. Unfortunately I couldn’t turn that into a straight flush. Oh well, I leave the table with $192.02 and it’s time for the tournament!

I can’t really give a blow by blow for the tournament as I’m basically mashing the “bet now” button as fast as possible, so here are some screenshots:

After the tournament is up, you get the opportunity to pay $2 to continue playing for 2 minutes. I did that, and it was really cool because it started where I left off with my free spins. I then had the opportunity to do it once more and did so. Alas, Windows Vista at that point decided it should crash on me. Arrrgh. I finished 47^th in the tournament with 6970 in winnings which wasn’t too bad. Who knows – with some luck I may have squeaked into the prize pool at the end there.

I decided to go out on a limb, and talk to live support about getting my $2 back. It’s only $2, but when you’re gambling with a $200 bankroll then that’s 1% of the actual bankroll, which really is a substantial amount. I spoke to Nicholas in live support, who said he would get it escalated and looked into. Within one hour, I receive an e-mail stating that due to the technical issues, they’ve credited my account with $5. Okay, that’s seriously awesome. I’ve played at a lot of online casinos in my time and could tell you some horror stories about customer support – so for them to credit me 250% is just awesome, even if it was just $5.

Thanks Gaming Club!

We end the night at $193.02. I seriously highly recommend signing up if only to play in those tournaments, they were a blast. Click here to signup, and I’ll be back tomorrow for some serious nose to the grindstone slot playing!