Although I wanted to avoid it, I finally did break down and put some money on Bovada. The main reason for this is that Merge has been randomly removing players from the 15% VIP program AND capping some players at 4 table max. I've spent too much time getting back to this point to have another monkey wrench thrown at me, so I think adding another site makes sense. So far, everything is normal for me at Carbon. Maybe by cutting back my tables and playing on Bovada, I can try to stay under the radar or at least the bad radar.

I've read from numouers sources that Bovada has more traffic and softer games BUT the tables are anonymous and using a HUD is sketchy. I'll definitely have to make some adjustments to my normal play playing a more rote ABC style, less table dynamics, less need to worry about image, and so on. I'm not happy about it, but many players say they make money there, so hopefully I can have similar success. I deposited $750 so I could potentially make that in just bonus money over the next 60 days depending on how much I play and clear. Hopefully 15 buy-ins is enough to not go busto