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Oh, the Anguish! Review of 2023
I've been playing online blackjack for 3 years now, and year 2023 has been the worst by far. The year started out bad and by the end of January I was down over $8,000. At one point during the year, I was down by over $14,000. However, several times during the year I would make a comeback and go slightly positive for the year only to be followed by a large down turn.
Well, for some reason everything came together for me in October, and I found myself up over $10,000 for the year at the end of October. It was then I tooted my horn proclaiming I was up enough for the year without having to worry about having a losing year with only two more months to go. Then everything went to hell.
I started losing again. It seemed like all I was doing was losing. I remember checking my records on Dec 8th and I was still up $89 for the year. Then 5 days later I was down over $5,000 for the year. Oh the anguish! I'm going to have a losing year.
Then, I was offered a promotion. It wasn't a great promotion like in the early days of online blackjack in MI, but wasn't bad either. The promotion was for every $100 played on table games they would give a $1 credit up to $1,000 in credits. So I thought this was a good chance to win a few hundred dollars. To get the max number of credits in would require $100,000 in play.
I started playing the promotion, and to my surprise I was winning for a change. I knew at some point it would turn bad again, but at the halfway point I was still winning. I then started thinking would it be possible to still pull off a winning year. Yeah, then the downturn started, and my hopes for a winning year were dashed. However, the down turn didn't last long and soon I was winning again with hopes renewed for a winning year.
As I was approaching the $100,000 mark in play after 12 hours of play, I realized with my $1,000 in free credits I probably had enough to pull off a winning year even if it is only by a few dollars. I then said if I get ahead for the year, I'm quitting for the year. I played the free credits which also went well, and I found myself up $550 for the year. It was a $5,600 comeback in one day. Only a few times in my life have I made more in one day.
PS. Wish me well for 2024. As of right now I'm up over $3,000 for 2024.
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