What do you do when your girlfriend leaves you hanging on a Thursday night with nothing to do? I don’t know about you, but poker is at the top of my list. Bodog’s online casino has got some mean poker games and their Caribbean Stud is up there with the best of them.

A couple of weeks ago I found myself home alone while Angie was out with the girls. I was surfing the net with nothing else much to do, so poker answered the call for me and I swung by Bodog to see what I cound find. Caribbean Stud looked pretty sweet, I like it because it’s fast paced and an easy win when you get a good streak going. I was feeling pretty hot so I went ahead and deposited some cash into my central Bodog account with eWallet Express (started with $700, though I shouldn’t have played that much I wanted to really have a night of it).

I headed over to Bodog’s Caribbean Stud Poker and got started. The game play is pretty quick and they don’t waste any time, so I didn’t either, ha! I started small though and bet 10 on my first hand and threw a dollar on the progressive jackpot. It’s always worth it to put a buck in that progressive; you never know when you’re going to hit it big. The progressive that night was somewhere around $32,000 so I was hoping I’d have something to surprise Angie with by the end of the night. Anyway, first hand I bet 10 and got nothing but ace high. The dealer had a three showing so I raised since I didn’t have much to lose at that point. The dealer ended up with a pair of nines so I wound up losing, but that’s the chance you take in this game with nothing but an ace all by itself. Onward and upward I hoped.

Next hand I took a little more of a risk; I threw a dollar on the progressive and decided to hit my ante for fifty. This time I actually had something half decent when the cards were dealt. I got two pair – tens and fours. The dealer had a king showing, so he might have been in the game, but with two pair I wasn’t going to fold, right? So I raised, and now I’m in for 150 and I’m sweating it a little. But the cards turn up and he’s got nothing but king high! Not too shabby on two pair and I walked away from that hand a pretty happy man.

The next few hands were not all too exciting. One hand the dealer didn’t qualify in so I just won ante which wasn’t too much because I was getting nervous that my streak was going to run away on me. I was picking up maybe ten here and twenty five there. On one hand though I was up by a couple hundred and decided to bet 150 on one hand, and on that one I actually wound up with a full house, and the dealer didn’t even qualify. THAT was my best hand of the night. I walked away from that table with an extra thousand bucks that night when all was said and done.

I was finished playing and knew I had to stop before it turned on me so I went and withdrew my account funds so I wouldn’t be tempting myself to bet anymore. I used a wire transfer to withdraw and didn’t have any problems with it, and don’t think I ever have at Bodog either. Got my money and Angie was really stoked when I told her what happened. We celebrated big time!

JJ