The Flashing Blue Chat Button
At Pacific Poker you have to manually open the chat window as a separate window. It is not integrated with the poker table and does not automatically open when the table window opens like most other sites. I rarely turn the chat window on. I find it an unnecessary distraction. I have noticed, though, that when there are new chat entries made by others, that chat button, normally green, flashes blue.
Last night I was in MP3 with AA. I raised after two limpers, and the C/O 3-bet me. We got two callers, and I capped it. 4 of us saw a K-high flop that also had two spades (I held the Ace of spades.) It was checked to me and I bet. C/O raised, dropping the other two. I 3-bet and he capped. Turn was another spade, giving me 4 to the nut flush. I bet out and he raised. I 3-bet and he capped. The river brought my set Ace. I bet out and he called. He showed pocket kings for a flopped set, which I rivered him out of for a real nice pot.
The chat button started flashing blue, and continued to flash blue for the next 5 minutes. Wonder what he was saying about me!
Unfortunately, that was all I could put together last night. It was one of those sessions where I flop a flush and check it to the river and everyone folds to my river bet. Or I flop two pair and everyone folds to my flop bet. I flop a flush draw and there's tons of action, but I can't pull the draw. Winning small pots and losing big ones. I finished up 0.5 BB on the session. I'll take it.
I deposited at Intercasino for the monthly $100 bonus. I ran it up to $210 and quit, planning to finish it at Poker. I checked the progress to see how much more clearing was required, and found that I was still meeting the rollover for the May bonus I had busted. I had forgotten they do that - keep the rollover requirement going for the previous month even if you bust it. I played some more blackjack, having a huge U-shaped session before finishing at +$210 ($110 from play, $100 from bonus) again. Now I have $210 in bonus to work off with 105% of the bonus requirements left to be met. I think that'll be good enough, getting a double Interpoker bonus this month. Plus they are giving me $20 for playing 1 hand, because I have not played there for a while. So, $230 for 500 MPPs. Good enough to chase this month, even in the rock gardens of Crypto.