Week 1 is in the books. Unfortunately, I did not do what I said I would to improve this month, which was limit fuckaround time. I have a monthly goal of 60k hands. I am on pace for a touch over 53k hands. As I said before, it is fine to not reach this goal if I have a legit reason for it, such as working OT or spending loads more time with family than in a normal week or being out of town or something coming up out of the blue. And while I had a good day today spending some time at the park with the family, and I did work an extra 14 hours of OT this week to make some progress on a time critical task, I still did not limit fuckaround time. I got in about 12k hands, roughly 12 hours of play, and to be on pace, I needed to play another 2 hours. I could have got that in, despite the OT. Hopefully week 2 is better as far as that goes. I control this myself, no one else does and it is only I who can resolve this issue. Next week will be better hands down.
It was a good week, and I feel I am playing very well right now. I made a few changes to my game that are yielding great results and as long as > 50% of the field is recreational players, my formula for success is fairly evident. Over my last 50k hands, my winrate is about 5 ptbb. It is not a large enough sample, but I do think that I can easily take from that that I can expect ~ 50k hands per month and maybe 3.5 ptbb and once you include rakeback, I can have essentially variance-free (month-to-month) winnings each month in excess of $2,300. I hope for more, but we shall see. I did not do that last month, but the first week of less than optimal play is the cause of that.
Life is good overall, I can't complain. I am looking forward for when days like today are the norm (mid 60s, sunny). It was great to grill out some dogs and play catch with some family at the park today. We aired out the house too, opening up all the windows during the day. I loooove when we get to do that! I know it may seem silly, but little things like opening windows in the house on a nice day really help me to appreciate how good my life is and to enjoy the little things.
Hope all is well with you all.
5 comments:
great blog !!!
How on earth do you plan on putting in 60k hands while working a full time job? I find that unpossible.
Had a busy short month in February and put in over 50k. Playing rush is the key, because I get in ~ 1,000 hands per hour.
Oh well, rush poker is the devil as far as I can tell. Totally different story there.
The devil? Noooo, it's the angel. Loving it for my purposes. I can make some coin to pay off debt and do a few other things, while increasing my time to do other things besides poker. It's phenomenal.
High limits rush may be the devil for most of you guys, since it takes recreational players away from you. But I play 50nl, since I enjoy the low variance game that keeps me stress free. I may eventually move up to 100nl, but man, 50nl is just so easy to make a few K a month, so I dunno if I ever will. Therefore, my games don't affect your fishies and aren't the devil. :-p
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