Monthly Report aka I Run Good

Wow, what can I say, I can't believe that I'm posting this right now but I have a total profit this month over $5000. It has been by far my best poker month since I started playing and if I could keep it up I'd be making $60,000+/year working less than 20 hours a week which is a pretty good number :). Too bad my winrate this month wasn't sustainable at 100NL playing less than 20 hours a week. I played a lot of HU and 6max this month compared to almost all FR for the past couple months. HU was super profitable and half of my ring game profits this month came from 100NL HU. I ran super hot while playing HU and it was an interesting to switch it up a little bit, but I can't see myself playing HU regularly. The swings are absolutely ridiculous and not good for my mental stability atm.

I am debating whether or not to stick to FR or 6max or play a little of both next month though. If I play FR I'll most likely move to 200NL as I currently have over 40 Buy-ins for that level. If I play 6max I will most likely stay at 100NL for at least half of the month since I am not totally comfortable there yet. The only problem is that 6max seems to send me on life tilt every time I play so if that is the route I choose I will need to learn to control that. Right now I'm kind of leaning towards playing mostly 200NL FR and just grinding out hands/VPPs while 12 tabling (Maybe I'll get a new monitor and try 16). I think that will end up netting me the most total profit next month.

Alright, well I've got to go study a little bit. I'm gonna be too busy the next couple days to play any poker so that's why I'm posting my monthly report a little bit early. I've included my Graph and Winnings Summary for the month for your enjoyment. I didn't include a couple limits in my winnings summary, that's why the numbers don't match exactly. I also placed in 3/5 5400 FPP sattys and won $150 in tournaments to bring my grand total for the month to $5531.31.

Halftime Report (Sort Of)

Ok, so its not exactly halfway through the month, I'm a few days late. I wasn't gonna post one of these, but I am bored and decided why the hell not. I was waiting to post a report from my trip to Washington DC but I'm too lazy to upload all the photos from my camera/phone. Hopefully in the next couple days I'll put a full trip report up with photos, but for now I'll just let you know that it was a blast.

I know I haven't been updating frequently at all lately and its partly because I'm kind of busy, but also because I'm kind of lazy. Also, I don't really know what the hell to write about in these posts. I've been playing a bit of HU lately and loving it. Its so ridiculously fishy that I cant believe it. Took $320 from this guy today who never folded a pair ever. I just waited til I had top pair and 3 barreled. Called me down every time he had any piece of the board. It was nice. So far this month has been another great one and I'm on pace to beat last month so wish me luck. One thing that I have been pretty proud of myself for is that I haven't tilted in quite awhile (with the exception of one hand vs a shortstacker). I still do get angry sometimes which is my biggest problem with my whole poker experience. I wish that I could just keep a cool head the entire time I played no matter what happened. At least the anger hasn't been affecting my play and it doesn't happen too frequently. I've even had zach review some hands for me during downswings when I'm angry and he thinks that I play perfectly fine.

Here's the graph for the month so far. I have ~$500 more in bonuses/tourney wins so add that to the total. Also, I just hit over $10k total in ring game profits yesterday and went over $11k today. So yea, its been a good last couple days :)

7639 Hands, $348.46 + BONUSES

Alright, I started off October playing some 100NL 6max and lets just say it didn't go too well. Actually, I'll rephrase that, I played really well (for the most part) and ran terrible so I actually have no problems with how 6max went. I know for a fact that I can beat 100NL 6max and I'm sure I'll venture back for a little while before the month is over. After being -$700 in EV last month, I've started this month -$300 in EV, so even though I'm running pretty bad I'm still doing quite well. As you can see i had a nice 6 Buy-in downswing on the 2nd and 3rd days of the month followed by a very nice comeback at 100NL FR (which is easily beatable by playing strictly TAG btw). I also played in two 5400 FPP sattys and won them both for a nice extra $428 in profits. So even though I've ran slightly bad this month is still going real good so far.

I've also decided to start withdrawing half of my profits every Sunday since I'm kind of getting tired of seeing my Poker BR increase while my bank account balance continues to decrease. I feel like there's no real reason to play if I'm not at least seeing some of my profits show up to use in real life. Also, its not like I will be blowing money stupidly after I take it out. I've always been pretty good at saving money and I am really going to need a new car in about 4-6 months or so. My current 1992 Honda Accord is on its last legs and I'm hoping it can last a few more months when I hopefully have some nice poker profits to purchase a new one. This may delay my move to 200NL, but whatever, I'm fine with that. I know that I will be there eventually.

On a school note, this is the first week that work has started to really pile up. I just took a test this morning and I have 2 tests back to back on Thursday in my two hardest classes. As soon as I finish writing this post I am going to study for probably 5 hours the rest of the night. I don't think I will be able to put in any hands of poker until Thursday and my 40k hand goal is looking like it might not happen, but whatever, school has to come first. I'm also leaving for Washington D.C. on Thursday night for a little vacation and won't be back til Sunday afternoon so that's another 4 days I won't be playing. The more I think about it, 40k hands this month is going to be totally unattainable. I really haven't taken more than a couple days off from playing poker for the last few months. I know I've talked about it before, but I've never actually done it, so a full week or so off from poker might be good for me.

Here's the graph for the month so far.