So the last day of the month was quite a grind. I woke up pretty hung over as I’d just attended an all you can drink charity event the night before but I still needed 1900 vpp points on stars til the 10k mark for the month so some grinding had to be done. I ended up 6 tabling 2/4 plo for about 1300 hands and then finished the night 10 tabling 1/2 nlh. I had some good results and ran well for the day, I was actually really surprised how easy I found 9 tabling hold em to be, once I got to 10 though it was too much and I started making some mistakes but I only crossed the 10k vpp mark at 8:55 PST (stars runs on EST) with 5 mins to spare so 10 tables it was. Overall, it was a very good day for my bankroll padding $4300 or so but REALLY unpleasant grinding lots of tables for quite a few hours hungover which I don’t recommend to anyone.
Below are my results for February
Hold’em
PLO
Tournies I lost $550 or something on the 6max plo ftops so really ended up at like $22.3k. I was a shorstack at the time but here’s the bustout hand if you’re interested.
I’m obviously ecstatic about last month’s results. In march I’d really like to put in more volume however. I can’t expect to run this good every month. Things accounting for my low hand volume are
-I was 1-2 tabling high stakes plo a couple days chasing a whale
-PLO is much more taxing on my brain at the moment, I really have to think about hands hard when I play, in hold’em a lot of stuff is just really “standard” or simple. As I play more hands of plo this should go away or at least decrease, I’m already finding it easier to play longer and more tables at a time. (If this doesn’t make sense to you let me elaborate – I’m still learning what correct preflop strategies are in certain spots, as this gets easier and I get more experience I won’t have to really think about preflop it will just be automatic, after this comes flop play, then turn, river etc so the more hands & experience you get the faster and easier grinding becomes)
-I was sick for about a week
-February is a short month
But anyways, enough excuses, bottom line is I was lazy on a lot of days and slept in longer than I should have instead of waking up early and grinding. In march I’d like to grind out a lot more hands of 2/4 and if I have another good month I should reach a major personal milestone as well as feel comfortable taking a shot at moving up to the 5/10 plo games. I’m actually anxiously awaiting my next plo downswing as I know it’s coming, I don’t want to tilt off a bunch of $$ senselessly during it and I want it to happen at 2/4 not 5/10. I guess it sounds stupid to be looking forward to a downswing happening and losing money but I honestly am at the moment!
Three final things I’d like to mention:
1. I was running out of hard disk space recently and had no idea where all my space had gone. I found this cool utility called CleanUP! that saved me 8.5 gigs out of my 40 gb hardrive by deleting temp files I never use. Perhaps you will find it useful as well. I also installed a free windows folder size utility which lets you see how big each folder is in the explorer window which I found helpful – I don’t know why windows doesn’t come with this as a default.
2. I’m excited about my first plo coaching session tomorrow
3. I’ve been working on moving my blog over to it’s own standalone domain. That should be happening soon but it’s proving more difficult and time consuming than I first imagined. I like it though as it gives me something to spend my time in the evenings on that is semiproductive as opposed to browsing 2+2 or CR mindlessly for hours.