What I’ve Learned This Month (So Far!)

Posted by icemonkey9 on Oct 15, 2008 in General | 0 comments

September was a really trying month for me personally. The last week of September saw true pain and suffering to the people I love in my life and really put into perspective how trivial win/losses of online poker really are. I think that's been my biggest tilt control lesson to date - and also a gut check in terms of time management and priority levels for life even if (*just* for the sake of example) I were to suddenly be given Johnny Chan's abilities and play 600nl and win it for 154bb/100 and do this for a living.

October brought new hope and new perspective in life, work, and my main hobby (poker!). A month of optimism and hope began. I was able to play about 11,000 hands this month in (I think) 10 days. The first ~7,000 hands honestly were a mix of the following:

  • Me learning the ropes at 50nl and proper bet sizes
  • Me learning what bets mean in certain spots at 50nl (especially preflop)
  • Sick sick beats (confirmed after post-game inspection)
  • More sick beats

Stats during this stretch (from Oct 1 to Oct 7th):

  • Dates: 10/1/08 to 10/7/08
  • Hands: 6,980
  • Profit: -$46.35
  • Win Rate: -0.66bb/100

The second part of this run, which really encompasses the last 33% of the hands saw me really start to assert myself at 50nl Fullring. Some of the sick beats were gone but I also saw some of the weirdest hands that reduced what should have been an ever better win-rate (2 times losing with a Boat to Quads for example). Here are the stats for the last ~4,500 hands from this month:

  • Dates: 10/8/08 to Present Day
  • Hands: 4,419
  • Profit: +$320.00
  • Win Rate: 7.24bb/100

Quite a difference wouldn't you say? Again I haven't played any poker since the morning of the 11th (4 days ago) so who knows what this means as a whole. I am not planning too deep a reflection at this point - that's really to come at the 20k hand mark, so I really should cut this short here.

Anyways, that's the update and here's the obligatory graph so far this month...

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