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ShaunR United States. Jul 28 2008 18:17. Posts 604 | | |
Ok, so a half year review is a month late but here goes anyways.
I really started playing poker about this time last year and spent the second half of 2007 learning as much as I could and putting in a ton of hands, even grinding out supernova at NL100. Unfortunately the result was a severe drop in my stamina and disipline to put in a lot of hands per month.
This year I have averaged less than 20k hands (and less than 30 hours) of poker per month - which is a fraction of what I used to play. Which really is a shame because I'm playing better and at higher stakes and making a lot more money.
Here is my graph for the year, the downswing in the middle was my first shot at NL400.
A pretty consistent $100/hr without considering bonuses etc, so I'm pretty happy with poker as a hobby right now. I have considered quiting my job and playing poker full time but for now I'm content with keeping it a hobby and a source of extra income. My biggest concern financially is that some law will be passed or some other trend will cause the games to dry up so I believe sticking with my career (which I really enjoy and am good at) is the safest approach. Outside of that I think it's also healthier mentally. The financial freedom poker brings comes at the cost of the daily grind, which I'm pretty sure would drive me insane.
Of course that said, 20k hands a month is still pretty pathetic for the amount of tables I play and I definately think I should be picking up the slack in the second half of the year and pulling in some more profits.
Oh, and I'm going to vegas later this week. I've only been once for a weekend (stayed at the luxor) so if anyone has any "must-do" ideas please drop me a line here!
Good luck,
-Itz
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Zhan Czech Republic. Jul 28 2008 18:22. Posts 152 | | |
That is very solid and still nice amount of hands. Also cool bb/100 i guess. |
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sniderstyle United States. Jul 28 2008 21:10. Posts 2046 | | |
haha wow, i have almost the same feelings as you on most things. im actually writing a blog post in a few days about my first year as a serious poker player. check it out, im sure you'd be interested. |
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k2o4 United States. Nov 21 2008 19:35. Posts 4803 | | |
Great graph and winrate. I can't wait to have one like it - just gotta stop spewing T_T |
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