it's ferocious when you broke and focused

Nah, I'm not broke but I maintained a "broke" mindset this month to help grinding. I zoned out all the temptations, kept up with gym 3 times a week. I basically focused on one thing, POKER. Profit-wise this is my biggest month of the year and yes it feels awesome to end on high note.

I played about 1200 games, met my volume target. Went through some really sick swings, broke even for about two weeks straight, overall ROI dropped from 10% to 7% at one point. I filtered out turbos, and my ROI for reg speeds is actually 11%. I ran terrible in $100s-$160s in a relatively small sample shown below:

Getting down my 3-4 tabling skillz, my game's improving I feel. Played a lot of regs this month, including a set of games against Robert which were certainly interesting...I'm sure we both learnt a lot from those. Feels like I've gained a deeper understanding of HUSNG VARIANCE this month, yes I am still bitching a lot and yes these swings are still painful as ever but I've learnt that there's definitely no way to escape, cheat it. In the past I wasn't sure if i was just unlucky because I played fewer games, but now the numbers are all working out when I'm grinding 1000 games/month. Masochistically, I might be even enjoying this process because everytime after one of these swings I feel I become emotionally stronger.

2011 will be a big year, I don't want to set a profit goal but definitely want to start making $10k/month soon, and definitely want to start playing $200-$300 when I get rolled for those. I've controlled my spending somewhat because it's simply easier to not spend that much when I'm not working...I don't feel the need to spoil myself buying stuff, getting massages all the time...

#14 on HUSNG HIGHEST LIMIT LEADERBOARD, #1 CANADIAN PLAYER LOL.....BOOOOOM

Current Heads Up SNG Leaderboard (Highest Limit) Dec 01 2010 ET -- Dec 31 2010 ET < Previous Next >
Rank	Player ID	All Countries   Argentina   Australia   Austria   Belarus   Brazil   Canada   Colombia   Denmark   Egypt   Estonia   Germany   Hungary   Italy   Lithuania   Maldives   Malta   Morocco   Netherlands   Norway   Panama   Poland   Portugal   Romania   Russia   Slovakia   Slovenia   Sweden   Switzerland   Thailand   Ukraine   United Kingdom   United States	Chips	Prize
1	mersenneary	United States	419.0	20 x fav buyin
2	kkenkk	Brazil	373.5	16 x fav buyin
3	tasasas	Russia	320.5	14 x fav buyin
4	Provokation	Germany	310.5	12 x fav buyin
5	Kierkegaard1	United Kingdom	310.0	11 x fav buyin
6	DoubleKpl	Poland	301.0	10 x fav buyin
7	SzNuR	Russia	299.5	9 x fav buyin
8	notgoingnewhere	United Kingdom	296.0	8 x fav buyin
9	Brav3H3art	United Kingdom	287.0	7 x fav buyin
10	tressizback	United States	272.0	6 x fav buyin
11	The Sweeper	United States	261.5	5 x fav buyin
12	Sargon38	United States	257.5	5 x fav buyin
13	goinfishn08	United States	253.5	5 x fav buyin
14	john521	Canada	246.5	5 x fav buyin

PROFIT:

 FT+STARS+CAKE+RB = $4821 (prolly closer to $7k cuz ROBBY took all the 4mans LOL)

FT HUSNG LEADERBOARD BONUS = $400

TOTAL : $5200

I STARTED OUT W/ 0 AND TURNED NOTHING INTO SOMETHING
EVEN IF U NEVER LIKED ME, U GOTTA BE PROUD OF ME
CUZ IF U LIKE ME NOW IMMA MAKE U LOVE ME

week 1 update

I woke up yesterday to the news of the new poker legislation...that depressed me a lot...I ended up thinking bout that shit the whole day and reading the forums.

This is all it takes to fuck it up for everyone, the greed of a few men. Americans are too good at being politicians, using whatever means for self interest, to satisfy the needs of  ppl who are already rich n powerful. I know I can easily add a third site to help with volume but I think what will end up happening for myself is fewer games/hr, fewer fish, less hourly rate, which means I have to start seriously grinding 5 hours a day...Which is fine, because lately I went back to my routine of getting up at 11 am, and sleeping at 3 am...I am putting in more sessions which each last 1-1.5 hour.

Profit this month so far is $2662 but is really closer to $3000 because of chops. I haven't played much so far in this 1st week, averaging about 3 hrs/day. My business w/ CJ is going real good...we're close to averaging 1 customer/day lol...I take care of receiving payments and he deals with their bullshit haha...Chinese customers=act like they own the shit out of you when you take their money...I.E. 30 yr old lady buys lingerie and continues bugging CJ about things like "hey do you think I would look good in this"?

Again, no profit goals this month, but definitely 1200 games by the 31st......FIRE