How much is your time worth?

So I normally try and play most Tuesday nights at Oceans-11. That's the night that Alan usually plays. Alan is a super nice guy, multimillionaire who owns a very successful movie chain.  He likes to gamble.  Sometimes however he has really good nights, like last night where he cashed out what looked to be somewhere in the 5 to 8 rack range, I wasn't really paying attention when he racked up and left. The game broke as soon as he quit, however. He normally only plays until like midnight, although last night he stayed until 1 am.

I only got to play for two hours with him. I got to Oceans around 8:30pm and there was a long list for the 20 and I was buried like 7 names deep. So instead I played 8/16 for 2 and half hours. The first was a must move 8/16 game that was perpetually short, with two props. It wasn't the greatest game in the world, but it wasn't super horrible either. I eventually got a seat in the main game, and unfortunately I had to sit to the immediate right of the world's most annoying Mexican kid. I did get to bust a TAGfish nit, who thought he was the greatest 8/16 limit player in the world, when my 44 flopped a full house versus his QQ, so that was at least kind of fun. I won a 114 dollars in this game before I got a seat in the 20/40.

At the 20/40, I never really got anything going and hovered between -200 and +200 for pretty much the entire night, eventually losing 64 dollars when the game broke. So on the night I won 5.525 big bets total and in actual dollars won 50. I got a little closer to the 800 hours I need to get my 2500 dollars in rake back from Oceans-11 Racing for Dollars promotion. I got 5 scans, with each one currently worth 8 dollars so in virtual dollars I made an additional 40 bucks.

Was it worth it? Probably not, I could have spent those 5 hours doing something else, relaxing, vegging out, catching up on my reading, etc, etc. I'm a little under the 100 hour mark I need for the required 800 hours to cash out 2500 dollars. However, I am not really in the mood to play poker these days, and these last 100 hours are likely to feel like pulling teeth, which fortunately I've never had to do, so I guess I don't really know what it feels like.

My sister is coming into town tomorrow, and staying until next Tuesday, so I will probably not get any more poker playing in this week, which is probably a good thing. I plan on taking a break from live poker playing after I get my 800 hours for the year, which will probably take me sometime until late August or early September.

Run good all, play fearlessly, and make that thin value bet, but fold to a raise. That's why it's called a value bet. If you just do this, you'll earn rate will go up significantly. Don't be a mindless payoff donkey.