Cue the Doom Switch

Hopefully not. I finally got around to entering all of my data from this years session into my database. Some wild swings as usual. I have been running pretty well recently and just to find out, I looked at my last 200 hours of live play. I am up a touch over 24k, in the last 200 hours, for an hourly rate of a shade over $120/hour. Not too shabby, but I'm still stuck for the year. That should let you know how much of a struggle it has been this year.

With the economy being bad, a lot of the fishy rich business owners haven't been coming in and playing as much as they used to. Thus it has been the regulars beating each other up, with the house making the vast majority of the money. According to Tommy Angelo, it costs about $20/hr to play mid-limit poker in the casino, and that sounds about right. I've logged a shade over 800 hours this year, so that 16 dimes right there. Sickening how much the drop really adds up if you play any significant amount of live poker.

In any case, I have been running and playing really well lately. Here's my last 10 sessions results:

+1375 20/40 5.5 hours
+110 8/16 0.75 hours
-1393 20/40 3.5 hours
+256 8/16 0.75 hours
-1499 20/40 3.0 hours
+6510 40/80 7.0 hours
+200 40/80 9.5 hours
+4185 40/80 4.5 hours
+2050 20/40 6.0 hours
+1220 40/80 3.0 hours

8 wins and 2 losses, I'll take it. I will continue to try to stay disciplined and not spew off chips. I have recently been nitting it up a lot preflop, and it seems to be working, as most of the players seem to be thinking that I am still playing my LAG style preflop, which I am still doing, but more so from late position only. However, Jed, noticed it last time I played, and said hey we have 3 seats open. He hasn't played a hand in like 30 minutes.

In other news, there was a Mike L sighting at Oceans. His sabbatical from poker seems to have come to an end, for better or worse. Hopefully he will beat up on the Commerce games, and not play the 40/80 regularly at Oceans, as he is not the easiest spot in the world to play against.

On a lighter note, here's a picture of one my poker buddies and his girlfriend. He's sweating her playing the 40/80, while drinking, well certainly not a manly drink.