Before I look at that, lets quickly recap April (its May 1 here already). First my graph (edit:updated for first red circle to be earlier in graph) :


Turbulent month. First red circle is pretty close to exactly when I made these couple posts:
Quote Originally Posted by me
Well, managed to lose most of my recent profits in the last two sessions. I still need to review exactly why/how.

I'm getting tired of this. Wondering if I actually have what it takes. Really tempting to just cash out what I've got and give up.
Quote Originally Posted by me again
I've slipped back into a bad habit. Playing because I've found a time I can, instead of when I feel good. Was tired last night but figured I'd play a bit while wife settled our son. -3 buyins. Had to get up to him a couple times during the night, but this morning he actually went back down to sleep in his cot (normally mornings my wife works we end up napping on the couch together) so fired it up again. -4 buyins.
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This is taking too much time away from other parts of my life if I'm not going to be a winner at it and get something out of it. By the same token, if I do want to get stuff out of it, I need to stop bumming along and really focus on improving and playing right.
And I started talking about quitting if I didnt hit certain goals, etc. Got lots of good advice and helpful support from you guys, had some great chats with DaGoat and Griffey, got my BFP sub, and really started thinking much better about poker and how to get value, hands my opponents were represting, hands I represented, ranges, etc. If you've read through you'll see sometimes I get it wrong, but at least I really like the way I'm trying to think now. I think I'm on the right track. I have run a little like god, but by the same token I think I've been getting much better value from my hands on top of heatering with my cards.

Whilst I'm hugely +EV for the month, I'm only about $200 above EV since that turnaround point (yes this means that downswing should have been MUCH worse). I've also maintained a break even non-showdown winnings for the last 3k hands which is nice.

Second red circle is around when I started at 100nl. Obviously again run pretty good there, but happy with how I've been playing most of the time too.


So from being ready to quit poker after 7.5k hands, I turned around the month in the next 7.5k hands to have my winningest month ever. Trying not to get too carried away since I did run really well, but I do feel I now play winning poker compared to months of feeling like a break even player. Going to have to maintain focus and ride through inevitable downswings, card dead stages, etc, but feel better equipped. We'll see how I go.

This has almost brought me back to my peak of poker winnings (I dropped almost $1k after my withdraw), although bonuses/etc take me above the amount I had after withdrawing.

$2,400 almost exactly. Hopefully a nice buffer for 100nl BRM reqs as I head into May. Very busy few weeks (maybe more) for work, so I probably wont get the same kinds of hands in again, but hope to keep up the study etc. I've become a bit slack about taking notes/etc from vids, so I'm moving the ones that seemed most useful into a 'rewatch' folder and I'll watch again sometime and try to take notes.


Wheee, with bonuses this makes my first $1k month ever!!!