As the title says unfortunately I wasn’t able to reach my goal of 10,000 games this month.  I started off the month super strong and basically just ran out of gas.  10,000 games is a lot of poker and props to anybody out there that has done it.

On a better note this was my first month I was able to take poker very seriously, without any other distractions(school), and I feel like all my hard work this year has paid off.  I’d like to thank Colin and James for all their help this year, I can’t thank those guys enough for all the work they put in to make me a better player.  There is absolutely no way I would have got to the level I am at now without the help of those guys.  I feel as though they really help you not only in teaching a certain topic but also in helping you apply it until you are comfortable.  I haven’t had any other poker coaches before but I can’t imagine many of them are even close to being on their level.

As some of you may know, James came up to my place to play poker this month.  It was pretty awesome to get one on one coaching pretty well anytime I wanted and I think it helped me a lot with my game.   I can’t really put a number on how much my game improved with him being up here but it was definitely significant.

Here are my official poker stats for the month.

Games Played: 8291

Profit: 5598.80$

ROI: 3.9%

Rake: 6352.60

Rake back:  1715.27$

Avg. BI: 17.52$

I’m not posting those to brag or anything like that but I think it’s important to all of James and Colin’s other students to realize what is attainable in these games if you put the effort in.  I actually ran a little below my red line this month and was still playing a lot of 10$ in there.  I don’t want to sound arrogant or anything but for those of you that are not giving James and Colin your full attention and sending in HH’s, I really don’t understand what you are doing.  These guys are absolutely phenomenal coaches and can teach you to either make a really amazing side income or turn this into a profession.  So, send in those HH’s and improve your game because you will get there!

I’m really looking forward to June, probably not going to have the same kind of volume but I definitely would like to hit 6k games.  That’s 200 a day which I think is definitely possible.  I have started to 7-9 table so my games per hour has gone up a bit and I feel pretty confident about it.  It’s very rare that I have to check the shove chart anymore and I have lots of notes on guys thus playing with regs has become a lot easier.  I’ve never been as confident as I am now in playing with another reg, which was a leak in my game earlier.  I’ll probably be playing mostly 20s, 35s, and 50s this month.  I doubt I will be playing many 10s anymore unless the other games are full of regs or I go on a huge downswing*crosses fingers.  The few 50s I played this month didn’t go so well and the 35s started out really terrible and then got to be really good.

The variance in these games can be really sick, so far I have played 15k 10s for a 1.1% ROI and should have had a 3.6% ROI.  I honestly think my true ROI in these games is 5-6% at the 10$ level and a lot of this was from when I was learning the game because I started at the 10s.   James also went on a disastrous downswing where at one point he was like 2400 dollars below EV or something.  So for anyone on downswings just keep grinding and studying because it’s going to turn around.

That’s it for this month.  Good luck at the tables,

Squid