Mid Month Update

So my schedule of course didnt work out. I've still been putting in pretty good hours though. I think I'm on pace to get over 100 hours this month for the first time ever. Unfortunately, I'm running and playing pretty shitty. Even after rakeback and bonuses, my hourly is right at $10. I had a couple pretty crappy days at the 10.3s and have decided to take a break from them. With June 1st coming up, I dont want to leave too much money online and I think it makes more sense to leave ~300 on FT than ~750. I think I'll still stick to the plan of playing 2 hours a day on FT to maintain iron status and then spend the rest of my time grinding 9mans on stars. Here is my FT graph so far this month.


I'm still getting used to the 9mans. I feel really uncomfortable in a lot of situations and feel like I'm missing a lot of profitable shoves, and also making some calls I shouldnt around the bubble. I really need to set aside 5 hours next week to review 5 and 4 handed play. My ROI is around 5% but it's only been 500 games and I feel like I should be able to get 10%. I'm currently 26 tabling continous, but I think I can prob get it up to 30 after a little more practice and familiarity with the format. Here's the stars graph.


I'm gonna finish my ironman for the month in about a week and then i think I'm gonna spend the rest of the month just grinding on stars. I only have 2 more days to clear my stars reload bonus, but I've cleared most of it already so it shouldnt be a problem.

Tentative Schedule for the Week

The last time I tried to keep a schedule, it fizzled out within a few days. I'm hoping now that I have a firmer grasp on the formats that I play, variance during my sets won't phase me as much and lead to quitting early. I'm really just looking to try and maintain for this one week, just to see what it's gonna be like to play 40 hours in a week.

So my plan is to play ~7 scheduled hours mon-fri and 5 whenever hours during the weekend. I'm gonna play 1030-1130 after I wake up. Then run. Do 3 sets of 12 games in between core exercises I do after I run. 3 hour session of 6.50/9s on stars between 2 and 5. Then 6 table and game select 10.5s between 8 and 10pm. All my morning play will be 5.3s on FT.

Might put in an hour or two less tomorrow. I'm not as sick, but am still running a fever. Even if i was feeling great, doing a 7 hour day when the max I've done in a while is 5 is gonna be a little tough. I'm sure Ill end up playing more than 5 hours next weekend so I dont think taking it easy. I really need to buckle down and put some good grinding in on stars. I well behind pace of clearing my reload deposit before it expires on the 20th. It's free money and I'm wanting to give the games on stars a chance so it's kind of stupid not to do it. I guess I'm leaving it til last minute like I do with most things in my life.

So-so Start

Was able to not look at my cashier for the first 3.5 days, but curiosity and necessity got the better of me. I started the month both playing and running bad. My hot steak at the 5.3s finally finished and I'm down around 10 buyins this month.


I've selectivelt played a few 10.5s and have done well. A lot of it is just running good, but I only 6 table these and feel like I pay more attention than I do during the 5.3s. It might have been dumb to take a shot higher when i was running bad, but I saw a guy I used to play with at the 7.5s is now crushing the 20s and that made me think I really need to move up.


I've also put in some hours playing on Stars. I have a 100 deposit bonus to clear and also will clear a 50 dollar stellar rewards midway through that. I've played a few 3.25s, but the majority of my play has been grinding the $6.50 9mans. They seem super soft and once I get used to longer sessions and more tables, I think I'll be able to achieve a good hourly from those.


Overall this month I've played around 31 hours and am up around $360 including all rb and bonuses. Hopefully I can start running good again and have the motivation to keep putting hours in. I'm sick as a dog and running a pretty high fever so I might take tomorrow off. My plan is by Monday to have a set schedule for the week to follow. I'll get around to that once I'm feeling better.

Top of the sharkscope leaderboad (kind of)

It's small buyins but number one is still number one. Still getting accustomed to not looking at casheir/HEM graph. I want to look so bad.

April reveiw

Already posted most of my reflections on the month in last thread so I'll keep it short. Forgot April only had 30 days so obviously didnt meet goal for last "3" days. Main goal for may is more volume, only looking at cashier/results every 5 days, and starting transition into 9 man turbos. Stars has a deposit bonus for me to clear. Also realized I have two stellar rewards I hadnt claimed. Will prob split time 50/50 between sites to start and then figure out more once I see what my stars hourly rate is. Ive been maintaining ironman status on FT for a while now so maintaining that is well worth it. 2 hours a day, 25 days a week is all thats necessary.

April graph is a little lacking because all stats didnt get xferd over from my old laptop. Some bonuses this month were credited to previous ones. Overall less than Id like to make but ok with hourly. Planning on making May my last month in Oregon for a while so Id like to leave with a bang. 130 hours, 3k profit.