Poker Results For February 2010

Poker was a bit patchy for me in February. I started off doing well, I won back everything that I had lost last month. Then for two weekends straight, I just could not win. I lost big chunks of my bankroll. Then I'd make most or all of the money back during the week only to lose it on the weekend. This went on for two weeks. The final weekend of the month I only played a single one hour session on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. I tried to play break-even poker, avoiding big pots without the absolute nuts. This seemed to work, and I didn't tilt off a bunch of buy-ins, and actually made a profit on each of those sessions.

Here's the usual graph...

Then I figured I should throw in one with the other stats, like All-In EV, non-showdown winnings, etc. At the beginning of the month, I actually had a positive redline. That's kind of rare at the lower stakes.

For the entire month I ran at 11.24 bb/100. Before I hit my first major downswing (stupid weekends!), I was running at 27.11 bb/100.

From what I'm told, beating a limit is 1-7 bb/100, and crushing a limit is 8+ bb/100. (Some people say 10+ bb/100 for crushing.) So even though I had a bad January and two bad weekends this month, I've been steadily beating, and most months crushing the limits I've been playing.

Sadly, I didn't meet most of my goals for February.

1) The biggest was making a profit. I did meet this one. I just didn't do it as much as I had hoped. I didn't make back all of the previous month's losses and I wasn't able to make enough to cash out or move up.

2) I didn't get in the number of hands I wanted. In fact, I played roughly 63% as many hands as I did in January. I attribute this to quitting while losing bad (although not quickly enough!) so I wouldn't lose even more than the big losses I was taking. Plus I had the usual day to day distractions, as well as two new video games that consumed some time. (BIOSHOCK 2 and HEAVY RAIN.)

3) I didn't add in another table.

Here's hoping March goes well.