Well, this makes 7 continuous months of profitable play...barely. I went into the last weekend of April down about $50 with no major scores for the whole month...(lame). Cashed in two live games and went on a tear in MTTs and SNGs on Party. Finished April up $122.50. Still not enough to quit the day job. Matter of fact, my hourly rate is below minimum wage. Further more, most of the blog is about results....probably something wrong with that (from a philosophical point of view). Career to date earnings: $753.64. That comes out to about $47 a month....jeez I suck. I guess since I burned about $1300 in the first nine months of my career, I need to get off the pity pony.
My live play for April was negative (which is a switch) and my online play allowed the month to be profitable which is a complete reversal for me. Also my play on Pokerstars was negative (I'm barely beating the rake) but Party is where all the profit came from. Who would have thunk it??? From this I've concluded that I can only consistently beat the worst players.
For May I'm going to focus my educational sessions on individual hand analysis, post flop play, and advanced tournament strategy.
Plans for WSOP in Vegas this summer for various reasons are getting stale....I planned on buying into a $1000 ~ $2000 event with my expected (and unrealized) earnings.
I feel myself coming to a cross road. Eventually there will have to be other things in my life besides the job, poker, and weekends with my son. Not that I mind things with my son at all. It's the two other things that are failing to provide a sense of accomplishment/contribution in my life. Or maybe it's me that is failing to provide a sense of accomplishment / contribution in my job and poker....put that in your pipe and smoke it! Either way I'm not a content person right now.
Feel free to post any therapeutical musings.
Ed
