Thursday, October 31, 2013

Poker: Financial results for October 2013

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Plan
My monthly targets for October were:
- Have at least 4 study sessions
- Play 400 hands of cash on NLHE $0.10 6-max (1 table Speed) with target of breaking even (Pokerstars)
- Play 400 cash hands on PLO $0.10 6-max (1 table speed) with target of breaking even (Pokerstars)
- Play 2 sessions of 8 Game cash with target of breaking even  (Pokerstars)
- Play 5 MTT/STT with target of breaking even (BBP)

Monitor
Overall results for the month:-

Pokerstars      :  -$   54.20
Black Belt Poker:  +$    2.33  (+£1.45)
Live play       :  -£   40.00

Pokerstars results break down as follows:

Cash results ($-54.20 overall)
NLHE Zoom ($0.10)         1191 hands  +$12.83
PLO Zoom  ($0.10)         1563 hands  -$67.02
Mobile NLO8 Zoom ($0.02)   404 hands  -$ 0.01

Tournament Results ($-0.00 overall)
None

8 Game wins/losses by game type for this month:  None
2-7        + 0.00
Limit HE   - 0.00
Omaha HL   + 0.00
Razz       + 0.00
Stud       - 0.00
Stud HL    - 0.00
NL HE      + 0.00
PLO        + 0.00

BBP results break down as follows:

Cash results (£-0.00 overall)

Tournament Results (+£1.45 overall)
13x  MTT             -£ 0.49
1x   STT (9 seat)    +£ 1.94

Reflect
Overall this month, have had nightmare workwise due to short staff, etc so haven't felt much like playing.  Also had a spot of "man flu" the last week and a half of October, so again dented my enthusiasm to play.... but managed to get some sessions in.

My live game this month was another decent run, but finished 12th (7 paid) out of about 40 odd runners.   Went out with KK vs AQ (all in preflop) so a bit disappointing, but got it in ahead at least.  My £20 win on blackjack softened the blow a little :)

Pokerstars was a few sessions of Zoom and am fairly happy overall with the results.  My PLO for some reason has gone to pot, with my playing like a pansy to lose a number of big pots.   It all went downhill this last week, so probably due to the man-flu clogging up my Poker senses.   Just shows you shouldn't play when feeling poorly !!

Blackbelt was mostly 12 seat Jackpot SNG and returned a small profit with those, but very low volume and meaningless overall  (but better than a loss)

November Targets
The first week is written off for Poker, so will be likely even less Poker than October.   Pokerstars have announced MicroMillions  so might also get a bit sidetracked by that :)   I am still reviewing Nick Wealthall's "Tournament Cash Machine" program (http://transformmypoker.com/) so want to get some time to finish that off

My targets are therefore:

- Have at least 4 study sessions
- Play 400 hands of cash on NLHE $0.10 6-max (1 table Speed) with target of breaking even (Pokerstars)
- Play 400 cash hands on PLO $0.10 6-max (1 table speed) with target of breaking even (Pokerstars)
- Play 2 sessions of 8 Game cash with target of breaking even  (Pokerstars)
- Play specific MicroMillions MTT, ideally qualifying for FPP (Pokerstars)
- Play 3 MTT/STT with target of breaking even (BBP)

Strategic Objectives
*  Keep to Poker Plan
OK this month
*  Focus on less variants of cash games
So far, so good.
*  Break even on all cash games
PLO went a bit wrong this month
*  Fiddle around less with MTT/STT variants, concentrate on NLHE and 8 Game
OK this month

References
January 2013 http://sceaga.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/poker-financial-results-for-january-2013.html
February 2013 http://sceaga.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/poker-financial-results-for-february.html
March 2013 http://sceaga.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/poker-financial-results-for-march-2013.html
April 2013 Cash Challenge http://www.blackbeltpoker.com/blogs/read/4020786/sceaga/First-month-results/
April 2013 http://sceaga.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/poker-financial-results-for-april-2013.html
May 2013 http://sceaga.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/poker-financial-results-for-may-2013.html
June 2013 http://sceaga.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/poker-financial-results-for-june-2013.html
July 2013 http://sceaga.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/poker-financial-results-for-july-2013.html
August 2013 http://sceaga.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/poker-financial-results-for-august-2013.html
September 2013 http://sceaga.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/poker-financial-results-for-september.html