October Roundup

I split my time between UB and PS this month. The UB experiment was basically break even, except for the PLO8 MTT, so I don't think I'll play there often, but I'll try and play that MTT a couple of times a month. It's just too much fun not to play, but takes too long to play too often.

Overall an ok month, but I didn't play very often. I have roughly 70 games played, but 15 of those were one day I was home from work and was given the day to myself to play (coincidentally, 100% of my profit was that day, the rest of the month was breakeven). Since the middle of the month, work has been quite hectic, and I just haven't been up to playing. That is kind of a good thing, since I lose when I try to force sessions in when I shouldn't.

The PS breakdown:
$22+1 HU: 1/1 ($2.00)
$30+1.5 HU: 1/0 $28.50
$33+1.5 HU: 6/10 ($156.00)
$50+2.5 HU: 4/0 $190.00
$55+2.5 HU: 11/10 $2.50
$35+3 FT: 1/0/0/0 $119.50
$55+5 FT: 1/0/1/3 $46.50
25PLO8: 2 session ($30.15)

The UB breakdown:
$10+0.5 PLO8 HU: 1/0 $9.50
$20+1 PLO8 HU: 7/6 $7.00
$20+1 PLO HU: 1/0 $19.00 (OOPS, signed in to the wrong tourney)
$50+2.5 PLO8 HU: 3/3 ($15.00)
$20+2 PLO8 FT: 0/0/0/1 ($22.00)
$10+1 PLO8 MTT: 3/116 $125.30
200PLO8: 1 session $9.50

It's another profitable month, $332.15, making it 2 in a row. The biggest obstacle now is getting past the 8k barrier. I've been close before only to drop big time. Don't know why there should be a problem around a round number, it is just one number, but I've seen myself struggle there at 7k, 8k, 9k, 10k, 11k (which was the worst since I never made it and free falled to 8k shortly there after).

Overall, I'm up $716.67. Averaging $179.17 which is 20% of where I wanted to be when I originally started tracking this, but not a bad number from historical perspectives.

I started this with the goal of playing FT tourneys, since I was averaging around $20 per, but I've become addicted to the HU SNGs. I feel like I can win more with the HU SNGs, but looking at the past 4 months, I'm only up $150 total on all HU SNGs. What does that mean? Should I force myself to play more FTs? I'll have to start thinking about that more in depth.

I do know that I used to go the the HU page only when the FT games didn't look like they'd fill up soon, but now I go directly there. Then again, I had such a bad run at the FTs to start, I did start to shy away from them. Decisions, decisions...

I think it's time I re-focus on the FTs. I need to mentally prep myself, because I've gotten used to the 20 minute HU matches. The FTs are minimum 45 minutes to cash, so I've got to play patiently.

It's time to have my best month yet!