May Recap

UB: +1245
PS: +785
Total: +2030

That is the best month I've ever had, bar none. Played a lot of PokerStars at the beginning of the month and a few HU tourneys on UB. Things were going alright, nothing spectacular. Up a couple hundred on PS, down a couple hundred on UB. Then things changed.

The first thing sucked. UB decided to pull their higher stakes PLO8 HU tourneys around the 10th of the month. No more $50+2.5 or $100+5 tourneys. Only $24+2. WTF?! Those were good for around 2 wins out of 3 versus some opponents, in about 1.5 hours of play ($33 or $66 per hour!). I was pissed. That meant only cash at UB. While not so bad, there are some nights I know I'm a little overly aggressive, and a HU tourney is a good way to release it, without losing your entire bankroll.

What I don't get is:
1) How much does it cost them to have that tourney in the lobby? It's not like they have a dealer sitting at the table doing nothing, right? I just don't see why it costs them anything more than pennies to leave that as an option.
2) People played almost every night. It's not like the game was never played. I averaged about 15 games a month (for about $50 in rake for them), and I'm sure others more.

Given what had just happened, I came up with a plan that I would go to PS first every night and check out the HU tourneys. If I saw an opponent that I liked, I'd play them, otherwise, I'd got play cash at UB.

That worked out very well. Except for a losing session on the 7th (-$323), the next 9 sessions at UB went as follows (not including bonus cash): +151, +26, +45, +203, +32, +710, +185, +130, +150. I was averaging about a 2 hour session each time, and with bonus cash, was close to $100/hr .

If things weren't going good enough, on the 18th, I found my favorite UB opponent sitting at the PLO8 HU tables on PS. I could not have been happier. I swear I was so giddy when I saw him there, my wife had to ask me what was up. I was happy for good reason; so far (including a little of June), I'm 4/1 in the $100+5 and 2/1 in the $200+10.

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In the middle of the month, as I was entering my stats, I found an interesting weekly pattern. I did very well ever fifth week. I can't exact figure out why, since it didn't correspond to anything in particular. The pattern was
-275, -8, +175, +203, +751
+428, +784, -469, -623, +1324
-805, +139, -185, +321, +656
+22, -79, +28, -85, +602

I'd say the only anomaly to the pattern is the +748 in the second group, but since the biggest total still happened on the 5th week of that sequence, it's good enough.

I've heard of biorhythms, which are natural highs and lows of different parts of our existence (energy, emotional strength, concentration), and just decided that part of it must be at work. So, since I was about to start the first week of a new sequence, I tried to be conscious of it. I wanted to see if I was more irritable and prone to go on tilt and see if I could control my emotions better. I'd like to say that helped with the results, but in reality, I just ended up in a great session on the 22nd where I got one opponent on UB with second best every time I had the nuts. I took $500 and $400 pots on separate tables within minutes of each other.

That said, I'm still going to try and monitor this. If I can figure out when I'm more susceptible to poor play, and not play at those times, I'll improve my results.