Adrienne's Revenge

It’s no secret that I don’t enjoy poker. It’s like taking a psychological beating on a daily basis while applying the precision of a surgeon to a tedious task where everyone is out to get each other.

Lately I just can’t bring myself to play. I’ve taken about a week off and I still would rather poke myself with sharp things than play a hand (Not joking… Vry srs)

I’m taking this as a sign that maybe I need to re-evaluate my decision to endure playing poker as a source of income just for the freedom that it allows.

So I’m taking at least an extended and possibly forever break from the game. I’m moving across the country in October and I’ll have no choice but to find an old fashioned shackle of a job. My health has been improving a lot and as long as I can find a job that doesn’t trigger panic attacks, everything will be cool.

I think I’m gonna be sick. I blogged about breaching the $400 bankroll mark, then rose up to just shy of $800.

Now I don’t even have $400 anymore

Least I’m playing better now… tho clearly there’s room for improvement >.>

For anyone else who’s learning to wrap their head around SNG variance, I recommend Last Man Standing Episode 8, in which AMT explains that you can have huge swings even across decent sample sizes. Lucky for me, mine is not even a decent sample yet . I think he said 500 games is the beginning of a decent sample size and 2000 is more definitive.

The volume aspect of things is making me want to play more turbos, I tried some yesterday and I ended up getting in twice as many games as usual and it was less annoying than usual. But of course, if this, points at graph is what variance in regular speeds is like, I’m freaked out about what turbo variance will do…

The solution to that, I think, is nittier BR management .

When I take out the offending $20 SNGs the downswing is very yawn .

Gonna stick with $10s !!

It’s not a downswing, it’s a down-plunge

o_o

oh dear

I moved back down to $10’s halfway through that >.> the weird thing is, I believe I’m playing better now than I was when I was winning! Maybe they weren’t kidding about SNG variance lol

Looks like the coaches in my price range aren’t available right now… So I will just have to step up the learning I’m doing on my own. Get more active in reviewing hands in SNGwiz and posting hands and whatnot .

I’m not doing as well at the $20’s as I was at the $10’s… so I’m thinking about taking some of the money I was using for my shot and investing in some coaching. The sooner a player plugs their leaks the better right?

Just won my first $20+2

All is well ;))))

With my bankroll approaching $750 I’ve decided to take a $250 shot at the $20’s (in keeping with aggressive bankroll management)

The $10’s are such a nit/reg fest that I figured the $20’s couldn’t be much worse, and so far they’re not.

goGoGO!

When I finished playing today I saw a frightening thing in my cashier >.>
So in order to save the day I sat down with $1 at a .01/.02 NL table .

I was prepared to just lose a dollar and appease the universe, but luck was with me and I doubled up! Thereby appeasing the universe and turning a profit .

;))) all is well

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A couple of days ago I blogged about my bankroll reaching +$400 for the first time… Well today it soared past the $500 mark! . ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

Which is a real, historical, delicious, non-trivial, round number. In fact, $500 is close to my current total monthly income in RL…. and the online amount is in American dollars so it’s worth even more $$$!

I’m so thankful and happy ♥ Could never have done it without DC ♥ Thanks guys!