November Review

I'm not sure what I really think about the month of November. I had a lot going on, so I didn't play as many hands as I wanted, especially during the latter couple weeks of the month. It feels like this was because I was really lazy, but in some ways I don't feel bad about how I prioritized my time.

Lets start this month's review by looking at my goals from last month:
1) Play 135,000 hands
Fail. Talked about this at the start of the post. Actually got pretty close though, I think I set this goal to keep it very realistic given what I had planned for the month. Too bad I didn't make it.

2) 2,000 hands at 400NL, 18,000 hands at 200NL
Fail. Game selection at these stakes is really weak compared to 100NL. I also didn't make a conscious enough effort to find games at these levels to replace tables during the middle parts of a session. It would be nice to move more of my play higher, but I'm not in a rush either - maybe I should be to help try to push my game forward... who knows.

3) Run one three barrel bluff per session against a regular (when they likely don't have a set or better).
Pass. I've been running multistreet bluffs more often lately. Given my image they work like 90%+ of the time. In one of my spewier moments I turned KK into a bluff hoping to fold out villain's AA (he's a nit and is going to fold it a lot), and he ended up hero folding 88 on a 9822 board. Then he posted it on 2+2 and got grilled to death. Hilarious.


Here are my winnings for the month:



I ran pretty mediocre, played pretty average I'd say. Not thrilled about the winrate, but it's certainly not awful either. Lots of people would kill for a 2.35ptBB/100 winrate.

Total profit
$6223.85 winnings + (51723 VPPs x 3.5 FPPs/VPP x 1.6c/FPP = $2896.49 rakeback) = $9120.34 profit

Not terrible given my volume and lack of any milestone bonuses.

I'm going to include my December goals in this post, since they are very simple:

(1) Don't burn out, and hit the 400k VPP milestone
I've set myself up to need 43275 VPPs to hit the milestone, which is very much attainable. I've got a ton going on in December, so I may play around the same (or perhaps a little less) volume than I played this month. This doesn't worry me, as it will be nice to slow down a bit before going pro and pumping out massive volume in January.