December Review - Paid Vacation

Quite a bit like last year I intentionally played very little poker in December. I needed to put in a hair over 15k VPPs worth of volume on Stars to reach my 600k milestone, and I knocked out the last bit tonight. I don't plan to play another hand until the new year.

It was kind of a swingy month, though that is likely mostly a function of the sample size being only 35k hands. I definitely could have run worse, so no complaints there. Given the game quality on Stars in December, a > 2ptBB winrate is respectable for sure.

Graph below:


The bottom line:
$2560.65 table winnings
+$866.49 FPP value (15473 VPPs * 3.5FPPs/VPP * 1.6c/FPP)
+$3600 milestone bonus ($4400 - $800 FPP value to purchase)
+$21.53 FTP rakeback
+$845 coaching
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$7893.67 USD total profit. Absolutely satisfactory for my vacation month.

I'll be sure to sum up the entirety of 2010 in a review post shortly.