April Review - Great Winrate, Fail Volume

Going into April, I expected that I'd have a reasonably big month as there were five full Fridays and Saturdays. Additionally, I projected that I'd put in 150k+ hands of volume and hit the 200k VPP milestone bonus for a free $2.6k. I failed pretty hard in the volume department, and came up just short of the milestone for this month. I'll be hitting it tomorrow to kick off May in all likelihood. Part of the volume issue can be attributed to the whole "Black Friday" fiasco, which demotivated me a little during that particular weekend until things got figured out, and going forward definitely altered the landscape of game quality relative to time of day, which I am still in the process of adjusting to. More than anything though, I simply failed to put in as many hours as I would have liked, which is something of a theme for 2011 so far.

Fortunately for me, during the latter half of April I ran as well as I have since January of last year. Hands actually held up most of the time. Game quality has been solid, and the result was a very nice winrate. Thanks to the table winnings being so high, I managed to earn in ~130k hands what I had hoped to in ~150k+ with a $2.6k milestone thrown in. In this respect, I'm very happy with how April went. To put things in perspective, I took more off the tables this month than in January and February combined, and my winrate wasn't epically fail in either of those months. It certainly helped that a lot of my run good took place at $200NL this month, rather than lower.



The bottom line:
$12,118.99 table winnings
+$2,897.05 FPP value (51733 VPPs * 3.5 FPPs/VPP * 1.6c/FPP)
+$54.66 FTP rakeback
+$200 FTP deposit bonus
+$470 coaching
+$200 SCOOP deposit bonus
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$15,940.70 USD total profit.

It was great to have a strong showing this month given that 2011 had been on the rough side so far. Hopefully I can keep things going into May, which will get off to a strong start with an immediate milestone bonus. I know I seem to say this every month, but perhaps I'll work a little harder over the next 31 days and not be disappointed in my effort level come review time in May.