April was the first month where I put in any volume into ZOOM poker. Though the fish play a ton tighter at ZOOM and it is next to impossible to use any game flow information to help with decision making, I found the ZOOM games soft enough to be worthwhile. This was mostly due to what I assume were a mix of SNG/MTT/6max regs playing 100NL ZOOM FR, and playing quite terribly against the ranges of full ring regulars postflop. I'm not sure how long this will continue to be the case, as I assume most of those "regulars" will either get better or stop playing when they release they are unprofitable.
Unfortunately I ran quite awful overall, ending ~$3k below AIEV and eating some horrendous beats at midstakes, a few of which weren't reflected in the AIEV total. I had strong results and rungood at 200NL to compensate a little, and oddly enough my winrate as 100NL was higher at ZOOM than at the regular games (excluding pot limit and Euro games, which I murdered for something like 12ptBB over a paltry 10k hands), though I'm positive that is simply variance. It is encouraging that when running bad I can still pull off a 2.5ptBB/100 winrate.
The bottom line:
$8018.08 table winnings
+$1499.68 FPP value (26780 VPPs * 3.5 FPPs/VPP * 1.6c/FPP)
+$400 stellar bonuses
+$250 despoit bonus
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$10,167.76 USD total profit.
Due to having one or two ZOOM tables open much of the time, my hands per hour jumped around 25-30% from previous months. This is a good thing, though I did see a few bad habits resurface when I was adjusting to the higher volume of decisions. Hopefully I can correct them while maintaining the additional volume in the future.
Overall, I'm a little disappointed with the way things went. In reality, if you adjust for AIEV or allow me to fade runners at midstakes once or twice the month would have been somewhere between average to downright solid. Five figures can never be that poor a showing, but I'd really appreciate a stretch of rungood in the near future.
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