June Review - Crushing the Hundred

In June I was fortunate enough to run well for the bulk of the month. The stretch of positive variance wasn't as extreme as that of November of last year, but it was very nice nonetheless. Much of the rungood came at 100NL ZOOM, and I thought for a moment I may have actually won more buyins at the 100-limits than I ever had before, though after a quick fact check it turns out I fell a tiny bit short of February 2010.

Though I'm certain ~4ptBB isn't sustainable at ZOOM, the games are curiously soft compared to what one might expect. I don't expect it to last as my guess is that many of the "fish" are SNG/MTT regulars taking shots at cash due to convenience of ZOOM, and once they figure out that they're losing players they will either stop playing or improve.

Thanks to ZOOM (where I played just over half my volume) and there being five weekends in the month June, I logged more hands this month than I have in a very long time. Not a lot more, but any positive on the volume side of things is nice. Unfortunately, my VPP count fell short of where I wanted it to be despite the volume, and I'm further behind pace to finish the year with the 300k milestone bonus than I hoped I would be this point. It's a bit sickening to think I'm only a few years removed from SNE and it's a strain to put in 300k VPPs.



Edit: Oops, it seems I accidentally cut the winrate column off the table above - as a whole it was 4.13ptBB/100. Hurrah for rungood.

The bottom line:
$13,660.00 table winnings
+$1513.18 FPP value (27,021 VPPs * 3.5FPPs/VPP * 1.6c/FPP)
+$285 coaching
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$15,458.18 USD total profit

In all, I'm really happy with the way June went. The state of the games is looking pretty grim, but I can hope that it is partially the effect of summer keeping recreational players outside and away from their computers.