July Review - Return of the Doomswitch

Poker during the first week of July was legitimately pleasant, but the following three and a half weeks produced the longest stretch of run-awful I've had to endure since August of last year. I've had a couple two-week long stretches of nasty variance this year (the first two weeks of both February and March specifically), but this runbad has almost managed a full month in duration at this point which isn't fun to say the least, and resulted in a ~75k hand break-even stretch in the monthly graph. On the positive side, I ran well for most of last month and had a full month of godmode in November of 2011, so in the big picture I can't complain too much.

I did manage to put in a lot of volume this month, partially due to putting in a few extra hours due to the runbad. Mostly however, it was because I had 3-4 ZOOM tables going during all my sessions, and as a result ~70% of my volume was at ZOOM, which is pretty ridiculous. The Full Ring games outside of ZOOM were just awful on all but a handful of days in July, and I don't see this trend shifting any time soon. Hopefully the ZOOM tables stay similar to how they are now, else I don't think FR cash on Pokerstars will be worth playing period. I guess it is no coincidence that several FR grinders have been attempting switches to PLO of late.



The bottom line:
$6687.93 table winnings
+$1595.22 FPP value (28,486 VPPs * 3.5FPPs/VPP * 1.6c/FPP)
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$8283.15 USD total profit.

Not a number I'm happy with, but 2ptBB/100 isn't a full blown disaster. Hopefully after August I'll be back on pace for 300k VPPs on the year - if that's the case I'll hit the 200k VPP milestone at the end of the month.