Monday, July 7, 2008

Internet Instability + Running Bad

Since Thursday evening, my Shaw internet connection has frequently decided to spike to 50%+ packet loss or lose connectivity entirely, making poker virtually unplayable most of the time. Somehow I still managed to fit in 11.5k hands between Friday and Sunday, though I would have likely hit 20k had there been no internet issues.

Unfortunately for me, when I managed to play I ran like shit. As you'll see in the EV/all-inluck graphs below, I was $650 below expectation, $450 of which when I was all-in. A strange anomaly is that I had zero set over set or AA versus KK hands the entire weekend, so I was completely neutral in the "heater vs cooler" variety of luck. What could have easily been my first $2k weekend instead resulted in a profit of $900 ($600 in winnings plus $300 in FPPs). Yes, I realize I'm bitching about making $900 from my hobby over a long weekend. Perhaps my perspective needs changing, but relative to expectation this was a poor result.

Here are my EV and luck graphs from Friday through Sunday. For some reason it didn't occur to me to include Thursday in the graphs, I suppose I forgot it was a long weekend.




I have someone from Shaw dropping by today, hopefully my internet issues can get resolved promptly. They are on a short leash at the moment, if no progress is made today I'll see how quickly Telus or Teksavvy can go about getting me a Dry DSL line.

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