March Review - Three In A Row Makes A Streak

I should probably feel better about March than I do. I ran pretty brutal for a good part of the month resulting in a few pretty major downswings (two being of the ~$2k, ~15BI variety), but despite this still managed a very respectable winrate. In addition, I had money riding on two prop bets (in one case my $2k to win $500, in the other my $1.25k to win $500) and I shipped both. Finally, I also binked the 200k VPP milestone bonus, thus giving me a lot of profit in March that came outside of pure table winnings and FPPs. Due to this additional profit, I managed my third straight month of > $20k profit. Not a bad start to 2010.

I still feel like the game quality at Stars has been good, though March did perhaps see a slight regression in this regard during the latter half of the month. The Flames continued shitting bed, and I broke out FFXIII for the PS3 to which I will dedicate a blog post with my thoughts in the near future.

More importantly, I also finished all the necessary booking for my big EPT Monte Carlo trip, which is followed by a week spent in France and England. The trip begins on April 23rd, beginning with a week in Monte Carlo where I'll be playing the EPT finale Main Event (using my second SNE tourney package for the buy in and accommodations). We'll then hop the train to Paris for two days (we being myself and my girlfriend, obviously), followed by four days in London with my father (whom emigrated to Canada from Britain immediately after graduation) as our tour guide.

Anyway, here's my graph/table for the month:


The Bottom Line:
$12053.30 table winnings
+$5166.56 FPP value (65482 VPPs x 5 FPPs/VPP x 1.6c/FPP)
+$2600 200k VPP milestone bonus ($3400 - $800 worth of FPPs to buy)
+$500 booger369's 10k in March over 200k max hands of 100NL FR prop bet
+$500 hard2tel's 40k in 31 days at 200NL FR prop bet
-$18 takesix loldonkament staking
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$20,801.86 USD total profit.

Because I'll be spending the latter week of April and the first week of May out of the country, I highly doubt my streak of $20k months will continue. Honestly, it would take nothing short of a miracle, given I plan on putting in a paltry 50k VPPs worth of volume each month. Hopefully I can keep the winrate steady, though the way I've been running lately that doesn't seem terribly likely. You never know though, maybe next session will be the one where I can occasionally win as a 90%+ favorite.