Saturday, July 31, 2010

July Review - Bleh

I came into July with high hopes. Given that the month contained five full weekends I expected that I would be able to put in good volume, and I was rapidly approaching my 400k milestone bonus. Unfortunately, due to a combination of factors (laziness, poor game quality at Stars, and Starcraft 2/Persona 3 Portable) my volume during July was poor at best. To make things worse, I ran very poorly over the hands I did play, crippling my winrate. The only saving grace for the month was that I was able to continue to find success bumhunting huge whales at midstakes, primarily at the 50bb max tables of 400NL and 600NL.



The bottom line:
$7276.29 table winnings
+$4544.96 FPP value (56,812 VPPs * 5 FPPs/VPP * 1.6c/FPP)
+$3000 milestone bonus ($3800 bonus - $800 FPP value to purchase)
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$14,821.25 USD total profit.

Most definitely a disappointing result, though it could certainly be worse I suppose. Hopefully WSOP events beginning to air on ESPN will help out the game quality for August, or perhaps Stars will fix their abysmal structure folly sooner rather than later. Wishful thinking most likely, but you never know.