March Review - Disappointing Ten Dimes

As I talked about in my previous blog post, March was shaping up to be a pretty solid month until disaster struck. If I had been able to close out the month merely suffering regular person runbad things would have been ok, but that was not to be. Also, the Flames were unable to close out their remarkable run to save their season and make the playoffs (barring a miracle collapse of two other teams over the remaining few games to come, next to 0% chance they get in at this point), so March sucked from a fan perspective as well.

I didn't quite reach my volume goal for the month, but ~125k hands isn't a complete failure in that regard. Despite the massive downswing late in the month my overall winrate wasn't too bad. FTP finally allowed me to deposit so I've been mixing in a few tables there to clear the $600 bonus. There was also a reload bonus on Stars this month which helped, as well as a promotion for the 60 billionth hand, though I wasn't dealt into any milestone hands this time. During the 50 billionth equivalent I believe I was involved in two.

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The bottom line:
$6192.96 table winnings
+$2764.89 FPP value (49,373 VPPs * 3.5 VPPs/FPP * 1.6c/FPP)
+$200 stellar 100k VPP bonus
+$150 reload bonus
+$930 coaching
+$180 FTP first deposit bonus
+$0.35 FTP rakeback
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$10,418.20 USD total profit.

The good news heading into April is that it is a month with five weekends, and that should spell increased volume. Said volume should make certain I hit the 200k VPP milestone bonus, so if my table winnings aren't a disaster it should be a nice month from a pure profit perspective. Sadly, my March profit is actually my highest total of 2011 thus far, beating January by ~$400. Hopefully April fixes that.