December Review - Getting Down To Business

In December I had a concrete goal for the month for the first time since 2009 - grind out 46k VPPs to hit the 500k milestone. Given my volume of late, this was something of a non-trivial challenge from a lazy standpoint. During my "perfect" November, I put in 114 hours of poker. In December, that number jumped to 140. I think in the future I'd like to be closer to the latter on the monthly basis, though maybe the magic number is around 130.

As I mentioned in my last post game quality was very good, exceptional even during the last 10 days or so. Unfortunately I ran a little on the bad side, in both AIEV and getting coolered etc. The improved fish:reg ratio definitely helped my winrate however, and though I think I was playing a little better in November overall, I'm really happy with where my game is at the moment. Over my last 500k hands I've been winning at 3.5ptBB/100. Did I get sent back into 2008?

Early on in the month I was lucky enough to be dealt into a milestone hand, and even luckier to bink a river 2 outer to win it! Add to that cashing in a freeroll I did not even play in for $30 (unlike many of the people sitting out and being blinded off in said event, I knew when it was, I just couldn't be bothered), and I had a little unexpected profit.



The bottom line:
$13,032.62 table winnings
+$2578.07 FPP value (46,037 VPPs * 3.5 FPPs/VPP * 1.6c/FPP)
+$3200 500k VPP milestone bonus
+$520 milestone hand #71911000000
+$30 10th anniversary freeroll
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$19,360.69 total profit.

My best month of the year in terms of total profit, though November still takes the cake for table winnings/winrate. I'm happy I was able to plan out a schedule for myself to put in a little heavier volume in what was a busy December outside of poker. Hopefully the work ethic carries over some in 2012.