January

What a month. It started out well enough, and after about a week and a half I was well on my way to a very solid January. Then all hell broke loose, and I lost heavily for the rest of the month, finishing it well in the red. I already made one whine post, so I won’t do any more of that here.

The good news is that the month is over and I started February off yesterday with a great day, digging myself about a third of the way out of the hole. First a graph, then we’ll look at progress towards the year’s goals:

Resolution One: Keep Grinding NLHE Cash Games

Goal 1: Earn $X in NLHE Cash Games

Ha. At this rate, I’ll be busto by the end of the year.

Goal 2: Earn Supernova status on PokerStars

I’m already a Gold Star, not that that takes much. I earned 9022 VPPs, which actually wouldn’t see me hit Supernova until November. However, I now have more money on Stars than I do on FTP, so hopefully I’ll be playing bigger and more often on there. Probably I’ll make Supernova by September, certainly by the end of the year.

Resolution Two: Diversify My Income Streams

Goal 3: Monetize This Blog

Meh. I put like two hours into playing around with WordPress but am not real motivated to do much with it right now.

Goal 4: Get Back Into Coaching

I’ve got one student right now, who’s also one of the producers at Poker Savvy Plus. I gave him a discount because we’re recording the sessions and counting them towards my video quota as well. I’ve also put some thought into how I want to structure group sessions and will likely announce a plan for that soon.

Goal 5: Market My Writing

I sold a bunch of old articles to Poker Olymp, which will be translating and posting them in German. I’m also about to start participating in a new series Cardplayer is doing, which won’t actually pay anything (it’s part of their, and my, deal with Poker Savvy) but should help me get more exposure anyway.

Resolution Three: Improve My NLHE Skills

Goal 6: Use Poker Tracker More Effectively

Not much here. I reconfigured my HUD a bit but still dont’ really use it. If I have more than four tables on a given screen, which I often do, the numbers get in the way more than they help.

Goal 7: Finish the Year with a 4BB/100 Win-Rate at 5/10 NL.

I was close to -5BB/100 for January. 🙁

Goal 8: Play 50,000 Hands of Heads Up NLHE

Didn’t play any, really. I played the Stars Sunday Heads Up tourney three times but busted in the first round every time. Other than some heads up when a bigger game was breaking, I didn’t play any.