Best month ever!
At that start of the year, I set some year-long poker goals for myself. So far I’ve played too many tournaments and not enough hours, but my hourly rate has been so good that I’m getting by anyhow.
I averaged 17 hours a week, only 2/3 of my goal. However, despite playing so many FTOPS tournaments, I put in about 25,000 hands of NLHE. Some of them were full ring, but I am still in good shape for my goal of 250,000 short-handed hands in 2008. My win rate was only about 2 PTBB/100 for the month, but when the BB is sometimes as high as $100, that adds up.
At Omaha, on the other hand, I played about 1500 hands and had an 8PTBB/100 win rate.
I played 41 tournaments, cashing only for a pittance in the two freerolls that I played. I honestly think that I’ve gotten worse at tournaments as I’ve gotten better at cash games. I’m just accustomed to more loose and aggressive play than one sees in most tournaments, and to playing with deeper stacks, and I’m not making the right adjustments. I’m also losing a lot of coin flips.
I’ve played a few hands here and there of Stud/8, mostly at 10/20. I’m feeling very good about my game there, and hopefully I’ll get a chance to play one of the WSOP events. I think that would be fun, if less profitable than just playing the side games.