This comes as a surprise to, well, probably none of you. Several of my past entries chronicle the lethargic attitude that often overcomes me and my struggle to get back on track. Playing poker for a living leads to this sort of thing, as I'm responsible (irresponsible?) for setting my own hours and adhering to that schedule. Of course, some might argue I was lazy before I played professionally and I think they'd have a decent case.
It's been a rough month so far at the 180s/MTTs and unfortunately these sorts of swings are quite standard. In time I'll get used to that but variance has sapped my energy and hurt the volume. I think I'm still around 1,600 games this month, but I should be hitting 3,000 without breaking a sweat.
The real issue isn't my 180 man volume, but the fact that I've completely neglected 9s/18s over the past two months. Yes, 180s are fun/exciting/profitable, but it's silly of me to not play games where I'm making slightly less but at a much more constant clip. Not to mention I'll earn precious VPPs/rakeback.
While I'm on the subject, I'll end the month roughly 70,000 VPPs short of 200,000 and the $2,600 bonus which I covet. Will I get there? Erm, no. Probably not. It's frustrating because if I had two months of my life back (April/May) I'd surely make it, but now I'm looking at averaging 35,000 VPPs per month over the rest of the year.
Mathematically, it's doable. I earn 5.5 VPPs per dollar of rake, so I'd need to pay roughly $13,700 in rake by the 30th of December. That's 12,200 $15 (9s/18s) or well, I, shudder to think about the number of $8/$3R 180s. Could I do it? I'm sure I could, if there was enough money on the line, but $2.6k isn't enough to make me live like a hermit. I know it might seem like a lot of money, but look at it this way -- to play that many games I'd have to work 10 hours a day, everyday, until the end of the year.
10 hrs/per day x 60 days = 600 hrs
$2600/600 hrs = $4.33
Is it really worth $4/hr to put myself through that? Meh, I don't know. I won't dismiss the idea entirely because I still think there's a chance I decide to give it a shot out of boredom. Or maybe if someone prop bet me...
6 comments:
just mix in 30s and u will be there pretty easy, gl:)
Hey Abarone.
I write to you just to hear you on how you play 30-40 tables at a time? do you have a large enough setup to "tile" the tables side by side? or do you run them "cascade" mode? -Why do you have tables set up as you have?. I play 18-mans sngs aswell and have been coached by Glitlr which has been great, but I am kind of frozen on 20 tables at a time because my 27" monitor doesnt allow more than 20 tables" tiled ". Are you still Coaching? and where will i be able to get a hold on you if thats the case?
Alexander (Kriss1990)
Ps. Sry for my rubbish english, i am from Denmark;)
@Quad: I feel like you're trapping me here, but I ran at like 120% ROI today so maybe I will give them a shot...
@Alex: I'm tiling them with minimal overlap, at least for the first 24 tables. A bit more cumbersome after that, but tables pop up when action is needed so it's fine.
I'm still coaching, feel free to email me at acbarone@comcast.net or hit me up on Skype (abarone68)
not at all. ur a good player were the biggest leak is being too money nitty. Also one of my biggest leaks fwiw
You're looking at this wrong imo, very wrong.
Sure, you are only adding $4.33/hr to your bottom line BUT (and this is huge) you are forcing yourself to play many many more hours of making what? $40/hr? $60/hr?
Let's say you are going to put in half the volume you would if you went for the 200k bonus (which I think is fair), you're looking at giving up probably 12k+ in playing PLUS the 2.6k bonus PLUS 122,500 vpps which is about $2k.
So I think you're giving up like 15k-20k by not going for that extra 2.6k bonus.
Maybe my numbers are off. Idk.
meant to say 122k fpps obv
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