Normally I'm pretty excited to write weekly review entries because it means I get to post pretty looking graphs and thinly veiled brags. But no, not this time.
Games: 1,496
Profit: $298 (+$80 BOP)
VPPs: 10,466.80
Definitely the worst week of the challenge and possibly my worst week as a professional. Well, scratch that -- I've had losing weeks before but never when putting in this much volume. I still might play another set or two today but if I do, I'll count it towards next week's totals. I told a friend of mine that before this week, I had been running at expectation at for so long that I forgot how it feels to run below it. Well, now I remember. Hold'em Manager shows I'm down $1200 in EV the last 7 days. Yuck.
I do think it's important to point out while I'm disappointed I got unlucky to the tune of $1200, I was only supposed to make $1/game this week -- a number that's lower than I'm used to. Obviously it could simply be variance, but the games are markedly worse right now for two reasons:
1) Grinders (like myself) frantically trying to hit their milestone bonuses
2) PokerStars doubling the cash prizes in its BOP promotion
That promotion ends Saturday so the second reason will soon cease to be an issue but I fear the first will only become more of a detriment. Even so, if that means I'll only make $1/game the rest of the way (16,417.32 VPPs), I'll take it. Plus I'm due for a sick heater and in the words of Bart Scott, 'Can't wait!'
5 comments:
Hey Aaron, you're playing 18 mans for this challenge right? I was just wondering if you knew that the red line is incorrect for 18 mans...
Gl at the tables,
Mich(ty6)
Oh no, these are all 9 mans so the red line is as 'right' as it's going to get.
Gl Aaron, watched all ur vids on PokerVT and they've helped me alot. Hope to be close to ur level once. Started with 25$ playing mostly 50fiftys and my roll was up to 390$ after 3000 games before a double power-failure today. Lost 90$ to that, sigh. Btw, is the red line correct for 50fiftys?
you fcuking fish, I have not watched any of your vids from pVT :)
look forward to the sick heater and the non-veiled brag !!
gl bro/dude/dog or whateva you young hip people say these days, lol
regards
dD
@Henriks: Thanks! I'm not sure if the red line is correct for those games but I'd send an e-mail to Hold'em Manager's support.
@dD: Haha, sick heater imminent.
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