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Originally Posted by Koss
My first 100 hours of tracked 1/2 play are in the books. I started playing semi-seriously again in April. I basically took June/July off due to some work travel and home projects, but now I'm back baby.
Hours: 101.75
Sessions: 46
Winnings: $3051.00
Hourly: $29.99/hr.
Winning Sessions: 34
Losing Sessions: 12
Biggest Win: $404
Biggest Loss: -$303
It feels good. I definitely started on a massive heater which helped my wife get comfortable with the idea of me playing 6-10 hours per week. Since then my winrate has settled around $30/hr. and I hope it can stay there. I feel like I play in some pretty soft games. Almost all of this volume is on work nights (Sun-Thurs.) I feel like these games are just as profitable if not more so than the weekends. People still drink, and even though I'm 30 and sometimes the youngest at the table by 15 years, they aren't just a bunch of tight old men. Lots of straddling, limping, calling down light, playing any Ax, etc. The few times I've ventured out on the weekends each table is sprinkled with a couple 20 something TAG grinders, who aside from rare occasions, I never seen during the week.
Hard to say how I've ran overall in that 100 hours, but I can't say it's been bad. In this whole time I have never been felted. Any time I put my stack in against a bigger stack I won. I probably just jinxed it by writing it down. I'm debating starting a PG&C thread. I want to but I'm not sure if I'll be able to update it properly. Anyways, I know 100 hours is a lol small sample size, and it took me 5 months to get there, so I could be in for some losing years, but being able to say I'm up $3k feels pretty good.
I feel like my game has evolved a lot from grinding a small winrate in online, to starting off too loose in full ring live 1/2, to now constantly adjusting trying to develop a plan to target every weakness of every player at the table.
For what it's worth rake is $5+$1.
Congrats, well done. I started hot when I started tracking my results at the start of this year too. Then I hit an ugly sick downswing in May which dipped my hourly rate under $15/hr and dinked my confidence. Just be prepared for it, it'll happen but you just need to grind through it.
You mentioned winning all your all-ins. I vividly remember one session where I was literally playing against the worst players on earth. They were calling my $100 3bets when I had QQ+, and stacked me 3 times for $300 in the span of TWO rotations. Q9 > KK on a Q74 board all-in on the flop, J6o > AA on a J57 flop all in on the flop, and then 9Ts > QQ all-in on a AQ4 flop and he hit his flush. It was one of the most frustrating things ever and I felt powerless.