Haven't got to play much this year. Bought a house not long ago, work's been busy, got engaged and married recently. Only about 90 hours logged in 2017. It takes such a long time to log 1000 hours as a recreational player.

Whenever the day comes that I log 1000 hours, I will post my graph. And by that, I will have to search the forum and learn how to do so. It may not be much to some of you guys, but it's been fun for me to track all these stats.

Since August 2014, I've logged 767 hours, all at 1/2. All but 100 of those hours have come at a game with a $300 BI. The other 100 hours have come at a game with a $200 BI. My current winrate is at $15.44/hr. It's been settling between $15-16 for a little while now.

Nice results! The great thing about poker is that it is always there for you.

Just reviewing my 2017 results now and I was able to put in a decent amount of hours considering I work full time and only play as a bit of a hobby.

So far I've been able to log 492.5 hours (hoping to exceed 500 by year end) and earned a profit of $13,536 or $27.48/hr. I primarily have been playing 1/3nl and jumping into the 2/5nl when it looks good. Largest session this year was +$1470 and largest loss was -$1200.

I ended up winning 63 sessions and losing 31 of them for a 67.02% win percentage. But the part that I'm most happy with is I have been able to SIGNIFICANTLY reduce my poker expenses from previous years. Spent less then $1,000 on flights/hotels by taking advantage of comp nights at less desirable hotels, etc. In previous years I had spent upwards of 3k to 4k just on expenses which dramatically takes a toll on your year-end profit when you're only playing recreationally.

Overall I'm pretty happy but I know there were so many nights where I was chasing losses or playing tired/sub-par that I wish I could take back.

Does anyone have any suggestions for a good poker tracking app on Android? I've been tracking my results through Excel for years and it's become cumbersome. Or if anyone else uses Excel to track their results with a really good set up and wouldn't mind sharing, please PM me.

Cheers and Happy Holidays!

Poker agent is the nuts.

I can't find that in the app store? Does it go by a different name?

Nope, it's called Poker Agent. I'm using it as we speak!

Yikes.

Gsad,imoG

+1 lmao

sugarmamas.com got me thru my time playing pro

Askesis, sick results!

Also, I'm getting very excited for end of year results time. It's my favorite time of year!

With holiday travel, not likely to play much if at all between now and 2018, so this is what my 2017 looks like. Fair bit of volume for weekend grinder with full time career. Also did alright in promo cash which isn't reflected in these stats.

Cheers

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That would be nice. I couldn't pull that off. For one thing, I don't put out enough.

However, I did have nice set up for quite a while. I got health insurance and knew that at least money would be there for bills even if I went bust.

She got to eat in fancy restaurants, stay in nice hotels and travel with me. Plus I had a flexible schedule and wasn't completely worn out and miserable at the end of the day.

Nice results Zippy.

And you weren't lying about the "weekend" part of weekend warrior! Sick volume for a rec, imo.

GcluelesssickvolumenoobG

Lucky her.

Sounds like a lot of right pocket / left pocket accounting to me.

Gsad,imoG

Women can work now. It's a thing.

jkjk

Real talk though, that's the only reason I quit my job. Mrs. Nicname and I were both working, and we just decided it would be better for family life if I quit my job and just played cards.

It's working out well, but probably won't survive an upcoming move to a poker wasteland.

Yes, got to. We've been to tons of really nice Vegas restaurants, though not really the upper upper echelon (like Guy Savoy). But most of the steakhouses. Some, like Bouchon, probably 7-8 times or more. This is cuz I play poker and do a few other things to earn casino comps.

If I was grinding a dead end job still, we might go to places like that on our birthdays.

Back in California, we could almost never afford places like that. Like, maybe we could swing it if we found out a meteor was about to hit the earth.

I had to google this. Learn something new every day. Like I said, I make a lot in comps so it's just a really nice perk of the lifestyle. If you live somewhere with a lot of casinos, you should def. learn to milk the system as well as you can. Don't waste your comps in the foodcourt, for example, unless it's like .50 cents/hr at some dumpy Indian place.

Also, I can work on the road. So we could go to say, Palm Springs, and I could grind while she did whatever she wanted and usually pay for the trip.

These kinds of things can make it seem more fair to the gainfully employed SO, who might otherwise resent the situation. But they are good if you are single too. There's a big difference between making $15-20/hr and making that and getting tons of free stuff.

2018 year of zippy's 2/5 domination

I'm likely done for the year, so might as well...




Unfortunately, my giraffe seems to have broken it's neck in early december .

I'm very pleased with my volume, much more than this would probably be detrimental to both work and play. Played mostly 2-4 and 5-5, some 2-2, and in the last 3 months i took some shots at 5-10, and had some fun swings along the way . I also ran super well in a few PLO sessions, which skews my graph a lot.
Obviously very happy overall.

Happy holidays everyone!

PokerJournal has stopped updating and doesn't work with new OSes, so I'm going to make a switch for the new year. What's everyone using?

I'm a 1-2 player at Indian Casinos in Oklahoma
I log all of my session in my poker income app.
Here is my year to date:

$8,385 profit
$15.12 an hour over 554 hours and 41 minutes
54 percent profitable sessions
$1331 in tips and meals (should I not tip as much?)

HOWEVER,
Here is my last 56:15 at the table.
$1,545 in the negative
27.47 in the negative/hour

Also, I'm down $620 over last 5 hours with the very last hand I played getting it all-in preflop with AK hearts against 88 (all in for $27) and QQ (called my all-in). The dude with QQ is a real gambler and he called the 88's $27 three-bet all-in (I opened for $10), only to have me move in with my stack. He surprisingly thought about folding with that hand, but ultimately called. Anyway, I don't want hand analysis here, I just want to explain that both the 8 and the Q came on the flop. Hence, in my narrative-filled mind, "are you ****ing kidding me, they both flopped a set, I will never win again."

I'm just back at one of those places where I feel like I want to quit forever because it feels like I'll never win again. I know this is crazy talk. I've had downswings of this size before, but I'm hitting this point where I can't take much more of the negative variance, along with whatever my contributions are to the slide, because the longer the slide, the more suspect I become of my own play.

It's not the money lost that's debilitating, but the losing itself. I can afford the loss. But playing only makes sense to me if I'm profitable, and I feel so far away from being profitable right now. You know, why play if you're just going to lose? That's where my head is.

Any thoughts on how to get to the other side of this emotionally? I like to think of myself as a $20/hour 1-2 player and I was about a dime short of that rate when this slide began. Maybe $20/hr is unrealistic?

Anyway, if anybody has a pep talk or if anybody has some perspective that might be helpful, that would be great. I need a frame of mind better than the one I have now.

Thanks so much.

rYou're on a 5-7 session downswing. That's not that bad. You're a winning player who is going through a down swing. I would take some time off and clear my head, and then come back once I was in a better place mentally. If you're going to continue to be a long term winner, you have to get to the point in which you don't get mad about losing per se, but only get mad about bad play. What I mean is, if you repeatedly get your money in good, and get sucked out on, that's just variance. Don't let it affect you. Only get upset when you get your money in bad repeatedly, because that's just bad play. You can control bad play. Just take time off, and clear your head. Try downloading headspace, it is a really good app. Keep your head up. Things will turn in your favor soon.

I have no pep talk for you. This is a completely standard downswing. Sack up and play or don't.

You're winning overall and not entitled to be winning in the past x hours.

Heres my pep talk. I've been in a longer downswing in the same Oklahoma casinos. I'm a life time winning player and have been dealing with 6 months of this ****. A few losing sessions is just life. No biggie keep grinding.

I’m also experiencing a downswing ($1,200 over a month). I’m just taking a break until I feel ready to play again. Good luck.

I use rungood. Pretty happy with it