Finally have enough sample to start talking results a bit. Since I got back into poker in early 2019 and started learning NL I've played 345 hours. My previous poker experience was beating 2/4&3/6 online limit 6-max for $45/hr right before black Friday so I'm not only rusty but learning no limit for first time.
Caveat is that 140ish of these hours where in casinos and a home game pre covid and 200 were what I call "e-live" games post-covid. E-live are private online games I've gotten into with a pool of live recs and no rake (one live pro has snuck in to the bigger pool). E-live can also be anywhere from 40 hands per hour to 130 so each hour of e-live is like 2-3 hours real live. They are... very nice games to play in.
Casino 1/3, +1616 over 90hrs.
Casino 2/5 -2657 over 35hrs.
E-live + home games 1/2 +13,338 over 220hrs.
Not only are the e-live games soft but I started upswing around that time too and I think my game had massive improvements. The valley of this graph is right before I started playing e-live and working through upswing content.
Biggest downswing, +2000 to -4000 near start from Casino and a wild home game play. Also went +11600 to +9700 entering a new e-live situation and getting coolered while building reads on new player pool. Took a bit but I'm finally learning that they really are peeling 2/3 pot bets with only back door flush draws and raising rivers only when they got the goods.
Worst sessions: -2400 at Casino 2/5 and -1300 at Casino 1/3. -885 at e-live 1/2.
I recently showed my wife this graph because I'm open about my results with her and she was shocked by the big downer at start haha. There is probably a post someone can dig up from last year of me asking people how many buy ins they'd light on fire learning a game before admitting they are a fish. I was close to hanging it up there.
I'm building up a bankroll to be able to play casino 2/5 regularly when things go back to normal.