To be fair, in terms of bb, my line would probably be fairly consistent. Essentially during that period I ran bad at the big games and did okay at medium ones, and it's not really a break even so much as an upward graph, a downswing, then upswing.

Actually if you want to be really nitty, what you can take away from that graph and say "lol if we remove the two periods of your graph where you were running like god, you haven't actually won that much!

Holy ****, how did i miss this, wow at 30k downsing.

Why do people focus on the negative, shouldn't it be "WOW 35k upswing, what a box!"?

I want to put it out there that entire breakeven stretch was probably my time in Australia. Stupid dumb country.

No, because the whole graph is a general upswing, so people will obviously point out the difference, which is the negative.

You won like 100k in the main event, you cant complain. I guess if i ever leave the country i will crush harder than you, considering you BE your entire time here.

That's some creative rounding up. =(

This is all in pounds too so it's actually a bit more.

Does it include tourni results as well? Haha 70k -100k whats the differnce.

It's cash only. I'm not even up that much in MTTs now, sickeningly enough.

Ahh damn.

I'm in the middle of one of those myself horrific stuff seems to happen every time I approach a poker table been 2 outtered so often I won't even complain unless its a 1 outer, I took two days off returned and same stuff again. Did 3 buy ins, one with top two against top and bottom which got there, another with 88 on a 822 board (was shown quads) and saving the best till last AK on QJ10 board all in on flop against 99 and I lose, s#*ts unreal. Taking a week off and going to Barcelona with gf take my mind off everything, dropped near enough a quarter of my roll in a week *covers face*, morale is low and just feel like rubbish overall.

Epic return to live cards at Borgata starting tomorrow for the weekend! Super pumped to faceroll and drool like I used to

50p/50p £20 min buyin £100 max rake. 10% £6 max. its very soft with lots of action and the average stacks are 100bb+

How about this.

1/1 £40 min £200 max same rake. Game is for the most part soft. can consist of 1-3 semi competent - good players.

Is either game beatable given the rake ?

144 hrs of play in last 3 months, up 1009 total. 3.5 bb/hr over presumably 4k hands. Still a small sample size. :/

Working at it...trying to be less of a nit.

Sounds very difficult, but maybe for like a small profit.

I'm up 2k in the past 12 hours

mbn. I'm up over 400 in the last 12 hours.

Is it tougher to beat the 1/2nl 4+1 in California than a 1/1 10% 6 max in England ?

I know they are taking less in terms of big blinds but I think the pots on average are of simular size. I'm having trouble figuring it out cus on the one hand you can say "well they take out 6bb of every pot 60+ pot" but in Cali they only take 2.5 but the pot has to be 50+ for them to take the same in England (pretending the currency is the same)

so a 60+ pot will be raked 6 >50 will be raked less. So in the big scheme of things is it really that much worse in comparison ? Coupled with that you don't tip.

Am I thinking about this all wrong ?? Does the fact they are taking alot more in terms of bb mean something I'm missing.

Sorry for long post I'm just confused.

It's the combination of rake and average stack size at the table.

If a game is raking $6 and the average stack size is at $50, odds of beating the game is very low.

On the other hand, if it's a spewfest like Florida, even though rake is high, it's still highly profitable.

Be realistic with your expectation.

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Nice plug, though the charts just look aesthetically unpleasing.

Also do not understand why anyone would convert poker time into anything but hours and minutes.

I understand your point. Well there are more than 8 graphs with each their own style and you can use filters on your statistics like display only cashgames from location X. In the settings menu there's also an option to set the time to hours/minutes in stead of days/hours/minutes.

always wondered why poker journal only measures by date and sessions in the graphs function, and not hours, which i would feel would be the most helpful?

am i missing something?

My first 100 hours of playing Live Seriously.

Just took up Poker again after a long break after the whole Black Friday deal online. Worst part, was I was just starting to become a solid winning player, after years of study and hard work improving my game. I did play occasionally live for fun, but not seriously because the action was so slow, I didn't think I could make enough to make it worth my time. However, being able to see players and their tells, has certainly made me a much better live player than I was online. So, recently I decided that I needed a second job, and there are a ton of cardrooms close to my house, so I decided to give live cash games a try. Here are some pics of my results off of Poker Journal. I'm looking forward to building up my roll so I can move up in stakes.

Hours is an arbitrary number, because you are not really tracking your progress per hour (unless you're literally updating the app every hour), but rather tracking sessions.

So let's say you have a session of 5 hours that ended in $-100, and another session of 5 hours that ended with $600. The logical way of displaying these two sessions with breakdown by hours would be to take the total win/loss and average out by hours, and in this case it would be $50/hr.

The graph would then show a linear line using the information, and as of such, it would be rather moot.

What other units would we put live winnings in *other* than hours?

Such a graph would show a line from $0 to -$100 over 5 hours, at a downward slope of -$20/hr, then an upward line from -$100 to $500 at an upward slope of $120/hr over 5 more hours. So it'll have the overall win/loss from start to finish ($50/hr), as well as the individual session winrates (which are of value in and of themselves for diagnosing game selection problems).

I was referring directly to chart. Replacement of date and session by hours would simply be of the same thing, except the bottom would be hours, but each interval would still be the same as before.