Hit my goal of 600 games today and finally had a reasonable day post-RB profit. Ran at about EV after being $800 or so below mid-day. I'll upload a screenshot of all I'm looking at throughout the day sometime tomorrow. I've disabled being able to see my balance in the lobby and don't follow in HEM either. Will give a screenshot tomorrow of my main monitor grind set up.

BlakeErickson********* 605 -$0.17** $21** 0% -$106** - N/A Merge 2/8/2012 2/8/2012 SNG Only x

Going to continue on the grind tomorrow. ABI has dipped back down as I've temporarily dropped the $100s for reasons I'd rather not get into on a public forum. Anyways, shooting for 700 games tomorrow and hoping to maintain that until I am back on pace to rake $15,000 this month. 160 hours may be a bit higher than I'll reach but still feels good to set the goal high so I don't quit too early. Going to take more hours to reach that rake goal without $100s...by a lot...

Monthly Rake: $3,434
Pace: $4,137
Rake per day to hit Goal: $550

you making money again! yaaaayyyyyyy

I cant believe you usually have your lobby balance up. I get unhappy when I reg for 200+ dollars at a time and then brick a few sets. I cant imagine it at your stakes!

I to turn my lobby balance off and i'm trying to get in the habit of not looking at HEM anymore other then to see how many games I have played like we spoke about on skype. Your work ethic Blake is inspiring keep at it bud and you will Boomswitch!

Hit my 700 games for the day today. Finished a few minutes ago with 702 games in 7.3 hours of play time, about 10 hours in front of the comp (not terrible considering the other things outside of playing I've done today).

The fantastic news is that I actually made money pre-RB today ~$125 !. Still feels really nice though even though my red line looks like it tanked early on today and then pretty much stayed down there all day. Whatever though, volume on the mind.

As promised, a screenshot of my desktop when I'm playing to give you an idea of how I set up my screen. I do have two monitors and use the other for Skype, leaderboard, charts, sharkscope, pandora, email, etc.

Monthly Rake: $4,146
Pace: $4,655
Rake per day to hit Goal: $542



I don't usually but since I'm now updating to Donkbluff everyday I forget to turn it off sometimes. Just going to open the cashier to check balance so I don't forget to turn it back off.

yeah, checking results while playing in these is just counterproductive imo. Either you get off your A game when you see yourself losing, or you want to quit early when winning. Seeing yourself losing constantly throughout a day in your HEM only re-inforces negative thoughts about not being able to win, etc, which I think is very detrimental to your game and, long term, will be detrimental to your results as well.

Slacked like a boss today...hardly played at all. I'll use the excuse that games were loading slowly, but really, it's just cause I was lazy and just never felt in the mood to grind. At least I crushed in the 3 short sessions that I did play today.

As I said, games were loading slow so I fired up some DoNs $10.80-54 as well as some $22-55 10 max games to help get a little extra volume in. Turned a profit in those as well as a reasonable profit in supers.

Sharkscope for the day excluding RB
BlakeErickson********* 229 $4** $27** 14% $915** - N/A Merge 2/10/2012 2/10/2012 x

Planning 400-500 games tomorrow and then a solid grind on Sunday. Hoping to be out of MU shortly and back in the $100s which will help me to pick up the pace towards $15,000 raked.

Monthly Rake: $4,436
Pace: $5,172
Rake per day to hit Goal: $556

GL everyone, run average!

Sup blake. Its sweatpants from rcg. Question about overbet and rb that im sure u can answer. Dont know how to pm u on here so pm me when u get a sec. Glad to see ur doin well. We DONT miss u

Interesting that you are mixing in DoNs. What sort of roi would you expect at the $10+ level and would you ever consider making them your main game?

Based on the decent regs I've scouted with appropriate sample sizes I'd say 3-4% Playing $5-20. No one really has a large enough sample @ $50+ but I'd venture break even to 2% at those stakes. Games are 8% rake at all stakes so with a stellar deal you can be pulling in 7-10% per game.

I considered it towards the end of November, however, for me personally, I don't think I could touch the super turbo hourly playing solely DoNs.

Ran pretty well today for a change and it felt nice. I'm almost back to breakeven on the month post-RB.

Had a lot of IRL stuff to attend to today (wife had a bunch of girlfriends over to sell some jewelry) so I spent a lot of the day helping her get the house cleaned up and getting food etc.

Hopefully I'll get better volume in tomorrow and actually make some progress towards getting back on pace. $15,000 didn't seem that hard but damn, lot of hours to put in.

Updated Sharkscope for the month (not including RB) and Leaderboard below.

Monthly Rake: $4,849
Pace: $5,690
Rake per day to hit Goal: $564

you are sick. keep grinding. you are one of my inspirations to grind.

Not as much volume as I had hoped for today but whatever. Games were slow for awhile and I've been avoiding loading $10s when possible just because they usually make up a huge chunk of my volume but only a small chunk of my rake generation (they are great for LB equity though). Dropped a good chunk of change pre-RB today running well below EV but tomorrow is a new day.

$700+ raked on the agenda tomorrow (Monday) or I owe $25 to the next poster in this thread.

Monthly Rake: $5,239
Pace: $6,207
Rake per day to hit Goal: $574

Thanks. Still need to work more on my grind ethic, would really like to be able to put in 40 hours a week without burnout...

I recognize that saying this absolutely ensures I wont see any money...but I dont think you can rake 700 tomorrow : )

BOOKED

I don't think u can do it either haha better be Playing Sir and GL

$125 raked in my first set, Would have been higher but had to play a ton of $10s to keep games up so wound up taking less than $1/game avg.

Hopefully will pick up later in the day.

Funny story, you ever eat something knowing that it's not going to agree with you the next day? One of my favorite snacks is pepper jack cheese+pepperoni+cracker. Unfortunately it definitely doesn't like me...ate some last night, needless to say about 15 min before my session was over I had to run to the bathroom, take care of business in about 45 seconds, wipe up what I could, and dart back to the comp...

Wipe up what you could? Invest in a laptop my friend.

Up to $327 raked atm. Got crushed pretty hard this last set. Was up about 1k at one point today, presently down $500 pre-RB. Grind on the mind !

Haha, have two, neither were nearby though, wouldn't have had time to swap anyways :-p.

+1 and one of the reasons I bought a new lap top 2 days ago lmao

Blake, you worried about the rumors of Merge pulling out of USA? Must be a bit worrysome having to keep a decent amount of bankroll on Merge for your games.

oh my... links please

"Wipe up what I could..."

People use "lol" all the time, but that truly made me laugh out loud, and pretty violently, actually.

U sick bro

Because you frequently take violent and unexpected sh**s? lololol

Up to $541 rake paid, unfortunately running like the **** that streamed out of my ass earlier, currently -$1300ish pre-RB.

Rumors is all it is IMO. I'm not worried in the least but I also play backed so it's not my roll on the line...I'm also confident that if something was to happen, it would be np to get my money off.
Haha it was not fun times.
Lol, with as much coffee as he drinks I wouldn't be surprised.

HIT N RUN THAT CASINO BABY

Raked $746 on the day, unfortunately got creamed both pre and post-RB. I did manage to secure backing so I can start adding the $100s back in. Backed for everything same as before but my backer just brought in an extra investor to help ride some of the variance train.

Casino bonuses on lock came in today which we all know are worthless. I managed to run decent though in caribbean stud with $100 ante and $200 bets and obv the $1 for the progressive. Had a $2400.xx casino bonus so $96,xxx to clear it.

RESULTS:


Sick run good I guess to help make up for getting F'd hardcore on the supers tables. Whatever, still down a chunk post-RB on the tables this month, but after reviewing January numbers it seems that including casino bonus/sng lb/table profits + Rakeback, after chopping with my backer was my first 5 figure month. Sexy as hell IMO. Hope to keep a lot of them coming in the future.

GL to everyone !