I managed to recover most of my losses last night when I came 1st in a $100 hyper turbo SnG for $390 and won a bit at 50PLO too when I flopped a set in a 3bet pot against an obvious AAxx. At one stage in the SnG, I was down to 30 chips when my 77 lost to KQ on a 57KQQ runout. It was pretty crushing when they gave me so much false hope on the flop, and I really needed that win. Blinds were 50/100, I had 30 chips left and hope was almost futile. But I somehow managed to win flip after flip after flip and built up my stack to 3000 chips and won the tournament. Scary to think that I would've pretty much completely busted my online roll if I didn't pull that miracle right at the end.
Well today is a fresh day, so I'm going to put the past behind me and put in a session of 1/3 NL live tonight. It's never too late to change.
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Originally Posted by dogarse
OP, correct me if I'm wrong but it seems like you were playing more, winning more, playing better and enjoying the game more when you had a job.
I was averaging about 20hrs per week back when I was working, whilst I'm averaging about 25hrs per week now. It just feels like I'm barely getting in volume when my goal was 40-50hrs per week.
Since quitting my job, I'm $450 up live and about $550 up online. But prior to quitting my job, I was $10,635 up live and $1000 down online. So results had definitely been better before I quit my job, but most of that had to do with variance, rather than playing worse. I actually think I've played slightly better since quitting my job.
When I look at my results per game, since June, I'm:
2.4k up at 2/5 NL
1.4k up at 1/3 NL
$200 up at 10/20 NL (had one degen session)
1.8k down at 1/3 PLO
1.8k down at 1/2 NL (mostly home games)
So if I just stuck to 1/3 NL and 2/5 NL at the casino, then I wouldn't be on such a long breakeven stretch.