Well. It's been an interesting March/April. I experienced both a career high and career low. We'll start with March, and why I chose not to make updates.
So in the Month of March, I was a spin player. Going into it, I was near out of make-up, and felt I was on pace to jump ships from my stable to greener pastures. I was actively asking my Manager to speak with the owner, as I wanted to quit. Things didn't go as plan. Here are my stats for the month:
Overall Stats:
30s cEV Graph:
15s cEV Graph:
$ won Graph:
The results took place mainly March 1st-March 23rd. I took a very required rest of the month break from poker and streaming after that. I was devastated. I went on a downswing I just couldn't comprehend. I felt like a piece of sh*t. I thought I was going to be out, and I was pulled back in. It was so disappointing. Especially when I would have bought out of my make-up at the time before this downswing (low 4 figures) before it happened. My stable took 1 f**king month to get back to me about me quitting. I had to threaten to quit and send back the roll until they finally responded.
What it got me was the most half-hearted attempt at a conversation. Over the span of an hour, I got a bunch of empty comments, and a "hold with us for another month before you want to quit." Then the owner after getting no real substance out, says "someones at the door" and that'd be return shortly. ~1 hour after that I got the "we'll catch back up later" and that was that. I couldn't have been more frustrated. I sent all backed money back to them, and said I refused to play until I had a serious conversation about me leaving. It had been a full month since my initial quit request and I still got no word.
The threat did work, as I eventually had one with the stable manager, on behalf of the owner. I was offered a buyout % of the makeup, or to play it out on an EV deal if I was worried about the swings. I decided to choose the EV deal and try and ride it out. Unfortunately, the downswing continued, but in EV.
I felt like crap, and didn't want to play. It was showing in my streams. Fortunately, I was reliving my glory days and going to go to a Halo tournament at the beginning of April. So I decided to take the rest of March off and practice for the event.
The Halo event was great. I realized that I was 1) washed up and 2) still a competitive mother f**ker. I really did miss that competitive atmosphere. Part of me wanted to continue playing seriously. But it's just not feasible to get what I want out of Halo. I have too much time dedicated to Poker/Streaming to possibly get as good as I once was. I'm not the 17 year old who could fire off 8 hours a day ezpz. It was a great vacation.
I spent this time off re-evaluating my poker career thus far. I had made effectively $0 my entire 3 month time as a full-time pro. The stream was taking off, but it was still in its infancy stages. This life shot-take was not going nearly as played as I hoped. I knew something needed to change. Spins were not doing it. The future was only getting more and more bleak. 30s are reg infested. Sure most of them are sh*t, but beating rake at a reasonable level isn't worth the time invested. I'd given it 3 months and yielded nothing.
So I decided to flip everything. I chose to go back to MTTs. However, I decided night schedule MTTs were my best fit. One, it is much lower variance. There are vastly smaller fields, requiring less AIPF's and more focus on just being the better player. I'm able to squeeze out a MUCH larger edge. Also, it would be the best direction for my stream. The overnight EST stream slot is fairly baron. I had a ton of friends and fellow streamers who I knew I would get their support from when they ended their streams. It just made sense. I needed change. Well, here my results for the month of april after said change:
April Results:
I had my best month ever as a poker player. the cliffs of my FT's:
3rd big $33
7th Omania NLO8 $33 Saturday Special
3rd $16.50 NLO8 Omania
1st $11r NLO8 Deep Stack Hyper
2nd $22 Party
1st $44 Bounty Builder (My new high score)
3rd $22 Party
1st Big $16.50
7th $16.50 NLO8 Omania
6th $16.50 PLO Omania
4th $16.50 NLO8 Omania
1st $22 Deepstack 888
3rd $16.50 NLO8 Omania
3rd $30 Pacific Swordfish
1st $5r 888
5th $30 Pacific Swordfish
2nd $22 NLO8 Hyper
1st $11 NLO8 Omania
1st $5r 888
4th $5.50r NLO8 Hyper
1st $16.50 NLHE Deepstack (First NLHE win in nearly 9 months)
5th $33 WTB
3rd $11 NLO8 Hyper
1st $7.50r NLO8 Hyper
Those are the more notable finishes. I probably had double that in FTs that fizzled out. Obviously it's easier to FT stuff when it's 80-500 player fields, but screw it. I'm proud. Some tournaments I made my specific b*tch, like the $16.50NLO8 Omania.
My stream had it's best month as well. I'm averaging ~100 viewers by the end of my stream. I've had streams reach 750 viewers. I've had several streams averaging 200-400 viewers. I think I'm nearly able to get partnership with twitch.
For the first time since I've begun, the dream has felt alive. With all that out, it's time to look at May. SCOOP/XL/Powerfest might make me switch my MTT schedule for the few weeks. Some of the events are just too high value to miss. I'm debating just grinding it entirely. I'm also debating overnighting on days I don't play SCOOP the next day. It's still undecided.
I will be making a SCOOP package and posting it here for people looking to buy pieces. It's going to be essentially $109/$215 O8's,8-game, and the main events. I won't be firing any $109s/$215 hold'ems except the NLHE HU. That I'll be probably keeping 100% of unless I sell at reasonable markup.
Finally, I have a friendly wager with my friend to help me from living like a hermit. I need to play 21 days of basketball (minimum 1 hour). He has his own goals. Looking forward to both of us improving our lifestyles.
Time for some thread saver: