2018 in Review
Yearly results:
As you can see we got off to a super hot start/majority of the year, however the past 3/4 months have been one of the biggest struggles I've experienced throughout my career. $55k downswing, with roughly 4 winning days in the space of those months, of which were minimal wins (won couple of seats to the party $5k that I bricked multiple times).
$80k profit over a year is obviously pretty reasonable at a $112 ABI but given the situation I was in at the end of the summer it certainly hurts a little.
Interestingly throughout the summer I felt pretty down about my game, it wasn't where I wanted it to be and really felt like I was stagnating but seemed a little overwhelmed by it and avoided putting more time in while in the lab, which is obviously a big ol' downwards spiral. I was getting my best results whilst working the least which meant I felt like somewhat of a fraud, undeserving of these results. Since October/November I've really focused on spinning my habits around, and ironically my results have crashed big time as I've spent more time on my game in the lab. Not convinced it has correlation tbh, I think it's just variance, but it may play a small part in that I was trying to change my strategy in certain situations which obv takes a little time to adjust to.
I'm much happier with my habits as of now but I've still got lots of catching up to do to get to where I should be, let alone where I want to be. MTT Regs still may not be amazing but feel many of them have realised the game is getting tough and they need to be putting time in when in the lab so while I've stagnated, in many cases population have caught up and perhaps overtaken me a little.
My volume this year has been OK, but realistically it needs to improve. Averaging just 422 games/month is minimal and believe hitting 450+, perhaps even 500 is the way to go - small stumbling block in that currently I never exceed 9 tables to ensure I'm able to work on parts of my game but I think perhaps regging more stuff late on in sessions, pushing the table count a little higher when I haven't got some big equity runs could be a change to my approach for the coming year.
For this coming year I can't just be another guy floating along in BitB. I've perhaps gotten a little too comfortable realising that I'm more than likely part of the furniture there having been the first guy through the doors back when the staking company was launched, and now I'm seeing guys who I used to coach/mentor play at higher levels than myself through hard work and discipline. They deserve to be where they are right now, as do I.