The only depressing part was the WSOP, the rest was amazingly great.
I don't know why you'd be considering changing anything except staying away from the WSOP.
I don't think that would have been fun even if you did well. Vegas is horrible that time of year - when I lived there, I left town during the WSOP.
You're obviously better at cash games, you don't have to travel for them, and you don't have to play by a tournament schedule. Seems like a no-brainer to swear off tournaments.
I do think I’m better at cash but my tournament results are actually pretty stellar. I had a horrible 2023 wsop but I’ve historically done well in live mtts over what tourney pros would call a very small sample size. I posted my ROIs for everything. I’m going back this year but I’m going to sell a huge portion of myself and I’m charging 20% markup so it won’t really cost me anything to play. Should be pretty stress free. Just need to make sure I spend the next six weeks getting in the right mental space.
Nothing about going to Las Vegas in the summer and getting up early to play in specific tournaments that you have promised others to pay in seems stress free to me.
Was not winning much really the only thing that made you miserable at the WSOP last year?
It’s 20%, and actually 10% for some. I thought it was high-ish myself but it’s what my friends all think I should be charging and they are the ones mostly buying so .
You need to find some way to have money make money for you when you're not working or gambling, otherwise you'll work the rest of your life (to paraphrase Warren Buffett). Can you put away $10k per year into an S&P ETF?
Big Blind: -$246
Small Blind: +$334
Total: +$88
Hours: 93
Hourly Result: +$0.95/hour
Overall Results
Big Blind: +$336
Small Blind: +$265
Total: +$192*
Hours: 296
Hourly Result: +$0.65/hour
Notes:
*I started separating results for the two blinds after I started tracking overall results, hence why the numbers don’t add up.
-I thought this would be more volatile in the short term but so far the results are the definition of negligible. Maybe it’s just how it’s worked out so far and the spikes and valleys are ahead.
-I am overall not enjoying the change. A few weeks ago, I was sitting next to a very nice player that was from out of town and even after we had played heads up numerous times from the blinds when I finally open folded my small blind and tossed it to him, he was taken aback and felt like he didn’t deserve it since we didn’t see a flop. I did not enjoy this dynamic at all. I think most of the player pool do not enjoy sitting next to people that don’t chop and when I play a BvB limped pot where $8 is being raked, I’m like, “what am I doing?” So far, I cannot say that the results justify being someone less pleasant to play with at all.
-I want to see this through to the end of the year, but I think starting 2025 I will be back to chopping. I think a good rule going forward is as long as there are 7+ stacks on the table, I always chop and as long as there are 6 stacks or fewer, I always play.
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