So I have been getting a little behind in my updates. I decided to try to post every other day. The fourth was my best day to date. I won a total of $210.86. $64.35 was in cash games. Then I played in the daily double tournament and finished in the money in both. There were almost 1,300 people in each tournament and the top 180 got money back. I finished 139th and in the other one I finished 13th. The two tournaments came to a profit of $110.01 plus I received a bonus for cashing in both which was $36.40. It was the first time I have ever cashed in both. There were only 37 people who double cashed out of 1,300. So I guess it is harder than I thought to cash in both. The fifth was not nearly as good of a day. I did manage to have a winning day bringing in $21.90. So my two day total was $232.76.
8/3
After yesterdays great comeback, I decided to continue to play at the $25 NL tables. I started off pretty good and continued to play well all day. I posted my graph for the day below. You can see that there were a few bumps in the road. But for the most part, I was stacking up chips and more chips. I ended the day up $84.25 putting me at +$200.36 for the week. My total also climbed back up over the $1,000 mark coming in at $1076.47.
8/2
Today started off pretty bad. I was down at one point $90 and was playing in the $50 NL rooms. I decided to take a break and next session drop down to playing the $25 NL rooms. It was a good decision. I played very well and began my comeback. Little by little I started climbing back up. I fell a bit short of even but, losing $12.15 for the day is much better than $90. So I was able to avoid a desasterous day by taking a break to regroup and drop down a level. Most poker players would try to step up thinking that is the only way they would be able to get to even for the day. I am thinking long term though. A losing day doesn’t bother me that much. I am thinking weeks and months and not in terms of days. The lost dropped my total to under a grand. I now stand at $992.22 but, I am still up $116.11 for the week.
8/1
It was the beginning of a new month today and I wanted to get off to a good start. I have been playing pretty well lately and today was no different. I was up $30 playing in cash games so, I decided to play in the daily double tournament that night. It cost $24 to enter both tournaments. I figured worst I could do is win $6.65 for the day. Unfortunately that is exactly what happened. I did not play all that well in the tournaments today. I need to work on my tournament game. Especially since I want to play in the World Series of Poker next year. It was still a winning day which is always good. My total for the week is $121.61 and my grand total is grand at $1004.37.
7/31 Day 51
I was looking to have another good day to close out the month of July. I got out of the gates quickly and never looked back. I had to work at the magic shop today so I only got to play 3 1/2 hours. I was still able to win $71.50 averaging $20.43/hour. In the past couple of weeks I have increased my hourly rate from just under $1/hour to $2.67/hour for the month. I ended up the month of July winning $573.40. I am very happy with my results for the month. I went through a bad stretch but, I have seemed to iron out those problems. For the week I am up $121.61 and my total has ascended to $997.72. I am nearly to the $1,000 mark. Here is what my graph looks like for the month of July.
