February: Finally where I want to be.

February has come and gone and I played almost no poker. I would guess that I played 10 days out of the whole month. Overall, I made a whopping $32 because I run good. Actually I ran terrible. I lost $545 on Pokerstars and made $427 on Cake plus I made $150 in a live home-game.

I am more or less done with stars. I am convinced that there is something wrong with the software. I am down at least $1000 in cash games if not more. My sharkscope SNG graph is a total trainwreck. I am a losing player over a 1000 game sample. Every time I play in a tournament, countless times people hit there miracle card when I am playing for the biggest pot of my tournament. On the other hand, when I put it in bad, it seems that I hit that miracle card 5% of the time or less. If I held up in a just a couple more pots I would be a big winner in tournaments but I only get a good cash once every 300 tournaments. So, with that said, I am pretty much done with Stars. I have $2933.12 to start the month and I just withdrew $1700 via personal check. I am leaving the last $1200 with which to fuck around with. I am going to play a tournament here and there whenever I get the itch, but other then that I am over tournaments for a long time.

I am back into the full swing of cash games and I couldn't be happier about it. Cash games are pretty frustrating for there own reasons but I crush the games and I can beat them consistently. Unless, I have a change of heart, I am going to be a short-term lifer in the 50NL games. The money is good, the rakeback is good, and the games are really easy. As long as I am making money at a satisfactory rate I have no reason to stop playing cash. Plus the rakeback is huge. Last month I was only able to play 12K hands on Cake and made $181 in rakeback.

I started off with $1115 and of course had to deal with the standard downswing. I was all the way down to $580 and was cursing the world. In about two days of obsessive playing I was up to $1300. I ended the month at $1541 and was happy about my little $1000 upswing.

It took me about 10 months but I am finally back to where I want to be. I have paid off all my debts and on top of that have 1 years worth of expenses. So, if I lost my job tomorrow, I could survive for a year. I have never had that kind of cash flow before so I look forward to the future.

With that said, I am really fired up about poker and am going to try and clear as much reakeback/bonuses as I can. I have already played about 4500 hands this month and have made $130 plus about $60 in rakeback. I plan on going balls to the wall for the next month and hope to keep up the volume. Hopefully I run good.

My cake account right now sits at $1671.85
My stars account right now sits at $1202.62