December Wrap Up

Now I'm sure most of you read the title and went 'WTF DECEMBER AINT OVER YET? WHAT A DONKEY'.... well December is technically over for me because my last exam is on the 19th and from the 20th to the 28th I will be going on vacation to Japan! When I come back the month will basically be over and I won't have anytime to do anything poker-related anyways, so therefore December Wrap Up time!!

December went very very well for me poker-wise, I made the most money I have ever in a month playing poker. It was mainly a combination of running good and classes being over so I had lots of free time!
Basically the typical day for me this month was wake up at noon, study all day until about 9pm, grind 100NL until 2am, sleep, rinse and repeat!! Now thats living the high life right!

I ended up playing strictly 100NL and I've gotten very comfortable there. I've figured out who the regulars are and who are the big donks. For the last couple of days, I've been mixing in 2 tournaments into my 12 cash game tables making it 14 tables on my sexy triple monitor setup! I have decided to put some time into learning tournament poker by playing it on the side during my cash game sessions. The results havn't been good (I think I only cashed like once out of 8-10). I am not saying I am great at tournaments (In fact i am pretty bad, esp at stack sizing), however whenever I play them I just feel like their just 'for fun' because I easily make so much more grinding cash games. I mean there would be times where I go deep into a tourney and spend 1-2hrs on it, and by then I've already made like 300$ in cash games. As a result, I take some really whacky and funny lines in tournaments which usually bites me in the ass. There was one tournament where I tried to make a huge bluff at this guy firing all three streets including a river bet of his whole stack, and he called....with bottom pair. All I can say is the worst tournament player is 1000x worse then the worst cash game players i've seen, its quite ridiculous. One of these days i will luckbox a win right?

Anyways, this month I only ended up playing about 20K hands or so. I ended the month at about 5.5bb/100 or so which is very high for FR games. I am obviously quite happy with the results and below is my graph for the month.



Anyways, this month Rich (RJEJ84) and I had a small bet for the best win rate in Dec and Jan. I think I am going to win this month with 5.5bb/100, but rich still has like 12 more days to go so we'll see! Good luck!

I am assuming once you read this, I will be long gone to another continent far far away! So i would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a happy new year! Next year is going to be a big one for me poker wise.. I can feel it.... stay tuned...

-Ian