Number of Winning Players

Current Roll: $11615

The sheer number of terrible players on party poker never ceases to amaze me. I wonder how many players on party poker actually make money. According to my PT database, 40% are winning players. This is absolutely meaningless since I don't have another player in my DB with even 1K hands.

There is no way that 40% of the players make money. In my experience of playing and watching other players, I suspect that at 2/4, the 15th percentile is the break even point, and about 85% are losing players in the long run. Does anyone have any differing opinions?

Hand of the day: I was in the BB with KQo. Two limpers in mid and late position. I bet the flop of K83 rainbow, one folds and I'm raised. The player that raised me is an ABC by the books player. I figured AK would have raised preflop, and a set would have raised me on the turn; I figure at worst it's a split pot. So I checkraise the turn...calls me down with KJ! Mark a few extra BBs for a great read!

The Last Month

I've noticed a correlation between stress and poker winnings. Over the last month, I've been more stressed than I can remember, and my poker results (read: losses) seriously reflected this. As I mentioned in the post above, I dropped almost 200 BB in 3 weeks, and I wasn't even playing so often. In other words, I wasn't taking my own advice and waiting to be capable of playing my A (or even B) game. So I then took a week off completely and focused on school.

After this I toook some time to relax and refocus on my game. Now it's as good as ever having won 9.4 BB / 100 in the last 4K hands (not quite the long run and probably not sustainable, but I think reflective of solid play).

Also, I wanted to point out that The Cards Speak had an excellent post the other day about begin way ahead / way behind that I have experienced in 2/4, but are probably more common in higher limits.

I'm just getting back into the blogging mode, more coming soon!

10K

Current Roll: $10014

Real life hit me hard, but expect more frequent updates again. After a rough 200 BB downswing, I finally worked my roll up to 10K! More later...