21k hands played so far this month, and I am pretty happy with that. It is all very new to me and I am not sure how to wrap my brain around this kind of volume. Unfortunately I am a marginal winner without rakeback. All in EV apparently I am running pretty hot, but I seem to get action only from short stackers preflop when I have AA or KK. Also, yesterday I played a break even session where I was stacked about 5 times with coolers and I couldn't really have played it any other way. Seems difficult to quantify how you are running, tbh.

I haven't done a thorough review of all of my big losing hands for the month, but I seem to have made great progress in tilt control (cuz you always get another shot) this week over last. I think I have made 3 or 4 questionable stack offs this week which, newsflash, really DOES cut into your winrate. But it wasn't through tilt, just not thinking things through enough, which is where I need to focus on next week. I am also playing a lot tighter this week than last week, which I think is appropriate since I am six tabling.

I don't know how much my theoretical game is advancing because I have not been posting in the forums nearly as much, but putting in this kind of volume has really given me some nuts and bolts know how and a sense of perspective as to what your approach should really be when you are putting in some volume.

It is late and I am tired after playing poker all day and working all night at the bar. I will hopefully be able to tie this all up in a nice lucid blog post at the end of the month.

In other news, I lost to my 3 year old son in Disney Junior Princess Monopoly earlier this week. We ended the game when he started throwing the money in the bank around the living room (I think he should have been disqualified for that, tbh). Still we did a final count, and he was ahead of everyone else in cash on hand and properties, so gg me. I think to advance my restaurant career I will become a Certified Sommelier through the Court of Master Sommeliers, and hopefully, an Advanced Sommelier. Should take about two years since they don't give the tests too frequently and there would be a lot of studying involved. I think it will offer me better financial opportunities and a chance to be more directly involved with wine.

Play well. Do good work. Keep in touch.

PFJ