March 2013 Recap

I got back on the grind after my my worst month ever and managed to have a winning month although i ran another 120 buyins under all in EV. There were real soft 10/20 Euro games running in the beginning of the month on Microgaming that were build around one guy who played 90% of all hands preflop where I made a couple bucks to get the month in the green.

As Domce already blogged Phil Galfonds new training site run it once is producing by far the highest quality coaching videos in the market at the moment. They recently added Odd-Oddsens to their roster which made me pay the $100/month and I have not regretted it yet. They also have content from the Dang brother and Brian Rast who I played with in Macao quite a bit. There is a free 200/400 PLO video available for those who don't want to spend the dough.

Most of the higher quality hand discussion has moved from twoplustwo to the run it once forums.

Pokerstars made a couple changes to their lobby recently. They added PLO heads up tables with a cap of 20bb which is a useless game and a raketrap below 10/20. After heavy protest from the 2p2 community Stars announced to remove those tables again. 

They introduced high stakes zoom and added the option to play short handed. When they launched it one fishy guy was sitting at 10/20 zoom and the game ran four handed till that player left. This could be a solution for the bumhunting and sitting out problems at high stakes but did not really run much yet.

Stars also put the zoom tables into the regular lobby which increases the liquidity for zoom 200 so much that it is running around the clock now while it was running only sporadically before that change. The player pool is probably even a bit softer than an average 200 game when you do no game selection.

It is much easier to log volume now especially at the beginning of the session. I get around 0.8 VPP/hand at 200 and average 800-1k hands per hour. With higher stakes in the mix that adds up to about 800 VPP per hour which means I'd need to grind a bit more than 100 hours per month on there to get SNE for 120k rakeback which is something I have considered many times before and I might consider again next year.

I will head to Macao for a week or two during Songkran and grind lots of NLH 100/200 over there which should net me about 200 Euro EV per hour with rather low variance.

I finish this with the latest giraffes including the 200 buyin under EV one since December for the pukes. 

Good luck at the tables everybody!

March in bb

March in dollars

Since December