First Losing Month since March 07

[Zybomb]

@#%&*@#%&*@#%&*@#%&*@$$%!$@#

I actually should be happy bc i dug myself out of a 5k+ hole suffered in the first 3 days was actually up $3400 on monday, but suffered a $3950 downswing tues and wed for a small loss on the month

Had back to back 2 outers rub it in nicely for $1k pots each

[hackers238]

That's awesome that you have kept up a streak for so long! I would imagine you can't play nearly as many hands as an online pro, so that's impressive. How many hours/month you play?

[lightfungus]

And that's why sacrificing the number of hands you play online isn't a problem, because the fish that used to be on Party Poker are still alive in RL.

[Talking Poker]

Your monthly rakeback payment should move you back to the plus side then, right?

Ohhhhhhhhh.... riiiiiiiiiiiiight.

[lightfungus]

How are you enjoying all those "skilled" players eating you up these last couple of weeks? The fish in RL don't stack off and catch as much when they just purchased those chips with cold hard cash, and they sure do respect aggression more. I might be a bit biased though.

[Reel Deal]

[Windbreaker]

Say wat? I don't see how the stacking off and respecting aggression point is even valid. Don't you want ppl stacking off? From the limited live experience I have, live players do not respect aggression at all. When a pot gets raised 8xbb and you have 5+ to the flop......I really don't see how that's respect?

Unless you play at high stakes, I don't see how you could make more money in live over online cash games.

The number of hands dealt/hour and by multi-table online, it is way too much to overcome in the live setting. Paying a smaller rake, no tipping, no travel, plus rakeback/bonus/incentive programs is a lot of money you give up for the same amount of time spent playing.

I know Zy enjoys playing live and having a large edge over his competition, but I his online edge multi-tabling online must be mathematically greater.

I consider Zy to be a much better player than I am, and was surprised to hear he's only recently hit two 10k+ months. His live stakes is much more than I ever really risk online, but I have shown similar profits by playing a ton of volume online. If I was a good as him, I would honestly expect to easily avg over 10k per month online before getting a cent in rakeback.

Having said all that, I know my approach is not the best when I see JD and BL with such huge win rates by playing solid poker. I dont know if I will ever be that good, but I know playing live is not the answer.

[Talking Poker]

It looks like this has been addressed by now, but you do see how completely backwards this argument is, right? Yes, the morons have been getting there against me a lot lately, but when the cards are turned over, I'm more often than not VERY happy to see how badly these "skilled" players have been putting their money in.

It stings and is often hard to stomach, but I understand variance and running badly and all that fun stuff. At least online, if I'm going to run badly for 50,000 hands, I'll get through that in my lifetime. Do you have any idea how long it takes to play 50k hands live???

And just for the record, I finished up in April. I was hoping for a $10k month myself, but didn't get anywhere close after the last 3+ weeks. Fortunately, the first few days of the month started off really well, so I finished up > $2k. And I have almost $1k in rakeback coming. Not horrible numbers for a significantly below expectations month.

[Zybomb]

Varies but I try and play Sunday-Thurs each week. On average I'll play about 5 hours a night, but it can be more or less. There's also weeks when I wont play all 5 days either (somethin goin on, things to do etc) but thats the average

[Talking Poker]

I've said it before and realize it falls on deaf ears, but I'll humor myself anyway:

If you spent 25 hours a week (we won't even count your travel time) playing online (even playing lower stakes), you would win more money than you win live.

I'm assuming you'd continue to play well and are capable of multi-tabling, etc.

[Wes]

I had 2 straight years without a losing month, then I had 3 months straight of losing to start of '08. Poker sucks sometimes.