I've barely won any money in 2006, and I just got back from a bust of a "business trip" to Vegas. I'm frustrated with poker to the point where I've started looking at job listings and thinking about my resume. I've barely won any money in 2006, and I just got back from a bust of a "business trip" to Vegas.
I'm still thinking a lot about going back to school, but the earliest I could go back would be fall of 2007. I need to pay the bills between now and whenever school happens (if school does happen), and its pretty hard to see poker doing it for me the way I'm going.
I could offer various explanations for my lack of success, but one thing that I'm sure of is that my heart and my head just haven't been in the game. Since I've been back in town, I've played 1661 hands of $2/4 hold'em and lost an astonishing $687. That is 172 bets, losing over 10 bb/100 hands. At $2/4. Pathetic.
But from this low, there is still some hope. I feel a bit refreshed after being away for a while, and something has snapped in the way I've been seeing the 6max limit game, especially postflop. Since I've been back I've won $1176.54 in 6167 hands at 5/10 and 3/6, good for 2.28 bb/100 in a very small sample size. And most of that 2/4 disaster was 8-tabling to try to quickly clear a bonus. And looking at the long term, I've still managed to cover all my expenses since I quit my job, even if I haven't been able to build up my bankroll.
I find myself alternating between playing great and playing like an idiot, and wondering what my bank account would look like if I switched to either of those extremes on a full-time basis. Poker is a great hobby, but a tough way to make a living unless you are an elite player. But it looks like the only available jobs that I'm qualified for are pretty terrible too, so for the next month or two I'll try to bring my "A-game" all the time.
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