Update first month fulltime..

Its been awhile...At the end of Sept i decided to go fulltime, so far so good...well minus volume.  In my first month i played like 430 games avg stake $71 for a profit of $4,400....Not bad, but i really need to work on volume and getting games in...some days after i get up like 300 ill just quit, when i should be continuing the grind.  I think the most games i played in a single day all month was something like 44, which is a lot for me but everytime i play that many games its bc im chasing losses...but whatever im fine with my first mo...

Nov so far has been going well...130 games up 1.6k....i set a new most games in a day record this month...one day i played 62 games obv only made 180...i also final tabled a mtt gtfo.  I have been playing a few low stakes mtts throughout the week while grinding hu...def not something i want to get more involved in, but doesnt hurt to have one running while grinding...
thats it for now....do work

August

August went ok....

323 games avg stake $75 profit like 2.1k.....i am completely out of my 3k downswing....im leaving for vacation tonight, not sure if i will be playing at all while i am gone.  If so maybe a game or two here and there, but for the most part i just want to chill out....also i have decided to go full time, with my last day of work being 9/24 yoo....just a quick update

Variance.

Have not posted in a while...still in a battle with variance...


i have not been through anything quite this bad in my career so far....
Graph since May 15, 2010, when this all seemed to start



  standard for a 10% roi in 50's and 100's??? (was 10% in both, but now like 9 in 50's and 8 in 100's)

FML...

Here was June....





lol from May 15-June 30 here is my pokerluckmeter stats...

	Total winnings -354.5 Big Blinds   Expected all-in winnings 1826.5 Big Blinds   Expected win rate 6.0 ± 2.8 Big Blinds/100 hands   Your luck was at 0% - The bottom 1% of worst possible luck.   Luck odds 1 : 271.4

im not good with this shit...can anyone translate this..i mean obv i ran like god right?


So sick this has to happen right when i start to seriously think about going full time...soul crushed...gotta bounce back i guess...peace

Decision time: Fulltime or not???

Since i have very few real life poker playing friends i want to get input, thoughts, and advice from you husngers and pros on this....

Let me lay it out for you:
I have 2 bachelor degrees..i was working as an assistant restaurant manager and began to HATE it, so my friend got me the job i am currently at now...the only reason i took it was just to get out of the restaurant bc i hated it so much, and was going to stay there until i finished my 2nd degree, well thats done now...i have been there for 2 years in August.  I make absolute shit for money $11.50/hr, and have not gotten a raise yet bc our company got sued so all raises have been frozen.  I discovered online poker in Jan 2009 and have worked my way up to the $100 husngs playing part time....i am really beginning to hate my current job, plus the pay is dick, and they are starting to pull and jerk me around...

Ok now the question should i go fulltime or not??  here are my stats at the 50 and 100 level so far

$50- 1,163 games played, $6/game, 11%roi

$100- 1,359 games played, $11/game, 10%roi

Right now i have about 13k in the bank and a 10.5k poker bankroll....for about the past 7 or 8 months i have made more in poker playing 200-250 games a month than i have at my job....some months only by a few hundred, some by 2k, and few by 4-5k.....if i go pro i plan on opening 2 more accounts with my bank 1 for tax money, and 1 for personal retirement money that i will deposit into every month... i just recently started 2 tabling, and obv hit a downswing so i really dont have a good sample at  tabling as of yet....

Please provide some insight on this for me...all comments are welcome....

also, to any pros regarding health insurance....how much is a personal health insurance plan if you get it on your own?? im healthy and havent been to the doctors in years...just wondering...

thanks a lot.

I am being mentally tested.

After the second half of last month and the first half of this month, poker is testing my mental.  I just cannot get anything going...every bluff gets picked off, card dead, coolers, set ups, and when i do get a monster the maniacs im playing snap fold...feels great.  So far this month i have played 173 games with a -3% roi, which a big difference from my usual 10-11%...i feel i have dealt with this run OK, not great or as well as i would like to be dealing with it.  I have tilted off a few buyins here and there, berated a decent amount, and feel i have went into auto pilot mode some of the times, which is not good in hu.  I have also let this bad run kind of put me in a bad mood outside of poker as well...i need to work on this...it doesnt happen too often, but i need to figure out how to control this better, so that im not constantly thinking about my recent results...because right now my confidence is close to being completely shot...

Anyway im setting a goal to not berate a single time the rest of the month...in reality me berating a fish and having them not respond just tilts me more, and its just stupid to do...like say after going off on a fish for making several bad plays..and i somehow end up winning and they type GG...it just makes me feel like shit knowing that they are down 20k, i just talked shit on them, they lost and still say gg...not cool, very unprofessional, and i need to fix this...other than that i would be happy with any profit this month...i guess on a positive note im on track for platinum star for the 2nd month in a row, so i guess that is a goal as well....

Time to turn this around..heres my June graph:

GL