Finally an update on my 7 week poker challenge...

I didn't keep the best records since I haven't been blogging, but I know about how much I won or lost so I will do my best to update my progress.

Weeks 5, 6, and 7:
Online: +$9,884 (71 hours)
Live: -$$6,891 (20 hours) (both of these are very approximated)
Total: +$2993

Total: (3.75 BB/100 hands)
Online: +$25,271 (191 hours and about 83,000 hands)
Live: +$1101 (77 hours)
Total: +$26,372 (About 268 hours total)

Those are pretty average numbers for me which is pretty disappointing. Tomorrow is supposed to be the last day of my challenge, but I am certainly going to fall short of my hours played goal. I should have been at 210 hours played online and I am only at 191 right now. I admittedly got burnt out and a little jaded towards the end of my 7 weeks. I had two rough days toward the end that left a pretty bitter taste in my mouth, but I have made a pretty nice comeback online since then.

My live results were pretty terrible, but 77 hours of live play can't even come close to evening out variance. After playing 77 hours of live poker I ended up making a whopping $14.30/hour. Whereas online I made $132/hour in 191 hours of play. Between both of them I made $98.40/hour and I averaged playing 38 hours per week.

Don't get me wrong $26K in 7 weeks time is not at all bad, but my expectations were set a little higher. I was hoping I would finish in the 35-45K range, but it didn't work out this time. I would have actually finished where I wanted to had I not played any tournaments and reached my goal of 210 hours.

Ahh...I just remembered. I also got a decent amount of rakeback during this time as well. I will probably end up having gotten about $3,300 in rakeback by the end of my challenge. That will actually put me pretty close to around $30,000 for the seven weeks (depending how tomorrow goes) which makes me feel a little better.

Enough about poker for now....Josh and I went shopping at the outlet malls today. Basically, I didn't want to have to do any laundry before I went on my cruise so I bought enough new clothes so I would be able to pack without doing any laundry! Now that is laziness at its highest level, but I don't really care....because thats just how I roll.

I am really starting to look forward to my cruise and my much needed break from poker.