Week 4 report (I am running good in life in general at the moment):

Except for me failing the DMV written test I basically ran way ahead of expectation at everything else this week.

For Example:
1. I bowled my second highest series ever this week (649)
2. I played golf for the first time in probably 4 months yesterday and shot 76 and hit the ball great for most of the day.
3. I crushed both online and live poker this week.
4. I reached a new low weight of 227.4 lbs. this week (this is really going to start getting tougher to stay ahead of pace if I don't start going to the gym regularly).

Since I last blogged I have played two live sessions of PLO. One time the game was great and I played average and won $1,335. Then other time the game was good for a while and then pretty bad towards then end of the night. I didn't play very well and lost $1,683. I also played one session online and did really well. I played 5 tables of all $600 NL and won a healthy $2813.

This is how my week 4 ended up:
Live: +$4,287
Online: +$8,541
Total: $12,828

Those numbers are pretty mind boggling to when I stop and think about how much money that really is. Being a poker player sometimes you lose touch with the value of a dollar. That is so cliche to say, but it really is true. My checks when I use to work at the Courier would sometimes be just over $1,200 and that was a rather significant amount of money to me....oh ya....those were bi-weekly checks! So, basically, this week I made 20x what I used to make in a week working a "real job". I can't even imagine how much money I would have to be offered to stop playing poker for 20 weeks and work the same schedule that I used to work (including doing the unfilled paper routes and delivering complaint papers)....all I know is it would be A LOT more than $12,828!

I had my best week online this week since I started my 7 week challenge, but I am still a little disappointed with myself for not getting to my goal of playing 30 hours online. I only played 21 hours online this week, but that isn't as bad as it sounds because I played a lot more hours live this week than I had been in the previous 3 weeks. In theory, I should be playing the most hours when I am having the most success with poker. I certainly made way more per hour this week than I had in past weeks so I should have parlayed that by playing more hours. Oh well, I took a day off this week which I feel like helped me to stay fresh and I also played golf one day instead of playing online so i can excuse the lack of hours....I guess.

This is how my challenge is going so far:

Week 1: (-1.76 BB/100 hands)
Online: -$2,712 (28 hours)
Live: +$1,297 (8 hours)
Total: -$1,415

Week 2: (4.86 BB/100 hands)
Online: +$6,328 (36.5 hours!!)
Live: -$1,265 (8 hours)
Total: +$5,063

Week 3: (4.48 BB/100 hands)
Online: +$3,680 (32.5 hours)
Live: +$3,673 (16 hours)
Total: $7,353

Week 4: (9.87 BB/100 hands)
Online: +$8,541 (21 hours)
Live: +$4,287 (25 hours)
Total: +$12,828 (46 hours)

Total: (3.79 BB/100 hands)
Online: +$15,837 (120 hours and about 51,200 hands)
Live: +$7,992 (57 hours)
Total: +$23,829 (About 177 hours total)

Pretty sweet, I must say! Honestly though....this is what SHOULD be happening all the time and just proof that if I put in the work I will make the money.

Len, Richard, and Matt are going to be in town this week so it will make it a little bit harder to get in the hours, but I'll give it my best effort.