How much have you made/lost in the last year?

[M3boy]

James, I do hope it is still "friendly" banter between us? (ie winding each other up)

Hopefully I have not offended you in anyway, but I did learn from the "wind up" master (namely you!)

[The Truth]

James - the master of wind up - he is until you ask him about playing poker on a spaceship with suitcases instead of chips and when I was trying to steal his bankroll  66hrs 23minutes 14seconds HERO

[Ginger]

Davey I can't agree more and poker is mainly just a hobby for me, although it has provided me with a boost for my student income the last 6 months, other than that I have "earnt" a new leather suite, a large tropical fish tank (rather apt i thought) MOT, tax and insurance for my car ( plus a new EPU that blew on it just 2 weeks ago, £400 ouch!!) 2 holidays and redecorating the living room, bathroom and 2 bedrooms!!!

All of that was started with a $30 deposit, Think it may be time to start keeping proper records lol

Jane xx

[The Truth]

The tropical fish tank? Is James really called Jaime?

[Royal Flush]

James - the master of wind up - he is until you ask him about playing poker on a spaceship with suitcases instead of chips and when I was trying to steal his bankroll  66hrs 23minutes 14seconds HERO

I hate to correct you but i believe the suitcases came before the trains and had no connection with the spaceship whatsoever! sheesh some people....


Paul please accept my apolgy i was a bit jumpy, probably due to the fact that i am spending my last night in Barcelona wrapped up in bed with the fecking flu!!!

[M3boy]

James - the master of wind up - he is until you ask him about playing poker on a spaceship with suitcases instead of chips and when I was trying to steal his bankroll  66hrs 23minutes 14seconds HERO

I hate to correct you but i believe the suitcases came before the trains and had no connection with the spaceship whatsoever! sheesh some people....


Paul please accept my apolgy i was a bit jumpy, probably due to the fact that i am spending my last night in Barcelona wrapped up in bed with the fecking flu!!!

No need for an apology m8, i just thought u were being your sarcastic self?! lol

And who is "fecking flu" and more importantly, does Jane know about this?!?! 

[The Truth]

Good everybody friends again  can now go and die a dignified death 

[snoopy1239]

I've made steady progress this year. No one area seems to be more profitable than t'other. I guess I'm one of the guys who is doing fair on both.

Kudos to those who confess to a loss. If you can take that step and manage to avoid self-delusion, then you're one step ahead of many.

[ShotOfTheDaySoFar]

Kind of related to this original question - would be interested to know how people keep track, or don't, of their wins/losses...

When I started playing regularly (ie a lot) online a year ago or so, I kept records on pokercharts.com. Interesting for a while and it taught me something about win rates in different games. That was great when I was winning - problem was that I started getting a bit too obsessed about the minutiae of my results. I'd made about $3000 in 3 months - but then dumped $2000 back in the next two months. I was playing horribly, and I think that having that detailed focus on my results made me tilt even worse.

I've now given up keeping these results - I just know how much I've got in each account, and have short-term targets to get my balance through $800 or $1000 or whatever. That seems to give me a positive goal but doesn't make me worry too much about my hourly rate and other such nonsense. Seems to work for me. Anyone else..?

[Coca919]

This year so far I've made around £23k.  This was all made over a period of a few months when I thought I was "Invincible" at the $20/40 LHE cash tables on Betfair.  Seriously every session was a winning session.  I was definately running hot but hey I must have been doing something right.  This topped off with a few BIG pots in omaha stakes I probably shouldn't have been playing (a $7.5k and a $4.5k pot) and a £3k cash for 3rd in the Sunday30k meant my poker balance shot up extremely fast.  At 1 point I was up about £30k for the year but since now losing 3 months on the trot I've given £7k of it back.  I'm now losing terribly at Limit and the only reason my poker balance is surviving is through Omaha, Stt's and 6pak's.  Time to start caning the Limit tables again I think.

All in all for a student I can't complain.

 

[Longy]

Software wise i use to just keep me up to date with pure winnings and losses i use the limited poker analyst on cardplayer, its not great but free and tells me how im doing roughly. Poker tracker which i purchased recently tho is a poker geeks dream, tells you everything you would possibly want to know and loads else otherwise. The great thing i think is that once you get used to the stats, you can read an opponent very easily. Simply as he raises you can type his name and poker tracker will tell you how often he raises and often what with. Was on laddies the other day and a guy raised from ep do my thing as i held pocket jacks and wanted a read. He had never raised pf in 150 hands i had on him, i folded quickly. Someone else called him down and he turned over aces, nice!

Erm yeah im rambling but the only criticism i have is that it doesn't cover all site ie sporting odds where i find the nl cash games very soft, isn't compatiable with pt. Worth the money in my opinion tho

[MrMoves]

Interesting thread.

The last 12 months I'm ahead roughly £26k.  Almost half of that from online cash games. The remaining split between online and offline tournaments.

I've fritted almost all of it away though on cars and holidays and gadgets 

Right now I'm trying to take around $200 a day online from cash games, have been for a few weeks.  Start with a $200 bank, try to double it, if I lose then I start again the next day.  Helps me focus on one goal and the stop loss is useful for not chasing down bad beats.

[Maroon]

MrMoves, what size game you playing your $200 in?

[yt]

This year sept 04 - Aug 05 = -£282.22
Last year sept 03 - Aug 04 = +£2350.82

I don't have a problem posting a loss on here. It's honest! As a hobby it's more for entertainment anyway, err right, guys?

I read some posts here from people who don't keep records.... are you mad? You have to know how you are doing even if it's bad news.

Here's to the next twelve months!

[snoopy1239]

MrMoves, what size game you playing your $200 in?

prob 1/2