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For those that haven't yet, read these 2 previous posts before reading this. The links to them can be found here:

http://jhub3000.livejournal.com/2008/04/17/

http://jhub3000.livejournal.com/2008/04/22/

This week was a shorter week. I lost some hours because I was having mouse problems & other than that I've just been doing other things besides grinding SNGs. I bought a $150 Logitech mouse this week, which seems to be a waste. It was messing up all over. I would type in a bet & it would just randomly make the bet all in. Then I'd retype it & it would do the same thing. I clearly don't have time to be dealing with that nonsense w/ 10-16 6 mans going. There's some buttons on it so I turned those off & that didn't work & I ghave up. I then bought another logitech mouse. It took me a while to get used to this one. The speed of the mouse was different from my last one so it basically took a full day or 2 of trial & error of setting the mouse at different speeds for me to find the optimal speed on it. Logitech mouses come w/ software where you can change acceleration & speed & all that while still doing it in the control panel. I ended up just uninstalling the software & putting my mouse at the highest speed in the control panel. The software just seemed to complicate matters. I'm happy with the mouse now but it was pretty frustrating for a while. Other than that I did well when I played.

My stakees were crushing this week. Mexitexi from Pokerstars & Cake is my stakee on Cryptologic & IPN. He plays under Mexitexi on Crypto & Mexitex on IPN. He's probably going to play the least hours of all of my stakees but he plays well so he should still make some good money while going to college. He made about $3K in very limited hours this week. He probably only played about 11 or 12 hours but might play more tomorrow. 1 of my stakees who plays on Stars & is also mixing in Cake & 1 other site managed to make over $10K this week despite being in Vegas for the WSOP & he still expects to put in a good amount of hours before the week is over. I'm pretty goodfident that this stakee is going to make me 6 figures over the course of our 1 year staking deal by himself. Another stakee that's in Vegas made about $2K while probably only playing a handful of hours. These profits don't even include rakeback so it was a good week for my stakees. These #s aren't included in my stats until we cashout. My bro has also continued to crush since turning pro last week.

I staked 1 of my stakees in the $1,500 WSOP shootout, which is massively +EV for a good SNG player. No luck for us though as he re-shoved AT against a button raise & took a 3 outer against A5. I also had 10% of Dr. Fells & 10% of thetight in the $10K HU event today but neither advanced. Both are very good HU players & Dr. Fells actually took 3rd/4th in the $5K HU last year. It loos like I picked the wrong year to take a percentage of him. Big live events are obviously high variance, but they're also often very +EV events so I decided to take a few shots. Despite being down $3,500 in live staking this week, it was still a fine week of staking overall, although it doesn't look that way in the stats section since the only online staking included is cashouts.

The chat box has been pretty funny on my third site this week. I've been berated by the donks quite a bit. I usually have chat off but still am able to catch some things when it's on. My favorite was comment was that I'm easily the worst high stakes player on the site. Lmao if he only knew. Clearly anyone who says that about my game just doesn't understand optimal SNG strategy.

I'm going to a Twins-Brewers game in Milwaukee tomorrow night. We have a group of about 20 of us & we'll be tailgating & then hitting up the bars afterwards so it should be a good time. That means I won't be playing tomorrow, which isn't much different as I usually don't play on Saturday, or Friday for that matter.

Go Celtics! I can't believe they're up 3-1. I'm definitely rooting for KG to get a ring as he's probably my favorite player in the NBA. Before the series started I thought the Celtics COULD win but if I was forced to bet $50K on the winner I have to admit I would have bet on the Lakers. The Celtics better not blow this.

The regular 6 man SNGs on Cake should be added either sometime this weekend or early next week. I've also requested that the HU SNGs have their own section in the lobby, but that might take longer.

So far I've made $5,360.25 in rakeback on Cake this month. I've also made $676.24 in rakeback on my third site this month, although I'm pretty sure that's a few days behind as it takes longer for that site to update rakeback stats. These #s won't be included in my stats until the beginning of next month when they are actually paid to my account.

Results:

6/8/08:
1.83 hrs played
Daily Profit From SNGs: $1,918.80

6/9/08:
6.09 hrs played
Daily Profit From SNGs: $1,695.80
Staking: -$1,500
Total Daily Profit: $195.80

6/10/08:
8.25 hrs played
Daily Profit From SNGs: $4,436.56
Rakeback: $738.24
Total Daily Profit: $5,174.80

6/11/08:
5.91 hrs played
Daily Profit From SNGs: -$958
Staking: $3,000
Total Daily Profit: $2,042

6/12/08:
5 hrs played
Daily Profit From SNGs: -$2,396.96
Staking: $975
Total Daily Profit: -$1,421.96

6/13/08:
4.67 hrs played
Daily Profit: $3,288
Staking: -$2,000
Total Daily Profit: $1,288

Week of 6/14/08:
31.75 hrs played
Weekly Profit From SNGs: $7,984.20
Rakeback: $738.24
Total Weekly Profit From Playing Poker: $8,722.44
Staking: $475
Total Weekly Profit: $9,197.44


Month of June:
74.06 hrs played
Monthly Profit From SNGs: $18,254.20
Rakeback/Bonuses: $18,138.61
Total Monthly Profit From Playing Poker: $36,392.81
Staking: $2,475
Total Monthly Profit: $38,867.81

Year of 2008:
754.79 hrs played
Yearly Profit from SNGs: $180,017.47
Rakeback & Bonuses: $63,339.35
Total Yearly Profit From Playing: $243,356.82
Hourly Rate (Playing Poker Only): $322.42
Staking: $10,276.50
Total Yearly Profit: $253,633.32






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