Make sure to use signup code jhub for 33% rakeback when signing up for Cake Poker. Make sure you type it in as the SIGNUP CODE, not the promotional code or any other code. There's also a 100% deposit bonus up to $500. Transfers do not count as deposits. However, if you get money transferred into your account you will still be eligible for a deposit bonus once you actually make a deposit. If you need help getting money into Cake I usually have excess money in there & can swap money for money on another site where I have an account. Just post a comment on my blog or email me.

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/

I'm going to keep this short.

Cake has fixed their software problems so I'm back playing there.

I finally got my new setup working properly & I am absolutely lovin it. On each 30 inch I can fit 6 games without resizing (no overlap) & 3 lobbies for table selection. Then on the 20s I have more lobbies & sharkscope & use it for more games when I have to. It just makes table selection so much easier having all that space.

I've decided I'm not going to play $1Ks anymore unless one happens to go off on Cake. Even if I play them for 6 years I'd probably still only get about 3,000 of them in. All 3,000 games tells me is that I'm 90% likely to be within 5% of my true ROI. If I had a 4% ROI edge in $1Ks, I could still be losing over a 3,000 game sample. That means that I could play them for 6 years & still be losing in them if I ran bad. $1Ks just don't run enough to get in any sample size to weed out the variance. That causes a lot of stress if you're running bad in them. No matter how good you're doing in your other games, if you're getting killed in $1Ks it's going to have a severe negative effect on your bottom line. I just don't think it's worth it anymore. If I ran like a Geek God in them like other top players have I'm sure I would feel differently about them.

November was not a good month. Cake had software problems. I had troubles getting my monitors setup correct, & therefore had limited monitor space & wasn't able to play my normal number of games for part of the month, I didn't get as many hours in, & I ran like shit in the hours I did log at the tables. It's kind of crazy to have a terrible month playing about 30 hrs/week & still making over $28K. However, I'm expecting December to be much better. Cake's software is working well again, I have my new setup working, & I can't continue to run bad for much longer. The only downside is that I probably won't get in more than a full 3 weeks playing because of the holidays. It would have been nice to get in another 160 hour + month running normal before the end of the year but I'll just have to shoot for a strong start to 09 & I'm expecting to take a staking hit as I've ended staking 1 of my players who just didn't get it.


Month of November:
126.16 hrs played
Profit From Playing SNGs: -$2,418.43
Rakeback/Bonuses: $18,270.25
Total profit From Playing: $15,851.82
Staking: $12,555
Total Monthly Profit: $28,406.82

Year of 2008:
1436.57 hrs played
Profit From Playing SNGs: $271,246.44
MTTs,cash games,HU SNGs,live: $(8,587.07)
Rakeback/Bonuses: $158,836.57
Total Profit From Playing: $421,496.01
Hourly Rate: $299.38 (excluding all yearly staking, as well as rakeback earned this month)
Staking: $121,651.79
Total Yearly Profit: $543,147.80








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