State of the Poker Union: July 1-July 24

So I'm still wrestling with the format a bit, but, as promised, here be the actual, honest to Jebus poker results for my play this month. I ended up biting the bullet and including the full month of results, even the dark, unmentionable times that preceded my feeble threats to kick poker in the junk and stop playing for awhile.

Total July Poker Results

July 1st-July 15th: +$1,046
July 16-July 24th: -$541

Month to date for July: +$505

Which looks all right, until you start peeking closer:

Results for $15/30 for July: -$496
Results for $5/10 and lower for July: +$526
Results for MTTs and SnGs: +$475

If you throw out the oddball MTT win, I'm basically break even for the month. Which is both good and bad, given the swings I've gone through at $15/30. I'm honestly a bit surprised that I'm not further in the hole, as it got pretty bad there, when the beats kept piling up last weekend.

Here are the daily session results for $15/30 for the month of July:

7/23/2005...$312.8
7/22/2005...$226
7/21/2005...-$266
7/20/2005...$309
7/19/2005...-$441
7/19/2005...-$162
7/18/2005...$204
7/17/2005...-$750
7/16/2005...-$378
7/16/2005...-$30
7/16/2005...-$567
7/15/2005...$466
7/15/2005...-$63
7/15/2005...$315
7/15/2005...-$86
7/15/2005...-$285.5
7/14/2005...$38
7/14/2005...$166
7/13/2005...$235.5
7/12/2005...-$305
7/12/2005...-$501
7/12/2005...$132.5
7/11/2005...$92
7/11/2005...$31.5
7/10/2005...$47
7/10/2005...$110
7/10/2005...-$57
7/10/2005...$5
7/8/2005....$185
7/8/2005....-$626.5
7/7/2005....$43
7/7/2005....$19
7/7/2005....$174
7/6/2005....$538
7/6/2005....$146
7/5/2005....-$32.25
7/4/2005....$123
7/4/2005....-$160
7/3/2005....$134.5
7/2/2005....$361.6
7/1/2005....-$200.5

Which is basically just a whole bunch of numbers, more than anything. I guess my only reason in posting it is to give some idea of the daily swings I've been going through, and a rough approximation of what to expect. Overall, I'm sitting at about .3 BB/100 for my 15/30 career, so I'm a pretty average poker monkey, I suppose. The only other thing to note is that I haven't played that many hands this month, due to overwhelming busyness, so most of the above sessions are an hour at most, usually in the 30-45 minute range.

So there you go, as far as my week/month in a nutshell. If you throw out last weekend, it was a good poker week. I think the decision to drop down and play some $5/10 and MTTs/SnGs was a good idea, as far as mixing things up a bit and not let how I fare in the 15/30 games be the sole indicator of success or failure. I've always had pretty good success in the $5/10 6 max games, and, honestly, maybe that's exactly where I should be playing. I'm not throwing in the higher limit towel, by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm also not going to be stubborn and continue playing in a game that I'm not able to currently beat on a consistent basis.