What a month October was! It's hard to believe that I've only been multi-tabling for a month now, but thanks to my blog I can look back and see that yes, that is the case. Of course, all I really need to do is look at my spreadsheet and see the huge increase in volume. It turns out I played more sessions in October than I did from May 1 to Sep 1 of this year. I was really surprised to see that!
If you've been following along, you'll know that I was breaking even at the beginning of the month, but hit a long, steady downstreak pretty early on and it continued on for a good long time. I had a few very deep runs but not much in the profit column. I kept my confidence and good spirits, however. I know there are ups and downs.
Luckily, the last week was very good to me and I made up about 2/3 of my losses for the month and ended with only a two-digit loss. That was a lot better than the $230 loss I was looking at earlier... about 2/5 my total bankroll.
Looking at the big picture it was a pretty normal swing in the overall graph. You can see how the 225+ sessions for October make up a large part of the total. The April numbers are from when I was multitabling cash games and put in a lot of short sessions. In October, I think I only played a dozen cash sessions, so all the rest were either 27-180 man SNGs or MTTs.
I had some more fun with the spreadsheet and have made all sorts of cool graphs tracking my relative finishes and final table appearances and so forth, but I'll keep that geeky goodness all to myself.
I really feel comfortable with my game lately. I seem to make a couple of deep runs a week, and in each of them I am in there fighting to get first.