My (modest) $10/20 6max challenge

[TheMetetron]

I'm keeping this off 2+2 to avoid clutter and because, frankly, the challenge isn't interesting to anyone but me. Despite that fact, I'm reposting my first 2 posts for anyone that wants to sweat me and make sure I actually get my play in.

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I've been such a complete bum when it comes to playing poker lately and getting my hands in that I feel I need some sort of "challenge" to motivate myself. It's not going to be $100k in 100 days or anything ambitious like that. I'm not a bikekick, Klepton, Nate, or anyone else who I consider exceptionally good at poker. One day I want to get there, but for now I'm happy being a decent player who can make it through playing poker.

Lately, I haven't really HAD to play much poker between affiliate stuff and casino whoring, both these alone were pulling in $10-15k per month, and they are still going quite well; however, I know they can't last forever and I need to get my poker playing level back to what it used to be. My goal is modest:

Play 40k hands in August with a winrate of 1 BB/100 in $10/20 6max for an earn of $8,000 plus approximately $3,500 in rakeback.

The point of this is to prove to myself I can make an amount capable of living the life I'm accustomed to by playing poker (which requires an over $100,000 annual income). I've never really HAD to play poker to survive since one month after I went pro (in January) because of casino whoring and affiliate work. For reference, I haven't played more than 12k hands in a single month in a long time.

Anyways, I know the goal is modest and impresses no one here, so I'll be keeping my progress in a blog off-site mostly to keep myself going and motivated. I'll be at a disadvantage since I'm still on vacation in NYC and won't get to really start working until this Friday. The few hours I have played are so far so good though. Anyways, you can go here to see how I'm doing:

http://metetron.blogspot.com

Thanks for letting me clutter the forum, that's all I have.

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So, I got my first two days of playing for August in the books. I played very little on August 2nd and ran good. I also played quite a bit more on August 3rd and ran horrible for a while before making it all up and then some. There is truly a crapload of variance in this game and it's scaring me.

I'm not even statistically sure I'm a winner at $5/10 6max, and here I am in the $10/20 short. I feel like I'm much better than the vast majority of my competition and when I feels someone has outplayed me in a hand, I make sure to get the hell off that table immediately. Despite all the talk that the $10/20 6max is harder than $5/10, I'm actually finding a lot of overly LAG players. Like 70/30/4 overly LAG.

Anyways, It's like 6am in New York and I leave today, so I want to get some other stuff done (like visiting Central Park), so here are the stats so far for my challenge. (Actual / Goal)

Hands: 1,799 / 40,000
BB/100: 3.28 / 1.00
Amount Won: $1,181 / $8,000
Total Rakeback: TBD / $3,500

VP$IP: 25.57 -- PFR: 20.96 -- WtSD: 38.10 -- W$SD: 53.13
W$WSF: 44.64 -- Att. to Steal Blinds: 38.37
Folded SB to Steal: 80.72 -- Folded BB to Steal: 60.24
Flop Aggr: 3.81 -- Turn Aggr: 2.63 -- River Aggr: 1.45

So far, obviously, very good. I am still folding my blinds too much, but I'm very happy that I've got my VP$IP and PFR up close to where I want them. This style is much more aggro then I used to be, but I think it works so much better for me. I just really hate the swings it brings on. I swung at least $2,000 today at this game. We'll see, time for sleep.