2010 In Review

Since I won’t be playing in a cash game until January 2 and the 2010 results of my poker playing will not change, I have decided to record some highlights and statistics from this year’s games.

Between Oklahoma, Weatherford, Shreveport, and Las Vegas, I have played 30 sessions of Texas Hold’em poker and logged in 156.5 hours of play, averaging out to about 5 hours and 15 minutes of play per session. I profited $1,615 this year and made $10.32 an hour. Among the 30 different sessions of play, I profited in 18 of those games and lost money in the other 12.

My biggest win in a single game was on March 27 in Weatherford. I played for nine hours and profited $1,185, giving me by best hourly rate of the year at $131.67. With that money I bought my wife a new refrigerator to go in the kitchen and our old fridge went to the garage for my soft drinks and other items that take up too much room in the main fridge.

My largest loss was on January 21 where after five hours of play I lost $400, resulting in an $80 an hour loss rate. The worst hourly loss rate I logged was on August 28 in Weatherford, where I lost $300 in 45 minutes, which calculates to $400 lost for every hour I would have played at that game.

Along with the refrigerator purchase from poker earnings, another high spot for the year was receiving a $175 bonus in Las Vegas for holding a straight flush, when in reality both of my cards did not play and thus I should not have received the bonus money.

The longest winning streak I had was at six sessions from October 21 to November 27, where I won $95, $245, $25, $30, $180, and $120 for a total of $695 during that time period.

There were two three-game losing streaks throughout the year that were my longest. They occurred from August 23 to September 25 and December 1 to December 18. In those time spans I lost $265, $300, and $175 and $300, $70, and $90, totaling $740 and $460.

Overall it was a pretty good year. I feel like I bettered my game and have shored up a few deficiencies that were continuing to cause losses. I don’t know how reasonable it is to have a goal for 2011 of winning $5,000 playing poker, but we will see how it things start out on Sunday when I go to Choctaw Casino with my wife for a get-away trip.