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And just like that, I’m unstuck. I was really in a great groove playing the poker last night, so I just kept on playing. The tables were about as good as I’ve ever seen. When the dust settled, I had racked up just over 11 buy-ins and turned my numbers green for the month. I also surpassed my monthly goal of 20,000 hands played.

In total, I made $120.90 playing NL Hold’em, which is my main game. I managed to dump $66.40 playing Pot Limit Bingo. I mean Pot Limit Omaha. That’s the game where you flop top set with no draws out there, get the money all in and watch a draw come in anyway. Bingo! I really need to stay away from that game, but it really is a lot of fun until I get so pissed off I can’t see straight any more. It’s best to have a spare mouse handy just in case.

So, in March I cleared $39.70 after also taking into consideration a small loss from a few tournaments. This result is puke horrible, but that’s the way it goes over a smallish sample of hands. 20K may sound like a lot of hands, but it really is far too small for the luck factor to come anywhere near evening itself out.

Take for example my starting hand results. Can you guess what my most profitable starting hand was? Aces? Kings? Nope. QQ outpaced both of the bigger starters. That’s pure luck factor. Over a million hands, I’m sure AA will be my biggest winner. My second biggest winner? AQ suited. Still think 20K hands is a lot? I made more per occurrence with 65 suited than I did with AA.

Now, over 55K hands in my current database over all NL Hold’em games I’ve played in the database, AA KK QQ are my clear top three hands, so things start to even out at that point a little better.

Add to my $39.70 poker win around $160 of rakeback earned, and the numbers begin to add up. With any luck, I’ll have a better time of things at the tables in April. If so, I should be moving up to NL50 in short order. My plan is to move up to NL200 as quickly as possible and then hang out there and really work on things while making significant money. That’s where I hope to start taking money out for important things like……a kegging system! I’ll need to buy a nice big shed for the back yard to house all the crap that’s in the garage. Then I’ll have room for a keezer and extra cold space for spare kegs, etc. I think around $2grand should take care of everything, but I haven’t priced it all out carefully yet.

As you may have guessed from the tone of this post, I’m done for the month. I still have a full weekend available, but since I’ve surpassed my hands goal and I still have the urge to play, I’m going to take a little break. Well, sort of. I have a $20,000 tournament tomorrow at Full Tilt courtesy of RakeTheRake. You just can’t beat that deal. A $20K prize pool with no entry fee on top of the $160 in rakeback I’ll be paid for playing in March. I just signed up for an account at Full Tilt Poker through RakeTheRake. Each month they run a tournament for all RakeTheRake members who played on Full Tilt the prior month. Not bad. If you want in on the action, just click on the RakeTheRake banner in the upper right corner of the screen and follow the instructions to sign up for a Full Tilt account. Play the required number of hands during a month (I can’t remember how many it is, but it is very easy) and you too can be entered into the next tournament for free. They also have outstanding promotional deals at other poker rooms available if you’d like to check them out. Whatever you do, DO NOT PLAY AT A POKER ROOM WITHOUT RAKEBACK!!!! You’re just flushing money down the toilet if you do.  Even if you just want to play the free money tables for fun or to see how it all works, sign up for your account through RakeTheRake.  You can still get to the play money tables and if you ever decide to play for real money in the future, you’re all set.  If you sign up without a rakeback deal because you are only interested in play money, you are out of luck if you ever do decide to play the real money tables.  Sign up through RakeTheRake to be safe.

Next weekend, weather permitting, I’ll be brewing up another beer. I haven’t decided what to do yet. I may do another pale ale ingredient tester, or I may try to refine my IPA recipe. I’m leaning towards the IPA. A friend of mine and his wife will be visiting, and he wants to see the process. Should be a good weekend.