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Blah. Monday sucked. Won money at the weekly game, lost quite a bit online. Again, it’s that whole playing before 10PM thing.

Tuesday was better, but not a lot better. I waited until 10PM to play, and netted $14.25 after 3.92 poker hours. That’s more like 2.5 hours in real time. What a grind.

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I played at 7 different tables, two at a time, and won money at 5 of them. Between 8 and 10, I won $9.25. Between 10 and midnight, $10. Between midnight and 1:30, $36.50. $55.75 in total.

I’m still down for the week, but it seems that late in the evening, especially on Sundays, is the best time to play.

My bank’s now comfortably at $125. Thank God. Friday saw its share of losses. But now I’m up past my Wednesday night level. Monday night will hopefully be as profitable as last week.

Yesterday I lost $39. There was a problem with Party’s hand history emailer, so I was working in uncharted territory. This morning I got a bunch of hand histories and so I went over my play.

My rate of voluntarily putting money in the pot was 18% all evening, and my showdown win rate was 52%, so I don’t think I was doing anything terribly wrong. In fact, during the period of 6 to midnight I played 7 sessions for a total of 7.23 hours, which translates into roughly 3.5 hours of real time. My loss rate per hour was $5.34, which isn’t too bad.

What is obvious, however, is that I lost the most money when I played between 6 and 10. $24.29 per hour for 1.05 hours between 6 and 8. $12.19 per hour for .27 hours between 8 and 10.

When I started up again at 10, I played 5.92 hours and lost money at a rate of $1.67 per hour.

As I’ve said in earlier posts, the hours between 10 and midnight seem to be best for me. Until I build up a large enough bank to accomodate losses during non-optimal hours, I ought to stick to the hours my past history prescribes. Of course, given the fact that more players hit the site on weekends, I should devote some hours playing then as well.

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No, seriously, dude, this isn’t a poker blog. In fact, I went to see Dukakis give a speech tonight at the West LA Dems club.

But while we’re on the subject, Iggy’s got a rundown of the Poker Blogs out there, so if you’re interested, go check it out.

Still down from my high of $155, but I tried the strategy I outlined yesterday (early this morning) and I’m finishing the day with $120. Not bad, considering I started my most recent two hour session with $75. So it seems to be a combination of the strategy and timing. My most profitable sessions seem to be between 10PM and midnight. Catch me on Party then.

There’s a web-based Button Maker. Too bad it can’t make longer buttons.