year in the life of a live player

[mike l.]

didnt win enough to make this a brag, didnt do poorly enough to make this a beat, so just file it under variance.

kept careful track of all my live play on statking. this is not online play (where i won, but significantly less and had wild swings) or taking pieces of players (made a significant amount this year doing so).

here's how it breaks down:
1212 hours
won $152,140
best month +43970
worst month -2047

games played (i was curious to see how this worked out), all games limit hold em unless noted:
40-80: 25%
20-40: 19%
100-200: 16%
15-30: 13%
60-120: 9%
nl hold em: 4.5%
30-60: 3%
200-400 or 300-600: 2.5%
other limits lhe, mixed games, stud, o8, etc: 8%

observations:
--i lost $8172 playing only 26 hours of non hold em games. expensive little habit. i do suck at these games but really want to learn them, however at $300 an hour i could probably take lessons instead of trying to figure it out on my own.
--i lost -5367 playing nl in 56 hours. in 2005 i won at nl over 100 hours.
--i made $162k playing limit hold em. over 90k was won at two limits 40 and 100. but at 60-120 my win rate was a measly $28 an hour over 106 hours.
--i played 551 sessions of poker, 30 of which were under .25 hours (waiting for another game usually), and only 6 were 10 hours or more. the longest session i played was only 12 hours.
--for the past 150 hours of play ive broke even.
--the most i lost in one session was $25k, and the most i won was $14k. i only won more than 10k in 3 sessions, and i lost over $10k 4 times.