Six Years in Vegas

June 4th will mark the six year anniversary of when I first played poker as a professional. I didn't really have a clue what I was doing back then, but was lucky enough to figure things out along the way. Even though the poker climate seems pretty bleak right now given the circumstances, it's hard not to be incredibly happy with how things have gone to this point.

For no apparent reason, I decided to make use of my overly detailed poker spreadsheet and throw together some charts. This is what happens when I take a few days off before the WSOP to recharge my batteries.

Here's my total profit by month:


Yay, $1.2 million profit! Boo, ongoing thirty month breakeven stretch. Poker got a lot harder in December, 2008, in my opinion.

A breakdown of where my profits came from:


Tournaments are fun. I'm going to miss being able to play them more than two months out of the year.

Here's a very similar graph to the one above. This is the breakdown of how I spent my 7,558 hours at the tables:


Damn you, ever-growing light blue triangle! I can only hope that online poker makes a comeback before it becomes a light blue half-circle.