Early update for the week

Alas, I will not be able to make my standard Monday morning update. I will be in Las Vegas. I'm leaving tomorrow morning and I will return Tuesday night. I'm sure I'll have a good story to post.

In the meantime, I'll update my progress so far this week. Overall another decent showing. I'm up to about $285 profit over 13.5k hands. Not too many hands this week, but I made a good show of it. +$80 for the week in 2.5k hands. That's well above average so I'm pretty pleased.

But a note on variance. Limit hold'em is not for the weak-willed. I sat down yesterday during my lunch hour for 45 minutes and lost over $45. Then in about 20 minutes after work I won back over $40 of that, plus cleared $10 more in bonus. So I pretty much just ripped up a $50 bill at lunch time and threw it in the garbage, only find one sitting there waiting for me when I got home. Fun stuff.

Also, I spent an hour or so at our local casino this week to warm myself up for Vegas. I bought in for 1/2NL and won $58 in an hour. On the walk out I decided (in the spirit of Las Vegas) that the extra $8 of that would be well suited to a few pulls on the slot machine. Three pulls later I cashed out $60 and went home. Overall that hour of fun paid for my Vegas hotels for the weekend.

My only worry is that I'm peaking too soon... I need to time this lucky streak just right. Take care.