The answer is neither. My bankroll goes up and down faster than both. Wednesday was fun, except not. I lost more big pots than I won. I started up a little, then down a little, then down a lot, then down a little, then even, then down a lot, then down a little, then down almost $250, to don $40, before finally ending down around $125. I kind of just figured it was variance catching up to me, or that Wednesday might be the new Sunday. Probably the real reason is that Wednesday I am tired from work, and it's really the only day in the middle of the week where I can play, so I end up going overboard a little. I did however discover my new rally music. Daft Punk and R. Kelly seemed to be losing their touch, and while Into Nirvana from Tekken 5 still gets things going for a short burst, it doesn't last nearly long enough. However, feeling in need of mental balance and concentration, I hit up my Tai Chi playlist. I can definitely it helped to reign me in for a good hour, and got back to within $40 of even (from down $250), before getting sucked out on by a two outer and losing about $60 and finally quitting after losing about $125 for the session. I will definitely be listening to that more often.
Thursday I needed a break, and had to night planned with the Ms. anyway. We finally stopped being lazy and went to see Pirates 3. It was definitely better than the 2nd movie, and overall pretty decent. I will definitely say to all the people who missed the scene after the credits, you didn't miss anything that a friend couldn't have told you. Definitely not worth sitting through. After that, the Ms. insisted we sneak into another movie (something she's better trying to get me to do for two years). She somehow convinced me to go sneak into Waitress with her. I wasn't too excited about going to see it, but for a date movie I would have to say it was very good.
Friday saw my BR, take a steep nose dive. I think I seriously would have been better off just entering a $216 sit n' go or something. I played for an hour just to try and get my 200 points for the day before I went out, even though I really didn't need to. Everytime I had AK vs AQ, the bored came AQx, my straight + flush draws refused to hit (even though I was getting great odds both times to call the turn bets) and I had about five flush draws suck out on me, two of them being backdoor. All in all, I dropped $300 in less than an hour, and I promptly quit with a disgusted look on my face when I hit 200 points.
For as bad as Friday was, tonight completely covered it and more. It was my favorite kind of night, one where all the big pots I got into went to me. The only notable exception being the set over set I was involved in, but it had been a long time since I had lost one of those, so I figured I was due. I was also thinking about how much better I've been doing with the $80 buy-ins, as opposed to the $90 buy-ins and how I would like to skip that level all together. Thankfully, after tonight, I can do just that. After all was said and done, I was up $540 for the night and now get to be part of the full buy-in club. Even better, I have hit the goal of going up about $1500 in the last month, and undoing the majority of the damage of my last blow-up. From here I'm not exactly sure where to go. I am very comfortable in the .5/1 games and should probably stay here for a while. I am also very uncomfortable with the fact that I currently have $3800 invested in online poker of my own money, and having only $4200 at the moment (including the money I have stuck in Neteller, which I should be getting next month). I have been considering not letting my BR grow for a while, and slowing withdrawing my profits until I have taken out my original investment. And I can securely play on just my profits. Unfortunately, this means I probably won't be hitting my goal of $12000 by year's end, barring a large MTT cash. But after seeing that by playing 6 .5/1 tables, I am earning about $8 a hour on rakeback alone, I think having an $8000 BR to play 2/4 should have me earning plenty.
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