Put on your rally caps!

I book my poker wins and losses into a spreadsheet every first and fifteenth of the month since a lot of my play is not in a pokertracker database and I need to account for live play as well. I absolutely hate booking a loss for the two week period. Having a losing day never bothers me (playing limit you get used to it), but if the two weeks is coming to an end, and I am stuck for that period I start to get very annoyed.

For almost all of this two week session where I was playing only online, it was looking like I was going to have to book a loser. Not a big one, but just the mere sight of the negative sign in my precious spreadsheet irks me no matter how small the number next to it. I ran mostly flat for the two weeks with some little losses mixed in there and no real big winning days. I had even mentally gotten past the desire to press to get back to even (through playing more hands not playing badly). Then, things started to roll and I had a little win on the fourteenth, then an 8k day on the fifteenth, which means the number I got to enter for the two week period was 2,520. Whew.

I will be writing a lot soon about the importance of keeping good records, but one of the main things that it does for poker players is that it forces us to be accountable, even if it is only to a spreadsheet. Hopefully I can end the year on a good note and make a good final entry of the year.