First losing day for the week

Losing days are inevitable, there's absolutely no way to avoid them. Doesn't mean they're any less frustrating when you go through them knowing that they're going to happen sometimes. This was my first one in about 10 days, so that was a pretty decent stretch of winning days, especially for the high-variance that comes with the 180-man games.

Played 29 games in the afternoon and dropped about $40 in those. Took a bit of a breather, came back a few hours later and put 16 more in. Even felt like I was running really good in them only to get it all taken away late in the games.

Today drops my overall profit a bit, and it cuts my hourly down by about 20%, so that kinda sucks. Double digit hourly is definitely something I'm shooting for at the moment and I think I can definitely get, especially if/when I start putting in longer continuous sets as opposed to the "register for an hour or 2 and then stop" that I'm doing at the moment.

It would be nice to be going into November on a positive note, but I can't complain too much about October. I'm definitely looking forward to hopefully putting in at least double this volume in November despite this little downswing.

In between all of the beats today, there was one shining moment:

Poker Stars No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t100.00/t200.00 Blinds - 8 players

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neyadevil666 (UTG): t3690.00 18.45 BBs

caponfire (UTG+1): t3995.00 19.98 BBs

Moneypenny52 (MP1): t8920.00 44.60 BBs

PsMostWanted (MP2): t5860.00 29.30 BBs

Yesu87 (CO): t4868.00 24.34 BBs

Hero (BTN): t1150.00 5.75 BBs

mariola19 (SB): t910.00 4.55 BBs

sportmike24 (BB): t2695.00 13.47 BBs

Pre Flop: (t300) Hero is BTN with K A

neyadevil666 calls t200, caponfire calls t200, 2 folds, Yesu87 raises to t400, Hero raises to t1150, 3 folds, caponfire calls t950, Yesu87 calls t750

Flop: (t3950) Q 6 J (3 players)

caponfire checks, Yesu87 checks

Turn: (t3950) 9 (3 players)

caponfire checks, Yesu87 checks

River: (t3950) T (3 players)

caponfire checks, Yesu87 checks

Final Pot: t3950

caponfire shows 7 7

Yesu87 shows A T

Hero shows K A

Hero wins t3950.00

Think this is my 5th lifetime royal flush, but I could be wrong, I haven't really kept track of them. This hand didn't really make any difference for my results today, but it's always nice to hit it.

I probably won't be playing at all again until Thursday, so I get a few days to cool down from today and hopefully come back nice and focused on Thursday ready to grind through the weekend.