I guess it shows how ungrateful people can be when they are annoyed at a $3.5K month. To my credit, it's not that I wish I had made more money but rather that I wish my red line had been a little more solid. I've been so used to it going straight up, that when it flat-lines for more than a couple of hundred games I get grumpy. You know this about me already, so don't act surprised!
As a testament to the mindset issue I'm talking about, if you look at last month's graph: Liar Dice – Massaging My Ego you'll see the end result was pretty similar, but there the breakeven stretch was in the first half of the month rather than in the second half, which meant that I ended on an upswing and felt better despite almost identical results. 
Anyway here are the stats:
STT Tournaments: 800
Average buyin: $34.94
ROI 10.1%
EV Roi 5.4%
SnG Profit: $2768.40
EV Profit: $1491.83
Estimated points-based rake back: $723.60
World Domination: $16.00 + points equivalent $39.75 = $55.75
Total Profit: $3547.75
Total EV profit (estimated): $2270.35
Hours played: 106.6
$/Hr: 33.28
EV $/Hr: $21.29
Of course overall I'm delighted at a third consecutive $3k+ month. Volume was so-so (100 games less than last month) but it's good that this 11% decrease coincided with an 18% decrease in total hours played. In short, I have been a little more efficient in the games/hour department, mainly as a result of playing HU games in the mornings when the FR/6 Max are filling so slowly that a set of 10 games is taking closer to 2 hours than 1 hour. Despite encountering a boat load of monkey fish at HU, I am barely breakeven after 250-odd games, so it's not clear whether the efficiency will end up being a false economy...
December will be another low-volume poker month. Mrs Tim64 is swanning off to see her new nephew in New York leaving me to look after Miss Tim64. Actually that's not strictly true, since I am enlisting the help of Mother-of-Tim64 with the childminding detail. And then it's Christmas and I am certainly going to make the most of being self-employed by ensuring I have a proper break. I will aim for another 800 games max and see how I get on.
I haven't quite decided whether I am properly shooting for the 109s in December. After a 10 game shot in November I stepped back down. Despite being up overall in those games, I lost around $800 in a 40 game spell (you can see the graph above plummets briefly around game 300). It was a somewhat unpleasant sensation. 
And even though I still have $1800 worth of r/bk bonus to clear in Dec, which should give me an additional cushion, I remain nervous of running into a big $ downswing just before Christmas. So probably I will wait and see how the first half of the month goes...
Anyway I have earned myself a couple of days rest now, starting with lunch at a gastropub called The Royal Well
