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Hey guys!
So, October is over. I would like to apologize for the lack of updates, but I was grinding like crazy and I didn't want the world to know that I'm grinding like crazy. Reasons for that are: I've had 2 very important tests to write on friday, and because of them my raking abilities have been sent to the sideline. But, since there is a rakerace after all, I needed to get those raking abilities back in the game and I grinded the last 3 days of the month. Played 7-7+ hours a day, raked $470+ and according to a post from a fellow pokerstrategist in the race thread he beat me with like $30. So first place is goner, but that's ok: I'm aiming for anything in the top 4.
So, so much for a preamble. Here comes the wrap-up.
October Goals Review
Play at least 500 STTs (
SUCCESS - 729)
Rake at least $1000 (
SUCCESS - $1571)
Get in the first 4 in the rakerace (
SUCCESS - 1st for $500)
Feelings
I have a little bit mixed feelings about this month. I have good feeling because I have scored a nice plus, I have bad feelings because my EV-line is sinking below surface (you will find out more later in this post). Now this normally wouldn't be a problem and I'd just laugh straight into the red line's face considering how it looks on PokerStars, but I've changed format. I will have to make sure I'm playing a correct game, I can't allow to be only breakeven (not to mention below that, meh), with the quality of iPoker villains. I just can't. I somehow get the feeling that most of my early phase action is pointless. Even the regs find it hard to fold J high at times. Anyway, I won't ramble about this, but I constantly found myself raise/cbetting away 1/3 of my stack and it didn't seem to work often enough. Will definitely work on this!
Also, I think I didn't get enough chance to thank this community for it's support. I hope I thanked kurrkabin at least once for his nice words about this blog - if I didn't, then accept my apologies and here goes the big thanks!
I also hope I didn't offend Tim by basically not responding to his hails in the previous weeks... Sorry about it Tim! You don't seem to be the kind of person who will be mad at me for this, but still, I acted pretty much like a moron.
And thanks everyone else who ever visited this blog, thanks to ghaleon for table selecting and not sitting next to me and kurrkabin in all our tables, just like half of them 
and thanks to pokerstrategy for getting diamond status...
Oh yeah, I don't believe any one of you have asked about it even though my raking goals are nowhere near close to diamond requirements. I will take the liberty to tell the story all the same though: of the volunteer handjudges, I evaluated most hands in september, so I got +1 to my actual status. Yeyeyeyey! Actually, anyone who evals more than 50 gets it. It wasn't always like this, they just started. And I didn't know so it's not like I evaluated so many for this reason or anything. By the way, as it looks I kept it for November as well. Cheers! So, thanks PS for the nice promotion 
University. Big thing. Some of you commented asking about how can't I do it with more poker. I don't know about you guys, I have no idea how hard your university was, but I can tell you that this is very tough. And it's not like I'm stupid or anything - everyone I know is struggling. It's pretty fortunate from the perspective of my poker career that I only have half the major classes (and all the not-so-important minor classes), because otherwise I'd get even less time for social activities and - of course - for poker. I think that I won't be able to do more than what I did this month while university is on, but that's okay, I'm absolutely fine with it. By the way, one of my tests was a huge success, the other one is unknown yet but imo it is very likely that I have passed.
OMG I'm looking at this wall of text and I could talk about so much more... Okay, just some poker related stuff and then you get the numbers...
So, as I've said, my EV-line is below the deck. You can say that "Hey man you ran hot like hell this month" and obviously there is some truth to it, but please don't forget that my ROI is still very little so I wouldn't call it super-hot. I was coolered all the way and then I sucked out. First hand of HU, K3o for 6 bbs vs fish, jam, AQs. This was very standard most of the month. I'm just glad I didn't care and kept pushing wide.
One techinical thing: Sept 31 numbers are also in these ones, because it's pointless to leave them alone in my opinion 
and they are just getting my green line lower, so... Okay, so, numbers are coming, brace yourselves...
Volume: 740 STTs
Avg. BI: $23,6
ROI:
3.0%
EV-ROI:
- 1.4%
Profits:
$530
EV-adjusted:
- $242
Rakeback:
$570
Rakerace
$500
Total Profit: $530 + $570 + $500 = $1600
Estimated total profit: $828
Graph
Sooo, that's about it. I will update this with the rakerace when we get there. Also, I'd like to comment that the bonus (credited as rakeback) equals a 36% RB for this month, but thanks to raking more than $1250, I've achieved VIP level 5, so next month it will be 60% rakeback! Yayayayayay!
edit: updated with rakerace. not on the graph tho. Also can't give you any $/hr because HM is on my other pc. Also, I didn't include it anywhere but obviously a certain share of this goes to my staker. Will probably not update "total profit" after that, but will calculate my $/hr correctly
