June Results

   June's been a pretty busy month for poker playing and I'm pretty happy with my overall results. On the positive side, I played in 34 Sitngos, winning 6, coming 2nd in 3 and 3rd in 3. In other words, half the time that I was in the money, I won it outright. Overall, it was the Sitngos that really pushed my balance into the black.
  My second-best results came from the tournaments. Although I cashed in 4 out of the 8 tournaments I played in, the pay-out wasn't that good. My best result was 6/86. The low pay-out reflects the fact that you really need to be in the top 5 or so before you start hitting the big money. I need to concentrate more on building my stack up early on to carry me through to the higher levels, rather than just 'crawling across the bubble'.
   Having said that, I'm happy to see that I've increased my bankroll by 10%  in June, significantly above my target. That's 4 positive months in a row; an encouraging sign.
   The bad news is that I only managed to play in one Fixed Limit Game and one live game for the entire month. I am taking steps to remedy both these situations and I fully expect that I will be more active in both game types in July. Obviously I'm playing a lot of Sitngos; far more than I expected at the start of the year. This is simply because they are fast and convenient. I can almost always find a game at any time of day or night, and a single game only takes an hour to play.
   I probably won't be posting results at the end of every month, but for now it's an interesting exercise. I'll do it again at least for July, just to chart my progress, but probably not beyond that (at least not on a monthly basis).
   Oh yeah, I must check out Sky TV to see if they're covering the WSOP Main Event. Then again, what they advertise and what they actually show (and at what time) are usually two completely different things. I guess when you have a virtual monopoly in sports coverage you can do pretty much whatever you like.