Do you like making little charts and then inputting data? Yeah, neither do I. However, I do like keeping track of how I’m doing for the year. For a while there, it looked as if I were on the way to a truly spectacular year, poker-wise. If I had kept up my January pace, I was in line to make a little over $4,500 for the year, but, life, as we all know, is a brutal series of letdowns and disappointments. February was a little worse, but I was still looking at clearing $4,100. March sucked, April truly sucked. May, even though I lost for the month, was actually an improvement, but then June was brutal. July was actually okay, so was August, September was a nice turn-around, but then October was bad. November was really bad, but then December was just a nightmare. The year-end total ended up being only $810.75, which was not nearly enough for this killer-ass tattoo that I had had my eye on.

Looking at the numbers, there’s a chance that I've got it turned around, at least a little bit. The final year-end win-to-loss ratio is thirty-three to twenty-six, with one even night. For the last ten games of the year, I was 4-6, and I managed to lose $171 during that stretch. I had hoped to clear a grand (In my barrio, we called a grand a "g.") for the year, but I didn't come close, though I was twice within twelve dollars. Oh, yeah: look at 26 March 2005 and then at 28 December 2005. In a little over nine months, and after countless hours spent playing poker (seriously, I'm wasting my life), I managed to win a whopping $68, which works out to $7.55 a month. That's pretty funny.

Date:       Game Total:      YTD Total:      Overall Record:

6 January 2005    +97    +97    1-0

7 January 2005    -10    +87    1-1

14 January 2005     +163    +250    2-1

17 January 2005    +75    +325    3-1

22 January 2005    -43    +282    3-2

29January 2005    +103.50    +385.50    4-2

7 February 2005    +.50    +386    5-2

11 February 2005    +120.75    +506.75    6-2

18 February 2005    -1.25    +505.50    6-3

20 February 2005    +23    +528.50    7-3

25 February 2005    +155.50    +684    8-3

4 March 2005    -22.25    +661.75    8-4

11 March 2005    +78.75    +740.50    9-4

18 March 2005    +8    +748.50    10-4

26 March 2005    -6.25    +742.25    10-5

1 April 2005    -52    +690.25    10-6

8 April 2005    -76.50    +613.75    10-7

15 April 2005    +27.50    +641.25    11-7

23 April 2005    +15.75    +657.00    12-7

29 April 2005    +10    +667.00    13-7

2 May 2005    +10    +677    14-7

3 May 2005    -17    +660    14-8

6 May 2005    -25    +635    14-9

13 May 2005    +39.75    +674.75    15-9

15 May 2005    -11.75    +663    15-10

20 May 2005    -21.50    +641.50    15-11

27 May 2005    +1.50    +643.00    16-11

30 May 2005    -33.25    +609.75    16-12

3 June 2005    -5.50    +604.25    16-13

10 June 2005    +9.00    +613.25    17-13

18 June 2005    -145.50    +467.75    17-14

24 June 2005    +10.50    +478.25    18-14

1 July 2005    -2.75    +475.50    18-15

2 July 2005    -27.50    +448.00    18-16

8 July 2005    +64.25    +512.25    19-16

29 July 2005    +50.25    +562.50    20-16

31 July 2005    +7.25    +569.75    21-16

13 August 2005    -20.75    +549.00    21-17

19 August 2005    +69.50    +618.50    22-17

26 August 2005    +77.50    +696.00    23-17

2 September 2005    +0.00    +696.00    23-17-1

9 September 2005    +14.50    +710.50    24-17-1

16 September 2005    +46.25    +756.75    25-17-1

23 September 2005    +77.25    +834.00    26-17-1

30 September 2005    +84.50    +918.50    27-17-1

7 October 2005    -42.00    +876.50    27-18-1

14 October 2005    -6.00    +870.50    27-19-1

21 October 2005    -33.50    +837.00    27-20-1

28 October 2005    +129.00    +966.00    28-20-1

4 November 2005    +22.75    +988.75    29-20-1

10 November 2005    -7.50    +981.25    29-21-1

12 November 2005    -4.50    +976.75    29-22-1

18 November 2005    +15.50    +992.25    30-22-1

23 November 2005    -113.50    +878.75    30-23-1

25 November 2005    -31.50    +847.25    30-24-1

2 December 2005    +22.75    +870.00    31-24-1

9 December 2005    +98.75    +968.75    32-24-1

16 December 2005    -181.50    +787.25    32-25-1

22 December 2005    +91.50    +878.75    33-25-1

28 December 2005    -68.50    +810.25    33-26-1