It has been my best month so far, and I've made sure of that by quitting when I broke $30k - I'm really affect by arbitrary numerical things and dropping back into the 20s before the end of the month wouldn't have been worth the extra couple of thousand I could possibly have won, so I gave myself Thursday and Friday off work.

I've played almost entirely 6-max 4/8 and 5/10 this month, 19500 hands running well above expectation at 18.75bb/100. That's $30902 or about $32k including rakeback. I've played roughly 70 hours over 20 working days at about $440/hour.

I'm still using the same routine - no poker at the weekends so they're just like everybody else's, then on the weekdays wake up at 7.45, breakfast etc and walk with Hannah to her work at Liverpool street, then back around to the supermarket/gym/bank/anything else useful, back home around 10-11, poker session, lunch, poker session, break, poker session, repeat as needed, then normal evenings, perhaps 18.30 walk into Bank to meet people at their drinks after work.

My previous best month, last July, totaled $28,134 including rakeback so while this was about $4k better as a direct comparison, the dollar is also worth about 1/3rd more than it was last July, making this one much, better in Sterling.

I'll still be happy with $60k for the quarter, so I'm hopefully going to take the next two months a little easier and do more alternative stuff - reading about philosophy, learning guitar, getting fitter.

Having said that, I ran about 10k above expectation in all-in pots in January, and about $15k above expectation in terms of my average win rate. I'm sure the Poker Gods won't allow that to continue without any retribution, so I won't be surprised if I follow this up with a February in which I have to play 30k hands for $8k or something like that.