Sidebet.

Wow. It's already been 2 months since my last post. [insert random comment about laziness]

October should be a big month. I have a sidebet with Glover, a pretty good player also from Quebec. The goal is simply to play a lot of poker. At the end, the winner receives 1$ per 100 more hands he played. So if I do 90k, and he plays 60k, he'd owe me 300$. Not that big of a sidebet, but just enough to encourage (at least one of) us to play more. More than that, and it becomes tempting just to play hands and not care about playing good.

I'm aiming for 100k hands in the month, and that would certainly be my best month so far (actually, it would be more than twice as many hands as my best month yet). Hopefully, I can retain a decent enough winrate to also show a nice profit. 300$ won't seem like much if I'm down a few thousands!

4k hands per day, plus two marathon sessions of 10k hands should do it. That leaves me 8 days to procrastinate... unless I adopt the 28 Hours Sleep Schedule, in which case, I'd only have 4 days to slack off!

In any case, it should be a pretty fun month poker-wise, and hopefully profitable as well. I'll get over 2000$ in bonuses/rakeback alone, so throw in a decent performance and I should join the 5-digits league.