I've been slacking on the updates lately, despite playing a ton of poker. I continued to run terribly all the way up to and including Monday of this week. In July I've had two independent 15+ BI downswings, with several smaller ones as well. Thankfully on Tuesday and Wednesday I managed to run average-ish (which felt smoking hot given my results lately). I'll be doing my monthly review tomorrow so prepare yourself for some serious ranting and graphs with ugly swings. I'm also already half way to clearing my first $4k FPP bonus, which is a nice plus. After that is cleared the vast majority of my roll will be in cash (though I should have 100k FPPs by the time I clear it, won't be too long until I buy another bonus!).
One last positive note is that I ordered my second 28" monitor. Bestbuy hiked up the price, so I got it online much cheaper. It should be in transit as we speak. Once it is here I'm going to work my way up to 24 tables ASAP. Thanks to my ability to put in huge volume now, if I play lots for the rest of the year it is feasible that I could clear the $2k, $3k, and $4k milestones this year. Since they do have a small FPP cost, the net worth of the three combined comes in at $6.6k free money. I'm not complaining.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Friday, July 25, 2008
Doomswitch
As I mentioned earlier, on the weekend I had a major downswing followed by a recovery on Monday. Unfortunately since then I have run into my worst ever downswing (which I have somewhat recovered from) but overall it has put a real damper on my month. Assuming I don't go on a big heater over the next few days, July will probably be my worst month ever from a variance perspective.
On the positive, I cleared the $240 deposit bonus and recently purchased my first $4k FPP bonus. You probably recall in my monthly reviews I add FPP value to my winnings for how much I've earned that month. These $4k bonuses are how I turn them to cash. I still most likely will set a new monthly earning record in July, but it will only be because I put in super sick volume. I run bad, I try to grind through.
On the positive, I cleared the $240 deposit bonus and recently purchased my first $4k FPP bonus. You probably recall in my monthly reviews I add FPP value to my winnings for how much I've earned that month. These $4k bonuses are how I turn them to cash. I still most likely will set a new monthly earning record in July, but it will only be because I put in super sick volume. I run bad, I try to grind through.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Back On Track
I played a 3k hand session last night, finishing +6 BI along with a nice chunk of rakeback. While it doesn't completely counterbalance my awful weekend, it certainly helps a bunch. I made several strong plays against regulars which worked out really well, but unfortunately I failed to scribble down the table name on any of them so I could pull back the HH to discuss (I'm too lazy to go through all my non-showdown hands on the session to find them).
I'm currently on pace to crack 100k hands on the month, as well as around 45k VPPs. Hypothetically, if I was able to put in an average of 90k VPPs/month playing full time, I could make Supernova Elite over a year. The potential of this is quite exciting, as Elite itself is worth roughly $100k in value. That is of course excluding the signficant winnings and normal rakeback one would earn on the way to elite.
Hopefully I can finish the month strong and set a new earnings record this month!
I'm currently on pace to crack 100k hands on the month, as well as around 45k VPPs. Hypothetically, if I was able to put in an average of 90k VPPs/month playing full time, I could make Supernova Elite over a year. The potential of this is quite exciting, as Elite itself is worth roughly $100k in value. That is of course excluding the signficant winnings and normal rakeback one would earn on the way to elite.
Hopefully I can finish the month strong and set a new earnings record this month!
Monday, July 21, 2008
Supernova + 2x Deposit Bonus = Good, Running Bad = Not Good
From Thursday through Sunday I played a monstrous 28k hands, hitting Supernova in the process. Here is the email from Stars confirming the status change that outlines the benefits:
Currently, the biggest change is that my rakeback 18 tabling $100NL changes from about $18/h to $25/h, so it's a nice boost. I may have mentioned this earlier, but Stars also created a new $4000 bonus for 250k FPPs, which essentially changes the FPP to $ conversion rate from 1.5c/FPP to 1.6c/FPP.
As part of their 2x July promotion, Stars also added a $240 max deposit bonus, which I have taken advantage of. What this boils down to is that over the next few days of playing I'll get a free $240 from Stars, which is much appreciated.
Unfortunately, the reason I played so many hands over the weekend is because I've been running absolutely terrible. On Saturday I had a 10-11 BI downswing. Any time I hit a flop the hand was a setup, regardless of if the villain was a typical reg or a complete drooler. After a recovery period of running decently on Sunday, I ended up making around $600 total on the weekend (1.5 BIs + 450 in rakeback, hah).
It is also worth mentioning that my Pokertracker 2 started freaking out over the weekend, likely because I hit the maximum DB size allowed for a Microsoft Access DB. I had tried to convert my DB to Postgres SQL in the past and ran into some technical issues, but after some research and installation of an older version of Postgres I managed to get it done. The result is that my DB size is no longer capped and performance has increased significantly.
I don't have any HHs to post, but the most memorable one from the weekend was in a blind versus blind battle against a 2+2 reg. He's very aggro and runs around 15/12. He raised to $4 from the small blind, I raised to $15 with AKs. He insta-shoved. We were both 150BB deep, but I still snap called. He showed A8o and went on in chat after about how I'm a nit who is never 3-betting light so he plays so bad. I agreed and called his play a "rookie mistake". Hopefully he spews at me again real soon.
Currently, the biggest change is that my rakeback 18 tabling $100NL changes from about $18/h to $25/h, so it's a nice boost. I may have mentioned this earlier, but Stars also created a new $4000 bonus for 250k FPPs, which essentially changes the FPP to $ conversion rate from 1.5c/FPP to 1.6c/FPP.
As part of their 2x July promotion, Stars also added a $240 max deposit bonus, which I have taken advantage of. What this boils down to is that over the next few days of playing I'll get a free $240 from Stars, which is much appreciated.
Unfortunately, the reason I played so many hands over the weekend is because I've been running absolutely terrible. On Saturday I had a 10-11 BI downswing. Any time I hit a flop the hand was a setup, regardless of if the villain was a typical reg or a complete drooler. After a recovery period of running decently on Sunday, I ended up making around $600 total on the weekend (1.5 BIs + 450 in rakeback, hah).
It is also worth mentioning that my Pokertracker 2 started freaking out over the weekend, likely because I hit the maximum DB size allowed for a Microsoft Access DB. I had tried to convert my DB to Postgres SQL in the past and ran into some technical issues, but after some research and installation of an older version of Postgres I managed to get it done. The result is that my DB size is no longer capped and performance has increased significantly.
I don't have any HHs to post, but the most memorable one from the weekend was in a blind versus blind battle against a 2+2 reg. He's very aggro and runs around 15/12. He raised to $4 from the small blind, I raised to $15 with AKs. He insta-shoved. We were both 150BB deep, but I still snap called. He showed A8o and went on in chat after about how I'm a nit who is never 3-betting light so he plays so bad. I agreed and called his play a "rookie mistake". Hopefully he spews at me again real soon.
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