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.

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