Dude, put in some volume!

So, if I'm honest, the Supernova chase hasn't been going so well. I began the year at PL50 with the easily attainable goal of 300k hands while maintaining a small or breakeven winrate. Well that didn't go quite to plan. As regular readers of this blog will known, and also any Pl50 reg who played with me know, I got crushed, pretty hard. Even with a couple of binks dispersed through those few weeks, I decimated my bankroll. Luckily for me, I managed to get out of the spiral before I went completely busto, however, this meant the end of my Supernova chase. Or did it?

I  recently spoke to another player who's also grinding for Supernova but he's working a little harder than I am. He's grinding PL10 for around 0.08VPP/hand. He estimates he'll need 1.2 million hands this year and he's on pace this year so far at around 100k hands per month, just a sick effort in my opinion. Volume aside, I know how frustrating the PL10 games can be due to their horrific nittiness created by the hoards of weak-tight regs who will undoubtedly never make it past the level, let alone show a profit. I know this player and his game is solid so I have no doubts he'll be moving up soon, but I really admire his determination, not only to play the extreme volume, but also to work on his game in his off time. It's great motivation for me to put in more hands and generally more effort, especially if I ever want to think about Supernova. What's in my favour at the moment is that I'm enjoying my poker and it just doesn't feel like a grind at the moment, so putting in those long sessions aren't as mentally draining as they would otherwise be. I know for a fact that some of the rakeback grinders out there have gotten to the stage where they hate poker, and would love to take a break from the game if only they didn't depend on it for their livelihood, with luck I will never get to that stage.

Anyways, I don't like to make these posts too long, I'm sure they're boring enough as they are. I'm going to post some pretty "lol" hands from the last few days in my next post, and trust me, they will have you in stitches, even if half the time I was crying when they played out. Later y'all.

Sorry for not posting.

Well the title says it all really. I guess in the big scheme of things, 10 days is not an extended period of time, but if I'm going to keep a poker blog, it only makes sense to update it regularly. The reason for my lax approach to making posts is due to real life business to attend to. University work had caught up with me and my lecturers had decided to drop a few deadlines onto me in the past few weeks so writing in the blog took a sideline to writing about Fraunhofer diffraction and Fourier Transforms. (If you're interested in that sort of thing, which I'm sure most of you are not, don't talk to me. I'm not interested either. ;) )

Poker-wise there isn't much to update you on. If I haven't got any time to write, I haven't got any time to play. Thus I have not played. I'm hoping to put in a little volume in the next few days once I'm caught up with all the sleep I lost when working on various assignments and when I have to energy to put in a decent grind. It's actually a shame that I had to work so hard this week because I was running fairly well at the beginning of the month and I was putting in some decent sessions. With a bit of luck I can get my Supernova push back on track and possibly even make some money. I am slightly down this month $ wise but in general EV I'm think I'm doing well enough, and I'm enjoying my poker, which is the main thing.

There's a couple of topics I want to write about in the coming days, e.g. volume, blogging, pot limit compared to no limit, etc. Those will all come in due time, as well as some hand histories from last week that I think will make everyone giggle a little bit.

So for now I'll leave it at that. Just like to say good luck to lincolini in his profit prop bet for March, mainly because I have money on it. And also good luck to Brad in turning around his horrible downswing. Later y'all.

Bye February you heartless bitch!

Ah finally February is over.

Probably a slight overreaction to call Feb a rough month, but psychologically, it's been pretty draining. I've moved up and down from the $12/180s more times than I could count, cash play hadn't really been going that well, more of a steady decline than one would hope for, and I hadn't really binked anything MTT wise. Overall, I was down a little bit for the month but if I'm honest, I hadn't really played that well and I didn't deserve to come out of it a big winner.

But all of this is going to change!! I finally took the time to organise the funds on my account, stake money and personal money, so now I can almost start fresh. So let me tell you what I've done.

1. I worked out exactly how much my bankroll was for the turbo 180s. I won't go into specific figures but I'm not that far off a solid $12s bankroll and I'm more than happily rolled for the $7s. I'll also mention that now because they have been added to the MTT tab and not just the Sng tab, these have been running like crazy so now moving back up to the $12s is a much less painful task.
2. I've left enough personal $ in the account to be rolled for PL25. Now my plan for this money is to refocus my PLO8 cash game, which has been seriously lacking the past few weeks, and run it up to a safe PL50 roll. From there I won't just straight into the PL50 game, but I'll learn NLO8 6max. I don't think this game is quite yet solved and I'd like to learn it as I have been told that the fish quite like the format.
3. Now, if you were reading carefully, you would have seen that I said $ in the previous paragraph rather than just "money". This is because I transferred what was left of my bankroll into Euros. This is because I'm going to play NLHE cash as well. My NLHE cash game is poor at best and I could never consider myself a decent poker player if I wasn't at least average in one of the more basic variants of the game. I've started with a modest 10NL bankroll and will play FR until I'm sustaining a decent winrate. I'm also taking it as an opportunity to gain mass multi-tabling experience, i.e. 20 tables+, by emulating frosty012's tactics. If you haven't seen his video yet, please do, you can find a link in one of my earlier posts.

Anyways, I'll let you guys know how any of this goes, for now, watch this!!

Black and Yellow