Rocky Ride

Week 1 Update

This week has been very swing. I ended up in the green by around $80, but was up around $400 only a couple of days ago, and this signifies just how much variance are in these games! I did however start playing some 9.25's and 9.50s yesterday which did contribute to my downfall towards the end.



I ended up doing around 3/4 hours of studying which is around half of what I planned. While I played 2099 games, which is 99 games more than I planned. So all in all not a bad week!

I've slightly tweaked my short-term plan because I feel I need to address this point. Playing against regs is very very tough! They know a lot about you because you've played so many hands against them, and they adjust well. That is why I'm going to be concentrating on adapting to regs, while also looking at some hand history's on the way. But fighting these regs, will help me to beat the 9's!

Good Luck on the Tables!

NewOnTheScene

Achieving Supernova

Pokerstars offers one of the best VIP programs in the world, and without it I almost definitely wouldn't be playing hyper turbos! This is not so much a factor at the microstakes but at the mid-high stakes because ROI is so much lower and getting the odd cash bonus and money from rakeback can really make the difference!

Supernova... can I do it?

To make Supernova I will have to make 100,000 VPPs in 2014 and since I only made around 3300 VPP's in January, I will now have to make 96700 VPPs in 11 months which is 334 days. This works out to be approximately 290VPPs in a day. That is a lot dont get me wrong, but it is definitely achievable! I would need to play over 700 games per day of $3.75 but....and there is a big BUT since I'm also studying for a full time degree, this is very tough...  and I mean very very very tough!

However, the good news is that if all goes to plan, I won't be playing $3.75's for the whole year! I definitely have a lot of scope to move up to playing any of the games up to the $12's. The implication being that my average stake would be a lot less, and would be able to probably play around 250-300 games a day to be on pace. 

The reason why I haven't stated that I wanted to achieve Supernova as one of my goals is that plain and simply at the moment, I'm looking to put in a lot of work studying! I want to improve my game, and although I think volume is important, I'm definitely not going to be playing 1k games every day!

I will be re-assessing this (half) goal in the next 6 months and will adapt accordingly. I also hope to add an article at some point about the adjustments to my daily routine to cope with the pressures of achieving this goal (focussing mainly on mental game issues).

Good luck on the tables!! 

NewOnTheScene :)

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