52 Stacks

+52 Stackz in 10 days =

Running normally, playing well plus the implementation of 5 or 6 different changes to my game are reaping the rewards... so far

BBC Good Food Show, London Olympia

One of my favourite things in the world is food. The missus and I often watch Man vs Food for a few laughs.

The BBC Good Food Show has come to the London Olympia for a 3 day event so we got a couple of tickets and went down yesterday to see what it is all about.

This is the first one of these I have been so it was quite interesting.

You basically have 2 floors of around 150 stalls and small exhibitions where you can sample food and drink for around $25.

I was trying pretty much everything, so much so that there was no need for lunch as I was stuffed..!!

We also got to see a few of the BBC chefs that are always on TV: Mary Berry, Paul Hollywood, Rachel Allen and a special theatre show by Brian Turner who managed to set fire to firstly a paper and then the grill as well as the pans (this intentionally). We also saw booze dudes Olly Smith and Oz Clarke.

Here are a few of the stalls:

The size of the place can be seen here:

A Date With An Eight

A simply satisfying result: 1 day, 8 poker sessions, 8 wins. That is what I managed to achieve on this day and the month is now looking pretty good only 7 days in.

In other news the American presidential race is now over and Barack Obama has been re-elected for his second term which makes me happy. I can't say that I am a huge fan but I am glad Romney didn't get in as I am pretty sure that he would have been a disaster.

Romney visited the UK earlier during the year and said the we were 'not ready for the Olympics'. Well if the donk was watching he would have witnessed one of the best Olympics ever and the best ever Paralympics.

Looking through some of his foreign policy proposals and hearing some of the debate I think he would have been a serious war-mongerer and no good for peace across the planet. Glad he lost.

Anyway, enough politics already, back to the poker:

Eight:

Back at Full Tilt Poker (FTP)

About to crai shove:

Easy with Play Moniez... :)


I have access to a 'Deal Me In' bonus of $750 so I have to decide if I should move some of my play over to FTP. I don't have TableninjaFT or know if HEM1 works with FTP or if I need an update. I will monitor traffic for the first few weeks and decide. I have 1 month to claim and begin clearing the bonus.

Three Quarters of the World

There's a little over 200 countries in the world and this Blog has now been read in over 150 nations. Pretty crazy for a little niche Blog to have such reach:

Flag counter doing a good job tracking all the viewers:

Next target 200 countries..!!

WGCMDK8B2HEP

The First Four Days

The first four days of November have started quite well:

I lost a little today mainly due to my Aces being cracked to AQo All-In pre. That hand would have seen  me even for the day. Still a few hours to get back to even.

I am well on course to get to 200k VPPs this year however my target is 216k VPPs as this will see me cash another $1,600 bonus before year end. This 2nd target is going to be tough though..!!

In other news Full Tilt Poker is resuming business on November 6th under the stewardship of Pokerstars. I have re-activated my account but I won't be diving in straight away though. I will take a look at how the traffic, games, bonuses, rake and VIP program stack up before I decide.

While grinding I often get a lot of comments, mainly negative and abusive but a few nice ones too. This guy was typing out a text on a ZOOM Table when the hand changed. I'm not sure if he had finished his message:

Min Raising All the Way Baby - Just Click it Back

Poker Stars $0.25/$0.50 No Limit Hold'em - 9 players

BTN: $41.75
SB: $50.00
BB: $76.90
UTG: $9.12
UTG+1: $50.75
UTG+2: $46.88
Hero (MP1): $58.37
MP2: $29.91
CO: $160.46

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is MP1 with 9 T
3 folds, Hero raises to $1.50, MP2 calls $1.50, 4 folds

Flop: ($3.75) 9 9 9 (2 players)
Hero checks, MP2 bets $1, Hero calls $1

Turn: ($5.75) 2 (2 players)
Hero checks, MP2 bets $1.50, Hero raises to $4.90, MP2 raises to $8.30, Hero raises to $11.70, MP2 raises to $15.10, Hero raises to $18.50, MP2 raises to $27.41 all in, Hero calls $8.91

River: ($60.57) 5 (2 players - 1 is all in)

Final Pot: $60.57
Hero shows 9 T (four of a kind, Nines)
MP2 mucks Q Q
Hero wins $58.07
(Rake: $2.50)


TVC

WGCMDK8B2HEP

Statistics for supernova125.blogspot.co.uk/

supernova125.blogspot.co.uk/ saw its biggest month ever in October 2012. This was mainly driven by certain American searches on the WSOP main event leading to this site:

Hopefully one day I can get over the 10k pages views barrier and make that consistently.

The biggest day ever also happened last month and looked like this with 729 page views:

Determined, Disciplined, Driven and Destroying

The top winning players never seem too have long losing streaks. I mean everyone has a bad stretch but the top dogs get back to winning ways pretty quick.

I talked about going back to basics after this bad spell I am in has now lasted 4 months. If I am being brutally honest I have tilted off a little and I want to be super solid from now on.

I believe, only 2 days in to my new regime that I have already found the formula. Firstly, obviously no tilt... done, I'm finished with that crap.

Secondly I spent some time analysing my game and found about 5 spots where I could change things up. I had a few small leaks that I thought could be plugged. I have for the last 2 days made these changes and they seem to be paying dividends. Over the course of a single hand there is no huge difference but over the course of a months worth of play this could be quite meaty.

I won't go into detail as I don't want to give too much away to villains who read this but if you look at the results so far you can see a pattern emerging. If I don't tilt, get normal luck at the tables and stick to my changes and 'A Game' then I will have turned the corner.....

I would love to make more strategy posts but am a bit vary about too much of my thought process being out there for villains to exploit.

Maybe its time to scrap that and start discussing the moves....

Watch this space.

October 2012 Review

4 months with more outgoings than $$$ coming in is tough to deal with.

You need to have back up funds for times like these and I'm glad I do.

I feel like a good piss up today or tomorrow or both to take the edge away.

I've got my back up against a wall and I'm gonna have go back to basics this month to get back to winning ways.

I do have a plan (future post)

The final numbers for October are as follows:

187,481 Hands Played

19,766 VPPs

-$1,038 (Cash Game Losses)

+$1,600 (FPP Cash Bonus)

+$600 (BOOM Player Bonuses)

+$13 (Volume Pool Winnings)

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+$1,175 (Total Month)

The Ytd numbers are as follows:

1,218,700 Hands Played

163,284 VPPs

+$3,648 - Jan

+$3,213 - Feb

+$2,023 - Mar

+$2,072 - Apr

+$3,642 - May

+$5,120 - Jun

-$699 - Jul

+$664 - Aug

+$268 - Sep
+$1,175 - Oct

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+$21,125 (Total YTD) 

GL in Movember..!!