Janvier Jusqu'ici

January so far:

I have managed to bag $100 in Stellar Rewards and a $1,600 FPP cash bonus so I am sitting at over $3k already this month. My volume has been pretty bad and needs to be stepped up from next week.

A couple of years ago I spent a few months learning French and did pretty well. I'm gonna start learning again this year and try to get to a good standard. I did quite well with the chat in Morocco and France when I was out there.

I Get SOOOO Owned By 2 Whales

Had both of these guys tagged 'Yellow' for the whale category and was no way folding to their river jams. They totally out played me :)

I have notes on both of them now...






Thanks for crushing my Day:

$100,000

Its taken a little over 7yrs :) but I have just passed $100,000 in net profit winnings from this card game called poker.

It's probably more of a beat as I read somewhere that the average McDonald's worker makes $17k per year therefore making $119,000 in the same period, lol.

I should probably say though that the first 5yrs of that 7yr period I was a recreational player just splashing chips around for fun while in full time employment. Its only in the last 2yrs that I have played pretty much full time. Even in the last 2yrs I haven't been exclusively playing as I have been busy with other projects too.

A $100k is a $100k which ever way you look at it :)

Next target $1m..... hope it doesn't take 70yrs at this rate

Today was my first day of real grinding in 2013 and it went pretty well and allowed me to pass this 6 figure milestone:

Ballon d'Or Previous Winners

Lionel Messi has just won a 4th Ballon d'Or. He is the first person to ever win that many.

Here are the past winners:

2012 - Lionel Messi (Argentinean, Barcelona)
2011 - Lionel Messi (Argentinean, Barcelona)
2010 - Lionel Messi (Argentinean, Barcelona)
2009 - Lionel Messi (Argentinean, Barcelona)
2008 - Cristiano Ronaldo (Portuguese, Man Utd)
2007 - Kaka (Brazilian, AC Milan)
2006 - Fabio Cannavaro (Italian, Real Madrid)
2005 - Ronaldinho (Brazilian, Barcelona)
2004 - Andriy Shevchenko (Ukrainian, AC Milan)
2003 - Pavel Nedved (Czech, Juventus)
2002 - Ronaldo (Brazilian, Real Madrid)
2001 - Michael Owen (English, Liverpool)
2000 - Luis Figo (Portuguese, Real Madrid)
1999 - Rivaldo (Brazilian, Barcelona)
1998 - Zinedine Zidane (French, Juventus)
1997 - Ronaldo (Brazilian, Inter Milan)
1996 - Matthias Sammer (German, Borussia Dortmund)
1995 - George Weah (Liberian, AC Milan)
1994 - Hristo Stoichkov (Bulgarian, Barcelona)
1993 - Roberto Baggio (Italian, Juventus)
1992 - Marco van Basten (Dutch, AC Milan)
1991 - Jean-Pierre Papin (French, Marseille)
1990 - Lothar Matthaus (German, Inter Milan)
1989 - Marco van Basten (Dutch, AC Milan)
1988 - Marco van Basten (Dutch, AC Milan)
1987 - Ruud Gullit (Dutch, AC Milan)
1986 - Igor Belanov (Soviet Union, Dynamo Kyiv)
1985 - Michel Platini (French, Juventus)
1984 - Michel Platini (French, Juventus)
1983 - Michel Platini (French, Juventus)
1982 - Paolo Rossi (Italian, Juventus)
1981 - Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (West German, Bayern Munich)
1980 - Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (West German, Bayern Munich)
1979 - Kevin Keegan (English, Hamburg)
1978 - Kevin Keegan (English, Hamburg)
1977 - Allan Simonsen (Danish, Borussia Monchengladbach)
1976 - Franz Beckenbauer (West German, Bayern Munich)
1975 - Oleg Blokhin (Soviet Union, Dynamo Kiev)
1974 - Johan Cruyff (Dutch, Barcelona)
1973 - Johan Cruyff (Dutch, Barcelona)
1972 - Franz Beckenbauer (West German, Bayern Munich)
1971 - Johan Cruyff (Dutch, Ajax)
1970 - Gerd Muller (West German, Bayern Munich)
1969 - Gianni Rivera (Italian, AC Milan)
1968 - George Best (Irish, Manchester United)
1967 - Florian Albert (Hungarian, Ferencváros)
1966 - Bobby Charlton (English, Manchester United)
1965 - Eusebio (Portuguese, Benfica)
1964 - Denis Law (Scottish, Manchester United)
1963 - Lev Yashin (Soviet Union, Dynamo Moscow)
1962 - Josef Masopust (Czechoslovakian, Dukla Prague)
1961 - Omar Sivori (Argentinean, Juventus)
1960 - Luis Suarez (Spanish, Barcelona)
1959 - Alfredo Di Stefano (Argentinean, Real Madrid)
1958 - Raymond Kopa (French, Real Madrid)
1957 - Alfredo Di Stefano (Argentinean, Real Madrid)
1956 - Stanley Matthews (English, Blackpool)

Im Lovin' It

Snails Pace January

I am still nursing the new years eve hangover and have hardly played. I was also away for a couple of days. I will probably start some hard grinding from Tuesday onwards. Jan so far:

Lol Omaha + ZOOM Experiments.

I haven't really kicked off my 2013 grind as yet. I set my main goal as getting 400k VPPs with also getting more involved with live cash games. 

Wrt live games I think I will start that from Feb.

Tonight I played a little omaha and it just drives me crazy with the fact that I lose so many hands with the 2nd and 3rd nuts. They ALWAYS have it..!! I think omaha will always be a break from the norm for me and I can't ever see myself switching to that game.

Anyway omaha aside I am still not sure how I want to get to 400k VPPs. My initial thoughts were to move away from ZOOM and back to normal full ring and work my way up but last year I fell in love with ZOOM and it is so much better for me as I like shorter sessions. I can easily play 10 short sessions in a day as opposed to 2 or 3 long sessions on normal tables.

I am doing experiments with ZOOM 6max tables. SO far 6x 6m seems to be the best combo suited to my game. Last year I was playing 9 ZOOM tables (8x FR + 1x 6m) but as FR only goes upto NL50 this combo will not be feasible this year if I want to hit 400k VPPs. So I need to add more 6m.

I am thinking about moving up slowly through the following combos before settling at the one I am most comfortable with.

All ZOOM:

1. 4x NL50 FR + 2x 6m NL100

2. 4x NL100 6m + 2x NL50 FR

3. 4x NL100 6m + 2x NL200 6m

4. 4x NL200 6m + 2x NL100 6m

5. 4x NL200 6m + 2x NL500 6m

If I can get to level 5 above and stay there I will be very happy. Lets see how it goes. If I don't do well or don't enjoy this then I will play 16x NL100 normal FR and move up to NL200.

GL

Race To Pokerstars Supernova Ends In 39 Hours 25 Minutes

The winner of the first milestone of the year has managed to do it in 39 hours and 25 minutes.

He played hyper turbo sit n gos, 50 tabling at some moments to finish fastest.

There are a few awards for the first to these milestones:

December 2012 Review

To put it simply, best month ever..!! I also played the most hands that I have ever played in a month.

I carried on with ZOOM playing 9 tables of NL50/ NL25 as before and managed to win a decent amount.

I also played a few sessions at NL100/ NL200 to experiment for 2013 and the tables were good I have to say. It was probably due to the holidays but I hope they are like that all the time.

The year is over I have made a smallish amount overall but am happy as I spent a large amount of time dealing with other family issues that needed to be sorted while I was grinding. Probably lost around 1m hands due to off table time but it is what it is. 

Looking forward to 2013.

The final numbers for December are as follows:

241,225 Hands Played

24,946 VPPs

+$3,146 (Cash Game Winnings)
+$1,600 (FPP Cash Bonus)
+$2,600 (200k VPP Milestone)
+$20 (FTP DMI Bonus)

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+$7,366 (Total Month)

The Ytd numbers are as follows:

1,669,049 Hands Played

210,266 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
+$3,168 - Nov
+$7,366 - Dec

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+$31,658 (Total YTD) 


A drunken session near the end of the month lost me lots of BIs as I played NL2, NL5, NL10, NL25 and NL50. So the 100 BI month failed.

There's a new level in 2013 so I now have 6 Stars but I'm not Elite :(

Happy New Year 2013...!!