Pokerstars Set Your Goal VPP Pace Promotion

Pokerstars are having promo where you trade FPPs as a gamble to forecast your annual FPP goal target. While the terms and bonus involved in this are pretty bad, you have to gamble $80 to win either $120, $200 or $300, if you going to hit those targets anyway then it is essentially free money.

The details are here:

While I intend to go for 400k VPPs this year I planned on making most of it in the second half of the year while I progress up through the levels. Therefore I have opted to go for 200k as a target for this promo. I could go for the higher one but I wanted time off in Feb for a holiday and other stuff.

You can register for this promo here:

Death Warmed Up

With most of the UK under snow it is the perfect time to be in grinding away.

I had already changed my plans for Friday and Saturday night but didn't foresee myself getting a pretty bad cold on Thursday.

Grinding has been close to impossible with my eyes and nose streaming. I can barely manage a 20 minute session before having to shut down and go lie down.

My month has gone quite well so far picking up almost 40 stacks:

Spewing My Way Up The Ladder

I don't usually squeeze 54s but when I do I make sure I call the 4bet out of position and stack the villain..!!

6max :)

Poker Stars $0.50/$1 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players

BTN: $127.72
Hero (SB): $100.00
BB: $13.73
UTG: $128.03
MP: $101.50
CO: $107.94

Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is SB with 5 4
UTG raises to $3, MP calls $3, 2 folds, Hero raises to $12, 2 folds, MP raises to $21, Hero calls $9

Flop: ($46.00) J 5 T (2 players)
Hero checks, MP checks

Turn: ($46.00) 5 (2 players)
Hero bets $19.95, MP raises to $80.50 all in, Hero calls $59.05 all in

River: ($204.00) 9 (2 players - 2 are all in)

Final Pot: $204.00
Hero shows 5 4 (three of a kind, Fives)
MP mucks A A
Hero wins $201.20
(Rake: $2.80)

Pokerstars Bankroll Building Exercise

The way you manage a bankroll can vary vastly from player to player.

Previously my personal method has been to employ a 'float' level according to which stakes that I am playing and then to cash out every time that I hit the 'cash out level'.

The problem with this method is that it doesn't allow you to move up and grow as a poker player.

In the last quarter of 2012 and in 2013 I have been employing a new method. While the new method is not very aggressive it is progressive and I have already played a few sessions at NL200 in the last 2 months whereas I didn't really play higher than NL100 in the whole of last year.

It wasn't long ago that my roll was sitting at around $1,250 and I was going through the worst period in my poker career.

That has all changed now and I am currently sitting on:

My new method is pretty simple. There is no longer any float level and every time I make $1,000 I only cash out $500 and so the account grows and is also padded to cope with any down swings.

When the roll hits $10,000 then I will happily play NL200 more regularly. After that I will just take shots and see where it goes. If I fail the roll will probably stay at around $8-$10k with NL200 as my highest game but if I can take it further then the sky's the limit and I will push as far as I can go.

I am thinking about doing a mini challenge this month so watch out for that one in an upcoming post.

GL All..!!

Should I Buy The Saab?

I've been looking at updating my motor for a couple of months now.

I currently drive a Lexus and am looking at buying maybe a Saab 9-3.

The motor will cost around $10,000 second hand and I have seen a few that are around 5yrs old. I will part exchange the Lexus for around $3,000. 

Do you know any issues with these cars? Have you had an experience with them. How are they for drive and reliability? Would you buy something else? I like BMW 3-series too.

Similar to the ones I have seen but a bit newer:

So, should I buy the Saab?

A Lotta Green Is Always Good

River Rat

2012 Boxing Review

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: