500,000 Views

Thanks to all the readers for bringing this blog up to the milestone of half a million views.

I'm having a break from blogging but should be back soon.

I'm still busy grinding away and have moved to 6max NL100 as my main game with a bit of 25/50 all at Zoom.

Cu soon...

Wooooaa 400,000 Views

Thanks for continuing to view and support this little old site...!!! It was over 4 years ago now that this blog began its life. I was a huge fish back then and an even bigger one now :)

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200 Google Friends Connect (GFC) Followers

Thanks to all those who have joined this blog via 'Google Friends Connect'.

I have just passed 200 followers and hope I can get to 300 someday.

I will continue to blog as I enjoy doing so and hopefully I can supply more interesting content.

If there is anything in particular that you would like to see more of please let me know in the comments section of this post and I will see what I can do.

I will post results for the month soon. Don't expect too much this month or next as I am busy with other stuff :)

Thanks for all your support..!!

R

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Anons Go Bye Bye

Apologies to anyone who posts comments on this blog legitimately via an anonymous account as you will no longer be able to do so.

Sadly the spammers, scammers and companies continue to try to publish links which I don't allow. I have now blocked all anonymous comments. While the Blogger spam filters are getting better they are not good enough yet.

If you want to publish links, you can do so by correctly following details on this link. Many have already done so and examples are here.

If you wish to comment please do so via a registered account. You can use the following:

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Thanks..!!

I am playing tournaments tonight and currently semi-deep in 2 albeit small ones. Hopefully I will have something to report tomorrow :)

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Blog Explosion

I have no idea why supernova125 blew up yesterday:

It was the most hits ever in one day. The referral link showed google as the source without any other info. Oh well.....

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500 Posts

Man, I've been busy.....

200,000 Page Views + WBCOOP Leader Board

It doesn't seem that long ago that I was passing six figures in views. That took over 2 years to get to but the 2nd ton has only taken around 10 months which means readers have got up.

Thanks to all of you for reading and supporting supernova125..!!

In proper news now I only have 2 tickets left in WBCOOP and the current leader board looks like this:

If you look closely you will not find me on this as I am sitting on 110 Points. I am looking for a deep run in 1 or both to get me a chance at a shot at a top 3 finish which has some nice prizes. 

I am not sure if tomorrows final has leader board points too or is only for the cash prizes but that will be fun and conclude a pretty enjoyable series..!!

Back 2 Back 5-Figure Hits

Not sure why but its growing last 4 months:

In poker news Jan is pretty much over bar 1 day. I attempted to play 4x 6max NL100 tables + 4x NL50 FR tables today and I got crushed. Have some tweaking to do in that regard. I will write up the review shortly.

My graph since Nov 1st is one of the smoothest I have ever had:

Top 10 Tips for Blogging and Bloggers

When I started to blog I had no idea that I would get so many hits.

As the number of readers grew it was pretty clear that I needed to learn a little to keep it fresh and interesting.

Having had over 150,000 page views now there are a few tips that I can share with you guys that may help you to increase your blog views:

So, here are my Top 10 Tips:

1. Try to blog as often as possible.

It is very easy for a blog to die. I see so many blogs that start enthusiastically and have about 5 posts in the first 2 weeks then 1 or 2 posts the next month and then that's it. It is difficult to keep coming up with new material but if you want your blog to grow and become successful then keep writing and keep your readers coming back. If you blog once a month try to blog once a week. If you blog once a week try to blog 3 times a week. Carry on till you can get out 1 post a day.

2. Comment on other blogs.

If you comment on other blogs and interact with other bloggers then you will get noticed and people will discover you through the link back to your blogger profile. Don't spam posts with links to your website as they will get deleted and people don't like that. I get lots of companies spamming my posts and I delete all of them. There is a means for companies to get their links on my site and they know this but try to cheat.

You should also encourage commenting on your blog and try to reply to comments that people post whether they are negative or positive.

3. Give them vision.

We all like things to look at. Add images to your posts. Make them funny, make them quirky, make them relevant and this will make your site more attractive. Take a moment to make sure that the picture fits correctly within the text and is not too big or small. Use the alignment function to mix it up and have images on the left, in the centre and on the right as you see fit.

4. Create a blogroll.

Create a blogroll of the other blog in your niche that you read and like. This will give your readers more links to interesting material. The blogs owners who you list may also link you back in their roll so you may get additional readers.

5. Use tags.

Using tags will help you readers navigate to specific areas or types of your blog posts. I get a lot of readers who just want to see my monthly report on the number so I see the 'Monthly Review' tag clicked a lot. Even if you have archives or categories, tags offer more search aids to your viewers. You may also get more google traffic coming your way if you use tags.

6. Embrace social media.

I definitely need to work on this aspect more for supernova125. I rarely use twitter but hopefully will do more in the future. Add your link to your twitter profile and tweet your more interesting posts. Create a page for your blog in facebook and also add your link to your own personal profile page. Others that you can use include linkedin, myspace and bebo.

7. Use internal links.

When you have a number of interesting posts you sometimes cover an aspect in a new post without going into the detail which you have previously done. In this case it is good to link back to an older post to give the reader more detail. I am pretty bad at this but am trying to improve. For example I may talk about how my blog began and if I include a link to that then the viewer can start from post 1 and read on.

8. Share Popularity.

If you have 100 posts there will be a top 5 read. Share this section of popularity with your audience. I have incorporated my most popular posts for them to browse through on the sidebar. For some reason a post I wrote on the most sexiest female poker players has been by far my most read post ever on this blog with more than 10,000 hits.

9. Slice it nicely.

Poor formatting can really make reading a blog hard work. Cluttered, unattractive blogs don't encourage people to return just like if you visit a dirty bar or restaurant you will not return as you have had a bad experience. I see lots of terrible formatting and bad use of colours, fonts etc. Look at your blog objectively and ask yourself 'does it look professional?', 'does it look readable?' or is it just a mess. Make sure your pictures, graphs and sidebars all fit properly. Space you posts nicely.


10. Do it because you love it.

Write because you are passionate about your topic. I love playing poker everyday and I like to talk about it and write about it. Don't think that you will make money from your blog because only the top blogs will. While I have made 6 or 7 small adversing deals the total amount is less than $200 which is negligible. What I like about blogging is getting more readers and interacting with them. I have made quite a few contacts through the blog and hopefully will make more. When readers keep coming back I get satisfaction from that and hope that I can produce new, fresh, interesting material for the future.

Happy Blogging..!!


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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

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:

Sitemeter.com Review

Anyone who has a Blog or website is probably interested in how many people are actually reading it, if any....

For well over year now I have been using sitemeter.com to keep an eye on my visitors at supernova125.blogspot.com. For anyone who is interested in how many hits I get you can click my sitemeter page button which is located at the bottom left of the Blog:

Although I only subscribe to the free version of sitemeter there is also a premium one available. I'm not sure what extra you can for your cash but I will go through some of the free pages which are excellent.

The main summary page is the one I look at first. It details some of the daily stats and looks like this:

I then like to take a look at who is on the site 'right now' when I am on and this page looks like this:

You can drill down further into the details of your visitors:

One of my favourite pages is the monthly visitors/ pageviews bar chart:

All in all I am very happy with the service and stats I get from these guys considering that I don't pay anything for it. I can highly recommend them to anyone who wants to know a little bit more about their readers.

There are many more pages available but I won't go through all of those. You will have to explore yourself. Laters....

Ton Up: Members

Another milestone has passed as the recently joined Mr Lopez has become the 100th member of the site.

Lets see if I can get to 1,000....

100,000 Page Views

I can still briefly remember writing a pretty lame first post just over 2 years ago while thinking 'why the hell am I doing this? no-one is ever going to read this.'

In the first few weeks after supernova125 was born I would get around 2 to 3 readers a day.

I wondered how they arrived in my little corner of the worldwide-web as nobody even knew my blog existed. I then realised there was a 'click next blog' button on blogger sites to get to a random blog. I guess that was where my initial traffic came from.

I then spammed PTR with my blog link and got a lot of abuse for doing so :) but I also got a few readers which was quite cool.

The best part of blogging is the interaction with other bloggers and poker players. It can also be quite therapeutic ranting about a beat or huge suckout or just posting some pics of semi naked women. Its is also very useful for recalling my past results when I forget them.

Hopefully if I continue to blog long enough I will one day reach 1,000,000 page views.

Meh & Fail

I am currently laughing out loud as I flick through some of my blogger pages.

Anyone who uses this site to blog will be aware of the stats tab that is available when you click 'Design' button.

You can filter various stats for the day, week, month or for all time.

Anyway, the 2 biggest search terms that lead readers to my site are 'meh' and 'fail', lol. Not sure what this implies about supernova125 but I didn't think it was that bad  :D


Here is the break down of the Top 10 searches of all time that lead to this site:

Now we are free:

Half the World - 100 Nations

It amazing to think that your blog has been viewed in half of the worlds countries.

I noticed today that supernova125.blogspot.com has been viewed in 100 nations.

When I started jotting notes on this site it was merely for me to look over and see how bad my results were each year by month and annually.

Its crazy that I have almost 40,000 page views.

Roll on the next 40,000...!!

This Is Why I Play Poker.......... + 70 Countries

Today I noticed my Flag Counter Stats. I had not looked at this in ages. I have had blog visitors from an amazing 70 different countires since installing this application.

70 Nations represent approximately a third of the planet. Wonder if I can get 100 Countries.... It's nice to know that there is poker interest all around the world


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If any of you players out there were thinking that the games are dead then think again.

The hand below will show you how crazy maniacs are still swimming around our tables:





Poker Stars $100.00 No Limit Hold'em - 9 players

BTN: $135.15
SB: $100.00
Hero (BB): $112.85
UTG: $71.95
UTG+1: $100.00
UTG+2: $26.60
MP1: $100.00
MP2: $100.00
CO: $47.00



Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is BB with A J
2 folds, UTG+2 calls $1, 3 folds, BTN calls $1, 1 fold, Hero checks

Flop: ($3.50) J J A (3 players)
Hero checks, UTG+2 checks, BTN bets $1.00, Hero calls $1, UTG+2 raises to $4, BTN calls $3, Hero calls $3

Turn: ($15.50) K (3 players)
Hero checks, UTG+2 bets $21.60, BTN raises to $43.20, Hero raises to $107.85, BTN calls $64.65

River: ($252.80) 9 (3 players)


Final Pot: $252.80

BTN shows 6 Q
Hero shows A J
UTG+2 shows 8 A

Hero wins
Lolz......

Talking To Myself.......

I started this blog to randomly jot down how my awful poker play would pan out and to maybe laugh in years to come as I eventually became better and better and got to stage where i would destroy Phil Ivey at the WSOP ME. I didn't actually think that anyone would bother to read it. I have often talked to myself during tough times and this was just another angle to converse with me.

Anyway, just out of interest i installed sitemeter on this blog(bottom of the page on the left) to see if i would get more than 1 view a day (yes, that's me checking up on myself) . So far in 15days there have been 280 hits.... whoooaaaa.... not bad for a boring old fart...!!


Anyway, back to the poker.... All the bad beats have made my play equally bad and i have now established a new focus for the up coming weeks.... I do not want to put any more cash into my account in the next month or so. This means that i will now drop down to NL50 for possibly the whole of August. This will have a big effect on my bonus generating abilities but i think the most important thing is to improve my game. I will also drop from 20tables to 10 for added thinking time. This means i now sit down with $500 each time instead of $2,000. My swings and variance should also come down. Time to big up my +EV.....


I am going back to basics, back to the drawing board.... It will be like the last 5yrs never happened and someone just handed me my 1st deck of cards and shouted shuffle up n deal punk.




I need to develop my poker mindset. I will invest in HEM and also spend some time on sites like cardrunners and deucescracked. I am now on 2p2 and have been reading a book on odds and probabilities. I am learning off by heart the 1card and 2card drawing odds tables for outs between 1-20. I have Harrington's 2 books on cash games and hopeful i will absorb every little gem he has to offer.

I am also going to begin development on my Tournament game as the starting ranges and concepts differ so much from cash games. Wow, that's a lot of stuff to do.

On another note i will be going Zorbing on Sunday (weather permitting), so i hope to add to YouTube vid of me and my bro spiralling down some hill at 35mph in a huge bouncy ball. Hopefully this will jolt my poker game into the premier league of NL50, lol.

Peace...