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...

Stag, Wedding and Honeymoon....

I have played like 6k hands this month which is pretty laughable :)  I have a legit reason though, I was busy getting married so took some time out..!!

It all started with my Stag in London. A few of us hit Laser Wars at a place called Bunker 51. After that we hit the town via the Partybus which is basically a nightclub on wheels that takes you to 5 other clubs along the way. This is the Stag night crew:

It was then the big day and I married my other half of 4 and a half years, Claire. This is us during the picture shoot just after the vows:

A couple of days later we flew out to the luxury 5* Azul Sensatori Resort which is in Mexico just 20 minutes south of Cancun. This is the place:

So, I'm back now to hit the tables again and chase that 200k VPP mielstone which is going to be tough as I need to get hands in everyday while working full time and trying to have a social life.!!

See you on the tables.

Rosh

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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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5 Time Supernova And Out........ Goodbye Poker

Just hit nova for the fifth year in a row..!!

Sadly I have also decided to pretty much quit poker and resurrect my previous career as an analyst/ accountant. 

There are a few reasons for my choice, mainly a need to get a mortgage (a legit one I mean) which is not feasible as a poker player. I also miss the working atmosphere. Grinding poker can be a bit too quiet and isolated at times. I still love the game but not as much as when I was a recreational fish. I look forward to becoming a part time spewy whale again and tormenting the regs!!

I will play maybe every other day or so in the evenings for maybe an hour and a little on weekends but my daytimes will be spent job hunting and eventually working once I score a job. I have already had a couple if interviews and met a few recruitment consultants so hopefully I will find a role within a couple of months.

A big thanks to all of you that have followed me and supernova125, especially all of you that have commented. The blog is now over 4 years old and was certainly a fun thing to do. I am not sure if I will post again but maybe I will just throw out a monthly review and an odd hand history here and there, who knows...

I am still around on email, Twitter and Skype for those who would like to keep in touch.

All the best..!!

Rosh

New Best Day Ever - 21/02/2014

I just made four figures on the felt in a single day for the first time ever. I have bagged more than a grand before with rakeback + other bonuses but never in pure winnings alone. So its my new best day ever.... weeeeeeeeeeeeeee. It only took like 3 years since the last one :)

Results:

+$1,005 (Winnings)
+$81 (Rakeback)
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+$1,086 (Total Day)



Here are the visuals. HEM is slightly off as usual but no biggie:

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The Sickest Grind Ever, Revisited

After my sick grind day a few days I got thinking about what the sickest grind that I have seen was. This is a few years old now but definitely worth mentioning again.

Chiren80 aka Bachir Boumaaza aka athene aka athenewins was a Stars team pro and took up a challenge to grind 1 million hands in a month.

He basically did what I did in hours on that one day for 31 days straight. I was drained after that one day and said never again. To do it for 31 days must have been hell.

He only did it NL2 but stress on the brain must have been immense even without any financial pressure. Also I think he was 24+ tabling 6max which is much more of a mind screw than my 8-tabling Zoom FR. Also lots more hands per hour. I think I get close to 1,500 hands per hour. He got around 2,375.

Here are the results:

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20k Hands In A Day - New Record

Today I played the most hands I have ever done in 1 day. Here is the graph:

I was pretty tired by the last session which seems like a bad move looking at how it ended :)

I'm gonna drop NL25 from my mix now after this mammoth session and only return if I bust my roll or during my drunken sessions.

From now I will still play 8 ZOOM tables but 4xNL100 + 4xNL50. During the day I will play either 4x50NL + 2xNL100 6max or just play regular NL100 tables, possibly 12-16.

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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300k VPPs Moved To The Back Burner

Unfortunately due to my late decision to take an exam I won't be keeping up with 300k VPP pace.

It's easily doable if I was grinding only but as that is not the case it will be very tough.

I will still have a shot after I'm finished with my work but it may mean playing NL200+ and I'm not sure I want to do that for like 10 hours a day during Xmas time.

I may just elect to grind solidly and try to win as much $$ as I can while picking up a couple of FPP cash bonuses.

You can see where I'm at now ------->>>

With regard to this months grind I can't seem to get anything consistent going and it is currently win one day, lose the next and keep repeating that cycle.

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200,000 VPPs

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Don't Cash Out This Time For F*** Sake

Around 6 months ago my roll hit $10k and I was excited about spinning it up at higher levels, sadly real life issues kicked in and various bills, the most annoying being a $1k dental bill came in and had to be dealt with. I used my funds and my roll went down to around $2.6k.

This time I am more determined to build from here. I have a trip to Italy coming soon so may need a grand from here max but after that I will try to build big.

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Pokerstars VIP Club Hall Of Fame

I've made it onto the Stars Hall of Fame page. Time to shoot for 5m VPPs....

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Lifetime SNE

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4 Time Supernova VIP

Its taken far too long but I've secured Supernova VIP for another year. Getting close to lifetime SNE too, lol :)


I also got to play my first hand with one of the big names. I've played with plenty of the online 'Red Spades' before but this was the biggest one.

But did I jam on Liv?

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500 Posts

Man, I've been busy.....

95 Billionth Hand Drops on Pokerstars

I am still yet to hit one milestone hand. This time it was the road to 95 billion hands and I played a mix of NL50/NL100 to try and hit one but failed again.

I didn't get that excited this time as I realise the chances are pretty slim. The real value in this promo is probably the fact that lots of recreational players jump in and make the games a bit better for like 5 days.

With the last 4 milestones about to pop I fired up 20 tables of NL50 and hoped for the best. About 90 minutes later the big one was about to drop and it did at an NL16 FR table.

There was some funny drama as one player disconnected and Stars could not contact him. He was given 30 minutes but failed to come back so they ran the hand.

The Prizes were as follows:

Ten K 2 Play - Let The Games Begin

Its been a long time since I had a 5-figure roll. It was probably 2 years ago during my SNE shot.

I have just reached that milestone again and now I am comfortable sitting any levels from NL100 - NL600.

So far I have only sat NL100 and NL200 this year but hopefully I will progress.

The signs are good so far as there seem to be some spewy villains around:

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

BTN: $100.00
SB: $356.32
Hero (BB): $330.11
UTG: $60.54
MP: $201.55
CO: $99.00

Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is BB with K K
1 fold, MP calls $1, 2 folds, SB raises to $4.50, Hero raises to $14.48, MP calls $13.48, SB calls $9.98

Flop: ($43.44) 8 K 4 (3 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $28.22, MP raises to $71, SB folds, Hero raises to $315.63 all in, MP calls $116.07 all in

Turn: ($417.58) 3 (2 players - 2 are all in)

River: ($417.58) J (2 players - 2 are all in)

Final Pot: $417.58
Hero shows K K (three of a kind, Kings)
MP mucks Q Q
Hero wins $414.78
(Rake: $2.80)

Pokerstars VPP Leader Board

While my quest for 400k VPPs in 2013 has got off to a relatively slow start (currently sitting on 14,386 VPPs) some out there are flying and going for the first to SNE.

The top VPP earners seem to be play high stakes sit n gos. Some of the 'hyper' versions of these games have blind levels that only last 2 minutes.

Here are the top players:

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: