Good Day (Finally)

I've played this tourney the past 3 days but was only in for $46.50 total, so I can't complain about my ROI.

Some of the big hands:

I'm pretty lucky

This helped

Great play

Weeeeeee

Cash games have been shitty this week (points wise) but profitable for once. Well, not that profitable... but I haven't been losing my ass for a change.

Progress meter is updated for you, Strikr.

I'm emo

Ok, I'm emo.

I'm back on the SNE chase.

Wife was able to block omaha manager from me so that's good news (I don't use HUD so it's all good).

Games have been slow, lately but trying to at least grind at 2,750 vpps a day until they pick up again.

Chase is over

Looks like its time to give up the chase for supernova elite. I have lost over 30% of my roll this year and have run significantly under ev. I am definitely not playing my best this month (right around break-even poker), but I am down $5,000 and the month is barely 10 days old. My goal to get supernova elite definitely cost me a ton of money and killed my desire to play poker.

When I started the year, I enjoyed grinding out the 5k VPP or more days, but now I dont even want to grind out 2k VPP days. If this is my attitude 10% of the way to SNE, I think its safe to say I don't have the mindset to make it all the way.

I will spend the extra time I have now looking at getting a real job and / or applying to graduate school.

Week 5 Recap / Week 6 Goals

Week 5 Recap

• Total VPPs Earned: 24,678.74
• Hours Played: 52.15
  
• Hands Played: 65,650
  
• VPPs/Hour: 473.2
• VPPs/Hand: 0.376
• VPPs Earned YTD: 101,896.12

I hate poker this year. I don't expect to win every flip, but it would be nice to win hands like this and this occasionally.

I hit 100k VPPs this week and secured my Supernova status through February 2012. That's not much of an accomplishment though. I'm pretty sure I could teach a monkey to get Supernova. Maybe I'll make that my hobby if I continue to run like shit and bust my roll.


Week 6 Goals

• 27k VPPs
  
• Win a hand against AngryFish. That's going to be a lot harder than the 27k VPPs.
  
• Break even, which means I'll need an EV of at least $3k the way I've been running.

Down and back

Well, no tilt goal = fail for the week. I started off the week by running like shit on Monday. By the end of the day my EV wasn't good but my losses were far worse. I considered just doing a 180-day ban, cashing out the roll, and playing video games for 6 months while looking for a shit job, but obviously got over that idea quickly and am back to grinding. Since then I've made back the losses and then some.

I made an agreement with MrClkClkDirk that anytime one of us whines at the tables we owe the person who catches us $5, the exception being that we can berate each other. So, be sure to call us out when you see us bitching or watch our tables all day waiting for one of us to crack if you're really desperate to boost your roll.

I've been bad about playing nights again this week, and don't think I'm gonna improve on that tonight since I'm going out to watch the UCLA game.