OMG Supernova is going to be harder then I thought

Well guess I have been running good (up 24BI this week). I have made some adjustments to my game and am super happy ATM, one adjustment that isn't really strategy but severely affects my Supernova challenge is that I have decided to 4 table Zoom and not 6 table, as my results seem to be a ton better and my hourly has increased. Unfortunately I'm not getting as many VPP's an hour obviously now so it looks like to achieve this challenge I need to play 8 hours a day pretty much every day for the rest of the year!!! ATM I have 24.5k VPPs and I need to get around 17k next month. What's for sure is that I am going to stick to 50nl Zoom 4 tabling for the whole of next month then re-evaluate and maybe look to adding another table or two or playing 100nl. The challenge is daunting but I'm up for it- I just wish I had another month to do it lol but that's always the case.

Maybe today I find the boom button

Played about 2 hours this morning- actually winning a stack. Super swingy though, I haven't helped myself though with hero calls one was right two where wrong :-( - factoring pot odds I guess I break even. So far this month I have 1465 VPPs. I think I'm playing ok atm a couple of sick spots have come up and the coolers/ outdraws.  

This month looks like its going to be a long one

Well can't win a session thats the bottom line. Lost about 11 BI in 4 days and can't catch a break. I've been running bad but of course there are points for improvement, going to watch some training videos and maybe readjust my ranges.

On the plus side I have over 16K VPPs the bad news is that I've spent my Fpps to cover my downswing (pretty much lol).

Target this month: finish in the black
                            15k VPPs

VPP's/ day required for Supernova this year: 559.433

Nuts Vs Nuts brutality lets try to lose the minimum for the time being

Keep getting it in with 2nd/3rd nuts vs the actual nuts which is kind of annoying- welcome to Zoom I guess. Only good news is that I have less than 1k VPP to make for the rest of today and tomorrow to get 15k VPPs this month.

Ran good for a few days the the inevitable happened

Well must have ran good at the beginning of this week and at the weekend as I had an unsustainable win-rate. Last two days I guess I run bad getting 2 outtered as standard, FH's counterfeited, dirty runouts etc. Good news that I have broken even these two days, worked half days and am generating some Vpp's/ fpps. So far this month I have earned 12.17k Vpp's and have 21.5k fpps to spend if there is anything good in the PokerStars August sale. I am pretty pleased with this seeing that I started off one tabling 1/4 of the stakes as I played on Ipoker, now i'm 6 tabling and playing 4 50nl tables, I'm obviously raking alot more.

Half of August looks set to be half poker and half fringe festival 15k VPPs looks a tough challenge for that month because of it. I guess I can only do my best, but making up for lost volume could be challenging in the later months of the year. I guess I knew that getting Supernova in 6 months starting playing 25nl instead of 100nl was always going to be challenging, but I guess I now know the scale of the challenge and feel it will be a real achievement if I can do it. When the other half goes back to work the first goal is to earn 1k VPP's in a day as I have not done this yet.

Well 88% to go to Supernova- hopefully it will be worth the grind.

Productive weekend (kind of)

Well I am $700 richer after this weekend so I guess that's something. However didn't earn nearly the amount of VPP's I would have liked to, 200 away from 10k this month. I remember why I dont like tournaments now- waste of 4/5 hours for nothing or like a min cash which is pretty much the same. Basically I'm just going to play VIP tourneys now and not bother with the rest from now on as they are distracting my from my goals and essentially costing my winrate+VPPs+FPPs/hour. 50 nl is going much better now I have a semi ok database, I still feel cheated this weekend though but whats new? Had a really funny hand where I just barrelled off my middle set as the PFR W/JJ on K-J-2-5-K in a 3way pot and obv 4 credible combos beat me so I shoved the river for value- they both called with 22 and quads obv. Just had to sit there and go they fooled me- kinda sick though as the pot was 250 and would have been nice, moral of the story Zoom is brutal.

Actually not master blasting 3 streets with a check raise on the flop or the turn for stacks as standard, has turned out to be a good plan. Well not against randoms (now I know who they are) however against Supernovas+ any 4 tabling wizards kinda works a bunch if you don't over do it. Oh still working on not 4bet bluffing the btn to much- kinda expensive leak but find it hard to help myself sometimes when the BB/Sb is super 3bet happy and I haven't got a 5bet stat. Kinda feel all this zoom may turn out like how Rush 100/200nl played back in the day with AJ off being a shove for value in a blind war- In which case I am definitely buying insurance for 100nl+.

Anyways the plan is to continue 4 tabling 50 nl for the rest of this month and August, maybe chuck in a table or two of 25's if my winrate is somehow sick good or I find I have spare mental capacity. Don't expect this to happen till September however, so if I do it sooner its a bonus.

Sometimes I win

Well the last couple of days have gone pretty good. I have adjusted my game a bit and it seems to be working (small sample so it maybe run good). This month I have played 160k hands which is a little lazy on
my part but done a ton of off the table work (zoom dynamics and mental game). So far this month after my 18BI spazz I am up 40 BI so I guess life is ok. I actually think the better standard of reg on Pokerstars is good for me as I understand what they are doing and their ranges are pretty transparent and polarized but skewed to nuts if they 3 barrel. Just played a couple of sessions of 50's and won!!! Feel that toning down my aggression frequency is +ev and have found 4betting the btn relentlessly spells disaster.

At the moment I am marking regs and fish and aim next month to devise a more definitive colour coding system once I have more hands in my database.

So far this month I have earned 9K VPPs and will continue 4 tabling 50nl for the rest of this month, if it goes well I plan to have a table or two of 25's on the side, which will further increase my VPP's/hour. The goal is to play as many tables as possible with a small winrate, I don't think it is prudent to accept a loss and makeup for it in rakeback- this way is the most +ev way I think.

I have planned my VPP accumulation to be geometric this year with Platinum star being the minimum this month and 15k VPP's next month and 20k the month after and 25k in October.

In terms of Fpp's I think I am going to use them if I run bad and lose alot but try to hang onto them if possible till I am Supernova- I understand this is a tall order and probably won't happen but no need to spend them pre-emptively- after all I am not expecting to play 100nl Zoom this year at all.