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.

PlatinumStar

well I have done it and am super pleased doing 9 days ahead of schedule. Won a bit today so thats good. So far I have got 9k Vpps and have 15k Fpps (which i intend to spend on sunday storm tickets and $200 bonuses).

Playing small and tourneys

Been playing small cash games the last few days and won 450, so thats ok. Have also cashed in a few tournaments and won my seat to the 1M gtd micro millions event for 250fpp's today.  
Currently i'm 1.3k vpp's away from Platinum star, which was my goal for this month.
I will be playing on and off this week till the weekend then play pretty hard then. Here's the platinum star this week.

Rough day yesterday, but it happens sometimes

Lost quite a bit the other day. I probably lost 100bb playing bad the rest rest was I guess variance (equity, invisible luck and coolers). Won 2 BI back in 30 mins today though so that's something. I'm really concentrating on the mental aspect of poker at the moment, as well as looking for spots to increase my redline and improve my frequency of bluff success.

So far I have grinded 4.7k VPP's this month and 6.1K this year. So I'm 62% of the way to achieving Platinum Star this month which is good news. Currently I have just under 10k FPPs. To put all this in greater context I am however only 6% of the way there to Supernova, so a lot more grinding needed. My soft goal/  challenge is to get there by the end of October.

Still 4 tabling trying to locate the crushing formula for zoom

Hey guys,

Have grinded 5,280 VPPs now. have done a leak buster analysis today and have a score of 235- B+ so thats ok. Going to have to work to increase my VPIP and CO open% and decrease my 4bet% from the button, as well as reducing my broadway blocker 3bet bluffs. For now I am going to continue grinding 4 tables of 50nl until I find out more how the games play, what the regs ranges for certain spots are etc.

In terms of loyalty status I have to get Platinum Star this month, which looks likely. I will put off playing more tables until I have a winrate I am happy with.

Frustrating few days on Stars

Hey guys,

Been pretty frustrated getting it in on the flop with top set an losing and stuff like that. Got an idiot last night to put in 40% of his stack pre when I had AA he obv managed to turn what he need with his 10-7 off after calling my shove to scoop. I guess overall I'm still winning a little- just not as much as holdem manager says I should but what's new??

The good news is that I have made Gold Star today. The bad news is that I wasted alot of time today playing tournaments- played 4- bubbled one and cashed 3 for like nothing.

So far I have grinded 4.6k VPP's, haven't got the heart to play more than 4 tables of Zoom as I'm getting a bit annoyed by getting whacked by fish atm. However hopefully the run good will set in at some point, fore now looks like I'm grinding VPP's.

Progress

Gd news my initial deposit is up over a K.

Monthly VPP's: 1236
Yearly VPPs: 2653

Going to play a little more 50nl tonight.

Zoom is going better with fewer stack off bluff lines

Well played only a bit of zoom so far this month as I got kinda deep in the Sunday Storm (500ish/25k) and so shut all my cash tables down. Not much grinding has been done today and yesterday as my better half has been off work.

So far this month after my awful start I am up 300ish whilst learning the game dynamics of zoom as well as database generating. I have been able to play 6 tables today for a few hours pretty comfortably which is good news. I will probably continue playing small (25's) till Friday and then deposit some more to play 50nl.

So far this month I have a disappointing 648.42 VPP's

This year: 2065.96 VPP's

2% done 98% to go lol.