2010

I had a nice start into 2010, started with a nice upswing for first 5 days of the year. The last three days I’ve played a lot and I’m in good shape to reach my monthly goal of 250k VPPs. At the moment I have almost 30k. In this posting I’m going a little bit more into details about how to get to Sin City.

Supernova Elite and the 1250k VPPs till March: That was my goal but after some thoughts I realize that this is not possible due to the cash game introduction. Instead I aim “just” 1m VPPs for SNE till WSOP. I do not know when cash game starts and that leaves me pretty much fkd regarding planning’s. It could be February, it could be beginning of March or it could be end of March. It leaves me also fkd because I was fairly certain to launch a new prop bet, something with the maximum length of 5 weeks but instead of the average 11,5k VPPs 13k VPPs a day. That’s not an ego-thing, I think I should get tons of action and the bet would be highly +ev for me.

I feel so strong these days, I grind all day long without even losing focus for one second. I am pretty happy with my attitude and work ethic at the moment and I believe I can keep it up. I worked hard on my psyche last couple of weeks and it seems to pay off. I’m making every day at the same time a weird exercise to steel my discipline. I also regulated sleep, I go to bed no later than 3am and stand up at the latest at 10am.

However, with the introduction of cash game there are also a lot of benefits. First of all, I’m flexible! I can play whenever I want (as long there is traffic). That means that I’m no longer forced to grind till 3am, I can finally also stop mass-tabling and I can start again with learning some strategy, discussing hands ect. When you do mass-table SNGs you do not really care about fine-tuning, all you care about is volume. All the important poker aspects are totally unimportant and the only thing that counts is ICM. That’s finally a little bit more variety!

As far as I can plan, I want to grind really hard till cash game gets certified. That means my monthly goal of 250k VPPs with –1 to 0% ROI in January is still valid and for February I plan another 250k and I’ll pray to all spirits and gods that cash game won’t be introduced beginning-mid February. I reckon to grind 500k VPPs in the period of beginning March to mid May with high-stakes SNGs and mid-stakes cash-game will be really tough and I don’t want to think what happens if I manage to make only 400k VPPs till cash-game will be introduced. I probably end up playing from heads-up to full ring every €5-10 game and every €100+ SNG/MTT on Stars.it.

That’s it for the moment, stay tuned guys!

-tobias

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