The best thing first; im finally back and made my first 4 digit month (pre Rakeback) playing only NL25 this Year!
The first two weeks were "business as usual"...
Running bad, only Setups/cooler spots followed by some bad poker ^^
But after the 13th i found back into my rythm and had no more losingsession for the rest of the month!Some rungood at the end always helps and is welcome at any time ;-)
My goal was to hit 10k Vpps for October, it was close but i missed it due to some reallife stuff at the end.
Numbers:
144,077 Hands (NL25 $/€ - 96% FR)
9,658 VPPs
+ 1,018.42$ @ the tables + 540.85$ VPP value + 96$ Stellars
Yeah what can i say, the worst Year in terms of winnings (since 2009) still continues and there is no end in sight...
September was really disapointing and sometimes frustrating too! :-(
Had one week of so my Volume wasnt that great, needed until the 30th of Sept. to hit the 6,5k vpps Border to keep the Supernova status.
A small ray of light at the very last day of the month when i caught a small upswing and won 12 Buy-ins on one day (best day so far this year) to get the poor month into to green at least!
Numbers:
77,304 Hands (NL25 $/€/£ SH/FR Mix)
6,570 VPPs
+ 250.07$ @ the tables + 367.92$ VPP value + 65$ Stellars
Would be great if i can win again some money while putting in all the money preflop!
(the curve keep collecting nothing but EV so far...)
Keeping Supernova for 2014 too is still a big goal for me, so i have to stop beeing lazy and put in some serious volume the next (and last) three month of the Year!!
Since i dont want to move up i'll need ~ 400-450k Hands at NL25 FR because i only get ~ 7 VPPs/100 Hands.
Results below:
Hero had Q, Q
Hero had one pair, Queens on the first board
Hero had one pair, Queens on the second board
BB had 8, 8
BB had three of a kind, eights on the first board and collected €10
BB had straight, eight high on the second board and collected €10
Outcome: BB won €19.10
Preflop All-ins seem to be all Flips or worse regardless of the Equity i have:
For a long time August seemed to be a good month for me in terms of poker.
In most parts i played the Euro- and Pound-Tables at Pokerstars and mixed SH and FR tables together since i was a bit bored grinding FR tables only.
After 66k Hands i was ~ 1,1k$ up and everything was good so far....
But then somehow i hit the "Doomswitch-Button" and i couldnt win anything for the last 40k Hands of the month :(
The good news, the tables are still really fishy and full of maniacs/gambler so its on me to get a seat with them and hope the variance and i will be friends again ;-)
Numbers:
106,789 Hands (NL25 $/€/£ FR/SH)
8,556 VPP
+ 235.75$ @ the tables + 479,14$ VPP value + 150$ WCOOP Reload-Bonus + 85$ Stellars
As we all know NL25 is a very fishy Limit and overall quite easy to play (or it should be ^^)!
But even at this small Stakes sometimes u meet really "special" players or in other words a huge whale or true gambler!
I had some big pots running last night with this villian and it seemed he disabled his "Fold-Button" because his two revealed cards looked pretty random in most parts...
We (the regs) had the pleasure that he one-tabled more then 3 hours with us, first at NL25€ tables, later he moved up to the NL100€ tables!
He lost more then 400€ in under 200 Hands...
~ 300€ alone at NL25! Thats really rare and i cant remember in the past 1 Million Hands (at NL25) that i saw a recreational player losing so many stacks and keep playing and playing ^^
There were lots of interesing (big) pots and here are some funny Handhistories:
(not all played by me)
Weather was way too good (and it still is ^^) and on some days it was even too hot to sit in front of the computer ... something around 36-38° C !!!
Nevertheless i played some poker and the month started quite well with a decent upswing over the first 15k Hands (+25 Buy-ins). But unfortunatly within the second week i got doomswitched and lost it all back :-(
The last week of July went a bit better and i finished the month at least with around +11 Buy-ins (all hands played at NL25 FR)
Numbers:
57,651 Hands (NL25 FR)
3,740 VPP
+ 273.78$ @ the tables + 209.44$ VPP value + 37$ Stellars
Even with one week off (vacation with family) i managed it to play a lot of Hands, but as i said few weeks ago the month was alrd. fucked up within the first week...
Failing at Zoom50&100 (have to exlcude me from this, so tilting...)
Switched then back to the NL25FR tables and it worked quite well at the beginning.
Unfortunatly after a big and bad session i got the doomswitch and couldnt win anything anymore :(
Even after taking one week off things wont change, dropped the last 3 days of june another +20 stacks so the month ended with a 4 digit loss (pre rakeback).. fml !
Numbers:
135,000 Hands (NL25-100 FR + Zoom)
9,300 VPP
-1180$ @ the tables + 520,80$ VPP value + 282$ Milestone Promo + 69,20$ Milestone Stake Share + 93$ Stellars + 60$ Set your Goal Promo (paid 3rd of July)
Once again i switched back to NL25 FR tables only after i took another disgusting shot at the Zoom 50/100 FR tables...
Nearly dropped 1k $ there in 20k Hands (500$ under EV and tons of cooler/setup spots) :-(
It was really fishy and u dont need to tableselect all the time, but it was just unreal and sick what happend to me there.
So the month is fucked up already after the first week ...
Hope i finally learned my lession and never touch that rigged Zoom sh*** again ^^
Back at my "home" (NL25) caught a cute upswing so far and since Stars starts back the Milestone-Promotion to celebrate the upcoming 100-Billion Hand, the tables get insane fishy !!
But thats not enough, didnt take much time and i saw the pop-up at one of my 16 tables and heard that sweet sound that i got dealt into a MILESTONE HAND !!!!
Here we go:
was a bit sad that i couldnt win the pot and double up my prize money but 282$ for "free" is still very nice and helps alot chasing the bad start into June (failing at zoom) !
To be honest it was alrd. my 3rd Milestone Hand throughout all the Promotions (2x at NL25 FR , 1x NL50 FR)
I sadly never one one of them but always binked some nice extra money!
Good results at NL25 (5bb/100) come along with another depressing outcome playing the rigged
NL50 tables :-(
Volume was better then expected because i had so much "non-poker" stuff to do incl. the renovation of our apartment!
As you can see in the pic above as a Supernova you can take 2 month off without reaching the 6,5k VPP/ month and still keep the Status!
I think i will opt-in for this opportunity in May since there are too many distractions in real life that keep me from grinding! (small and big ones ;-) )
Lots of changes at the moment and bunch of parties /holidays still to come...
Since today i played something like 25k hands @ May, a mix of NL25/50 FR and some zooom.
No calculations how many hands will follow, will see at the end of the month...
Cleared the SCOOP-reload Bonus already today, gave me an extra 80€.
Also always a good feeling when u finished the 100k FPP for the biggest bonus you can claim on Pokerstars (not as big at is was when u needed 250k FPP for the old 4k$ bonus in the past, that was always a tough grind ^^).
Two days ago i finally got an answer from Stars Support after waiting like > one week concerning the request for lowering my ringame-tablelimit!
Now my cap is at 16 tables, wich is def. good for my game and if variance and force is with me for the results too ;-) Today weather was way too good for playing lots of poker and i only had a (good) short session! Past months i often saw slowplayed nutz vs fishes (maniacs) when they shove into my good holdings, but this session i had two weird hands vs so called "recreational" players... I was a bit surprised when i saw their cards revealed ^^ Here we go :
Poker Stars $0.10/$0.25 No Limit Hold'em - 8 players
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8
K
8
