Thanks guys

Quote Originally Posted by JinxT4
Congrats badgers.

Just outta curiosity, how many hands did you wind up playing during double VPP week (i.e. how much did that week help you out)?
I didn't actually play very much because this happened.



Not fun. I got back to around -$400 in 20k hands but then I had to move out of halls and party lots as it was the end of my year at college so i thought screw poker. I've now played 38k hands this month and I'm back in the black at ~+$600. Not spectacular but I'm pretty relieved after that downswing.

Sooo, what are my future plans? I don't really know what I should be expecting for the rest of the year... I want to be a midstakes reg sometime soon like at the end of the year, but I've heard that everyone tends to plateau at 200nl and then the games dry up a bit. You need to be able to exploit regs once you get higher up, from what I have heard, so that's what I've been attempting to do at 100nl recently with mixed success. I think it's all a question of experience and knowing when a player is going to snap and do something silly, but I managed to tilt a v nitty reg into stacking off w/ 88 on a 234 rainbow board and then overbet shove ~2x pot with AK on a Jxx board yesterday so that's a start!

As for right now, I'm really unsure about whether to cash in a bonus now. Stars have just released a 4k bonus for 250k FPPs, which us better value than the $1500 bonuses for 100k FPPs. However, I still plan on withdrawing 2k more to pay for rent next year (I'm a life nit, each time I've reached a 6k BR I've withdrawn 1k so far) and I want to move up to 200nl asap. Maybe the best plan is not to withdraw again and just take out 2k when I get the 4k bonus, which could take about another 2 months as I need 120k FPPs until I can afford it and then it takes 28k VPPs to clear......

Anyway, I think I'm going to move up to 200nl when I reach 7k and take shots, moving down again when I hit 6k.

Other developments

I'M MOVING DOWN TO 16 TABLES AND THIS TIME I ACTUALLY MEAN IT GODDAMMIT.

24 tabling is hard, I can't take notes while playing which makes it pointless as then I have to do note-taking sessions in PT which is time I could otherwise spend playing so 16 tables is better. Also I'm pretty sure I can spend more of my time trying to piss off the regs if I'm playing less tables rather than automatically making robotic decisions.

I'm aiming (tentatively) for the 3k milestone bonus for reaching 300k VPPs.

I'm not setting a profit target... Let's just see.

100k hands this month?

Operation Grind to Midstakes - BEGIN!