BINK

I won a $4 mtt with 1209 players today. I pretty much ran over the field. Played tons of mtts in the past 24 hours, is quite fun and won a small amount. Also won a $20 with 20 people for $200 and took 2nd in a $9 turbo final table only which only had around 212 people or something. Had a deep run in the $55 300k, came in 150th ish. It has one of the best structures ever in a regularly run touranment. I eventually tank called off a late positon raiser's 4bet jam with AK and lost to JJ for a pot that would have put me near the chip lead.

Deciding I'm going to try and teach some players the wonders of 45 manaments. We'll see how it goes, should be fun.

Early year in review

So I've only grinded a few days this year but most days included significant volume. I'm running amazingly well, at first I had high doubts on 45 tabling but I decided that most regs are bad enough (obv not all) at the $3-$6 levels that I can play this volume and still win. Running something like 40% at the $3's, 20-30% at the $6's and 70% at the $12's. Played about 610 games between the past two days and have been running unstoppable. I need to be able to focus less on individual hands, like doing my best to just make the right preflop decison rather than also watching to see if my hand wins, which is something I do on occasion at final tables.



I want to start including some $27's but I realized that I'm just on a huge heater, and realize how potentially damaging it could be to my roll. I've easily gone on a few 20-30 BI downswings, luckily there's a few 100+ BI upswings or something close to that. I've been on the bubble of the $3 45 man sharkscope leaderboard and the past two sessions I won maybe just $20-$25 at these stakes which is kind of annoying.

I decided the best plan is to start including more excercise along with a solid week of not going higher than $12's. The waters need to be tested at 18 man's if I want to make any serious run at supernova elite. I'm semi-confident on my 18 man game and not really sure if I could win at them at the $16+ level when not off peak hours. I want to buy sngwiz b/c I think it would best way to learn these without coaching or finding a site that has training videos. Ideal volume would be 400 games a day over the next week, but the chances would be slim since that would be 9 hours a day 45 tabling.

As for vpp goals I still need another 3574 for plat star and have 7633 on the year. Still shooting to take supernova before the SCOOP, in which it would be nice if they introduce the schedule soon since it's something I'm really excited to grind up a bankroll for. I'll try to wrap up the month with another 2k games.

The start of sne chase?

This time supernova will come first. Last year I thought I would want to grind as badly as I do now and that didn't work out, and I only managed about 18k vpps on the year. Today was an interesting day. I'd been watching triple draw and razz videos, both in which I infrequently play, I decided to fire up a bunch of tables and played. I ended up playing as many as 9 tables at once, had 4 tables of $5/$10 razz and 1 table of $5/$10 TD going along with 3 other lower stakes games. I logged about 750 razz hands and 450 triple draw hands and ended up winning a few BB's. I feel that I could beat both games at the $1/$2 and $2/$4 levels. I don't really plan on doing this again, both games are really hard to play so many tables, have no idea how I did it. I accumulated about 800 vpps and don't really plan on this again. However, I decided to be brave and once again go hudless mass tabling sngs. I played 202 45 and 180 man sngs from $2-$12 with a constant of 45 tables going. I thought it would be much harder, and I'm sure I made a lot of misclicks but it kept me very focused with my grind. I won from the sngs and posted another 500vpps, giving me a total of 1300ish vpps on the day. About double this rate and some and I'll be getting the illustrious Supernova Elite pace.

I've had thoughts about trying to make some props and pending how I feel I might try some. Pretty much all my decisions are feel based including poker and the real world. Going to share some of my ideas:

1500 45mans in 24 hours no profit requirement.
900 45 mans in 24 hours with profit
10000 45 mans in a week with profit

These are just templates for future prop ideas. I have no idea what kind of odds could be gotten etc. I'm planning on doing something big before SCOOP in order to get a roll to play some events unless I'm doing fine just off grinding sngs. Since I've played super tuesdays way underolled, it would be nice to get another chance at some big buy in scoop events for doing some insane/slightly insane.

Balance

Was trying to figure out how to get the most out of grinding. I realized that before when all my goal was to due was grind, I could not enjoy myself and therefore started to gamble away my roll and go broke. I'm now working a part time job and believe it helps a lot with this. Knowing there is other things I need to do and focus on seems like a good way to get my full focus while grinding.

The other form of balance I was looking into was deciding to play a session of constant 20-25 tables or load up 45-55, play all of them straight through without reg'n for more. Lots of pro's and con's on each side though. I'd imagine both would produce similar volume as today I fired up 45 tables and stopped, took about 1.5 hours to finish.

Constant flow pros: Always would have hud on, Make better decsions early on, and wouldn't have to mix 2-3 different buy in levels.

Constant flow cons: Tougher to make good decsions at final tables when playing 20+ other tables.

Firing up X amount of sngs then waiting for all to finish pros: Playing a little tighter early doesn't matter as my stack still has a lot of value. Less tables going when at finals = more +ev. Forced to play tighter early on.

Cons: Can't open hud until under 30 tables (Could take notes to counter this but not enough regs at stakes i play for this to make a difference.)

A rebirth of 45 man grinding

Got back into the swing of things again. It's been a while, I'm pretty sure if you take a 5+ month break still will reward you with the best run good ever. I didn't even think it was possible to run as good as I did in the first 35 games or so. Posting graph later, basically ran 91% over 92 games, and was 278% over the first 18 $3 45's. Glad to have the type of day that pretty much makes my roll unbreakable at these micros now.



Preparing to hopefully make a sick prop but would need to build a roll to wager an amount that would be worth winning. Still messing around with volume, only got up to 40 tables today and after 33 hud failed, however, if I am playing over 50-60 tables, is there really time to use a hud anyway?

Back at it again for a nice 165 games in today. Running good at $3's, helps since not very good at other buy ins. Felt pretty good.