2012 + 2013

So it's that time of the year again! The last day of 2012 and we're still here, guess the Mayan's weren't right about everything! I figured before we all get drunk tonight i'd write up one last blog post to finish off the year.

This year didn't really go the way i wanted in terms of poker and i think i know why for the most part, I've been pretty lazy! I started the year off and by the end of February i had probably played about 20k hand's lol  For the first time in my life i moved away from the site i love playing on, Pokerstars! It just has by far and away the best software for poker and i learnt this year i am a massive software nit and love the Stars client. I messed around on some small euro sites with high rake and soft table's for a while, made some money, then had to come back to Pokerstars because i could no longer put up with the shitty software of other sites. So this is my graph from Everleaf poker this year, rake was crazy high and i got 50% of it back:

So that went pretty well, i was winning at 4.6bb/100 here and with that massive amount of rake i was pretty happy tbh! I also played some small amount on Cake before moving back to Stars:

My bb/100 at Cake was actually 11.2 :) Obviously tiny sample and i must have ran pretty well i guess! 

So then i moved back to Stars, after being lazy again for a few months and just letting my bankroll dwindle away i had to start at 50nl. Thing's didn't go so well, after my first 90k hands i should have been winning, and i was but only a little, because in my last 20k hands there i actually ran ~30 buy-in's under EV (expected value) probably the worst I've ever ran in my career to date! I think this was Pokerstars' way of punishing me for leaving lol

So my winrate at 50nl was only 1.4bb/100 with an EV of 3.4bb/100 which also isn't that great tbh :( After this terrible run at 50nl and being lazy i had to get staked, i didn't want to, but didn't have much of a choice other than move down to 25nl, and i didn't really see that as an option. So a friend in my Skype study group threw some money at me and after agreeing on a percentage split said go play 100nl again, which i'm very pleased to say went well:

So my first 130k hands back to 100nl on Stars i'm winning at 6.45bb/100 which feel's awesome. I also managed to get back my Supernova VIP status playing 100nl after my hiatus from Pokerstars earlier in the year! At this time i started mixing in 200nl ZOOM also and started to talk to my friend/backer about Supernova Elite in 2013, he was all up for idea and with about 12 hours left of 2012 i'm ready for the monstrous challenge ahead of me! 

I realized that the only times this year that i had no money, or things weren't going well, are also the times when i became complacent with my work and I've decided i'm not going to let that happen again by going foe SNE in 2013 :) My highest volume month so far was about 125-135k hands and that was about 18 month's ago lol My aim for Jan, Feb, March & April is 300k hands+ per month, so you can appreciate how much extra effort will be needed i hope! So my graph from Pokerstars since getting staked looks like this: 

I've been really struggling at 200nl ZOOM since moving there, i also feel like I've been running really poorly there so i hope that turns around soon and i can have a reasonable winrate, though i know 200nl is quite a lot harder than 100nl ZOOM imo. This is the same graph in bb's:

So overall winrate since September 27th (when i got staking) is 4.93bb/100 which i'm really happy with! 

Now onto 2013 and my goals for the year and targets for the first few months. 

• Make Supernova Elite
• Profit at the tables
• Make a combined total of $150k or more from rakeback and table profit
• Apply for Pokerstars Online Pro
• Keep this blog, my 2+2 thread and my Twitter updated as much as possible
• Keep up my gym routine and eat healthily
• Finish SNE by December so i can take a long overdue holiday to Southeast Asia with the girlfriend
• Get ahead of pace and stay there in terms of VPP's, i think this one is crucial for me, i will be attempting to accumulate over 100kVPP every single month until the start of May and then pick up that pace once again in September allowing for some downtime from the tables in the tiny, tiny summer that we get here in the UK :(
• Have fun and try not to get too down when i experience large downswings that come naturally with this kind of grinding.

And i think that just about wraps up this long blog post, sorry if i rambled on a bit but i thought it would be cool to finish off this year with a review and some target's for the following year! 

So i hope you all have a wicked NYE and an excellent 2013, i wish you all the best of luck and maybe i'll see some of you at the table's. If you like my blog don't forget to share it around and let others know about it :) Thanks for reading, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! 

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