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Supernova Challenge

27 Jun

Well June has been a month to forget, I dilly dallied about between different stakes and formats without really settling down, as a result I had a losing month at the tables. I did run below EV for the 4th month running but I’m thinking long term and with every bad run there’s a good run just around the corner, I can’t wait for mine. I’m not going to make excuses though, I played horrible in a lot of hands this month, I guess every mistake I make is a mistake I’ll learn from.

Right now I’m half way towards making Supernova, it’s something I probably should have achieved earlier but I’ve found it difficult adjusting to people playing wierd against me because of my status, I probably over adjusted and that’s part of the reason for struggling lately. I’ve gone through my database recently and picked up on a few leaks I had, hopefully I can fix them and bring my game forward into July, I feel I’m slowly improving which is a plus I guess, something I can take out of this month anyway.

So 50k VPPS is the target I’m aiming for, July 31st is the date I’m looking to achieve it. One thing I’m going to make sure of doing this month is sticking at the same limit ($50NL fullring 20-50). Focus and concentration is what I need and switching between limits isn’t helping the mentality I have towards my game. The VPP rate at $50NL fullring is around 1/6.25 hands so I’m looking to play around 300k hands from now until the end of July, It’ll be really tough but as long as I focus on one game I’ll have a chance.

I’m not going to play any cash games today because of the England match and the Sunday tournaments I play but I’ll be starting back up first thing tomorrow.

The tournament I spoke about in previous posts will take place on Wednesday 30 June at 8pm GMT, I’m pretty sure there are no world cup games on that day so there won’t be a conflict. It’ll be password protected and open to every reader of my blog, I’ll post the tourney i.d and password on Wednesday. It’ll be $1 entry with $20 on my head, anyone who makes the final table will receive a ticket to the Sunday 1/4 million worth $11.

Hope you guys had more success this month than I did, goodluck in July.

 
 

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  1. KINGJEFF80

    June 27, 2010 at 1:57 pm

    Hi Matthew,

    Sorry to hear about your bad run, when you mention your database what is that? a customised DB of all your past hands or is some off the shelf product that you use.Would be interested to know.

    GL with the supernova status challenge.

     
  2. Chipstar1

    June 27, 2010 at 10:22 pm

    Thx (:

    Yeah there are several programs that track/import your hand history so you can go over hands you’ve previously played and look for ways to improve how you played a hand. Holdem Manager and PokerTracker3 are the most popular.