A week into January 2013 - update

Just wrote a post with a few hands I've played good and bad so far this month. The link to this post is:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showpost.php?p=36529811&postcount=124

A brief update regarding the month so far...

I've played 60,000 hands in the first 6 days of January. Never in my life have I played this kind of volume before... Not sure why but I'm just going for it in terms of putting in hands and earning some VPPs on Pokerstars. I've earned 50,834 VPP's in the 6 days playing.

An upload of the number of hands I've played and at what stake this year:

http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii607/Grind4Money90/handssofar_zpscca9fe3f.png

As you can see, I've done very well at all the stakes apart from 5/10. I've always found 10/20 easier than 5/10 for some reason... In the first 8,000 hands of 5/10 I was down $40,000. So I've kind of just broke-even/won a little since then. Looking at my hands in my database they are pretty all just coolers really. Sick variance I guess.

Overall, I have mixed feelings so far regarding my results this year.  I mean, I'm up $14,514 in 6 days which is pretty amazing if you put that into context with jobs outside of poker and sports. But in 2012 I won at over $1/hand, I guess my $/hand ratio will go down due to all the mass tabling I've been doing on Pokerstars so far - I've been 18 and 24 tabling pretty much the whole time I've been playing, and the lowest was 9 tables which was when I played 10/20 vs the regs there.  Regarding my winrate of 1.51bb/100 - I guess I can be happy that I've currently got an edge in the 60k hands or so, considering I've been mass tabling with nearly always other regs. Once I reach Supernova Elite I'll be going back to table selecting the best 9-12 tables on multiple sites... Until then, it's nothing but reg wars!

Some brief goals for January:

Play 70,000 hands more before the LV trip on Jan 17th. That's around 7,000 a day - so not as much as I've been doing (currently 10,000/day). I'd like to try and get the 5/10 losses to under $20k before LV too. But who knows what will happen...

The next 16 days

So, after all of the drinks tonight, tomorrow the hard work begins.

I've set an overall goal of making $500,000 in the year of 2013. I have quite a few holidays already planned (Vegas Jan 17-26 for my 25th birthday, Madrid for el Clasico for a weekend in early March, skiing for a week at the end of April, Ibiza for a week at the start of June followed by Vegas for a month (both for the WSOP and taking my brother and his gf out their 21st's) and a safari sometime later in the year with Amy (my girlfriend) in Kenya).  That leaves about 300 of the 365 days left in the year to play online poker, needing to earn $1650 a day to be successful for the challenge. In 2012 I had a very successful year regarding the poker, I made over this amount but I also spent way too much of it. 2013 is the year where I plan to save instead of spend (especially when in the UK), so if I do make this $500,000, I hope to have around $450,000 of it to show at the end.

Regarding my life over the next 16 days...

I'll be playing around 5,000 hands of NLHE poker each day playing 12-16 tables at once. Normally I play 9-12 tables just because in 2012 I only ever played 5/10 and above, but as I'm going to be playing nearly all of my poker on Pokerstars in 2013 I'll include some 3/6 in there too.

There is another thing I'll be doing in the first 16 days, and that's running. I have a prop bet with my friend, another poker player, who is coming with me to Las Vegas in 17 days. 2 weeks ago we said to each other we'd both run 100 miles before the trip, so far I've only run 16 and then Christmas came along, and then I've had the flu for a week now. I'm just getting better, although not ready to run, but tomorrow I've decided to just go out and run, regardless.  So, in the 16 days I have about 84 miles to run. Failure to run the 100miles means the other one gets to push the other in one of the Tao bath tubs (they have bath tubs with petals and water in outside the nightclub Tao in Vegas). If we both fail to run the 100 miles, Amy gets to push us both in.

It will be interesting...

2013 Goals

Hello everyone,

I have created a thread on the 2+2 poker forums [ http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/174/poker-goals-challenges/2013-thread-track-progress-reaching-supernova-elite-500-000-profit-1281869/ ] but also thought I'd create a blog as well for the year 2013 as something new to do on the side of playing poker.

Goals for 2013:

• $500,000 profit in the NLHE high stakes games including rake back and bonus' - not as much as 2012 but don't like to set high $ targets

• Supernova Elite earning 1,000,000 VPP's in 2013

• Run 50+ miles a month (have an app on iPhone which measures this exactly)

• Play 10 live MTT's with buy-ins of at least 4 figures in the respective currency.

• Try to learn some PLO (by that, I don't mean be able to beat the 10/20 games by the end of the year, simply to just start at the 0.5/1 level and play 10-15k hands and see where I go from there. Maybe get to 5/10 or something by Dec 31 2013.

• Buy a house.

• Enjoy life.

Feel free to follow me on twitter : coopah88  for more frequent updates

GL to everyone at the tables in 2013...