*** 2013 Supernova Elite pursuit thread, with related chat ***

[Donkab0mber]

Grats, Awice! PS Steve - Is this the fastest to SN ever?

[PokerStars Steve]

Originally Posted by Donkab0mber

Grats, Awice! PS Steve - Is this the fastest to SN ever?

By far.

Over 100,000 VPPs have been earned in a day before, but not on January 1st.

[George Lind III]

congrats awice

if only i could get stars to start wcoop on jan 1st next year

[ItsOnlyChips]

Originally Posted by PokerStars Steve

By far.

Over 100,000 VPPs have been earned in a day before, but not on January 1st.

curious, what is the record for most VPPs in a day, week, and month?

congrats AWice, now just do it 79 more times to hit ur target

[MouldyOnions]

That was a fun grind!

I use my own table opener for registering games and controlling the number of open tables, unfortunately with around 4 hours to go it started to break. I had a good lead and tried everything I could to fix the issue, without knowing exactly why it was happening.

Eventually I discovered that due to the size of the sessions played the Pokerstars.log.0 file had reached mammoth proportions (circa 400mb). The table opener struggled to handle all that information, which resulted in me missing games as it uses the log file extensively with regards to opening games.

I think near the end it was only registering me for roughly 50% of 200s that popped. It's pretty stressful knowing how close it was and seeing games start without me as my software lags behind. A few hours ago I thought Supernova was a lock, but software faults can happen to anyone and ultimately lost me the lead, hence I gave up. That being said, huge props to Awice, he did really well - to keep going all day while behind and power thorough to win must be awesome.

Luckily this is just the first lap of a many lap race and while holding the lap record would have been nice I am ultimately most focused on winning the overall race and doing it in the fastest time possible. It's going to be a exciting year and thanks to everyone supporting me on my website, Facebook and Twitter. I won't let you down!

[Donkab0mber]

Hard luck Mouldy. What you and AWice are attempting is pretty sick anyway and props to both if you even get close in the end just for the effort. Though at this pace, it shouldn't be a problem for either of you

[climbs]

Sick

[aseHigh]

just sick, grats to Alex and gl to you both this year ! will be a fun sweat

[Alex Wice]

Crossposted in my PG&C thread

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Thanks everyone.

I want to give a few details of what happened over the last couple of days.

First, the sprint finish. Basically, in order to catch up to MouldyOnions at the very end, I had to play $60 hypers as well. This was pretty tough and I ended up 50 tabling. If you look at PS steve updates I was getting 6k vpp an hour. This is completely insane, if you cough you are done. (It cannot be compared to tabling hypers in the past because PS has changed the time to act and other rules so it is much faster than it used to be.) Also, I think I had a log file thing too, or something similar. I lagged out of 30 tables with 2k vpp to go. I was very flustered, lol.

In general, for high-count tabling there is extreme stress induced on the body, I think my practice with exercise before hand has helped me sleep and play more comfortably (and feel less anxiety) even though I am still getting used to it. I probably sweated an entire bucket through my hands over the last couple of days -- talcum powder, gloves, and many towels didn't help.

I am happy for this challenge and for MouldyOnions in particular because it allowed me to test myself at the hardest level and rise to the challenge. If you had asked me 2 days ago when I would get SN, I would never have guessed now. Also if no one was close to getting first SN, neither of us would have played as hard.

[push4glory]

great work both
gratz awice

[Ariba100]

Wow, so sick.
You both cant be humans.

[Pizzamannn]

WTF? 100K VPPs in 39 hours. Unbelievable. Well done.

[Tzen]

Gratz AWice!

Epic run the both of you!

[PokerStars Caleb]

Congratulations, Alex!

[Don Stefanello]

sickoooos