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Tytyty again everyone, feels a bit weird to hit 1 milly this early in the year. FirstWorldGrinderProblemaments

After starting out hoping for 2 million, then setting the sights on 3 million, it looks like somewhere in the ~2.5 million range is where things are going to end up being (unless high stakes start going off super-frequently again).

Want to keep pushing my volume, while still having some life balance/not going crazy doing so. Do hope to get about 250k in June, be ahead of pace (for 2.5m) half-way through the year, and hopefully done (mostly) by the end of November.

The "forced break" (from online grinding) of going to Monaco seemed to really help my mind/game more than I expected. Got to come back fresh, and was able to put in good work on both my mental game and a couple of in-game technical areas that I generally neglect (among many ). I'd like to play another tourney or two outside the US by the end of the year, in part to give my brain a rest from multi-tabling, and getting more opportunities to take a fresh look at things.

Heading back up (I-5/"the 5"/"5" ) to NorCal for Memorial Day weekend, just as the games are getting really good from the SCOOP money flowing into the SNG ecosystem. Redline exploded upward this month, but I assume that's just a temporary thing.

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wtg!

What are you going to buy with your $20k bonus?

Taxes, debt pay-off, and investments.

LolOldManDegenAments.

gratz

gee gee sir!

lol i didnt know you had a thread. Congrats on the early elite

gz on elite

Gramps (y)

Does your sn mean like one who prays on the river, or the prayer being said on the river> Or is it interntionally ambiguous. The third seems like something youd do.

Wow I never thought about the other potential meaning.

I think the level of thought that went into my Stars name back in '03, is about = to the level of thought someone puts into the long-term consequences when they get a conspicuous tattoo while blackout drunk at 4 a.m. But...let's just say I "might" be leveling again, just to haze the Ruseman.

Back then in my first week on Stars I was playing .50/$1 LHE with a opening hand chart I had made my own notes of from a Sklansky/Malmuth book. With a $50-$100 online BR

Thanks for the further congrats on SNE, May ended being a really good month. After coming back from Monaco, I had one of my best redline months ever, probably due in part to the SCOOP moniez flowing into the ecosystem and the extra study I got to do while away from grinding.

That pic looks familiar but I cant quite place it.

Gratz Gramps!

Have been following this thread since day 1 but haven't posted before now.

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At 99k VPPs for the month so far, 1.14 million for the year. High stakes hypers were kind of dead for most of the month, then finally have been popping like crazy the last two days I've played (Wed/Fri).

Was hoping to get a little ahead of pace (for 2.5 million) by the end of the month, but looks like ~1.25 million is about what it's going to be, unless a lot of $300s/$500s keep running.

Going to a bachelor party in Austin at the end of the month, then coming back for a few days before heading to Vegas to play Day 1A of the WSOP ME (usually the softest Day 1 IME). Hoping to not fall behind pace unless I make a deep run...so hoping I fall behind pace

Cev and redline have been blowing up lately, hopefully that trend continues. It's highly determinant upon factors beyond my control, so I'll just keep studying, maintain a level head, and keep on keeping on!

And thank you for the additional gratz and posted [x]

Sick volume. Mad respect. Say hi to Austin for me!! And if you guys hit up the Yellow Rose say hi to Natasha for me

Oh and please win the main this year. K thx

I want to point out that I helped with this by bluff shoving river. You're welcome.

So I was looking at Jupiter BOP for a previous week and you finished 2nd and 1st (shocking) and it got me wondering, how many BOP tix do you have?

If Natasha is hot and Russian, it's probably a good to be going to Austin before I'm flush with WSOP cash.

6-man cev is doing well, would guess my 9-man cev is meh so extra ty . My 9-man strategy involves playing Peter Gibbons style for 10-15 minutes (spacing out), then half-faking some semblance of ICM play, apparently followed by flopping big HU.

I'd make a little more strictly playing 6-max, but I like 9-mans and late registering Turbo MTTs b/c they're different and I only half-know what I"m doing. Still mixing in a few NLO8 as well (know about half-of-half what I'm doing ). They make sessions more enjoyable/help me play longer.

Probably a ridiculous amount, maybe 50+? Pretty terrible at remembering to play them the few times I'm on Stars when that goes off.

That was a pretty sweet double-Jupiter bink, had gone about 2 months without a BOP cash and had stopped checking my scores, so was unaware until I got the two emails.

+$7,950 on the year in BOP, helps when you put in weekly volume at $30-$500+

Boom, was dealt into a Golden SNG in a $300 hyper, was given $600 off the bat, then won it for the additional 1st place buyin (2x Golden SNG).

Games were popping like crazy today. 20k VPPs in ~6 hours of play. My brain and head still hurt.

Going to try and pull off this kind of volume every day this week if the games keep going off like this. Might get well ahead of 2.5 million VPP pace before WSOPME after all.

25k VPPs in 6 hours of play. My eyes and brain hurt double. Back at it tomorrow.

Managed a BE redline day in super-heavy-volume reg-fested games. Which is still kind of meh, except the fact that it went $15k downswing followed by making most of it back by the end of the session.

0 for 400+ today in Golden SNGs, but did manage to bink a $215 MTT Turbo for $8.9k.

Also, toured the USS Midway for the 1st time on Saturday morning w/my sister and her family. Lot of cool fighter planes and helicopters on deck outside, yet this was my favorite part.

What 1 GB of memory looked like in the 1960s. How would HEM2 work with this system?

Gramps, I wanna be like you when I grow up