Hi everyone,

I'm going to attempt to achieve Supernova Elite this year playing CAP games starting at $1/$2.

I'm a 21 year old student in my 2nd year at UWE (University of the West of England, Bristol) studying Accounting and Finance.

I started playing poker with real life friends from around the age of 15 and donking around on the partypoker freerolls etc. I used to crush the homegames I used to play just being a super aggro maniac . Anyway, after a few live casino and local pub game wins, I decided I was gods gift to poker and would play some 25nl. I spewed away some money and decided to take a break from online poker whilst I was working and studying at college.

At the end of 2010, my friend B3RTstare told me about short stacking and he had been doing some studying and decided he was going to take a shot at supernova elite and suggested I do the same.

After some runbad and non-optimal play, i managed to get to around 220k vpp's before running out of bankroll. My friend had similar results, except he had a bigger bankroll, so he was able to work and study through this to achieve Supernova Elite and be one of a few players to take home a healthy profit at CAP.

This year I am back with vengeance. I've been getting some coaching from B3RTstare and we've spent a lot of time studying the game coming up with improvements to his already established strategy. I feel very strongly about this strategy, but only time will tell.

Last year I spent most of my time playing $0.5/$1 CAP where there are hardly any winners at all, but this year I have a bankroll that is allowing me start off at $1/$2 (the stakes my friend had the most experience at last year) and then adjust accordingly throughout the year using good bankroll management.

I will post my progress both here and in my blog. (details on my profile)

My stars username is richsmith810.

Wish me luck and feel free to follow me on twitter, just shove a @ in front of my 2p2 username .

Good luck

Thanks will keep my progress updated here for anyone who's interested

Good luck, subscribed

GL, will be following (:

Cool goal, always been interested in cap games. Played a bit on ftp with 30bb cap, but when it closed, I didnt rly like the 20bb caps on ps.

Any idea what kind of volume you will need to put in ?

Thanks guys

Depending on the VPP changes, this could change but my initial forecast is around 2,000,000 hands, but I hope to move up stakes which would make it less. I expect to be able to play around 11-12k hands per 8 hour day, 16 tabling.

At the current VPP rate, this would be around 5-6k VPP's per 8 hour day. I will be trying to fit this as well as completing my studies, so I will be playing most weekends and evenings .

Taken from my blog:

Just thought I'd quickly post my monthly VPP goals for 2012.

I intend to have a slower start to the year due to learning a new strategy and playing less tables and I intend to take a holiday during the summer so I'll add the smaller total to August, but here are my initial goals:

January - 100k
Feburary - 150k
March - 150k
April - 150k
May - 50k
June - 150k
July - 150k
August - 75k
September - 100k

This will give me Supernova Elite by the start of September, which leaves me with possibility to either take it easy for the last few months of the year and get maybe 200k extra VPP's over October/November/December or really push it hard and aim to get another 500k or even 1 mill. I will reassess this as the time draws nearer.

I will try to update this thread as much as I can, but for my latest progress check out my blog.

You need to work on running better!

haha, maybe 1 day

GL man, Sub'd. Im at UWE too (3rd year business) Seems like a lot of 2+2'ers go there. All the best this year

glgl

Thanks man ..
Really? I haven't met any other poker players from Uwe. Made a post on the Uwe poker society Facebook page but no-one responded. 2 of my house mates are doing business. Where abouts are you living?

I live in Horfield just off Filton Ave. Where abouts are you living?
Do you go to the poker society tournaments? I went a couple times in my first year, thought they were pretty lame.

I AM AT UWE! OMG

1st year, Forensic Computing.

Are you guys part of the Poker society?

Subbed.

i went to uwe last year lived Gloucester RD and filton, did business, tho wasnt playing poker through uni GL with challenge!

wow, that's really close to me. I live at the top end of Gloucester Road, by the Horfield Health Centre.

Nah I didn't bother, seemed really poorly organised and stuff so I just didn't bother.

Ah nice you living on frenchay campus?

Sick, my housemate is 2nd year forensic computing!

sick . Thanks a lot pal

Im at Marketgate Epiccc, hmm. Might know them :P

Subbed, gl, hope the WC method doesn't make too much of an impact on required hands.

Thanks mate, are you from Worcester btw? Was walking to my friend who mentioned a name, pretty sure he said it was Smiler90.

Ah fair enough. Nah I doubt it, people in my house probably attend about 10% of lectures lol.

Yeah I am from Worcs, you were probably speaking to my brother cjm22, he's at UWE too. I'm studying at Exeter...probably only SN for me this year though.