MODIVATION

SUPERNOVA ELITE 1,000,000 VPP (10/20 6MAX)
1.4VPP/HAND
714,286 HANDS
With 2 weeks vacation 5 sick/personal days and 5 holidays. 48 weeks left at 14,881 hands a week. A five day work week at 2976 hands a day. If you take breaks and are signing in and out of tables and only getting 400Hands/Hour it would be a 7.5 hour work day.

Should be easy right?

Going for it at 100NL FR. I expect many battles with my heroes Lajune and Rennwurm.

only advice ill give is dont 24 tbale 6 max the last month to get all ur points

SSSShip it, 1/2 PLO only. I may end up giving up if it is too cumbersome while doing school, but I don't think it will be.

gl everyone

since id play the same amount of hrs without any rakeback. ship the free monies.

jorj gl beating me to 1st person to supernova elite

I'm tempted to try it, but it just doesn't seem like great value. You kill yourself for the equivalent of $114,000, but that includes the value of travel for the EPT Monte Carlo package and the value of the tournament buy-ins, which are like $25,000. I know you could just sell 99% of yourself to get cash, but it seems dumb to reward cash players with $25K in tournaments...just give us the cash imo. Also, the $114,000 figure accounts for using all of your FPPs for stuff via concierge, but what if you aren't planning on spending it and just want to save the money? Wouldn't you lose even more value since you're not ordering anything?

What's the value of getting, say, halfway to SNE and quitting? You get each of the bonuses ($2,000+$3,000+$4,000+$5,000), and you get the value of the FPPs (which I'm unsure of due to the level multipliers), so that's like $30,000?

If you'd be killing yourself don't do it. If you think without sne existing you'd play close to that amount, then do it. At least that's how I approached it. I'm going to play full-time next year which means playing enough to make sne. If Stars didn't have a VIP program I'd probably game select across sites but still play similar number of hands.

Me too, so we are in pace. ^^


:-o I'll will play some, mainly Steps and maybe other things if there's some kind of VPP related promo.


That doesn't sound really well.


1. I don't think so, the Main Event entry is $1575.
2. That would be really nice, reaching SNE would be much easier if they did that again.


Play less, 2000-2200 hours is insane.


Good luck!


Buy $4000 bonuses.


Good advice.

Good luck to all trying.
To all the 100nl and 200nl players going for it, do you not feel you could make more by playing less tables and trying to really improve your game. Move up to 400nl, 600nl or 1000nl and make more money than SNE playing way fewer hands.

~38k

8 tabling 1/2nl 6 max for 24.5 hours a week will get you there. Not a bad salary for people who can't megatable, or want to play less tables to improve.

this was certainly true for me. i could have made just as much money by playing 2/3 the hours i did this year and i wouldn't have put my body through such rigor. I'm sure rays champs is in a similar situation.

i'm not sure how different it would have been if i didn't procrastinate though

how much time did you take off gt?

didn't really take time off just avged 50k vpps for 8 months then avged 150k/ month for last 4 months including 200k this month

i was a moderate but steady winner first 8 months, a moderate but steady loser for sept, oct, & nov, .... and an insane playing above my head degen lunatic this month

mb, since you don't have the thread starter curse this year, will you be going for sne?

No idea if I can make it but I will make a test run and try to play 1400 Sngs before going to the PCA... If I am not totally worn out I will likely go for SNE

i really just hope i don't lose my elite status before it gets taken away in 6 months

Going for 2M in 2009.
I will spend the next 2 days studying poker and get started right on new year~!

Huge congratulations to all the SNEs in 2008!

I am probably the only donkey going for SNE in 2009 via $1/$2 FR LHE 23-24 tabling. I have no doubt I can do it without disintegrating bankrollwise, it's just about putting the time in. I figure if I do 3250 VPPs/day when I play I will build in some buffer for days off basically playing 6 out of 7 days a week for the whole year. I made SN in June of 2008.

The 2008 SNE thread has given me a lot of motivation so I thank you guys for that. Time to steel the resolve and begin the quest at midnight tonight.

Good luck to everyone also going for SNE in 2009!

If you can get 2 days studying in what's left of this year then 2M next year should be trivial.

GL to all SNE'ers 2009. I was thinking of going for this myself, however I've been slightly put off with some of the horror stories. I also work full time, so I think I'll settle for 500k Vpp's.

prolly should just take a spelling class instead

Prob be on track for first month at least, made a bet i could do 100k vpps in January, did 150k all 2008. Im just gonna mix in $114 9 man sngs into my mtts. Not even sure if Im profitable in those w/e should be interesting.

anyone wanna prop for who plays most hands in january? doesnt matter to me which game, fr, 6 max or sng.

probably in for the repeat...ill decide late january