Going for it despite having a little kid (7 months in jan);when your wife understand poker is your job it's relatively easy.
Also,i'm probably either pushing for 1.25m or not making it,i guess.

(So, I got confused by the official VIP thread. I spent a minute or two thinking WTF is my post, I just posted in this damn thread.)

Anyway, probably not going for it but I am going to try to keep the option of a second half major run open. I will try to get 50Kish/month in the first couple of months, then start doing feasibility and desirability projections.

I have a sick tracking spreadsheet set up that is full of geeky goodness.

I would do it if I wouldn't go to the PCA and miss 8 days. Planning to play 10 hours a day 40-45 tabling

Going for 1.5M.. Are the changes going to be for the good or bad. Joey might be interested. Something small to keep me focused.

Their is no way pokerstars will make it worse, I expect a few thousand bump up in the sne chase, but I have no idea what they will do.

Make a bet with him who gets to elite 1st. He will crush you with his eyes closed if the $$ is enough to him.

And I don't even know him lol

Yeah i agree. They are doing pretty good

im going for SNE and about 88% sure i will make it...just need to get thru this semester almost on pace

*DROOLS*

Are you planning to make 1 million hands in a month next year?

You are so sick...

Heheh, I thought this too. GL.

I already made a thread in the O8 forum, but I fully intend to be SNE this year. My plan is to play anywhere from 12-18 tables of PLO8/NLO8 at once. I'll probably add in a few sessions of just a few tables of NLHE or PLO from time to time as well just to keep things fresh, but 90% of my VPPs should come from PLO8/NLO8.

My goals are to make SNE and to make at least $400K not including rakeback/VPP rewards.

GL all.

Dont have time to spell. But what does DROOLS mean?

Do you know where I can check how many VPP per hand and hands per table and hour you get at PLO8?

For anyone seeking the motivation to achieve SNE in 09, I can confirm the rumors are true that when you do finally reach SNE status your penis grows by 2 inches.

I did it for one session and posted about it in the thread in the O8 forum that I started. But the sample size there is obviously way small. Not sure where else to tell you to go, but if you find something then let me know please.

Remake this thread in February and you'll have much less people going for it suddenly

Ok, I'll check your thread (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/44...thread-361314/).

Yeah here were my results from that one quick session in case anyone else is interested:


Started at 4:00 PM Pacific Coast Time.

At 4:18 I had played 200 hands and earned 100 VPPs.

At 4:25 I had played 305 hands and earned 169 VPPs.

At 4:42 I had played 575 hands and earned 339 VPPs.

At 5:10 I had ended up my session(played around to all blinds) and played 938 hands and earned 594 VPPs.



That comes out to:

First 18 minutes: 11.11 hands per minute, 5.55 VPPs per minute, 0.5 VPPs per hand

Next 7 minutes: 15 hands per minute, 9.85 VPPs per minute, 0.66 VPPs per hand

Next 17 minutes: 15.88 hands per minute, 10 VPPs per minute, 0.63 VPPs per hand

Next 28 minutes: 12.96 hands per minute, 14.16 VPPs per minute, .70 VPPs per hand

Total: 13.4 hands per minute, 8.48 VPPs per minute, .633 VPPs per hand


I fully expected to get less hands at the beginning and end since during the first few minutes I don't have full 16 tables up yet and during the last few I'm closing some out as I play around to my blinds. Therefore, I think that its clearly better to put in one or two long sessions per day rather than multiple short ones in order to maximize VPPs.

That seems too low. Wouldn't be better if instead of PLO8 low stakes tables you played another thing that gives you more VPPS (and possibly a higher winrate in terms of money/hands)?

list of things to do to create extra time at the SNE pursuit.

1. never cook
2. delegate all other "stuff to do"
3. portable potty/computer seat potty for # 1....and 2
4. exercise bike/computer seat setup.
5. take vit.d per lack of sun.
6. don't waste time posting on threads like this

Great ideas

I'd play higher stakes if they ran. I'm literally playing the 12-18th highest stakes PLO8/NLO8 games that run. If there were 18 $5/10 or $10/20 games running then I'd play those.

Imo NLHE has gotten tougher and tougher these days. No offense to anyone who does it, but I"m 100% not interested in just playing break even poker and relying upon VPP rewards for my income. As I said, I have a goal of $400K not including any rakeback/bonuses. And since I havn't seriously played NLHE ring games in over 2 years and I have none of those stattracker programs that seem necessary for beating the game, I don't really think I'll be going that route.

PLO is an option, but it doesn't run full ring that often at higher stakes, and I can't 18 table if I'm doing 6 max. Plus my PLO8 winrate is much higher anyway.

Well, I was thinking on PLO, but maybe you are good too at SNG's or another thing. What I was saying is that maybe you should play something like plo400 instead of NL08$0.5/$1, to win more at the tables and in rakeback. It doesn't seem really coherent playing from $0.5/$1 to $10/$20, unless you don't want to play any other form of poker.

Yeah my winrate at PLO8/NLO8 specifically is significantly higher, and I find that those full ring games are tremendously less variance-filled for me, which will definitely help throughout the year.