is this an eminem reference? lol

also, going to PCA?

so good.

lol thats his standard raise its not like 2.1BB = steal and some other raise = has a hand

I realize that. I just refuse to ever fold to 2.1 bbs from late position. Well, 90% of the time.

when he decided to care

Lol feisty fanboys itt

man for being a well that just got started today, im surprised needbeer hasnt responded to many questions.

1. I'm not sure how I feel about 20bb CAP. I may enjoy it, I may not, there is no way to know until I give it a shot (I haven't played any of the 25/50 CAP yet, maybe I'll test it out soon.) I'm definitely open to the idea. I'd like to try out CAP HU tables too.
2. I never have sessions where I do not max out my table count.. and my game/winrate/etc has most definitely suffered as a result. Pushing yourself to the limit every day for VPPs has its drawbacks. I do plan on better table selection.
3. I'm not interested in PLO SS'ing as I'm trying to steer away from high variance at the moment, and PLO SS'ing sounds like a variance nightmare.
4. I have no clue this year... but last year I'm 100% positive it was Chisness.. it was so obnoxious that I began to laugh about it with him.. though I was laughing and crying at the same time.
5. I will post year.. I may have to post month by month though if I can't get the full year to show up. No way I have a lifetime graph, I've been playing full time since 2005 and have played gazillions of hands. I do track lifetime earnings though, which exceeded $2MM this year.


Early in the year I'd say 90%, middle of the year around 75%, end of the year around 50%.


I make a dozen or so daily, and at least one really obnoxious one per day.. like open folding KK in HU (happened a couple days ago) or snap calling an allin preflop with 47s. I usually audibly say something like "you dumbass" when I do it.


No, I never played on a high level for money or anything. But I was addicted to most popular games growing up and it almost could be classified as obsessive as my VPP accumulation. I'd go to school, then go to football/track practice, then play pickup basketball games until the sun went down, but after that was done.. it began. I'd come home and play video games until I would literally pass out at something ridiculous 3am (and considering I had to be up for school at 7am, that's not so good). Even if there was no one around I'd do something like race the same track on mario kart a 1000 times just trying to shave .01 of a second off the best time... w..t..f! It's no wonder I have health problems now.


Most of the year I played the maximum of 24 6max cash tables along with 6 6max sng's... so I'd say I averaged 30 tables for 10-14hrs per day. I did this for 14 hours per day every day for this past month.. which was around 25k+ hands every day.


I don't play much live. I have had some decent success in live cash games. But not much success in my small sample of major live tournament events. I've played EPT Prague, EPT Copenhagen, and PCA, all of which I made to day 2 only to bubbled on a flip (except Copenhagen.. it was a 3 way allin where I was sitting about 25% EV).


Yes, "play all the time" pretty much sums it up. You can buy 2447 Gourmet Cookie Baskets with that many points.


I know how bad you want this dick lol, but I'll be honest with you, and I hope you're not extremely disappointed, but.. I honestly had full intentions of giving everything I had to reach 4MM. Something happened to me when I took the 3MM record, almost like a runner collapsing after a marathon. My mind wanted to keep going, but my body wasn't having it and I've spent the last few days sleeping about 12-16 hours a day. I was once told that a person doesn't get a stress headache until the stressful event has passed.. I think maybe I'm experiencing something similar on a much larger scale. It saddens me a bit, but at the same time it's nice to feel my body finally healing and going in the other direction after tearing it down completely over 10 months. But don't worry I'll probably clear a couple more milestones just to make PS SteveD figure out how to ship me the monies since milestones over 3MM aren't available for purchase on Stars.. yet.



I don't know how comfortable I am with putting pictures of my girlfriend in the well... ;-)


I don't think it's a good idea to set monetary goals, especially in poker. You can easily set yourself up for failure as I've found many times it's out of your control. I try to make all my goals something that I have 100% control over. Such as setting VPP goals, hand goals...


200k VPP maybe?? I kid.. I kid...
I'd just want to be surrounded by my closest friends and family.. it's not where you are, but who you're with that really matters.


1. I honestly don't know the answer to this question.. I've lost track over the years.. many many mirrions.
2. Around 3000 hours me thinks.


Nice...


4 table $.25/.50 NL and turn it into an empire...


Not that I know of.


I don't have an FTP s/n, I killed it.


TBD. I currently have 4 students, but they are all on individual plans. I don't currently offer hourly coaching, but am considering it for next year... if someone is interested in coaching please PM me sometime after late December/early January to discuss.


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It depends on my health.. as it gets closer I'll have a better idea. I'd definitely like to go though, and if I'm feeling better I'll certainly be there.

just saw it got asked.

congrats very inspirational.

1)Diet

2)Your daily routine when grinding poker

3)Exercise routine? Carpal Tunnel?

4)Advice to someone who is thinking of going for SNE next year

5)Biggest heater and downswing in big blinds this year.

6)How do you go about plugging your poker leaks?

7)Poker still fun for you?

thanks for doing this

why have you achieved the stars VPP record playing an average of only about 55 hours/week (and not even finished with the year yet!)?

are other poker players just lazy?

any advice on not procrastinating? sometimes high goals seem to push off work more than low ones, like i know if my plan was to play 4 hours/day everyday i'd do that every single day, but when it's to play 12 hours/day then i'd rather put it off completely!

what tasks other than cooking/groceries/laundry would you require of an assistant?

how often do you check results?

how did you meet your gf?

if you want to be on a certain schedule that requires you to wake up at, say, 8am, but one night you go to sleep at 4am how do you fix this? wake up at 8am and play tired?

Do you table select at all?

Most vpps in a day?

I'm really not fond of ratholing and I suppose that tends to extend outward to the ratholers themselves, but I can't help but like you after your posts here. Good health to you.

How much for the Preflop strategy chart

thanks for great well needbeer. i think you still have a chance to reach 4mil vpp's. just put on some rocky music and grind away

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL3lJfpenAc#t=1m58s

I'm saddened that my question was ignored.

Has Pokerstars built a monument in your honour?

Jesus - How much rake have they made off you?

Are you Pokerstars Pro? If not, why did you fail or choose not to accept it?

Are you taking questions about lyme disease or would you like to keep this more poker related?

Favorite beer?

How much do you weigh and how much weight did you gain this year?

I'd be curious to hear about the Lyme disease as well. What is the prgnosis?

do you actually enjoy playing 14 hrs a day?
would not you rather be at gym or starbucks (anything besides pokering)?

i just dont understand the people who play this much (honestly i probably play 9 hrs a day but its only because i need to keep finding my massive losing in live tournies)

Are you selling the strategy guide you have written?

This is a great question and I don't mean to take away anything from what needbeer has done. But I think we're only starting to see what people can do over a year on stars. It's very much like running - when the 5-minute mile was first broken people were probably too excited and amazed to even start to think about breaking the 4-minute mile. I can imagine a time when we'll be talking about 5,000,000 or even 6,000,000 VPPs