8kish played, doing average/bad, new computer bought!

Graph in BBs for feb (until 26th)

Graph in USD.

Hey guys. Hope everything is good with all y'all. Been doing good in life, learning a lot and just played poker briefly, gonna put the graphs for the month in this post but I believe ive played 7k hands, not done so well either. This plan with playing on the bus etc obviously only becomes viable on the bus, been staying less in Madrid and more at home studying. Down quite a bit in these few hands but nothing I worry a lot about. Well except one thing. I redeposit a previous winnings from my "real life money" into my pokerbankroll which is EXTREMLY rare but I also made a nice system for me to keep very good track of this and let it not become a habit. As I mentioned last post I think, i do have a lot of value locked up in these vip-programmes at both party, stars.es and stars.eu and I just dont want to cash in points at a shitty rate.

Felt thou that I played pretty unfocused at times even thou I been running poor a few days. Could definetly have saved some cash.

New computer!
Also I bought this new computer. Its gonna be completely awesome, upgrading ram and put in a ssd today and its gonna be so freaking fast. This will determine if the HUD of HM2 is slow in itself (with the popups) or if I just need to go with HM1 from now. I am trying to get back into the methodology and thought patterns as I was when I was winnings nicely and one very important part is to detect strange preflop-patterns as people have. When someone raise utg I want to put up the popup to see what opening range they have but HM2 with all my computer so far has taken like 3-4 seconds to load the popup which is frustrating so I just look at the average pfr they have and make assumptions. Assumptions that is likely to frequently be wrong.
One great thing thou is that I have this amazing new life schedule which gives me a lot more free time than before. I might mentioned that b4 but like today AND yesterday I feel like I have more or less completed all my work which was more or less unheard of for last year. Gonna learn some new software now but hope to master that soon and put that extra time into poker, I really want to start earning decent money again.

Using your time effectively plus the trap of VIP-systems

Whattup!?

Results continue to be tame, winning very few showdowns, down about 150 BBs or so for feb, 5k hands played. I am in this great mood however, I have snowed in on learning a few new things in school and spend every waking hour on this stuff. Tried to combine it with playing 1table today but felt that I was better off playing 3-4 tables without doing anything + fulltime on learning else rather then doing some sort of mix. I dont know about you but I constantly think about using my time effectively and sometimes it totally works 1tabling or so while doing other stuff (if you are "bumhunting" or playing stupid opponents) while sometimes it does not. This time the mix didnt work very well.

Soo I hope to learn these things quickly and perhaps turn february around and playing a bit more in a week or so. I am still on pace for supernova (17k VPPs) so ill just try to have this volume going and we will see from there. So according to timeanddate it has been 42 days this year. 17k vpps per 42 days. So in this tempo I will reach supernova after about 246 days of the 365. It obviously has a great buffer but the question is not whether or not I will reach it. Since the stars vip-programme is not that great and I always look for EV and the better vip-rebate is at supernova-level which means I will have to do wait than a half year in order to recieve any sort of cashback, this is the important part. For any FLSH-player (since the WR is so marginal in terms of BB/100) that would be a bit problematic and swingy since we rake such huge quantaties in comparison to any sort of winrate.

Ohh well, ill just make sure I dont belowpace and all will be solved soon. I should really try thou during the summer to get a high vipstatus on party and cash out the like 5k$ equivalent of point i already have gathered up during the years with more or less the same argument, it would be stupid to use these points at a lower vip-level. That cash would definetly come in handy now since the BR is at all time low again due to a low of uncashed vip-points.

I guess it all highlights how bad the vip-systems of the industries greats are but also how smart it is to make the system like that in comparison to the others which gives us frequent rakeback with higher amounts which in turn give freedom which is what most pokerplayers want anyways.. Well, no reason for moaning, just lets make the best of it and after all, all in all I would definetly say I unusually happy in life outside of poker ATM.

Siiinking

Yeargraph in Big Bets

Graph in dollars

Yoyo.

Tssup? Januari seemed to be great, turned out average after a dip but unfortunatly lost 750$ already in february after running like crap two-three days already. Lost 457$ at 2/4 tuesday which was completely insane, top 10 worst days ever badbeat-wise but feels fine to play so low, it doesnt really bother me all that much.

So all in all this year I am up 200 BBs after 21,5k hands. Nothing to impressive but I guess all positive is fine for a student.