Update: Reaching Supernova

It has been a while since my last update.. mainly because of pure laziness and other activities.
In the previous months I had to get my mind straight about a few things and how I wanted to pursue in the following months. I pretty much took a pokerbreak and barely played since the summer.

I decided to focus more on my uni and a business that I recently started with a couple of good friends. Currently I am responsible for the retail in the Netherlands for Gunnar Optiks, a company specialised in computer eyewear. I am sure that a couple of you who read this are familiar with these (also available in the pokerstars store). For the ones who aren't: make sure you check out www.gunnars.com or www.gunnaroptiks.nl for the dutch version. It has been a lot of work to get things sorted (a lot more than expected). It still takes a lot of mental energy to fix things in regard to it.

Since the 11th I decided to team up with a new backer, giving me improved oppurtunities.  I am very thankful for all the oppurtunities Bigbluffzinc & Push0rdie gave me, they improved my SNG game to the next level. I don't blame them in regard to my previous mentality (being a lazy grinder) that they let me move down a limit or two to get my results/confidence back up again. I found it very hard to move down though, as I had the feeling that I could beat the higher games as well. I just never put in the sample to prove it (long term). In all honesty, I wouldn't have let myself move up before grinding hard for a month or two either.

Hence I decided to put my money where my mouth is, so to say. Last month (since the 11th) I grinded more than ever, with proven results. I had my best month ever, and made over 10k in just 2 weeks, more than I made during the year. I ran better than ever (I am the last to deny it), but it's a lethal combination with playing your A-game. I decided to mix in a few 100s and 60s, and it went prosperous so far.

My targets around may were to move up to the mid-high stakes @ SNGs. Now it actually looks that I have achieved my targets, just in a very different way. The paradox is that I am happy I went through such a poker depression/ "downswing" and decided to take a long break, to see the fun and the freedom of it again. It isn't a pain to play: it is a blessing. It is just hard to remind yourself to this when you are losing time after time.

Since the 11th of november I needed ~45k vpp to make Supernova, as a preparation for next year. It is also as a trial to see whether I am capable of putting in the volume required to play poker seriously next year.

I only need 20k vpp for supernova, so it should be very doable in 2 weeks or so. I just don't want to be a breakeven rakeback grinder- I want to win pre-rakeback in the games up to 100$. Next year I won't have uni for a pretty long time, which I want to fill with grinding. I wanna start great during january- if things go in the right way I want to give SNE a shot. It just doesn't need to be for the sake of it (aka rakeback whore), I want it to be profitable.


Sorry for the long piece- from now on I will give more frequent updates :)


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