Anyone heard of 'Battle Of The Planets'?

"yo, pg..."
"soz, 9-tabling, sup?"
"getting raped"
"ul"
"you seen the leaderboard?"
"what?"
"the leaderboard"
"sharkscope?"
"na, on stars"
"oh, didn't know they had one"
"yeah, take a look at the venus one"
"venus... wtf you on about?"

I've grown tired of O8 cash recently and haven't been able to get much volume in this month, especially the second half of the month (I had made 4k VPP by the end of the first week and I'm currently on just over 7k). So, to make a bit of dosh I converted my 18k FPPs into $396 using the old 210 FPP sats and then decided to experiment with a few holdem sngs to try and make few more $$ to maybe make Platinum again. I settled on the 6-man turbos and dived straight into 9-tabling the $3.25s. I played 80 of those running at around 35% ROI for a small profit before moving up to the $6.50s. For the past two days I've been 9-tabling these running at just over 20% ROI. I tried 12-tabling but ran too good and couldn't cope with playing 5 heads up and 3 bubbles at the same time ffs, talk about running bad. So I think 9-tabling is my 6-man turbo limit. There's one guy that one tables these tourns that I always seem to bump into when he's just been outdrawn... He talks to me every time I'm in one of his sngs, telling me about his latest bad beat. But last night he brought me some good news. The conversation went as above, and the leaderboard he told me to look at is some Stars promotion called 'Battle of the planets', which I wasn't aware of. Apparently I've ran well enough 9-tabling the 6-man $6.50s to top the Venus high-orbit weekly leaderboard. If I'm still top at midnight on Saturday I get $500 cash sh1pped into my account. An unexpected surprise, tyvm.

I may just be running ridiculously well but these tourns are a joke and appear to be incredibly profitable. I've played 225 of the $6.50s in two days, running at 21% ROI for an hourly rate of over $20. They're a small-stakes-multi-tabling-grinder's dream. I'm going to test the waters of the $13s and the $25s over the next few days, which should just about drag me over 7.5k VPP for Platinum, to see if they're not ruined by regs. I expect they are.

The O8 tables have dried up a lot. I was sitting at a 9-handed 10c/25c O8 cash table earlier this month with 8 Supernova regs, where the average pot size was $2. This really shouldn't be happening in a 4-card split-pot game but it's the way it seems to be heading. Grinding cash for hours on end knowing that most of my profit for the month will be made in FPP sats is just no fun any more, so next month I may be steering clear of O8 cash completely. If I can beat the $13 and $25 6-man turbos well, that may be where I'm heading next month to make my VPPs. If it turns out that they're too tough, then I may have a nice little prop bet involving me making Platinum star next month playing just $6.50 turbos... I'll let you know before the end of the month.

In the meantime, let's hope Venus holds. One time.

Game Over!

It's finally over and I've worked out the damage:
I lost $30 on FT, mainly at 10c/25c holdem despite being over $50 up after about 50 hands.
And I lost $85 on Stars, mainly at 10c/25c O8, though only two cashes in 40+ sngs helped.

Every session except the first one was a losing session and I've no doubt that I would have lost a lot more than I have done if I'd continued to play at the stakes I started at. I was horribly tilty at times and I probably deserved to come out as a loser.

When we decided to do this challenge we talked about doing the same again before I leave Nottingham at the end of the month. Well, that's not going to happen, but be on the lookout for Keys' 24-hour solo challenge!

Good luck.

Trouble at 39hrs 30mins

I slept for the whole of my last 3hr break, but I guess there is such a thing as too much sleep because I could barely see when I woke up. I jumped straight into a 24-tabling session of cash but I couldn't focus on my cards at all and tables just kept on popping up in my face forcing me to move my eyes and brain, so I dealt with this problem by falling asleep half an hour in. I guess you'd class that as a challenge failure but I needed to fucking sleep. Have been one tabling 1c/2c to Celine Dion obv since I woke back up. Time to pass onto Keys, nearly over now, thankfully. This challenge was such a fun idea on paper. Oh well.

5.42am

Again, instead of going to sleep last break, I found a DVD to watch. The entire first series of The Office. I made it to the start of the fourth episode before falling asleep ffs. It's one of my favourite episodes of anything ever, which shows how bad I'm running I guess. My ungrateful body didn't seem to appreciate the hour's sleep I allowed it either as I woke up with a horrible headache. SNGed it for an hour and a half to start this session, then lost two stacks in 13 hands on my return to cash, which I won't be playing again until I've had some proper rest. Ran top pair + nut fd + nut low draw into top set and missed everything, then I lost A2K7ds all in pre vs A2KQds, which may have been a bit tilty on my part but still, wtf?! So now I'm one-tabling capped 1c/2c holdem on FT. What a great challenge this is. I think my body's telling me to sleep after this session so that's what I'll probably do. Unless MacDonald's is open, then it's breakfast/lunch/dinner time depending on what time of day my confused sleep-deprived body thinks it is.

30

Beverly Hills Cop, the early Eddie Murphy film, was the film of choice for my last break. Good film but I probably should have slept. Still a long way to go in this challenge and I'm not coping very well. I couldn't face O8 cash once again and instead registered for every 180 man $2 sng running for the first hour. I'd busted them all by the end of the second hour. I must have played about 30 of them and only managed one cash, a 5th place, for an overall loss of some dollars. As I was explaining to Keys, the way I ran in the few hours of cash I have played during this challenge would probably have lead to a few days away from the laptop outside of this challenge and so I'm now finding it a bit tough. Well, back in 6hrs I guess after a film and some sngs probably.

23hrs 19mins ish

Cheers for the comments lads, appreciate it. Managed to squeeze two films in during my last break, The Kite Runner, which I was a little disappointed by, and Three And Out with Mackenzie Crook in. I really enjoyed the film but, as with the Nicholas Cage film, Next, that I lapped up a few nights ago, I'm a bit worried that the only reason I liked it is because I fancied the lead actress. Both films are probably absolutely shit but don't tell my shallow brain that, it's lapping them all up a treat. I'm currently two-tabling 45-player $3.25 turbos on Stars because my tilt has pretty much taken over now. Make that one-tabling, ffs. Na, actually just gone out of both but I registered for a $3.40 flhe stt in time. See how quickly I can bust that. Listening to the Take That Greatest Hits, or one of them at least, I thought, might go some way to cheering me up. It hasn't. I'll stick with it though, A Million Love Songs - Track 12 ftw. The reason I'm one/two-tabling tiny stakes now is because I bettered Keys' two outer bad beat story when I got one-outer-quadded all in on the turn for $55 about an hour into my last session and haven't played any O8 since. I had to replace my 16 $25 and $50 O8 tables for 24 $2 NLHE tables so I could tilt cheaply. Did a few more $$ for the last two hours of my session and was grateful to pass the stick over to Keys. With 50 minutes of this session left I'm about $50 down for the challenge having only got about half as much cash grinding in as I'd have hoped : ( Playing tired poker has never suited me, I might have to go back to playing drunk instead. Or maybe I should just stop watching shit films during my breaks and get some kip. Na, I'm gonna get some wine in and watch Dude, Where's My Car?

12

Celine Dion has let me down, and not for the first time. Got stacked very first hand of the session with top two and a fd vs a set and couldn't recover. I made the mistake of watching a film for the first two hours of my last break and could only manage 10 minutes of sleep afterwards. My alarm went off in my ear at 2.55am and I wasn't happy. It's the first time I've been forced to wake up for something for a long time, it actually reminded me of the days when I used to work in the Kerry Foods factory, where the day started at 6am, and the shifts were ironically 12 hours long. Anyway, good to see Keysie running well, I hope some hands start holding up for me in my next session, I'm off to sleep.

6hrs down

Coming up to the end of my first 3hrs and barring three or four disasters (I'm currently 1-tabling 10c/25c) I should be showing a profit. Elton John has helped to keep me calm during a session in which I got a full stack all in pre twice with AALx and another in a $40 pot and came out a loser. It's nice to take a break after a run like that but that is something that this challenge obviously doesn't allow. Took some serious Elton classics to help me through that without tilting.

I think I averaged around 18-tables at a time, mixing in both $25 and $50. I played 2230 hands for a small profit.

Okay, passing the baton onto Keys now,
Inabit.

I'm such a lazy blogger

Sorry about that, I'm still playing O8 and I promise to post a decent Supernova run update as soon as my new challenge is over!

I'm staying in Nottingham for a while in a quality flat with Keysie. My 'sleep' 'pattern' is all over the place and my lifestyle and diet have probably never been worse than they are at the moment, but I'd argue that good health and happiness are worth sacrificing for such a whales of a time.

We've (more specifically 'keys has') had a nightmare trying to sort out the wireless in the flat so, at the moment, we have to take it in turns with the T-Mobile internet stick. This, combined with our recent laziness when it comes to poker volume, has forced us to come up with
The 48-hour Challenge.

Starting at 6pm tonight we will be taking it in turns with the magic internet stick to play three-hour sessions of poker.. non-stop.. until 6pm on Saturday. 48 hours of solid poker between us! While one of us is playing, the other person can do whatever they like with their three hours. I can't speak for Keysie but I know I'll most probably be sleeping.

Reading that back, I realise I haven't explained the challenge as clearly as I could have. That probably has something to do with how much I had to drink trying to keep up with the T-total Keys last night. I'm going to pass the T-Mob twig over to him now so, hopefully, his pre-challenge post is a little clearer than mine. GL mate.

Keys is doing the first stint from 6-9pm and I think one of us will blog a general update every six hours until this ridiculous challenge is over.

So, until then, goodnight..