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Thank you everyone for the kind words. I feel so lucky to have your support.
I'm writing up my yearly review as we speak!
Originally posted by lessthanthreee
Thank you everyone for the kind words. I feel so lucky to have your support.I'm writing up my yearly review as we speak!
yay 
I feel like I’m writing an acceptance speech. I have some people to thank. Firstly, I want to thank pokerstrategy.com, particularly, Ingrid, Sven and who ever had the idea to implement a staking forum. I want to recognise the long time SnG evaluation forum regulars Kurrkabin, Gavron23 and Demonic226. Also, a special mention to my good mates Chenny8888, Tim64 and BigAl123456. Lastly, to everyone who backed me this year, you made this possible.
The format of this review will be my reflection of the year followed by graphs and some stats.
Reflection
On November 26th 2011 I entered the world of marriage followed by Christmas and a honeymoon. It was December 2011 at a live event in Sydney where I told Chenny8888 that I was relatively bankroll broke for the stakes I wanted to play. I was comfortably rolled for the 30s-60s but I had been playing up to the $300 Turbos during 2011. I wanted to play with the best STT players in the world and maybe make a run for SNE and to do that I needed help. I contacted a few of the large stables to see what they could offer. All of the deals were not appealing to me. Without going into too much detail, I felt I could get a better deal by myself. I began my year long staking quest on the 31st of January 2012, I was already a month behind the SNE chase (my staking thread).
I sold the first block quickly and started grinding the 100s. Results were normal; I was used to the swings. I continued to make profit on the stake and started adding 200s-300s in April. April was my biggest winning month pre-rb (+$13511).
In May I played exclusively 100s+. This is where I noticed the high stakes Turbo environment wasn’t optimal for me. The games were soft, but the volume was lacking. This made it hard to put in enough volume at 200s+ to overcome the high variance inherent in STTs. It was then that I started learning the 6max hypers on stars. I was studying hyper ICM for about 1hr each day while playing the 60s-100s.
In June I toyed with mixing turbos and hypers for maximum table selection but it proved too confusing for my sessions. By July, I had dropped turbos completely and transitioned to playing exclusively hypers. The stake seemed to be going very well, I had gone 5 months without hitting the stoploss and producing a net gain for my backers. Unbeknownst to me, there was a dangerous HM1 bug slowly creeping into my results.
August was another very successful month (+$12k pre-rb) playing the majority of my volume at the 200s. The swings were bigger than I had encountered before and I dealt with a big downswing in September by cutting volume at the 200s to gain confidence. I was setting a daily VPP goal of 4k, but reaching this goal on a consistent basis was an epic failure.
By October my daily VPP goal had risen to 5k and I needed approximately 400k VPPs in the last 3 months of the year. Very doable at the games I was playing but my biggest VPP month so far was 93k. My volume was increasing in October but I was mentally preparing for a big month in December.
The 9th of November 2012, I was running particularly well but something didn’t add up. HM1 showed a big +$6k day, but I was certain my account balance didn’t increase by that much. I decided to check the data view tab and discovered around 10% of my 3rd place finishes from the 60s and 200s were being credited in my HM database as a small profit when, reality is, I received $0 for those finishes. I vividly remember the exact moment I discovered this, my hands were on my head, and I was on the verge of tears. How deep did this go, how much was this going to cost to my bottom line. After three hours of manually editing the errors in my database and cross-checking with each finished block the bottom line was a massive $44k difference in reported profit, and thus profit paid out to backers, compared to actual profit received. I set myself a realistic goal of 70% retrieval and am glad to report that after only 7 weeks I have recovered 93% of misinformed profits paid out to my backers. This episode was a true disaster, but a prime example of the integrity and professionalism inherent in this community. 27 people were wrongly paid over a 6 month period and the response was always supportive and understanding. Once again, I want to thank my backers for their continued support throughout the year, and especially for sticking with me after this catastrophe.
We arrive at December where I need exactly 205k VPPs to achieve SNE. Whenever I took a day off because I wasn’t feeling it and thought ‘It’s ok, I’ll catch up later.’ Here is the ‘later’. I played 129 hours, 8245 games, raked $37,263 for 205000 VPPs. I know this is nothing to proclaim to the world, some hyper regs do this monthly with ease, but for me this was the most I had ever worked at anything. I woke anywhere from 2am-6am every day (nothing unusual for my schedule though). During the last week I was 14 tabling $100-200 6max hypers for 9-10hours (with breaks). This was the first time I had ever played more than 10 tables of 6max and I felt really good about it. Of course, I made more mis-clicks and time-outs than I would like, but I did not feel my game quality slip. However, my stress levels were much higher than optimal. I found myself waking up after only 3-4 hours and not being able to get back to sleep because of the stress of the looming monthly target. I was never in doubt, I was always going to make SNE, but the stress of the December dash is something I never want to experience again.
I am extremely proud of myself and ecstatic with my year. On a more personal note, my wife and I moved to the outskirts of Sydney closer to her work and we plan on buying a house in 2013 and starting a family in 2014. I am grateful that I can play this beautiful game for a living and plan on continuing to challenge myself at high stakes STTs.
My summarised plan for 2013 is to continue to fix leaks in my hyper game and work on sustaining myself at the 200s without backing. My medium term goal involves learning hyper satellites and playing the 300s with a long term goal of playing the 1k-3k WCOOP satellites with jorj95 et al and eventually reaching the 5m VPP milestone on stars (I want that watch!).
Graphs and Statistics
2012 All games all stakes
2012 All hyper turbos (stake/number/ROI/Time/$/Rake/Hrs)
Note: These sample sizes are still SMALL. I will have a better idea of real ROIs after another 30-40k games.
2012 $60-100 hypers
2012 $200 hypers
Note: Don't ask me for EV. The red line for hypers is broken in HM1, ie. it does not calculate EV at all. (at least it's broken in my version of HM1 and I haven't fixed it, nor do i care)
Total net winnings : $24572
Total net winnings paid out to backers: $12606
Total net live winnings : $3163
Bonus breakdown (starting as Bronze Star) :
Buying $1.6k bonuses with 100k FPPS : $54301
Stellar milestone rewards : $44400
Battle of the Planets : $6093
Other (collusion refunds/reload bonuses) : $731
Total bonuses : $105526
Staking (me staking others) : -$176
Not included : coaching/work for pokerstrategy
Fun stats (ALL PRE RB)
Most $WON in 1 day : $10303 (Dec 20th)
Most $LOST in 1 day : $10338 (Dec 28th)
Number of +$ months : 8
Number of -$ months : 4
Most $WON in 1 month : $13511
Most hours played in 1 month : 129 (December)
Most hours played in 1 day : 10 hours / 679 games / $2566 raked (December 29th)
Total time played : 1052 hours
Total AVG BI : $126.6
Total number of games played : 35922
:heart: Big respect sir, glad u made it, relax, enjoy = i know u ll be back at tables in few days ♦
GL 2013!
Happy new year, keep crushing and improving
Definitely one of the most highlight players on PS.com
