Create player: RovarTry, Career mode: SnG, Difficulty level: Mid

So what you are saying is that you use those points to buy cash prizes?

10.000 $ rake is 20.000 points.

Let's say you have 20.000 points.

1. You have options to buy cash, 1500$ which is credited instantly to your acc, which equals 15% rakeback.

2. You have option to buy bonus of $3000 which is released to your acc in chunks. To clear whole bonus you need to produce 25% of initial points, so 5000 points (2500$ rake). That equals 30% rakeback.

3. You can buy bunch of stuff with points, but haven't really look at it coz i'm not interested ♦

Originally posted by RovarTry
10.000 $ rake is 20.000 points.

Let's say you have 20.000 points.

1. You have options to buy cash, 1500$ which is credited instantly to your acc, which equals 15% rakeback.

2. You have option to buy bonus of $3000 which is released to your acc in chunks. To clear whole bonus you need to produce 25% of initial points, so 5000 points (2500$ rake). That equals 30% rakeback.

3. You can buy bunch of stuff with points, but haven't really look at it coz i'm not interested ♦

Ahh cool, that's not so bad then. I think Stars has something similar, not sure about the $$ amounts though.

Apparently the Leadeboards on Party are real bad because of those Coinflips, ppl complain about them all the time in the Party Poker 2+2 thread.

and surprisingly, they don't listen...

nice volume man.you made 2 gemestones

i am waiting for the sweat sessions in december ♦

did you see that only for the last couple of months they are grinding like that.before that a guy Balolteli was first with like 20.000-30.000 points and now they are making almost 200.000 points.sick!!

i raked 2000$ and i didn't even finish on the leaderboard

Yeah, we/i kinda didn't have time in November, but deffo wanna have them in December on regular basic. We'll talk details over the skype after Monday coz I'm busy til then...

I remember salughterhouse from playing FR at 10-20 level too and now he's a leader? Crazy. Did you calc how much does he earns if he's just BE? Then i played with numbers and it's unbelievable...

He raked 100.000$, right.

Let's say he played 3000 tourneys with max. rake of 10$, which he didn't. That be 30.000$ rake.

That leaves him with 70.000$ rake with coinflips... Biggest rake you can get from it is 0.15$ and 0.05$. Let's say he plays only 0.15$ which he doesn't, coz when I checked him he plays a lot of lower ones too. So he must play 467.000 coin flips in a month??? That's 15600 coinflips per day, man?!? How is that even possible?

Finally finished reading through your blog, i know its not super long, but i had a lot of breaks in the meantime Anyway, what i want to say is that imo when it comes to inspiring SnG blogs i will put yours right next to <3's (altough im still planning on going through Tim64's so it may be a 3way draw in the end ♦).

The amount of work/time youve put into playing/improving is just incredible, as is your motivation! Btw how do you even manage to do that having a full-time(?) job and a family? Im working full-time but dont even have a gf atm and i still cant imagine putting as much volume as you do.

I'm really glad you moved entirely to 6max cause i really didn't enjoy playing against you if you know what i mean At some point tough im gonna move as well (not very soon tough), hope we could skype a bit abt the transition if you agree.

You havent updated in a while, i hope everything is allright and its just because youre busy with xmas/grinding. Im sure its not only me who look forward to a december update and maybe even a 2012 wrap-up if you feel like doing one.

Keep up the great work!!!

p.s. got any ideas/plans for 2013 considering lack of gemstones/top250 promo on Party network?

p.s. when it comes to your questions abt the leaderboards. If i understand you correctly you think that the leaderboard points are the same as Partypoints (which solely depend on the amount you rake) but in fact they are not the same thing. You can find the formula they use to calculate leaderboard points here. So altough they still depend on the amount you rake its not as direct. e.g. in december ive earned 2406 leaderboard points but ive raked only ~830$. That doesnt change the fact that the leaders have some crazy amounts of points every month ♦

Hey, hey man! I'm very flattered! Nice to see you all shinny

Thanks for pointing me to partypoints explanation, it does make more sense now, nevertheless still sick numbers.

About you switching to 6max, man just do it, i've seen your hand process thinking and evaluation you post, you'll be crushing them. Time to get out of FR nittiness! ♦ I'd be happy to exchange thoughts with you.

Before you do that, here is a January goal for you...

[] Must get girlfriend (or at least get laid) ♦

Keep in touch!

It's been whole month since i wrote here and it was mainly because i didn't play as much as i should and i was planning to make this recap, so anyway...

I can't believe that's almost a year since i've started this blog. I honestly don't know what to say. I've been thinking about it and i've got this mixed feelings.

I mean i should probably be satisfied with the path so far, since i started from scratch and reached mid stakes by now, but i just can't get rid of the feeling that it should be more. Maybe i'm just to much $$$ oriented, since my last couple of months weren't so great and i read blogs where guys earn sick numbers at this level and I just didn't get my piece yet.

As far as the game improvement goes, thinking back, yeah, here i can easily say that i'm satisfied with where the things are going. I've still got a long way to go tho. Just thinking of what lays ahead (not just 6max. HU, PLO, cash ???) makes me scared and calm in a way that there is future in all of this despite unpleasant things happening in poker world.

I'd like to stop here to say thanks to Alex, Vic, Kevv, Don, Tim... which they all helped me in some way or another so far. And of course all pokerstrategy community.

I think i'm forgetting some girl... but of course, I almost forgot about my precious, Gerovit. I must say, she must be some piece of lost balkan art, coz it's hard to find girls like her. It's so nice to have someone who thinks she has all the answers in the world in the reach of a fingertip.
Seriously now, thanks man (this part is debatable coz i don't why my wife is jealous then), for all the laughs, talks, coaching and improving me. Shipp it!

OK, so at the moment I'm playing strictly 33's 6 max on WPT. Since gems are gone for this room and rake is pretty high, i'm planning on staying here only to get and clear 3k bonus, which should be done til March. After that i'm planning to spread my self to FTP (playing there at least so much to get Diamond level), pokerstars and maybe some other room to have enough traffic for table selection and get as much ROI% pre. The future is still uncertain coz I'm fkn interested in everything; hypers, HU, cash, PLO... who knows, but for now, i'll climb the limits with 6-max and occasional HU.

December, wasn't so great either as I'm still on BE stretch (played only 580 tourneys) and running 55bi below at 33's. I made only 60$ pre and all together was 745$. I've also got 800$ for me waiting in January from gems.

New BR:
Starting bankroll: $100
Session profit/lost: $60
Bankroll: $4650+ 200$ HU pending $200 (stacking alxpoker91) & $200 (stacking <3) & gem No: 5
Bonus cleared + rake back + stacking: $4970
Cashed out so far: 2875$

So yearly profit (from February) is 8525$ + 3000$ in bonus waiting to clear.

[] Watch new videos
[] Watch 10 HU vids on net
[] Read HU book with notes
[] Play 50-100 HU SnG's
[] Play enough SnG keep diamond status and gem
[] Play at least 800 tourneys - 580
[] Make room for a sweat session

Best of luck in the New Year!

Thanks for the kind words Abt me getting a gf or at least getting laid i'll see what i can do, but bare in mind that im doing it just for you

Nice recap, even with the downswing lately i must say it's imo a relly solid year, especially that as you say youve started from scratch. Congrats on that!
Just one thing doesn't add up in your plans - i dont think you can get any status through playing on FTP since youre not getting any strategy points for playing there anymore or have i missed something?

Keep crushing buddy!

i think is a great year considering from where you started but the serious money will now start to come so good luck in 2013

@ wiarygodny

I meant diamond on their edge system and maybe i'll keep diamond here too, coz i'm gonna mix sites and it's quite easy to sustain it.

About gf, what ever keeps you going

@ alex

i sure hope so. all the best to you too. i'll contact you about some sweat soon.
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I didn't posted any goals for upcoming month/year, coz they are still work in progress. What i'm sure of is that i wanna go trough Schnitzelfisch's guide and implement some of its stuff.

One of goals is to stop drinking coffee (i drank it at least 4 dcl per day + some capuchino on top), which resulted in severe headache in last couple of days. i also felt so tired, finding out that even 10 hours of sleep isn't enough. This kinda prevented my next goal of working out. nevertheless i decided i'm gonna start on monday, no matter what. It's gonna be mix of convict conditioning from scratch and taking long walks on off days.

Another one is that I wanna organize my life more, so i'm gonna buy me a notebook and write down stuff that pop up in my head plus daily/weekly schedule of when to grind, eat, sleep, work, workout...

Poker wise i decided to turn off cashier, winnings and graph. i wont look at those for the rest of the month. just focusing on game and meeting hourly volume. I wanna play 4 hours per day on average, sometimes (when i'm off work) this is gonna be 6h (2 x 2h sessions in the morning and 2h at the evening), on 6-18h working days 2h at the evening only and 2 x 2h on days when i need to go to night shift.

I already started with that and it feels good. Tables aren't running that good in the mornings but i expect to solve that when i include other rooms. So for now, i'm mixing 33's with 22's getting round 100$ of rake in 4h of play only 4 tabling. I'll see where things are going and then decide what needs to be changed.

I think i'm forgetting some girl... but of course, I almost forgot about my precious, Gerovit. I must say, she must be some piece of lost balkan art, coz it's hard to find girls like her. It's so nice to have someone who thinks she has all the answers in the world in the reach of a fingertip. Seriously now, thanks man (this part is debatable coz i don't why my wife is jealous then), for all the laughs, talks, coaching and improving me. Heart Shipp it!

♠_love:
Aww that"s so sweet that i had to write you a poem describing what Goran likes most about me (and who could blame him)

Seriously now it's a privilege to have you as friend

p.s. We didn't have time to talk but you know crysis, depression, euro going down the drain, apocalypse, hurricanes, midle east, Janez demonstrations blah blah blah...i had to increase price a bit but don't worry you wont feel a thing ♠_evil:

i heard something about onagame ♦.is going well?

Hey!

It didn't went bad ♦ but i fully switched to HUNL where I started from scratch.
Had first BE month pre RB, which isn't so inspiring, but i learned so much and i wish to continue with this format. Just have to put my mind on bigger picture!

Hey all,

i've got new blog for those who are still interested in what's going on with me!