You could email pokerstars and ask for the hand histories. They should be able to provide it to you.
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Originally posted by acetbfish
You could email pokerstars and ask for the hand histories. They should be able to provide it to you.
not only they are able to, they actually WILL do that 
hmm for some reason i thought I didn't have them in my HM2archive folder but I had it. I did email pokerstars for my 2013 HHs but they only gave me like 60k hands out of 800k. Now my database is pretty lean and I'm fine with it - I don't really feel the need for datamining any longer
How are the VPP's going? Nice to have some Nl1k action for now, might boost the chase:)
920K at the moment, 80k left to go, that's around 6666 VPPs per day.
NL1000 hasn't been running too much for the past 2 days - This is giving me a little bit of trouble with keeping up in terms of earning VPPs. I basically earn at least 20-25% more points with 1k tables running.
*I'm not trying to promote my coaching services btwInteresting email from Ramit Sethi - I think those of you who are stuck at micros should really think about investing in yourself.
What do Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods have that you don’t?
No, not $100mm. They have something you could get today. But curiously, almost nobody does.
Atul Gawande, a surgeon and staff writer for the New Yorker, posed a fascinating question:
“...I watched Rafael Nadal play a tournament match on the Tennis Channel. The camera flashed to his coach, and the obvious struck me as interesting: even Rafael Nadal has a coach. Nearly every élite tennis player in the world does. Professional athletes use coaches to make sure they are as good as they can be.
But doctors don’t. I’d paid to have a kid just out of college look at my serve. So why did I find it inconceivable to pay someone to come into my operating room and coach me on my surgical technique?”
Why do the world’s top athletes, singers, and entrepreneurs have coaches...and we don’t?
STOP! Notice how we automatically get defensive when we try to answer that question:
Well, they can afford it”
“It’s their job to be the best, so a coach makes sense”
“Maybe later in my career, but I’m not ready for that”
In fact, it’s exactly the OPPOSITE!
The world’s best didn’t become that good on their own. They had help, lots of it.
This is the same as people who say, “I can’t invest until I get rich.” WRONG! You get rich BY investing.
How could a coach help you? Let me give you a few unconventional examples (the word “coach” can be applied creatively):
High-end hairdresser: A highly skilled hairdresser might cost 3x (or even 20x) the normal price...but can show you why a certain look suits you better than the normal Supercuts look you’ve been getting. (Btw, see what I mean? Would you have ever thought of a high-end hairdresser as a coach?)
Personal trainer: When I used to work out on my own, I would go to the gym, do a bunch of random machines, and wonder why I wasn’t getting results. The first time I worked out with a trainer, he showed me how to improve what I’d already been doing. This has been one of the best investments I’ve ever made.
Stylist: I have a stylist friend who says, “Of course I’m better at this than the average person. It’s not that I’m a genius...it’s that I do this all day, every day.” I’ve seen her before-and-after work, and it totally transforms the person.
Business coach: I paid a business coach tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege of flying from NYC to LA, once/month for 15 months, just for 45 minutes of his time. It was another one of the best investments I’ve ever made. Not only did it pay for itself (many times over), I’ll keep the knowledge I learned forever.
Other examples: Language coach, cooking instructor, relationship/dating coaches, and many more!
The very best coaches can spot your problem areas and, since they’ve worked with tons of clients just like you, they can gently recommend strategies to help you overcome them...skyrocketing your success. I’ve seen it myself MANY times with MANY different experts I’ve worked with.
HERE’S THE POINT: You can do it on your own -- and you should! But at a certain point, you’ll want a little extra help to become the very best. I remember scoffing at paying for SAT tutoring back in high school. I said, “I can just read the books.” Until I finally got one and I saw what a big difference it makes to have someone there, working with you day after day.
So, I want to challenge you: What’s ONE area where you could use a coach?
Eliminate your barriers (the #1 barrier is about cost: “I can’t afford $100/hour for the next 10 years!”) and strip it down: What if you just hired a coach for 2 sessions? Could you ask for a longer payment plan?
I changed my perspective from
“I have to do this on my own” + “people charging are just trying to scam me”
-to-
“I need help, and I’m willing to invest in myself to be the best”
And it has been absolutely pivotal in my success. If I can share just one thing with you today, it’s this: Be willing to invest in yourself, even for $20. Know that someone out there has seen your problem and can help you solve it.
That’s my challenge to you: Find ONE person you invest in, even for $20, to tackle your biggest goal for 2014.
Tomorrow, I’m going to share how to get access to the people I surround myself with.
Today, I want you to watch a video I put together that will take you deeper into the techniques that top performers use -- which you can use, starting now.
-Ramit
Originally posted by mbml
*I'm not trying to promote my coaching services btwInteresting email from Ramit Sethi - I think those of you who are stuck at micros should really think about investing in yourself.What do Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods have that you don’t?
No, not $100mm. They have something you could get today. But curiously, almost nobody does.
Atul Gawande, a surgeon and staff writer for the New Yorker, posed a fascinating question:
“...I watched Rafael Nadal play a tournament match on the Tennis Channel. The camera flashed to his coach, and the obvious struck me as interesting: even Rafael Nadal has a coach. Nearly every élite tennis player in the world does. Professional athletes use coaches to make sure they are as good as they can be.
But doctors don’t. I’d paid to have a kid just out of college look at my serve. So why did I find it inconceivable to pay someone to come into my operating room and coach me on my surgical technique?”
Why do the world’s top athletes, singers, and entrepreneurs have coaches...and we don’t?
STOP! Notice how we automatically get defensive when we try to answer that question:
Well, they can afford it”
“It’s their job to be the best, so a coach makes sense”
“Maybe later in my career, but I’m not ready for that”
In fact, it’s exactly the OPPOSITE!
The world’s best didn’t become that good on their own. They had help, lots of it.
This is the same as people who say, “I can’t invest until I get rich.” WRONG! You get rich BY investing.
How could a coach help you? Let me give you a few unconventional examples (the word “coach” can be applied creatively):
High-end hairdresser: A highly skilled hairdresser might cost 3x (or even 20x) the normal price...but can show you why a certain look suits you better than the normal Supercuts look you’ve been getting. (Btw, see what I mean? Would you have ever thought of a high-end hairdresser as a coach?)
Personal trainer: When I used to work out on my own, I would go to the gym, do a bunch of random machines, and wonder why I wasn’t getting results. The first time I worked out with a trainer, he showed me how to improve what I’d already been doing. This has been one of the best investments I’ve ever made.
Stylist: I have a stylist friend who says, “Of course I’m better at this than the average person. It’s not that I’m a genius...it’s that I do this all day, every day.” I’ve seen her before-and-after work, and it totally transforms the person.
Business coach: I paid a business coach tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege of flying from NYC to LA, once/month for 15 months, just for 45 minutes of his time. It was another one of the best investments I’ve ever made. Not only did it pay for itself (many times over), I’ll keep the knowledge I learned forever.
Other examples: Language coach, cooking instructor, relationship/dating coaches, and many more!
The very best coaches can spot your problem areas and, since they’ve worked with tons of clients just like you, they can gently recommend strategies to help you overcome them...skyrocketing your success. I’ve seen it myself MANY times with MANY different experts I’ve worked with.
HERE’S THE POINT: You can do it on your own -- and you should! But at a certain point, you’ll want a little extra help to become the very best. I remember scoffing at paying for SAT tutoring back in high school. I said, “I can just read the books.” Until I finally got one and I saw what a big difference it makes to have someone there, working with you day after day.
So, I want to challenge you: What’s ONE area where you could use a coach?
Eliminate your barriers (the #1 barrier is about cost: “I can’t afford $100/hour for the next 10 years!”) and strip it down: What if you just hired a coach for 2 sessions? Could you ask for a longer payment plan?
I changed my perspective from
“I have to do this on my own” + “people charging are just trying to scam me”
-to-
“I need help, and I’m willing to invest in myself to be the best”
And it has been absolutely pivotal in my success. If I can share just one thing with you today, it’s this: Be willing to invest in yourself, even for $20. Know that someone out there has seen your problem and can help you solve it.
That’s my challenge to you: Find ONE person you invest in, even for $20, to tackle your biggest goal for 2014.
Tomorrow, I’m going to share how to get access to the people I surround myself with.
Today, I want you to watch a video I put together that will take you deeper into the techniques that top performers use -- which you can use, starting now.
-Ramit
+1 for post, mbml! That's true.
Originally posted by acetbfish
Any updates on how the grind is going?
I'm almost done with it, I have 5 days left, and 34k VPPs to go. I'll try my best to be done by the 30th, or maybe I'll leave 2-4 hours left for the final day 31st Dec.
I have been playing pretty poorly for the past week or so as usual. Time to fix some bad habits for the new year.
19k more points to go, 3 more days
I have been playing 9 hours a day for the past 2 days, including a 5 hour session today (I have not played such a long session in a really long time).
I don't think I can finish it by 30th, so I'll leave the final 3 hours of play for Tuesday.
GL finishing off. Don't forget to post a giraffe and a screenshot with dem 7 stars please 
thanks everyone!
10k VPPs to go, up 44k for the month after a 11k sun-run yesterday, without any NL1000 involved.
that SNE bonus seems like small moneys compared to your winnings lately..
this is just sick 
Originally posted by vuciitis
that SNE bonus seems like small moneys compared to your winnings lately..this is just sick
Amen