| This is a discussion on Platinum At Long Last! within the online poker forums, in the General Poker section; Well at long last I managed to achieve Platinum Status on Stars. I have been building up to it for a while now, but everytime ... |
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| Platinum At Long Last! Well at long last I managed to achieve Platinum Status on Stars. I have been building up to it for a while now, but everytime I make a concerted effort I have had to abort to preserve my bankroll. Anyways I have been experimenting 12-14 tabling this month and I decided to give it a go. I only started in the 3rd week of the month and I managed to get in 45k hands, which is roughly what is required at $50nl 6max. OK my bankroll for the month hasn't increased by much, in fact I was pretty much break even thanks to a horrendous run over the last 4k hands , but I have at least achieved some personal goals. I now believe I can go on from here and hopefully play between 75-100k hands per month if I feel like it. That in itself should bring along with it a wagon load of FPP's and hopefully Supernova status, so here's to my next goal . |
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lol. Well if you continue to hit Platinum every moth you'll have it by the end of the year. Now Supernova Elite... I think I figured out that at the rate I play 12-tabling I'd have to average 28 hours a day or something literally impossible to make it. |
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| re: Platinum At Long Last! poker Quote:
Of course that's a bit under 55k hands/week which for me is about 65 hours/week 12-tabling. I cannot imagine 12-tabling for 65 hours a week for the entire year (yes exactly 0 weeks off, or else some of the other weeks would have to be 70-75 hours in a week). |
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| Zach, get yourself onto 6max. On average, depending on table/playing style, 100nl 6max should earn 0.4vpps/hand. So 400vpps/1k hands. 200k hands/month should easily see this through to SNE. The SNE thread on 2+2 is insane. I think most sne 100nl and 200nl players are 24 tabling, 2k hands/hr easy . |
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| So is supernova (forget elite, hah) basically just a result of accumulating 100k fpps during the year, or is there a monthly quota you have to reach? I can't seem to find the info on stars... Oh, ps my mic fixed itself . I did a system restore to yesterday and it did the trick, so pm me when you want to play later tonight. |
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| re: Platinum At Long Last! poker Quote:
Oh and you sure the 6max 100nl doesn't earn more? The 2+2 thread I mentioned earlier has 100nl FR earning 0.38 VPPs/hand. From what I saw in 6max there was a lot lighter raising and 3-betting, and considering a standard raise with one caller would make the pot $8 and give everyone a VPP, I'd think it was closer to 0.5 VPPs/hand. But I guess I'd trust people who play there over my guesses. |
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| Yep there were several posters who debated the point on the 100nl 6max, some were getting 0.35 and some were getting a lot closer to 0.5vpp/hand. Thats sort of why I took the 0.4 as a conservative guess I suppose. Also Zach, I think a lot of the 24 tablers are FR, but there are some 6max. Also I know the hard core LHE players are only 12 tabling at 6max, which is understandable. There are some trying to get to SNE playing 2/4 LHE. RobWHUFC - The benefits of SNE should not be underestimated. It can basically work out at a rakeback deal of min 50% depending on the stakes you play etc. It has been worked out that the minimum amount earned in rakeback ( ie FPPS cashing them in etc ) if you achieve SNE, is approx $110,000. When you think that's it's theoretically possible to achieve this playing 100nl, 2/4LHE or $50 sng's then thats a fairly attractive proposition. |
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But unless you can get a decent profit that's not even that good. You have to assume most are losing money, just obviously not 110k/year, so they end up with a net positive. If someone can 12-table 50nl and win 5 BB/100 and play 160k hands/month (I'm going at 1k hands/hour, 40 hours a week thus about 160/month), that comes out to about 100k/year. If you are just supernova and not sne, you get .23*3.5=.805 FPPs/hand. At 1.92 million hands, that's 1,545,600 FPPs and that adds an extra 23k+. So by just playing a normal amount at 50nl multi-tabling you could theoretically win about 123k/year. I'd take that over sacrificing my life to make sne and probably not even be a very good poker player. |
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You'd have to hope that anyone with the ability and the drive to reach Supernova elite would make a significant amount of profit before VPP's are factored in (and if it take almost 2 million hands, it should be significant. If not then they would earn an awful lot more in other occupations if they have that level of intelligence and dedication. |
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| For these guys who are micro/ss players trying to achieve SNE, they work on break even - small profit figures. There goal is solely the perks of SNE. One guy admits that he plays average poker when he 4-6 tables and he's not a lot worse when he plays 24 tables, so I can see his ppoint. He's never gonna beat the game at 200nl for 5ptbb, so he grinds and takes full advantage of the perks of SNE. Also Zach - I think players who can consistenly win at a rate of 5ptbb/100 at 100nl playing 160k hands a month are really few and far between. It's one thing winning at that rate over 30k hands a month but seriously, I don't see that many graphs on 2+2 with that amount of volume, just my opinion. Rob - if your earning £50-60k a year good luck to you. I would love to earn that much and if I could do that playing poker, sitting on the settee, working at my own pace whatever hours I wanted to, for 30-40 hours a week then I would'nt mind the grind in all honesty. Anyways, it's just interesting to see other peoples poker goals, some have regular goals like improvement and attaining a high ptbb (quality) whilst others have Volume based goals. |
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