Finally getting some hands in
The few first weeks of '09 I didn't play as much as I normally do. I took a short break after getting back from PCA, and also spent a lot of time designing my PLO coaching program and getting into the routine of working with my new students. I spend most of the daytime on weekdays coaching, and for a while was finding it hard to put in hours playing. Seeing the new Pokerstars vip info, including that supernova elite status can be maintained through September, got me motivated again. I need another 20k hands or so this month to reach the monthly quota, and it'd be so dumb to grind hard to get elite last year and then lose it in two months. I'm back in a rhythm now and should at least comfortably do 50k hands/month for the next few months. I hope to also get some substantial nlhe and mixed game hands in - originally my '09 goal was 1 million hands, including 600k plo and 400k other. That's looking very unlikely now, and I doubt I'll have time to go for elite again, but I still plan to grind a lot.
As Andrew's post said, Stars recently announced the SCOOP schedule. It looks awesome and will be a nice change of pace in a few weeks. I plan to play several of the mid events and a handful of the big ones. I'm a pretty big br nit and I'll definitely sell some action for the big ones, but I also like to keep a decent piece of myself if I'm going to bother playing something so I'll have to weigh how good/large the fields look before I decide how much $ I want to risk. $2k stud 8 and so on would be awesome but if it's a tiny, tough field might as well just wait for WSOP.
Hello
Glad to be joining the Pokersavvy team full-time. It's been a while, and I'm looking forward to making more videos. My next one should be out in a few days; it'll be a PLO sweat video, probably at 2/4 or 3/6. I'm also planning a PLO theory series loosely based on my coaching program, some PLO hand history reviews, and will also do some nl cash, mtt, and mixed game videos. In a usual month, you can expect two plo videos a month and two other videos, with at least one being nl mtt or nl cash. In the next few days I'll put up a thread describing my video ideas for feedback.