The softest games i've ever seen!

This is a new site that opened Tuesday the 15th, High Pulse poker. They have a great deposit bonus, a ton of freerolls to build your roll and up to 50% rakeback from day one, but this isn't the reason i'm so amazed by this site. The goldmine is that it has the fishiest games i've ever seen, even at the NL25, NL50 and NL100 levels.

We're talking 2005 Partypoker fish, never folding an ace, calling reraises out of position with KTo and stacking off any pair, all that good stuff. I've played a couple thousands hands so far and I just can't believe it. I was playing 5-handed yesterday and it was me, 2 fish and 2 whales. After playing the tough games on Stars for the past 2 years, this is just a walk in the park.

I think one of the reason the site is so fishy at the moment is that they gave over 1 million euros in freerolls during the beta, money which was only released on Tuesday when the site went gold. This means all the fish that won a part of that million euro is now spending it on the site (and then some!). Perhaps their marketing has found a nice pond of euro-fish as well. Either way, it's all good :)

If you guys decide to take advantage of this opportunity, i'd appreciate it if you use this link to register, as I get a bonus for referrals. Simply use referal code "HTWOTF" when you sign up.Thanks and happy fishing!

http://highpulsepoker.com/cgi-bin/sc.pl?hpaffcode=HTWOTF

M-m-m-m-m-m-m-monster year end session!

Another year, another Supernova. Lost it briefly in October (was at 93k VPPs when September ended) but after a few weeks of on-and-off, it was time to finish this Athene Grindmode Style!




YEAAAA!




My longest session yet, by far! My head is still spinning, but i'm really happy to get Supernova for the second year in a row. I'm even more amazed that I managed to finish the session with a positive winrate! (screw all-in EV, lol). Pretty happy I did it at 50NL instead of 100NL, or I would have most likely ended up losing quite a bit of money in the process.

I'm starting my master's degree in January so I won't have as much time for poker, but after a session like this, I know I can always get some monster sessions crunch-time near the end of the month if I need a little extra boost to keep Supernova going, so i'm not too concerned about maintaining it next year.

This pretty much closes the year for me. I still have about 28k hands to go to get my first 4,000$ FPP bonus (which was delayed over and over all year long!). It feels like i've been running after that one for so long, i'm very happy to have it as my year-end trophy for 2011. This year has brought a lot of ups and downs but i'm still pretty happy with how it all went down. Good luck to grinders still finishing the year, and here's to a pokeriffic 2012!

Still in da gaimz!

Whew, feels like it's been a while since i've been here. After a pretty busy month life-wise, i'm ready to get back into DA GAIMZ! Starting my master's degree in January and i'm pretty psyched about it! This will mean poker will return to part-time, although it's not like I was getting that much more volume in playing "full-time".

I finished reading up Dynamic Full-Ring Poker : http://www.amazon.com/Dynamic-Full-Ring-Poker-Beyond/dp/0982402295/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1320681808&sr=8-1 and it is well worth the price tag. I feel much more solid now, and i'm playing great, but we'll see for sure after a healthy sample.

Unfortunately I lost Supernova (why it doesn't extend all the way to December if you maintain pace is beyond me) but I will get it back shortly (about 5k VPPs short atm). I'm very happy to get Supernova a second year in a row. This may not be a huge accomplishment for some of the mega grinders but I still think it's a status that differentiates the "serious" players from the amateurs so i'm very satisfied with my game in that regards.

So far the games at 50NL seem a lot softer than 100NL, with very solid regs far and few in-between. Things are looking great both in life and poker, and i'm looking forward to finishing the year strong. Happy grinding!