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If you are interested in buying the domain name supernovaelite.com, contact me at OneMillionVPPs AT gmail DOT com

I haven’t officially declared the end of my SNE chase…yet. It’s most likely over, but I want to wait a little bit longer in case a miracle happens and Pokerstars can once again allow Americans to play.

So in the meantime, I have been looking into other sites to play online poker. For US players, the main options available now are Bodog, the Cake network, and the Merge network. The volume at these sites are only a small fraction of the volume at Pokerstars or Full Tilt (even after PS/FT’s largest market has been stripped from them). But since I have no intentions of relocating to Cananda, it’s the only viable option if I want to play poker. I will post updates if I do end up playing on one of these sites.

Check out the following post by poker pro Hunter Bick which helps explain why the smaller sites are still operating in the US market:
Black Friday: What Happened, Why, and What it Means for Online Poker in the USA

I have some free time now since I have been banned from playing online poker by the U.S. government. Feel free to contact me about anything.

OneMillionVPPs@gmail.com

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2+2: bleurain

On April 15, 2011 – the FBI seized control of pokerstars.com, fulltiltpoker.com and ultimatebet.com. This is what you will see when you try visiting them.

Three largest online poker sites indicted and shut down by FBI

2+2 discussion

This may be the end of the SNE chase for now. Pokerstars has blocked me from playing.

Been working on my hold’em manager today and wanted to share what I did in case anyone else wasn’t aware of the following.

Multi-currency
I didn’t realize the Winnings column in the report tab did not handle multi-currency. The Winnings column does not convert EUR winnings to USD so it would be off if you play the euro tables. You need to add new colums to show the winnings in either USD or EUR.
Add multi-currency winnings

SQL Log files
I had about 45 gb of log files in my PostgreSQL folder. These log files are unnecessary and take up alot of hard drive space. Follow these instructions to remove them and stop PostgreSQL from creating the log files.
Remove SQL Log files

Database maintenance
Don’t forget to vacuum analyse & reindex your database. Not sure what this does exactly but it is supposed to improve performance.
Vacuum Analyze database

Poker Update
Failing big time on volume. I probably won’t be able to hit my April goal of playing 300k hands. Poker is getting a little monotonous and it’s been hard putting in long sessions. Hopefully I can pick things up in the 2nd half of the month.

Hands played: 258,903
VPPs earned: 91,626.98
Profit (Loss): (-$2,888.37)

Sigh, what can I say. Another very disappointing month – it’s beginning to sound like a broken record. I started off the month super hot, then took a nose dive and made a small rebound at the end of the month. If ev means anything, I am at -$59.68 ev. So I ran 28 buyins below ev for March. I didn’t play as much as I’d like. To be honest it’s been tough grinding when I’m losing.

For April, I’d like to at least set a goal for hands played.

April Goals
[ ] Play 300,000 hands

Life
Haven’t progressed at all in my weight goal, still around 140 lbs. I’ll have to make a conscious effort to eat more and start weight lifting in April.

Hope everyone is doing good. GL.

In the following hand I thought my opponent was on crazy tilt because he shoved on me preflop with J3:

No-Limit Hold’em, $1.00 BB (5 handed)

MP ($100)
Hero (Button) ($127.70)
SB ($100.50)
BB ($105)
UTG ($109.15)

Preflop: Hero is Button with A, A
UTG calls $1, MP bets $5, Hero raises $15, 3 folds, MP raises $95 (All-In), Hero calls $85

Flop: ($202.50) Q, Q, 7 (2 players, 1 all-in)

Turn: ($202.50) 7 (2 players, 1 all-in)

River: ($202.50) 10 (2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: $202.50

Results:
Hero had A, A (two pair, Aces and Queens).
MP had J, 3 (two pair, Queens and sevens).
Outcome: Hero won $200.50

Then the table froze. It took me a few seconds to finally realize that I’ve been dealt into a milestone hand and actually won it.

Here is the chat box announcement during the hand:

Dealer: Congratulations, you have been dealt into Milestone Hand #59,929,000,000!We have paused the dealing to allow for spectators to find the table and watch the hand. A host will be with you shortly to restart the dealing and make the prize payouts. This will take approximately one minute.NOTE: The winner of the hand will have their milestone hand prize money doubled!
HostTannerS [Support]: Hello Players and congratulations to all of you!
HostTannerS [Support]: Each player at this table is about to participate in one of our Milestone Hands to help us count down to 60 Billion hands!
HostTannerS [Support]: Every player dealt into the Milestone hand will receive a prize as part of this promotion!
HostTannerS [Support]: All players dealt into the hand will win a base prize of $50, plus a cash prize of $50 for every VPP they have earned in the previous 50 hands played at this table!
HostTannerS [Support]: The player who wins the Milestone hand will have their cash prize doubled!
HostTannerS [Support]: Good luck to everybody! Please stand by; the hand will begin momentarily.
Administrator: $51 NL Omaha H/L [Hyper Turbo, $2,000 Guaranteed] begins in 5 minutes. Register now @ T378732227 under the Tourney/All tab.
HostTannerS [Support]: Good luck players, here we go!
Dealer: Targaryen has two pair, Queens and Sevens
Dealer: bleurain has two pair, Aces and Queens
Dealer: Game #59929000000: bleurain wins pot ($200.50) with two pair, Aces and Queens
HostTannerS [Support]: Congratulations to everyone! Please allow us a moment to calculate and process your prizes
HostTannerS [Support]: Well done to ‘bleurain’ who won the Milestone Hand and collected $1693.00
HostTannerS [Support]: And every player involved in this Milestone Hand has won at least $160.00!!
HostTannerS [Support]: Thank you for playing at PokerStars & participating in our Milestone Hand promotion!
HostTannerS [Support]: Additional information about our journey along the Road to 100 Billion hands is available at: http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/promotions/100-billion/
Administrator: $101 NLHE [Knockout, Hyper-Turbo, Heads-Up, $10k Guaranteed] begins in 10 minutes. Register now @ T378731364 under the Tourney/All tab.

Very happy I won a milestone hand. I am pretty far behind my VPP goal this month because I went to Paris for a few days last week and when I got back I was jetlagged and didn’t play much. I’ll post an update on my progress after March is over.

Ha, just when I didn’t think things could get worse, I lose with quads (again).

No-Limit Hold’em, $1.00 BB (6 handed) -

Hero (SB) ($124.85)
BB ($100)
UTG ($100)
MP ($84.90)
CO ($100)
Button ($205.10)

Preflop: Hero is SB with 9, 9
2 folds, CO bets $2.80, 1 fold, Hero raises $9.50, 1 fold, CO calls $7.20

Flop: ($21) 9, J, 10 (2 players)
Hero bets $15, CO calls $15

Turn: ($51) 9 (2 players)
Hero bets $28, CO calls $28

River: ($107) J (2 players)
Hero bets $69, CO calls $47 (All-In)

Total pot: $201

Results:
Hero had 9, 9 (four of a kind, nines).
CO had Q, K (straight flush, King high).
Outcome: CO won $198

Ever since I posted that stupid graph in the previous post, it has been all downhill. I am now flat for the month and feel really frustrated. This hand pretty much sums up how things have been going for me.

No-Limit Hold’em, $1.00 BB (6 handed) –

MP ($185.50)
CO ($101)
Button ($40)
Hero (SB) ($117.50)
BB ($100)
UTG ($40)

Preflop: Hero is SB with A, J
UTG (poster) checks, 3 folds, Hero bets $4.50, 1 fold, UTG (poster) calls $4

Flop: ($11) 7, K, A (2 players)
Hero bets $7, UTG raises $14, Hero raises $45, UTG calls $21 (All-In)

Turn: ($81) A (2 players, 1 all-in)

River: ($81) 8 (2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: $81

Results:
Hero had A, J (three of a kind, Aces).
UTG had 7, 4 (flush, Ace high).
Outcome: UTG won $79