The past couple of days I have been scrambling to get to 200k VPPs on PokerStars.  With a little less than 30 minutes left in 2010, I reached my goal.  There wasn’t much action at the high-limit 5 card draw tables, so I was forced to play other games.  Games that I was not accustomed to playing all too much.

My wife and I had no plans for New Years Eve.  However, we were invited to a few things on last minute notice, it can be hard to find a babysitter.  But hey, I didn’t care all too much anyway.  The degen in me wanted to stay home and play as much poker to reach this 200k VPP mark.  That is exactly what I did.

I ended up playing limit holdem to reach my goal.  Now in the past, I have played limit holdem.  Or I should say, fooled around with the game.  I felt I was adept in the game, but that was just a fallacy as I always seemed to lose.  See, you need to be a little bit on the tighter side in that game (at least I think).  That is something I just don’t like to do.  I am too much of an action junkie.

So to resolve that issue, and to get as many VPPs as possible….I played 20-24 tables of limit holdem at once.  Guess what?  It was a TON of fun too.  I used to ask myself how others could play that many tables at once, but if you stack the tables it is actually pretty easy.  For those that don’t know what stacking means when it is concerned to online poker, you basically put each table right on top of each other table and when it is time for your action, that window pops up.  You have all but a second or two to make your decision as a new table will likely pop up requiring your attention.

When it was all said and done, I ended up winning $461.25 over 7350 hands in a total of just over 6 hours of play.  That is well over 1000 hands an hour!  It was really fun.  Did I run well?  I have no idea!  Mostly because I didn’t really see how the hands went to showdown.  But according to my Holdem Manager program, it looks like I didn’t run all too well as my EV was expected to be around $541.90.

Not too bad I must say!  I might have to start doing that more often!

I hope you have a good 2011!  I am gonna take a small break to work on some aspects of my game.