Basically, a single Supernova Elite is worth players who play between and 1, hands. Our model assumes the pool of 90, — , players at PokerStars is static. In reality, the vast majority of these players participate in their few hundred to one thousand hands some more some less and go broke or simply stop playing. They are then replaced by new players who go through the same life cycle — rinse and repeat. Supernova Elites generate a lot of rake and are quite valuable to a poker site.
By our conservative estimates, a few hundred casual players are worth the same to PokerStars as a single SNE. Robert DellaFave also contributed to this article. This article may be outdated. I became a winner again, but at those much lower levels the number of hands necessary for Supernova Elite is significantly higher. I was starting to get behind pace and began to ramp up the tables again and went back to breaking even.
One more vacation and I was significantly behind pace. Pokerstars' exit from the US market in April officially ended my run at Supernova Elite , but the attempt had been all but dead since early March. Most runs end like mine, with a whimper and not a bang,. While my endeavor was a pretty weak attempt compared to the legendary tales of starting halfway through the year with meager bankrolls told in poker forums, there are plenty of things for a prospective Supernova Elite to take away from my experience.
It is essential to be sure that you are a long term winning player in the conditions that you will be playing under. This is very obvious, but I still got it wrong, and I'm guessing I'm not alone. Winning over , hands isn't enough. Winning over , hands that you played two hours at a time during peak hours doesn't count either. Nor does being a winner in the game six months ago. Play hours of poker for a few consecutive months to test your abilities and resolve.
That does not apply for those who play very high stakes or games that generate VPPs at a very high rate, such as SNGs. Being a solid winning player is a transferable skill that you can bring with you to other sites or live poker rooms. The VIP Program exists in one place and there is no guarantee that it will always be there. Read more Popular 11 Online Poker Tools to Boost Your Winrate August 20th, First up, you probably know them already — PokerTracker and Holdem Manager are by far the most popular poker tools — but may not have heard the two companies recently merged.
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