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I often get asked how I play so many damn hands of poker. By my best guesstimate it is upwards of 5 million hands at this point since I started playing poker late in 2004. Obviously the main reason I have played so many hands is because I really enjoy grinding and as a result I frequently put in long hours. Today, however, I am going to reveal a little secret. About the middle of last year when I started to realize just how tough it was going to be to make Supernova Elite, I began thinking of ways that I could play as many hands as possible throughout the day. I was pretty much tapped out as I was already playing as many tables as I could handle for as many hours as I could keep my eyes open. But then I had a thought. Why waste time getting up to pee when I could just keep the VPP machine rolling and pee in a bottle? So that is what I began doing. : )

Before actually implementing this new idea, I calculated if it was worth it or not. In terms of VPP’s I figured that by the time I sat out on all of the tables and waited for the blind to sit back in, I was missing out on about 75 VPPs. On average I would pee twice a day during my sessions which meant that I would miss out on 150 VPP per day. That is 4,500 VPP a month and for the 8 months that I had left in the year that was 36,000 VPPs! In terms of dollars it got even uglier. I make about $1 a hand and every time I got up to pee I would miss about 100 hands. So it essentially cost me $100 to pee. Twice a day makes that $200 and if I play about 250 days a year (very conservative estimate) that means it costs me $50,000 a year to pee which was more than I used to make at my old job!!!! That also means that since I am 27 now, that without counting one cent of interest, it would cost me over a million bucks to pee before I am 50 years old…lol.

Armed with that knowledge I found no reason to ever waste time getting up to pee and missing out on 100 chances to bust fish and haven’t ever since…lol. For those that are wondering I do draw the line at good old #2…lol. I definitely get up to take care of him..hahahaha. But I do make every effort to take care of him before I play. Call me crazy, but I’ll take $50,000 a year over getting the luxury to get up and go to the bathroom. Slam dunk decision imo.

Am I nuts?
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