The Ultimate Guide to Supernova Elite (SNE) via Pot Limit Omaha (PLO) – Part

1: Is it worth it financially?

This multi-series of articles is an idea I’ve had mulling over in my mind for the past few months and is one that I think

will be helpful to a (relatively) large audience. A lot of the concepts I will discuss are applicable to Supernova Elite (SNE)

chasers in general and are not Pot Limit Omaha (PLO) specific, however there will be certain aspects on the guide

specifically on PLO.

Part 1 – Is it worth it financially?

Supernova Elite. It has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it? “I could do that”. Bonuses upon bonuses. Round-the-world trips to

exotic destinations. 5x FPP multiplier. It sounds glorious. Incredible. Splendiferous, if you will! And it is – don’t get me

wrong – oh, it is. That doesn’t mean it is necessarily the easiest and most direct pathway to riches for you personally

though. If you wanna be “swimmin’ in money like Scrooge McDuck” (and let’s be honest, who doesn’t?) you first need

to crunch some numbers.

X = $ You would make achieving SNE

Y = $ You would make not achieving SNE (ie by playing fewer tables / higher stakes / less volume / whatever)

If X > Y then it’s worth it.

This part of it actually is THAT simple.

When considering the money you would make achieving Supernova Elite you must consider not only the value of SNE

itself but also any winnings you may make at the tables. It’s also not entirely impossible that you may actually incur

losses at the tables and thus your overall total profit will be less than the total value of SNE.

What is the value of SNE? About $105,000. It goes up and down depending on whether you start as bronze star or

supernova or whether you play all the freerolls or not and what tournament packages you take (or if you just take cash)

but basically you’re looking at a smidge over 100k. It’s good money. Great money. Is it worth it? That is only something

you can work out for yourself. I can help. Others can help. You should seek out the help and advice of others — but at

the end of the day if you don’t know everything there is to know about getting SNE, what it’s worth to you and whether

it is your best option, you should not be attempting it.

In order to offer some assistance I have created a few tables that show the breakdown of VPP rates per stake from 1/2

to 25/50 PLO into monetary and bb values. The second table shows how many VPPs you stand to gain per hour playing

x tables at y stakes. The third table shows the hourly winrate you would make playing x tables at y stakes (assuming

you hit SNE). I used 75 hands per hour as a rough estimation so true numbers may vary. I also used $0.105 as the value

of each vpp, a figure that I arrived at by dividing $105,000 by 1,000,000.

Various VPP, $ and bb information for 1/2 to 25/50 PLO

VPPs per hour (approximate)

$ per hour (approximate)

There’s a lot of information within these tables, and I hope it helps you. Use it to weigh your options and decide the

best past to SNE (or not) for you. Some interesting facts to note are the break-even points at which the rakeback

earned stops compensating for losses incurred. For example, at 5/10 you could be a 1.58bb/100 loser in the games and

still break even if you manage to hit SNE by the end of the year. Having said that it is an extremely risky and dangerous

proposition to attempt SNE with a negative winrate: the swings will be monstrous and you won’t see the bulk of the

worth of the SNE package until later in the year (or until you actually hit it) and thus need to be careful of  your ROR

(Risk of Ruin).

Also note that these numbers are approximations. If anyone has more data that shows different to what I’ve used (in

particular vpp/hand rates or hands/hr) then please leave a comment or shoot me and e-mail and I’ll update the figures.

Similarly I didn’t include any stakes lower than 1/2 because I have no hands in my DB to use to get a meaningful

estimation — if you want me to create a table with this information then please tell me the vpp/hand rates for the

stakes you’re interested in and I would be happy to create one for you.

To conclude: 24-tabling 1/2 PLO for a cool $177.41 per hour in rakeback may seem like a sweet deal right now but

when you lose at a rate of 1bb/100 (or $36/hr) and open yourself up to 5-figure downswings, you run a very high risk of

failure. Losing money consistently is not only bad for the BR but is cancer on the mind. You will go insane; always

wondering when your next bonus is coming, how far away you are from a milestone and when-oh-when the beats will

stop. This can and will lead to poor play and an even worse winrate, resulting in further losses and so on and so forth.

You may well be far better off working on your game, moving up in stakes and playing 8-12 tables of 3/6 for a

comparable VPP rate and far less stress. Or further still you might stick to 4 tables, have a great winrate, move up to

5/10+ and all-of-a-sudden $105,000 is a month’s work rather than a year’s grind. Then there’s the last option: you

could be one of the rare few savants who can 12-24 table, show a positive winrate, and simply obliterate everything in

your path. I’ll leave you now with that inspiring thought in mind and a YouTube clip that mirrors our ultimate goal from

all of this silly poker nonsense:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rzba7V8uB04]

Stay tuned for Part 2! I have several topics in mind however suggestions are always welcomed.

The Ultimate Guide to Supernova Elite (SNE) via Pot Limit Omaha (PLO) Part 2:

Mental, physical and social considerations

So hopefully by now you have established that it is indeed worthwhile for you to attempt Supernova Elite from a

financial point of view – what else do you need to consider? The short answer: a lot. The slightly longer answer: at least

these three things – is it worth it mentally? is it worth it physically? is it worth it socially? Now for the in-

depth, really long answer(s):

Part 2 – Mental, physical and socialconsiderations

 

While these three aspects of  the life of a supernova elite grinder constantly intertwine with each other, I’m going to

discus them individually. I’m going to assume that if you’re reading this guide and planning on going for SNE that you

are envisioning a solid year-long time commitment and are not one of the handful lucky enough to be 24 tabling 5/10+

to make SNE with only a couple of hours a day worth of play. Even if you are though you should find some nuggets of

helpful information within the paragraphs below.

Mental Considerations

Those attempting supernova elite have to pay a mental tax throughout the year. Whether it’s a large tax on your mind

or an insignificant one is entirely dependent on you. The ups and downs, the highs and lows, the tilt and agony

and mayhem and insanity that can sometimes go hand-in-hand with SNE is enough to drive some people insane whilst

others won’t even feel the stress. Poker in its essence involves a great deal of psychological control in terms of

selecting games well, playing your A-game, exercising tilt control, knowing when to quit a session and so on and so

forth. All of these factors are magnified exponentially when you begin to greatly increase your volume.

Remember that poker is just one extremely long session. Losing for 3 days straight does not mean you are a losing

player. So then why is it that after losing for any lengthy period of time our mind fills with doubt and insecurities about

our game? My thoughts are that it has to do with selective memory. When we lose on any particular day, or week, we

focus far too much on that loss rather than the months of winning that preceded it. This line of thinking can be

extended further: even at the end of a break-even (or winning!) day we will sometimes think to ourselves “man I ran

bad”. While it’s possible that you did it’s also entirely likely that your mind is playing tricks and pushing the pots in

which you had bad luck to the front of your memory whilst all the times you ran good get shunned to the side.

At the end of the day you need to be able to walk away from the tables cool, calm and composed — regardless of the

results. Okay, I’ll grant you that can be near impossible sometimes – so at the very least you need to be able towalk

back to the tables cool, calm and composed. No matter what happened in your last session — or last ten sessions —

you are here to play your best. You are here to maximise your expectation on every single hand. Do that and you

have a far greater chance of achieving success not only by way of supernova elite, but throughout your entire poker

career.

Physical Considerations

The physical strain on your body by playing as much poker as you’re going to be playing is surprisingly high. I

can see some of you laughing already — and sure, the

physical requirements of playing online poker may be next to none (an ass that can be sat on and a hand that can click

a mouse) but you’re kidding yourself if you think spending that many hours slumped in a chair in front of your computer

isn’t damaging your body.

Whilst there are limitless potential physical ailments that could arise at any point in time whilst sitting in front of a

computer, there are a few issues that seem to recur throughout the poker community: bad backs, sore eyes and

strained hand/wrists. I personally have experienced the first and last of that list, and thankfully have been blessed with

perfect eyes (thanks for the carrots mum!) so as to not experience any soreness or strain on them. So what can and

should you do to look after yourself physically?

Exercise! Nothing can beat regular exercise. You can have the best chair in the world, gunnar glasses and a

vertical mouse but the combined worth of all three of those things pales in comparison to the worth of regular exercise.

I’m not talking about a strenuous weights regime or training for a marathon, a simple 30-40 minutes a day of cardio or

light weights will do the trick. Go for a jog. Stretch. Walk the dog. Do something, and do it often, and you will thank me

(and your body will thank you!)

Don’t ignore any signs of discomfort! Too often someone will feel a bit of pain in their back and shrug it

off, or they will squint their eyes every now and then and think nothing of it. I’m no expert however I imagine the

sooner any medical issue is discovered and addressed the better your short and long-term prognosis will be. I’m not

talking about running to see a specialist at the first sign of pain but just being aware of what is going on with your body

is a giant first step. If you have any doubt about anything then check with your GP. Hell, google your issue. It’s better

than nothing.

Ergonomically optimise your workstation. Yes, this is where a good chair comes in handy. It doesn’t stop

with that though – you need to sit in it correctly and have it set to the right height. The top of your monitor(s) should be

level with your eyes. Your feet should be flat on the ground. The list goes on and on – the best thing you can do here is

Google ergonomics and search through the myriad of sites out there with information on this topic.

Eat well. This goes without saying. A healthy diet will not only help you physically but also mentally. You will

be able to play longer and more frequent sessions – and you will play better throughout them. Trust me.

All in all there are limitless ways you can help yourself physically and I’ve only listed a few of them. It’s a start. If

there’s anything in particular you are struggling with not mentioned above, address the issue. There are special glasses

out there for those who get eye-strain and special mice for those with sore wrists. I’d be happy to recommend some but

I don’t want to clutter this post with links and reviews about non-essential subjects.

Social Considerations

It’s easy to get sucked into the endless abyss that is the secluded world of online poker. If you live alone you can go

days, even weeks without other direct human contact. So what? Well, and trust me on this one, your poker success will

be far greater if you can learn to balance your life with social interactions away from the internet than if you stay a

recluse. Ask anyone currently crushing nosebleeds – or ask any of the top VPP grinders – and they will tell you the same

thing. Submerging yourself into the endless waters of poker might seem like a good idea but trust me – all the playing,

the forum-posting, the video-watching and podcast listening will take its toll on you. You will eat, drink, breathe, dream

and live poker. It’s not good for your health both mentally and physically and in turn is not good for your poker game.

The best solution I can think of is to leave the house and hang out with friends. It’s that simple. Play video games or go

to a sporting match or get drunk at a bar — do something, anything, that is non-poker related. If you have a girlfriend

or wife then it’s a bit easier since you’ll be spending time with her (or you won’t be, in which case you will no longer

have a gf or wife… so I suggest you do). I probably wouldn’t have made SNE last year if not for Puneet. The moral

support she provided and fact that away from the tables we would talk about anything and everything but poker helped

keep my mind clear and focused which in turn helped me put in long sessions, helped me play well and helped me

reach my goal.

Nothing I have mentioned in the above three parts of this article is ground shattering information and everything I

spoke of is easy to do; however, everything I spoke of is also easy to forget to do. I’ll leave you with the best advice I

can think of to sum up this article: don’t forget.

Stay tuned for part 3 of the ultimate guide: Having a plan B.

The Ultimate Guide to Supernova Elite (SNE) via Pot Limit Omaha (PLO) Part 3:

Having a Plan B

Part three of this guide will focus on having a contingency plan should your Supernova Elite goals go awry. Hope for the

best but plan for the worst. While I hope that all of you aiming for Supernova Elite experience the thrill of seeing your

VPP balance hit 7 figures it would be unwise for anyone to attempt SNE without a backup plan. What happens if after 4

months you can’t keep up the pace? What happens if you downswing and need to drop in stakes so much that you can

no longer generate enough VPPs to get there? What if Stars changes the game you play in the middle of the year? What

if, what if, what if?

Everyone’s Plan B will obviously vary from one another and your personal plan B should be tailored to your specific

situation. That being said there are some general guidelines and ideas I have that you can use when preparing your

backup plan.

When you set out to get those million VPPs you should already know the stakes you’re going to do it at, the hours and

days you’ll need to play, the time you’ll take off, how your money will be dispersed through bonuses and wins

throughout the year and basically everything there is you can possibly know. This is great. You can be as prepared as

you can possibly imagine for Supernova Elite and through absolutely no misdoings of your own have a metaphorical

cyclone blow clean through your plan. By this I mean PokerStars could add or remove the game type you play, alter the

buy-in rules that you are used to or, hell, simply scrap their SNE program entirely. While I think the latter is highly

unlikely the former changes can, have and will continue to occur.

Two recent examples that come to mind are the removal of Double or Nothing Sit & Gos this year and (more specifically

to the PLO readers of this blog) the changing of buy-in rules. Anyone who had hoped to accomplish SNE by playing a

20bb stack hit-and-running the PLO games in 2011 would have been met with a swift kick in the gut when they woke up

to find out the minimum buy-in was now 30bbs and the rathole timer had been increased to two hours. So what do you

do when this situation comes up? When everything you had planned for – your livelihood for the year – crumbles down

around you? You can do one of two things:

Don't be this guy..

1) Post on the forums. E-mail Stars. Complain. Kick up a fuss and get into flame wars with people who have opposing

views to you. You can start a petition or even go as far as to participate or facilitate a mass “sitting out strike” on the

tables. What is this going to do? Absolutely jack all except waste precious grinding time and make your overall life just

a little more miserable.

2) Relax and not worry as you can fall back to your plan B. What is your plan B? That depends and it will vary from

person to person but I can tell you one thing for sure – you will have one. If you read this post, you will have a plan B.

Right?

It could be as simple as knowing that you’re going to be okay because you’ve been okay for years playing another

game. Perhaps your main game is 6 tables of deepstack PLO and you’re able to beat the games at a solid winrate but

you’ve decided to chase SNE playing shallow stack PLO over 24 tables. If all of a sudden the option to play shallow or

24 tables disappears you can now revert back to playing fewer tables with deeper stacks and know that you’ll be just

fine financially. You might not be able to make SNE, you might not make quite as much money as you had planned for,

but you’ll be alright.

You might not be as lucky as the person in the example I just posted above. Perhaps you haven’t been able to beat

deepstack PLO yet and are only breaking even when you play and are relying on the rakeback/bonuses from SNE to be

the bulk of your income. If something happens that prevents you from playing your normal 24 tables of shallow PLO

then you are stumped – you can’t fall back on another form of poker and you can see the bills piling up. What do you

do?

Well, basically, to prevent this you must make sure that you CAN fall back on another form of poker. Before you

attempt SNE make sure that you can beat another game at a winrate that will sustain your lifestyle one way or another.

I don’t care if you have to mass multi table small stakes MTTs or if you have to play heads-up stud SNGs. Just make

sure that you can beat a game before you’re forced into the situation where you have to.

Your plan B doesn’t necessarily have to be another form of poker. For most of you it probably will be, but there are

some people who, if they can’t accomplish SNE, may well choose to pursue another path in life. You might re-enroll in

university. You might go back to working in whatever field you worked in before poker came into your life. Regardless

of what you do end up doing, you should know beforehand what your plan B is and make enough preparations that

should that unfortunate day occur when your SNE dreams dissipate you are ready for the next step to take. If you’re

not prepared you can end up losing valuable time and making a mistake at what could be a very important junction in

your life / career.

All in all having a plan B is your back-up plan should everything else fall to pieces. Hopefully none of you ever have to

rely on it but if you do you will be thankful for having one in place. It could be the difference between having to give up

your SNE goals because Stars removed the type of SNGs that you play and still being able to make it by playing full ring

cash games. Good luck!

The Ultimate Guide to Supernova Elite (SNE) via Pot Limit Omaha (PLO) – Part 4: Increasing your Winrate

If you’ve made it this far into the guide then you’re serious about hitting Supernova Elite. Hopefully you’ve read the first

three parts: Is it worth it financially?, Social, Mental & Physical Considerations and Having a Plan B. So by now you

should have established that it’s worth it for you to attempt to make SNE, you should have a backup plan in case things

go awry and you should have an idea of the social, mental and physical challenges ahead. That’s all well and good but

at the end of the day we’re here to make money — so how about we look at some ways to improve your bottom line

and increase that winrate.

When it comes to mass multi-tabling pot limit omaha there are certain situations that will come up over and over again.

Learn to master these situations and you will be a beast at the tables; fail to do so and you’ll be yet another run of the

mill reg who4-tabling lags will run over and even the fish will have fun with. You don’t want to be that person, do you?

The following notes and thoughts are from my experiences over the years playing 8-20 tables of PLO. The list is by no

means exhaustive nor will every point be expanded upon as much as possible (i ain’t writing a book here) — but it’s a

good starting point and hopefully a solid reference for anyone attempting this feat.

1. Eliminate the bottom 20% of your range OOP right now. This is almost certain to show a profit for everyone.

PLO is a game of position and being out of it means you’re at a disadvantage right off the bat — why would you want to

play a weak hand? While you can definitely profitably get away with playing marginal hands out of position, you can’t

do it while playing 12+ tables. You really can’t. You’re going to need specific reads, you’re going to need to be donk

betting, barreling off, check-raise bluffing rivers, blocker-bluffing, value betting thinly and hoping that your opponent

isn’t doing all of these things better than you (in position) to show a profit with your most marginal hands. There’s

nothing wrong with folding.

Note that I didn’t list a range of hands and tell you what to play and what not to play. You know your own strengths and

weaknesses; you know your ranges and what you’re comfortable with. Whatever you consider to be “marginal”, when

you’re out of position, just fold. Whether that’s AT76ss, QQ86r, AKT5ss or 8876ss — that’s up to you to decide.

Remember: just because when you’re going over hands, studying your game and analyzing lines to take you believe

that it’s +EV to play a certain hand does not mean that the same will be true when you’re playing 12 tables and have 4

other hands to focus on at the time.

2. Don’t play an overwhelming number of tables. If you feel overwhelmed by the number of tables you have

running and the decisions you need to make, close some tables. It’s almost always more profitable to play fewer tables

and have a higher winrate (or lower lossrate, whatever your goal is) than to eek out 15% more VPPs by having those

extra 2 or 3 tables running. One mistake in a big pot because you’re panicked with too many decisions and the

monetary gain from VPPs you’ve earned over your last 5 sessions of extra tables is gone. And I can almost guarantee

that one mistake, but it will happen far more frequently than every 5 sessions.

There’s no reason to play too many tables. This is something that I have been struggling with most recently. I find

myself waking up, looking at the lobby, and jumping on every waitlist from 3/6 to 25/50. It starts off slow and things are

going great, the tables are good, and i’m playing well. Then all of a sudden I have 14 tables running and things are

getting hectic. A couple of tables are shorthanded now. I need to pay more attention. I think i’ll just close a couple —

but which ones? Hmm they all look good. Fish here, weak regular there. Okay i’ll just keep them up and focus really

hard. Oh crap another 2 tables just popped up. That’s okay i’ll just close them, no need to play them. **** look at the

whale on that table. Ok, one more can’t hurt. Before you know it you’re misclicking, timing out, missing bluffs, not

value-betting a river and making poor decisions on 15 tables rather than making good decisions on 10. It’s not worth it.

3. Take notes. Most players don’t take enough notes. Some players don’t take any notes. I’ve found that those who

mass multi table usually fall into the “no notes” category. They think the fact that they’re playing so many tables is an

excuse not to take notes. They think their HUD is good enough. They think taking notes will distract them and make

them pay less attention. They be wrong. Taking notes will make you pay moreattention. The human brain is trained to

remember things at a much higher rate when something is repeated and written down. Your notes may be less

extensive than if you were playing 2 tables, and you may make less of them, but do not eliminate note-taking from

your game altogether. Just don’t.

I would begin by color-coding your opponents. Stars has the nifty feature available to you, so use it. I use the following

system:

Pink – Very loose aggressive player and/or giant whale

Green – Loose-passive player, generally fishy

Yellow – Average regular

Red – Good regular

Blue – Weak regular

Teal – Shortstacker

Orange – Nit

Indigo – Weak/terrible player in an unknown/weird way [or bad player that doesn't fit in another category]

Once I have someone categorized it is already easier to play vs. them. From there I expand upon my notes — are they a

calling station? do they bluff a lot / not at all? how often do they double barrel? do they bluff raise flops? how do they

play in 3bet pots? do they blocker bluff? and so on and so forth. It’s an easy habit to start and once more a highly

profitable one — if not for anything else than for the fact that it will indeed increase your focus on the tables.

4. Fight for the small pots. It’s so easy to let them go and move on – especially when you’re on a multitude of

other tables and have decisions that are up or about to come up. But this is a leak, and one that is

magnified significantly over hundreds of thousands of hands. There’s a limped pot and you check in the BB and the flop

is 552r? Bet. Stab. It’s +EV, I can almost guarantee that. It’s folded to the SB who completes and we are in the BB.

Raise. We have ultimate 

position and we know that the SB likely has a marginal hand at best. Sometimes they will fold then and there,

sometimes they will fold on the flop, and past that we play poker in position. How bad can that be? It also means in the

future they will be more likely to simply fold their SB to you, not wanting to get into difficult spots OOP to an aggressive

player. Another bonus.

Those were just two examples of ways to fight for the small pots. There are dozens of scenarios similar to those where

a small bet here or there will net you a tidy profit. Sometimes it will work and sometimes it won’t, but in the long run it

will be profitable. It might add 1bb/100 to your winrate. It might add less, it might add more. But it will add. Let’s say

you’re playing a mix of 1/2 and 2/4 to reach SNE. Using approximate VPP rates you will play 416,666 hands of 2/4 and

500,000 hands of 1/2. Adding 1bb/100 to your winrate will profit you a neat $26,666.64 over the year. That’s one big

blind per 100 hands. It’s nothing when you think about it. Think about all the pots that go by uncontested; think about

how often they happen (more than once in 100 hands, right?). Think about your edge in picking them up. Yeah, it’s

huge. Don’t overlook the small pots. They add up.

So there you have four significant areas of mass multi-tabling PLO to focus on that will surely benefit your bottom line.

Heeding the advice in this post will help anyone — not just those chasing supernova elite, but I do believe these issues

tend to be overlooked more often by the SNE chasers of the world. If you’re already doing everything I mentioned well

then more power to you. If you’re not, then start. Now.plo, poker, poker article, poker tips, pot limit omaha, sne, sne guide, supernova elite

The Ultimate Guide to Supernova Elite (SNE) via Pot Limit Omaha (PLO) Part

5.1: In the Trenches

I’ve thought for a long while now the direction in which I want to take this guide. I came to the conclusion that if you are

this serious about making SNE – and you have read the first four parts of this guide and done the necessary calculations

and taken everything into consideration that you should – that the best way to move forward would be to give you

advice that will help your day to day grind.

There is a lot of information out there about planning for SNE. VPP rates. Charts. Back-up plans. Multi-tabling help.

Breakeven points. Hourlies. I could go on. There really is a lot of information, and a lot of it is pretty good information. I

feel no need to continue to add to that. What I have noticed lacking is advice that will help you after you’ve already

started. When you’re in the middle of the year. Advice that can only come from experience and that will help you make

it through with as healthy a bottom line and level of sanity as possible.

I have no specific order for what I want to post and my thoughts are likely to jump all over the place. These are just

things that come to mind when I ask myself the question “What advice would you give to someone in their 3rd, 5th,

8th, 10th month of SNE progress”? – of course the advice will be general in nature as everyone will be at different

points of the chase depending on how the year has treated them up to those respective points. For this reason I have

decided to split this part up into several sub-sections – I will add one thought/piece of advice per section and add to it

over the coming weeks as new thoughts come to me. I also plan to have other veteran SNE’s drop by to share some of

their wisdom too. I’m not arrogant enough to believe I know everything there is to know about SNE. Surely at least one

person out there knows something I don’t.

Stick to your plan

The first thing to come to mind is to reiterate how important it is to stick to your plan. Everyone has made a plan by

now – they know approximately (or perhaps even more definitely) how many hours per day and week they will play, at

what stakes, and on how many tables. They know how often they will take days or weeks off. They know that they have

accounted for a few days off in case of emergencies or unforeseen circumstances. This is all well and good but it is far

too easy to let yourself slip and when you slip just once things will often begin to snowball out of control.

The most often slip up is to take an unplanned day off or to relax in the amount of hours you are playing. The most

dangerous time for this to happen is near the end of the year when your time is short. The most common yet still

almost as dangerous time for it to happen is early in the year. This is because of the line of thinking “well I can take a

little time off now and all I will need to do is play an extra 10 minutes a day for the last 11 months and I will still make

it” or “I have days off for emergencies, I might as well take on now”. And when this happens once it is likely to happen

again. A few of these instances strung together and all of a sudden “10 minutes a day extra” turns into another hour

per day, or 2 more tables to play at once. While in and of themselves not catastrophic adjustments to have to make –

consider the fact that later in the year you are likely to be more worn out and that is when you would prefer to be able

to take it more easily.

You made your plan for a reason. Think ahead and take into consideration an excess of “off” days because, and trust

me on this one, almost everyone wants and needs more than they plan for. SNE grinders are especially prone to

burnout and planning days off in advance and taking them at a steady pace throughout the year (rather than a heavy

grind for 6 months, 2 weeks off, then another heavy grind) will benefit you greatly.

Speaking of burnout, it is actually probably not beneficial to do the opposite of this either. That is to push yourself

harder at the start of the year hoping to allow for more breaks towards the end. While a little bit of this is probably good

(even beneficial), taking it too far (which is not hard to do for a solid grinder) will lead to burnout and result in poor play

or more days off being required. As with most things in life: slow and steady wins the race. If you sprint or your

“steady” is broken up with too many days off too often you are almost certain to have worse results than if you

whacked on a shell and channelled the spirit of a tortoise.

The Ultimate Guide to Supernova Elite (SNE) via Pot Limit Omaha (PLO) Part

5.1: In the Trenches