Wow, what an ambitious title [old title - Operation Supernova (New title is even more ambitious!)] for someone who has until now been unmotivated, unspecialised and unsettled.

My goal is to achieve supernova this year at Stars by 12-15 tabling 6max cash. I feel confident that I can do it, towards the end of 2007 I tried donking about with 15 tables of 10NL and 25NL, now that I have played ~7k hands of 50NL already this month I feel on course and ready for a year of severe grinding!

Obviously this is a long and ambitious goal, but I will get there barring something spectacularly awful/ bankroll crushing happening. My first step is to achieve PlatinumStar in January. As I mentioned, I have already played 7.5k hands this month. The results are a not entirely impressive 1ptBB/100. Oh dear. I lost a 300BB pot with set>set etc. the sob stories could go on. However, I don't really care, I hope I am just running badly but if not I'm constantly working on my game and thinking through hands so I will be more profitable in the future.

I have worked out that if I 15 table 50NL with the aim of getting Platinum this month, I need around another 35 hours of grinding. At around 1.5 hours a day that sounds easily attainable, though I have a lot on this week and my dad will be staying with me one weekend in late January, so it may not be as straightforward as I hope.

As for profit, well frankly I have no idea... I set myself a new year's resolution of being +$10k this year. If I grind enough to get 100k base FPPs I will really have to suck to make only that. Basically, for me the FPPs and Supernova are the carrot on a stick to motivate me to grind lots this year. Hopefully the profit will follow, I have only been playing for a year and have so far exceeded all my expectations. It will be tough, but with the right approach I think this is achievable and will set me up to get through college without sponging off my parents!

Wish me luck/ flame me for being a mediocre ABC multi-tabling tag-bot