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I'm such a part-timer these days :( This poor blog, a once bastion of hope that you don't need to be wired into a PIO matrix or spend a fortune on courses to make a little money playing cards on the Internet, has become a desolate wasteland. It's the Windows XP of blogs on the community, fondly remembered but never updated.

I've been a busy bee though and have a box of excuses for you.

The first, and most time consuming, of those excuses was moving flat in December. The flat, when we got the keys in November, was basically a shell. Bare walls/remains of previous tenants decorating and floorboards. This meant for about 6 week I was doing 9am-5pm at my job and then 6pm-10/11pm doing DIY. I also had to learn on the fly as I've spent my adult life living in furnished and rented properties and have never really had to do any kind of decorating or renovations before. I now have been to parts of Youtube I've never seen before :D. Luckily I had a few friends with much more knowledge of these things than me help out when they could and we got the place in a livable state a week before the end of the lease on our now old flat.

The last week before moving was a whirlwind of carpets being laid, deliveries of furniture and white goods and actually packing and moving. It went pretty smoothly as far as I was concerned and by the Sunday night everything important was out the old place and had a home in the new flat. There was a couple of days left the following week that were used to clean the old place and grab any last bits but basically it was a smooth transition.. except for the Internet.

There was a telephone socket on the wall when we got the keys for the flat but we quickly realised that after taking it off the wall to decorate there wasn't actually a cable attached to it, nor a hole in the wall where a cable may have previously been. Initially this didn't appear to be a problem as outside the living room window was a coiled up cable that had been run by a company that is installing full fibre connectivity to the whole of Aberdeen. I'd checked with the provider (Vodafone) and my postcode was confirmed as having the full fibre option and an order could be placed. Placed order, didn't hear anything, phoned them, order has been cancelled because full fibre isn't ready. :(. They suggest I can get a copper line installed for £60, I say no. They're planning to phase out copper lines in the next 5+ years so that seemed like a pointless route to go down. 

A week later, place another order again. Same sequence of events happens again, although this time I go direct to the complaints line and magically they'll do the copper line install for free. Sounds good, engineer will arrive the Wednesday after we move in so only a few days without Internet. During my call with Vodafone I specifically mentioned that there was no telephone cable in the property and that a new cable would need to be run from the distribution point. "No problem" they said. 

Engineer number one turns up on the 18th of December with no notes of the requirement and leaves. After a fairly abrasive call to Vodafone a second engineer turns up a few days before Christmas. Same things happens again. Another angry call and they say the next engineer will be the 10th of January and they can provide temporary Internet via 4g in the meantime. At this point I had to go to the shops and get a Pay as you Go SIM card and put it in an old phone to use as a hotspot for the devices in the flat. The most data they can add to a PAYG sim is 50gb so I had to contact them every 2-3 days via live chat or phone call to get them to top it up again. I'm still doing it now.

There appears to be light at the end of the tunnel though. An engineer did turn up on the 10th and ran a brand new cable into the flat and got the phone line up and running. Unfortunately they hadn't actually applied the Internet service to the line ahead of time so while I can make phone calls on it I still can't use the Internet. A forth engineer is supposed to be working on it today (13th) to do the last part so hopefully the red light on the router will change to whatever colour it's supposed to be at some point and things can get back to normal.

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All of the above has meant I've not had the time or means to play a lot of poker. I started slacking on results tracking too so I don't even have any proper results for December. What I can say is that I started January 2020 with €10.97 in my Unibet account. I can also tell you January has been going well as the bankroll as it stands today is €36.18 according to my results sheet (There may be some EX changes that swing that a cent or two). I've also not had a losing session on Unibet this month which sounds amazing but the sessions have all been really small and basically just to complete missions. I've added a screengrab of my glorious winnings to fully gloat about the situation.

Once the internet finally gets sorted I'll put in some full proper Unibet only sessions and see if we can't get this thing moving in the right direction again. 

Off brand I had my first FT of 2020 on Stars in a Hot $7.50. Couldn't get the trophy but finished 5th or 6th for just under $200. I've also had a number of deepish runs in Winter Series events but nothing major in terms of return. Had some issues with the Run It Once training website, which I reported, and they thanked me with an Elite subscription for a month so I've been doing some study with that. I also won a twitter comp so have another month waiting to be activated.

Looking forward to getting involved with mod duties for the Galfond challenges where Phil Galfond is battling HU in PLO against a bunch of end bosses for silly sums of money with even sillier sums of money on the line in side bets. Should be really fun to rail when it kicks off later in the month.

See you in February!

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I'm still here. 

Played one more session in January after my last update and ended the month just under €36. 

Had one more FT on Stars, getting 3rd in the Hotter $1.10 for $150, to round off a pretty successful January.

February

I've played some UOS events, 13 to be exact, and it's been going rather well. I've made 3 FTs so far with a 6th and two 4ths to show for it. The first FT came in E11 which was a €2 something that I've forgotten about already format. €41 of profit is the part that really matter for that one. The other two both actually came last night, one in the €2 PLO re-entry and the other in the €25 PKO. Now I know what you're thinking and yes, I shouldn't have played the €25 when it was about 50% of my BR at the time. It was a terrible decision and I would not recommend it to anyone. Having said that, BRM is not sexy. Firing a big tourney, going deep and picking up chunks of bounties is 🆒

9 bounties in total for around €140 plus the cash of €250 (and €90 from the PLO) meant a BR boost of about 1200%. Not a bad day in the office. Now I know I shouldn't complain after winning so much but I wouldn't be a poker player without sharing this..

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This is how I busted on the FT :waterfall:. Everyone was all in pre-flop so RNGesus just decided it wasn't my time.I've had this silly goal to try and win a UOS event while using a UOS winners avatar and I think if I'd have won this hand I would have been in with a great chance.

I think I'll have two more sessions before the end of the UOS to complete my silly goal so I don't expect it to happen, I'm top 100 in the Low league just now so the focus is on trying to get some good results in the remaining ones I can play and get a little leaderboard money.

BR sits at €270.07 (I took £200 out) so it's the healthiest it's been since August 2018. I'll probably dust most of it off in the remaining UOS events screaming YOLO as I register but if you come back at the end of the month there is a small chance I haven't :D

I'll hopefully also have some exciting news to share..

 

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The time has come.

3 and half years (roughly) this little thread has been going for and it's been quite the ride. Engagements, babies, new clients, MTT schedules, UO packages without playing poker, slots degeneracy.. it's had it all but there was always going to be a day when it would have to stop. With a heavy heart I have to announce that today is that day. 

For anyone actually still keeping track of the BR I did as expected and torched the majority of the remaining funds at the end of the UOS. Couldn't get a run together and bricked the remaining session I had. Normally I'd be sad about this sort of thing but this time I actually expected it to happen and didn't really mind if it did. There is a very good reason for this lack of respect for my BR and money and that's because..

I'M JOINING UNIBET!!

Not as a poker soul crushing ambassador and pro but as a '3rd Line Poker Product Expert'. This is the job that Patric used to do (He's moved on to another department I believe). Now you might be asking yourself "What does a Poker Product expert actually do?". This is a question many of my friends and family has also asked me and I don't have a short or clean answer for you, or them, so I just show them (and now you) this screenshot from the vacancy post on the Kindred careers website :)

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Exactly what all that means, I'll find out later this month :)

Obviously I won't be able to play on the site anymore so continuing the blog seems a little pointless. Don't worry though, we have some plans to make sure you can still keep up with my averageness, it just won't involve me punting off on Unibet :) 

If you've ever read, liked or commented on the rambling mess I want to say thank you. You've helped me stay accountable while playing and kept this blog going for as long as it has.

This is your 2016 blogger of the year, signing out :Cool:

 

 

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CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR MANY DOCUMENTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS. MAY YOU CONTINUE TO LEVEL UP: EVEN IF NOT IN THE WAYS YOU INITIALLY SET OUT TO COMPLETE.

YOUR BLOG HAS ALWAYS BEEN PREFERRED READING THROUGH IT'S MANY STAGES. theMachine WOULD BE EMOTING IF IT WERE SUBJECT TO SUCH THINGS.

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