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@Caladrias, this quarter has been pretty poor effort by me, just over 400k. Generally I aim for 600k, but even that’s not easy. I understand that’s not that many points compared to a typical cash grinder, but this is solely from sngs.

Games have been relatively tough this month, a lot of highstakes games running, I played about ten €100s last night, never seen this much action at those stakes, it did not go well. I guess the Queen of Flips promo is encouraging some better players to grind, it seems like a generous promo but I’d rather have softer games. Updated reg rankings, I’ve removed the names that are obviously changing their screename very regularly (I’d say there’s 3 or 4 other regs at the same level as the best on this list or better). Played a fair bit with Davelappin for first time this week whilst watching his stream, was fun, he had some close spots vs me, he might have made a couple small mistakes. 1. PKing98 2. Zinzonzo 3. Runbetter 4. Caladrias 5. Lusy112 6. Davelappin 7. Tedwina 8. Einherjar 9. Iansimpson 10. TonnyP1 11. DownwithOPP 12. WhataboutNO 13. Brownlne 14. Ashlee2007 15. IkerC1 16. Maleus 17. Crazyfusz 18. Smoothace 19. Nutsrandom 20. Bredsox 21. Fromri 22. Vilunki 23. Kroll

@Pucuri88, to answer your question (here, so I don’t derail @FreedoMs thread). You asked about my ROI at the 5man 10s and 25s, I’m choosing to keep that info to myself for now, but somewhere in this thread I did talk about my ROI at the €4s. I stopped playing them at the end of 2016, think my ROI was about 15% from about 10k games. In terms of what’s achievable, I’m definitely far from the greatest, and I play a lot of tables; better players playing fewer tables will get much better ROIs than me.

Lots of good advice re the database analysis. I’d add that, 1. To do meaningful analysis with tournaments you need a lot of hands, collected over a short time period (your game should be evolving, even if it isn’t other players are, older hh aren’t as useful), and from the same game type. So much of tournament play is situational you will often find you have to filter extensively to analyse a certain spot, and then when you’ve applied those filters you often don’t have a meaningful sample size. Back when I was on stars I’d do this kind of work, I was generating up to 200k hh a month and it wasn’t always enough to do what I wanted. 2. If you don’t have enough hh, look for videos and other resources where good players share their ranges in certain spots, and start to move your range in the direction of that players (copying ranges is usually a bad idea, but knowing if you should be looser or tighter is often helpful). 3. Re Folding 99 preflop in EP; you probably know that you should usually be opening 99. If you’re losing a lot with 99 (and it’s not just variance) look at how you play TT and 88 (assuming you play those hands profitably) to give you some ideas on how to possibly play the hand differently. 4. You’ve said that you’re a casual player, so I hope you don’t take offence, but often when you find you’re losing money with a hand, the answer isn’t to start folding pre, it’s to understand how you are misplaying the hand and work to correct it.

End of year review. Well, I didn’t win Unibet Manchester, bust 22nd, 2 off the money, seems like an appropriate way to end my year of live mtt’s, didn’t want to spoil that nice -100% ROI streak. Online SNG’s: Probably my best year ever, certainly in terms of hourly rate. A few things have helped: I dropped my table count drastically, from my stars days of 24tabling, I’m now 12 tabling with a higher average buyin and much better reads on players, and plenty of time to think about things like betsizing, rather than just mashing 1/2 pot on every flop. SNGs are games of small edges and I’m surprised how lazy most players are in this respect, even some of the better ones. PIOsolver. Really only scratched the surface here, I’ve improved my understanding of one very common spot, and it’s already paid for itself many times over, excited to do more work here, I just enjoy playing too much it’s difficult to find the time. The games have really picked up on Unibet, particularly peak hours, and recently late night a bunch of players jump on around 11pm UK time. I haven’t played a single €4 game all year, they were a huge drain on my mental energy for little reward. On good evenings I’m only playing 25s and 50s, and the odd 100 when they run. Online MTTs: Had a plan to play more of these, sngs have become so profitable I’m rethinking this. Nothing much happened, probably -€1k on the year. The supernova is obviously an amazing value tournament, I might play that occasionally in the future. As well as taking up a table that could be a sng, they require a lot of valuable mental energy. Live MTTs: Not good. Visited Spain, Morocco, France and Malta, plus weekends in London, Manchester and Southend. 5 weeks away from home, played 9 or 10 MTTs, no cashes. If I’d stayed at home and grinded online I’d be €12-15k better off this year (including cost of travel, accommodation, buyins, and missed opportunity to play online). Even if I’d run better, the hourly rate of playing a live €500 tourney is not going to come close to online. Still, I love visiting new places, so feel lucky I got the opportunity. Happy Xmas, see you at the tables.

Played day 1A of Unibet Manchester yesterday (and today, crazy late finish of 430am, I’m too old for this). Ran superhot for an hour near the end of the day, ran my stack up from 40k to 180k, finished the day on 165k, good for a top five stack. Key hands, that I may have misplayed, really unsure very often in 9 handed mtts these days, it’s so far from my familiar games, think I tend to overvalue hands and get it in a bit too light preflop, at least one spot today managed to stop myself, correctly: Think it was 150/300, utg limps, “onscreen” raises to 1100 from btn, I 3bet to 4k from sb with TT, call call. Flop QJ9, I check, utg checks, btn bets 6k, has I think about 17k behind, I tank for an age and shove 30k, utg covers and folds thankfully, btn folds. Dunno, could certainly do this with AA/KK so seems an ok semibluff, ambassador bounty was not in play as it was his second bullet, would be very trivial shove if it was. At 600/1200/200, btn opens to 3600, I stuff it all in 43k with 88 from bb, btn calls AQ and I hold. Definitely a profitable shove, but maybe not the most profitable line, awkward. At 800/1600 I limp BvB with A4hh. BB raises to 5k, I call. Flop AQh4, I checkcall 4k. Turn Kh, check through. River Th. I lead for pot 20k, calls and shows Jh. Could see arguments for playing every street differently here. Started working with pio, pretty sure it’d favour a huge overbet on this river. EP opens 2.5x, I defend BB with 84dd. Flop 23Q one diamond. I checkraise a 3k Cbet to 8.5k, call. Turn offsuit 5, I lead 18k, fold. End of day, he told me he folded AQ, was not targeting that hand, very lucky. Hindsight, my flop raise is maybe a bit ambitious, prefer it on say 67Q where I have a lot more 2 pair combos in my range. Open JJ to 3.5k, tight mp 3bets to 10k, with just under 60k behind. I manage to stop myself and just flat, 842dd, I check call, turn Ad, he snap checks back. Was preparing to fold every turn bet, now thinking about how much I need to bet river to get KK/QQ to fold. Fortunately, J river, lead for 20k, called by QQ. Out on the town with a mate tonight, early start Sunday, I will not be at my best I suspect.

Not been playing much this month, Malta, then Southend with a friend for my now regular live MTT donation (half way there we realised neither of us wanted to play a 2 day event, so very efficiently both busted around midnight day 1), then parents for a couple days. Games have been good last couple days, lot of 50s running in the evening, but I’m still usually the only player sitting the 100s, it’s gonna be the same or softer than a 50 if it runs, why not jump in? I really like the Moving On Up promo, it doesn’t benefit me very much directly, I clean up when it’s a volume based leaderboard promo but these promos make the games themselves massively reg filled. Moving On Up gives everyone an achievable goal to win something that’s very good value if you’re a low stakes low volume player, these are the people who should be getting the promo money in my opinion. Playing Unibet UK Manchester next week, looking forward to it, won a package, Unibet sorted out an issue with it without fuss, good job by their team; playing day 1A. Then meeting up with group of friends for night out in Manchester on the Saturday. If I make it to day 2 on the Sunday, I will feel like death, guaranteed. If anyone fancies a beer on Friday, come say hello, I’ll be at the bar. Reg rankings, added a few more familiar names, the guys at the top are some of the same players changing their screename every few days. 1. Nebulyad 2. Itsmybrthday 3. Bearium 4. Nabom 5. Caladrias 6. Piosolverino 7. Hotlipps 8. Einherjar 9. Iansimpson 10. DownwithOPP 11. WhataboutNO 12. Ashlee2007 13. IkerC1 14. TonnyP1 15. Maleus 16. Crazyfusz 17. Smoothace 18. Nutsrandom 19. Katies 20. Bredsox 21. Fromri 22. Kroll

@PaziHalinka, hard to say, maybe a small winner. Without going into detail, as it would be reallly unfair, there’s things certain players do that can be exploited to an extreme once you spot them, but might not be so bad if your opponents are not very observant. @UAC, no, not played any husng. I’m surprised how poor some otherwise decent players are when it gets hu in the 5mans. Think I’m decent hu, but not an expert, and I don’t like the anonymous lobby format for husng on unibet; I think it’s the right way to go as it protects recs from being targeted but likely I’d end up in too many -EV games.

@PaziHalinka, I’ve been playing kroll for two years, he used to play day and evenings, seems like it’s just evenings now, but he’s maybe 6 tabling and he plays every night, don’t think he’s a rec. The €10 regs mostly play similarly, certain things they always do that aren’t great. @cris1285, I’ve said before but Ian’s got a tough job, it’s very easy to spot and exploit leaks when he’s streaming all his sessions. He might be a spot or two higher on my list if he didn’t stream.

Thought I’d update the reg rankings, this is just the ones that have been playing recently. The guys in the top half are mostly 25+ players, the bottom half mostly €10 players. Numbers 9-12 play almost identically, probably not a coincidence, very limited skillset but can see how it’s profitable vs the players they face at the 10s, they would probably all be losing players if they played higher. i don’t think the players at the top are great, but they’ve not done much that’s obviously bad. 1. Nebulyad 2. Itsmybrthday 3. Bearium 4. Caladrias 5. Hotlipps 6. Einherjar 7. Iansimpson 8. DownwithOPP 9. Ashlee2007 10. IkerC1 11. TonnyP1 12. Maleus 13. Smoothace 14. Katies 15. Bredsox 16. Kroll

100s have been running quite a bit the last couple of days, think I’ve played 9 or 10 in that time. 5 games on Sunday evening, got 3 firsts and a 2nd. Twice hit 3 outers, and won one flip, each time for half the chips in play, each time vs itsyrbrthday (screename is something like that), so that helps. Yesterday, played 4 or 5 100s, no cashes. It’s a tiny amount of my volume, maybe 3% of my games have been 100s the last two days, but it determines if I win or lose for the day. I think more 100s have run than 50s these last two days, mostly 5 reg games, I’m curious as to what these guys are doing otherwise, cash games or other sites I guess, but some of them aren’t interested in regging for the 50s it seems. It’s been myself vs some combo of iansimpson, bearium, itsyrbrthday, brooooo, einherjar, hotlipps, psycho79. I certainly don’t consider this to be a soft lineup, I think myself and bearium are definitely winning longterm in these lineups, the others I don’t know, some have some obvious leaks, some I haven’t seen do anything really stupid yet. @KrustyTheClown, thanks, 100%, there’s nothing wrong with being proud of achievements. Plus, there’s probably one or two better sng players than me on unibet, there definitely is plenty more on stars, and I prob couldn’t beat midstakes cash no matter how hard I tried (though I’m curious to try too, but hard to start at the bottom again). Think I’m reasonably aware of my spot on the ladder.

@JRHartley, yeah, I think it’s a really fun format, and the rakes lower than anywhere else. Theres really no easy shortcuts that I know of when it comes to studying ICM. ICMizer is software that offers a few free calculations every day, and you do need to put in a decent amount of effort to get the right output each time, and of course there’s inifinite different situations. Some random thoughts on ICM study; Dont be lazy and follow the Nash ICM solutions, Nash solutions assume everyone plays optimally. They don’t. Theres no general rules. Try to pick the most +EV line; sometimes limping BvB with 9bb or raise folding 11bb is better than a +EV shove. Sometimes openshoving 25bb’s is best. Etc. Dont push the envelope too far. Taking very thin +EV spots isn’t smart in soft games. Shoving superwide because players call too tight is fun while it lasts, but players don’t put up with that stuff for long, and your shoves quickly become unprofitable.

Just waiting to fly home from Malta. Nice place, can see myself coming back for a bit longer over the winter. Poker was a very mixed bag, overall very disappointing, I really need to learn how to get it in for all the chips and hit 3 outers in mtts, think that’s a key strategy. Live cash 14hours, +€650 Online 12h, +€1250 sngs, -€250 mtt Live mtt 27h, -€1200 I’ve been interested in playing mtt’s for fun, but I really don’t enjoy them, even when they are going well. Financially no question my hourly is higher in sngs, and I think I’ve been playing mtts to hit a big score as justification for playing poker for a living. One of the most common questions I get asked is, “what’s the most you’ve won in a day?”, and my answer is very underwhelming to people (it’s about $6k for winning an aria daily tourney). Probably should care less what other people think. It’s been interesting seeing the difference in my enjoyment of online sngs, live cash, and live mtts. Online sngs I still love, get excited to play every day, enjoy all the good days, and instantly forget the bad ones. Live cash is fun, lots of table chat, drinks, a few blowups (not by me), fast play. Live mtts really are the nut low. Battle of Malta, I played a total of maybe 15 hours over two day ones, lot of table changes, saw maybe 50 different players; no one spoke, aside from a couple of very brief conversations. Half the table tanked before decisions. I really wonder why recreational players even bother. It’s early in a €500 donkament, it really doesn’t need to be like this. Anyone still interested in the coaching freeroll, offer still open, looking for the right person. @Caladrias, @UAC, thanks, see you at the tables.

@WuDu, I did say I was “probably” the highest per game winner, based on what I know of my results, but you’re right there could be some higher per game winners, It’s all about that hourly though . I understand you play 10s and 25s, where at the 10s at least, the player pool is quite large, and players could frequently change their sn and I probably wouldn’t notice. But probably the biggest winner on the site isn’t a SNG10 reg, right? I mean maybe, but they would have to be crushing whilst putting in huge volume. Every site I’ve played on I’ve been the highest volume player at 6max turbos (apart from stars.com, I played there early in my career when mum multitabling skills weren’t as strong as they are now). So this mythical SNG10 player would have to be putting in a lot more volume than me, and we are talking a few thousand games a month whilst smashing it to have a shot at beating my overall sng results for the year. We can only make educated guesses here, but probably this player doesn’t exist. So, probably the biggest winner plays high volume, including at the higher stakes, and here’s why I can be confident that I’m the biggest winner this year; I am literally the only player that fits that description. But, but, but, name changes, how do you know? A typical afternoon I will reg a SNG50 and SNG100, whilst playing as many 25s and 10s as possible. Usually the 50 and 100 stay at 1/5 for the duration of the afternoon. If IanSimpson is playing, a game or two might run, with me Ian and 3 non-regs. In the evening some higher games run, but we know that those regs are only playing in the evenings, because the games have stayed at 1/5 all afternoon. I can also tell how many games each higher stakes reg is playing, because I’m in every 25+ game. Most are playing about half the number I am. So, this theoretical higher stakes reg has to be the biggest winner, whilst putting in maybe half the hours I have, and multitabling half as many tables as me. Again, educated guesses, but sounds unlikely. Now, if you, or @VikingsAF don’t believe me, that’s a different story, but no one here has published any independently verifiable data, there’s nothing anyone can do about that. I will say, many players have some financial incentive (twitch streams, sponsorships, paid coaching) to exaggerate their results, I’m not suggesting that any of them do. I am giving something of high value away for free, I have no plan to profit from this in anyway (I just got PM’d regarding paid coaching and I’m going to turn it down because I don’t want to coach people who are in my games), this will actually cost me time, and therefore money.

Fair question. Historically I’ve been the highest volume player on any site I’ve played, it’s definitely no different on unibet, I doubt anyone else is close. It’s quite possible I play double the volume of the number 2 player on unibet. I know my results, I’m crushing, am I winning more per game than anyone else, I don’t know, but I play in these games every day, I see the skill level of the other regs, I am probably the biggest per game winner. Yes, the site is essentially anonymous but a lot of players don’t change names, and those that do are easily identifiable through their play style if you play with them often enough, which I do. If unibet reported data to sharkscope, I would be leading the 5/6max turbo sng all stakes 2017 board. I wouldn’t make a statement that I wasn’t very sure of, I really don’t think the number 2 is even close.

Gonna do a coaching freeroll. Conditions: you need to post your interest in this thread including why you want to get coaching, and you need to PM me your 5max sng results for Oct 2017 (go to the help thread and request your results from unibet). You need good spoken English. What you get: teamviewer sessions where I watch your play and give you feedback, all the secret sauce. Available on whatsapp for any specific questions. Im not the greatest ever, but I’m the biggest 5max sng winner on unibet, so I don’t suck. This is coaching for 5max sng’s only. Mainly doing this as a challenge to myself.

Think that’s me done with live mtts for this trip. Battle of Malta day 1B went better (or worse, if you value time, which I do) than 1A. Still bust last level of the day. Was a 12 hour day and I was pretty exhausted by the end of it, probably wouldn’t have played if I knew how many levels they were fitting into one day. Folded for about 3 hours straight to start the day, just terrible starting hands and 10 handed poker. Pulled a fairly ridiculous double barrel bluff for all of it with king high because I figured my image was worlds biggest nit at that point, I was correct, got villain to fold aces face up. Then ran into some great spots that played themselves from my perspective and got up to 3x average. Didn’t get much more go my way from then. Bustout hand, last level of the day, blinds 1.2/2.4k/300. I open utg to 5k with AQs from 100k stack, btn new to the table 3bets to 17k from 100k, I shove, he calls AKo. This seems like another tough spot to me, I think it’s either a very standard shove vs some opponents and a very easy fold vs others, or a call?!? Readless I just don’t know, have a tough time with these early position plays, I just don’t study mtts at all, don’t run into these spots in sngs. Next, Playing Manchester Unibet UK tour in December as I’ve got a ticket.

Been in Malta for a week now, nice place, beautiful weather, a lot of St Julians seems to cater to lowest common denominator drunk brits abroad which is unfortunate, and also probably quite hypocritical since I’m a Brit and I’ve got drunk on every night I’ve been out. Got an Airbnb in St Julian’s, had to move since they were demolishing the building next door to mine, my apartment was literally shaking from the work every 7am. Played 3 live mtts, about 5 hours live cash and maybe 7 or 8 hours online sngs. +€200 live cash, +€700 sngs, -€900 live mtts. Some interesting spots in the mtts, interesting to me at least since I don’t play too many mtts so I’m always questioning my play. Having seen the standard of play I’m very sure I’m in the top 5% of these fields, in spite of possibly butchering a few hands each day: Redbet €200; mid final day, I’ve got about 90k, bit below avg. MP fish opens to 5.3k off 40k stack at 1k/2k/200, I 3bet to 15k with QQ from CO, villain flats. Dry ace high flop, he checks, I shove for 25k effective into 34k pot, he calls AJs. Definitely messed this up, think my 3bet should be a little smaller to induce more flats and shoves. Flops a clear checkback, was just so baffled in game when he didn’t get it in pre, and figured at time I’m probably never folding if he bets. If he ever bets it’s never with worse as I block a lot of the broadways he might peel and attempt to bluff, and his mid pocket pairs just try to get to showdown and I don’t need to protect my equity here. Redbet €200, bustout hand. MP nit minraises and I shove 20bb on btn with ATo, he calls AJo. I’m happier with this hand, villain had been openshoving all his nutted hands (he’d shoved 40bb with QQ earlier, apparently was doing similar with AA on day 1), so we can take those hands out of his range. Minraise looks very weak from this playertype, think I found the only hand he plays this way that has me in bad shape. 12th/71 for €0. Played €550 Battle of Malta day 1A yesterday, late regged half way through level 3, very first hand I’m dealt into big blind with 25k starting stack at 100/200/25. Utg limps, good aggro Italian (I played with him in a tournament earlier in the week) raises to 625 from co, btn calls, I 3bet AKo to 2500, utg shoves 14k, back to me, I fold. Think it’s ok, my 3bet possibly should be a little bigger. Think I run into AA here a lot. BofM, down to 16k, utg opens to 800 at 150/300/25, I 3bet utg+1 with JJ to 2.5k, he shoves for my effective stack. I fold. Probably should flat pre, no reads on player he just sat. Bustout hand BoM, I open 99 utg to 900 at 200/400, the good aggro Italian 3bets CO to 2.6k, I shove for 30bb total, he calls AA. This seems close, he definitely has bluffs here, dunno. Battle of Malta day 1B in a few hours, lot of tough spots, second best hands and failed bluffs yesterday, hopefully a bit better luck with card distribution today, tournament seems very soft overall. Any thoughts on those hands appreciated.

Thanks @UAC, if you’re planning on starting out at the 5max €4s, and you were a longterm winner at $7 hu hypers on stars, you’ll be the best player in that player pool. HU is probably the most important skill in these games, you’ll be getting hu much more often than in the usual 6max format, and you’ll be deeper on average, it’s very common to be 25bb effective or more at hu, which you’ll be very familiar with. Study ICM a bit and you will crush. I quite like the idea of coaching somebody up a couple of buyin levels, as a challenge for myself, but seems kinda tricky to coach on Unibet without hh. Difficult to say about brm, depends on your roi, and how much risk you’re prepared to take. There’s software out there that can model it. I don’t play the 4s anymore, but was getting about 12% ROI, and based on my results in other games, was probably running a few % below ev in these games. Good luck in the games, sure I’ll see you at the higher games once you’ve grinded your way there.

Off to Malta next week for a couple of weeks. Get away from the British weather, and I’ve got an apartment near the casinos so planning on playing some live cash, a handful of live tourneys, and some online sng grind in between. The Battle of Malta series is on, so will be playing that, looks like a great tournament, €550 buyin, huge field expected. Been playing a few mtts on Unibet recently, no results worth speaking of but found a few common spots where I’m lost, so will do a bit of work on that before Malta. SNGs are a really fantastic training ground for MTTs in general; obviously I’m very biased but I tend to think a “good” sng reg is considerably better in mtts than a “good” mtt reg. Still, things like how much antes change our range in full ring mtts, our opening range from EP full ring and how best to respond to EP opens are things I need to work on. Been a great week at sngs, 100s are running a bit more often, games in general seem to have decent liquidity for an hour or so later in the evening than I’m used to. Considering doing a free coaching giveaway, not sure how best to coach on unibet without hh, if anyone’s got any ideas how best to do this, please let me know.

Planning on mixing in some Unibet MTT’s alongside the sng grind now that the new schedule looks very good value. I find this really hard to do, playing even one MTT takes a huge amount of my focus; they’re such different games I’m concerned that my sng play will be adversely effected. I’m trying to calculate my hourly rate in the Sunday majors on Unibet, late regging to maximise hourly. €100 Supernova; 20%ROI; 2 hours avg; €10/hour €250 UO final; 10% ROI, 1 hour avg; €25/hour €50+€50 Odyssey; 20% ROI; 1.5 hours avg; €13.3/hour Maybe these numbers are off, I’m really not sure. I intend to cut my sng table count down when I’m playing MTTs, from 12-14 down to 6-8 to help my focus overall. Even so, should achieve a higher hourly rate this way. I definitely make more mistakes in mtts, played the €100 Saturday Stack the other week and managed to go from chiplead with 12 left to bubbling in 10th in totally avoidable fashion, that was special. SNGs went really well last month, only played about 3 weeks, results not including rakeback etc, Abi €24.7 Number of games 2295 Profit/game €3.22 ROI 13% +€7401 I’m down a few hundred so far in October, hot run can’t last forever.

A typical day on Unibet. I play something in the region of 150-180 5max sngs. I only play €10+ games, and I multitable 12-14 tables. I've cut this back from what I was doing , and I've seen a big improvement in my hourly rate as a result which is a nice surprise. Back in the day on stars I used to play around 24 tables, so this seems sedate in comparison, gives me a lot of time to get reads on players, obv this is important in the HUD-less Unibet environment. Also can play longer sessions, used to burn out after couple hours, regularly doing 4h+ sessions recently. Not bad for an old timer. I probably play about 6 hours a day, almost always play Monday-Wednesday, take Thursdays off and play around my social life over the weekend. Evenings obviously are best, as the higher stakes games run, try to reg almost every game at €25+. I do almost no study these days, maybe couple hours a week, usually running through a spot that I feel I've been getting wrong, or double checking a ludicrous play from another reg to make sure they've lost their mind and not me. Never have studied much, used to post in 2+2 STT forum a fair bit, that's dead these days. Joined a training site for a month, those vids helped me get to sleep of an evening. Had maybe 5 hours coaching lifetime. I'm slowly working through Tipton's expert HUNL, and just downloaded the free version of PIOsolver, anyone using this for sngs, worth buying? Ranking the regs: In with a bullet, and at the very bottom of the rankings, the return of Mikink0. Haven't seen him for a while but he's back, he multitables a lot, usually all the 25s and 50s, and at the same time of day as kroll, fun tables. Wish I could say more about some of these guys but obv would harm me to do so and isn't very fair on them, just pay close attention, my top tip. 1. MUL 2. N-B-A 3. Caladrias 4. iamswen 5. IBringLight 6. IanSimpson 7. DownwithOPP 8. Kroll 9. Mikink0

Nice blog, its definitely a good idea to play a few games somewhere other unibet where you can collect hh and do some analysis more easily. With ICMizer and HRC the equilibrium solution often bears no resemblance to what bad players (and good players) will do in game. It's essential to model what your opponents are doing, not what they should be doing. The J9o fold, one reason why folding is better than shoving in theory relies on the CO and SB shoving very wide, which results in occasional clashes when someone else has a premium hand. Is this what's happening in your games? I'd guess not, probably we are relying only on preflop coolers, which happen far less often, meaning we can push wider; I don't play that game type so don't know if J9o is a push. Same with the 76s shove over limp. In reality my guess is you are almost always getting called, you should have very little fold equity preflop at this stack depth. Shove hands that have a decent chance of being in the lead; Ax, pairs, good broadways. A hand like 76s plays great as a check pre, we can then give up when we miss completely and donk shove every flop where we have reasonable equity and generate far more fold equity than we would preflop, and usually be in ok shape when called.

@WuDu, ive not decided yet if I want to reveal my roi at the higher buyins (didn't mind so much with the 4s since I don't play them anymore). Ha, this is me reducing my table count. I used to play somewhere in the mid-20s when I could use other software on stars, and yeah it would burn me out after a couple hours session. Im playing 12-14 on unibet, and I'm very comfortable with that, any less and I'd get bored. It helps that the player pool is pretty small at 25+ so I can get reads on all the players quite easily, was certainly guessing a lot more in the past when I was adding €4 games to my table count. ill try to add Ashlee_2007 if I keep seeing him, hotted is a gamer, so he's a recreational player, don't think it's very fair to put him on the list. I change aliases multiple times a session, I've never played under the same alias for more than a few hours, so not that interesting to post my old ones, I was bpm123 for a bit tonight.

Poker not dead yet; I think this is my best or second best ever session of sng's, about 3 hours of play on Wednesday evening. Sample=67 Avg buyin= €28.4 ROI=66% €/game=€18.67 Total profit=€1251 A few 100s ran which is always nice, plus a decent number of 50s, and I ran incredibly hot. Thought I'd start ranking the regs for fun, I think all these guys are probably making money in the games, so they can't be that bad. If you've got a name of a reg at 10 euros or higher that you want included in the rankings, let me know, I'll try to add to it each week, these are just a few names that I could think of today. Any that you think I've got ranked in the wrong place? 1. MUL 2. N-B-A 3. Caladrias 4. IBringLight 5. IanSimpson 6. DownwithOPP 7. Kroll MUL is far and away the best player on this list in my opinion, I'd rank myself second in the player pool just behind him, he only really plays the 50s and thankfully not every day. IanSimpson has a really tough gig, obviously he can't change his screen name as part of his deal (why anyone voluntarily keeps the same screen name I will never know), and he streams so I can very quickly identify all his leaks. I do think it's great to have someone streaming sngs, but wow, you get to see some pretty glaring holes in his game (which obv I won't go into, really not in my interest). He's not a sng pro as he would acknowledge so fair play to him for getting involved. Kroll is a huge spot and it's great to have him at my table, but still he's probably making money (I hope so, he's been grinding the games a while now), so good luck to him.