SkilfulPoker

Well that was annoying first stack I lose against someone I’ve seen a tonne before calls me down three streets and river jam with 86 ,, on Q642Q after I raise pre and be calls from the blinds and check calls every street Then 10 minutes later straddled pot I make it 15 over. 5 straddle , two callers and a shove I call of course with QQ and he has aces 😂 I wouldn’t have posted had I not posted above but needed to update at least! I’ve decided I’m taking a long break with poker and focussing on my day job so will be back in about a year fresh 🙂

Hey guys I’m going to start tracking my live play here for time being also to hopefully bring me some good luck 🙂 just sitting down to play some 1/2 now , will update how it goes along the way. main goals are : - focus on getting my opening range decent preflop. - taking low variance lines if it’s close told! cheers !

won a ticket to 100 euro main event from 10 euro sat, unfortunately lost in the first hand of the main event.woops!

And here we are another week on! So to keep me accountable for this challenge, I'm back with the weekly update. I hardly got to play last week due to a busy week. Here's the challenge resources as of right now: 1. 5 x 0.40cent tickets 2. 12 odd euros in cash 3. 520 bonus points Thoughts and thinking about Money Thankfully things are moving along in my life a little faster than they are in this challenge. I've been reading a great book called Money by Rob Moore this week: I'm learning a lot from it. Key take-aways so far have been that: Money is fluid and there is more or less an infinite supply of it waiting to be acquired. This is different to the scarcity mindset that it's a limited resource. It sounds simple but the impact is quite significant once you take it on board. It's motivating me to take a longer term view to accumulating some wealth instead of thinking I have to make money quickly if I want to acquire money. Another take away was that to acquire wealth you can do so in one of three main ways. By increasing your income, by gaining equity in something or by getting assets. Third key takeaway was that in order to make money you need to take risks, and that most people fall into one of two categories. Either they are too risk averse (they don't take enough risk) or they take too much risk. OK so what does all this mean for me? Well I was going to play some live poker yesterday with a few buy-ins, but I decided not to. This was too reckless. My bankroll is fluid so for instance if I had lost a few stacks yesterday I could play again in a week or two anyway, but the point is this new thinking about money shifted my whole approach here. It's too much of a risk to take with the one asset I had available to me at the time (the cash). Instead I chose to invest part of that asset in software and tools to further my freelance career. I also purchased the kindle version of the above book (because I had been listening to it on Audible) and I purchased another book I have been listening to about communication. I'm investing in myself here and I'm confident these investments will reap a decent return going forward. I also used some audio hypnosis which is designed to change how we think about money and to break down old limiting beliefs about money. I got to say it was powerful and I feel my approach to money is changing for the better. Freelancing i signed up to a new freelancing platform recently after deciding I need to increase my income (since reading the Money book), and yesterday I won my first client who has hired me. Which was really inspiring because it was the first bid for work I placed on the site. The client contacted me back yesterday and asked if I was free for a call to discuss the work. Interestingly if I had went to play poker yesterday I wouldn't have picked the message up. It's amazing how seemingly small decisions can have knock on effects in our life elsewhere, don't you think? We've agreed about a month's worth of work - and that feels great. I'm excited to be getting back into web development and digital marketing - because I have just kind of been floating about since my last employer folded about a year ago. It's much more sensible for me to play poker alongside other regular income until I'm confident in my abilities and am actually bankrolled to play professionally. For now I'm going to enjoy trying to get to some live events and rely on other more stable sources of income to start developing wealth 🙂 I'm writing this on a train - on my way to visit my sister for the weekend (120 miles away from where I live). My brother is heading up too, and will be here later in the day. It was my idea to come up and see her for the bank holiday weekend - and i'm looking forward to it! So with that in mind I'll wrap this update up. Plans for poker for the week ahead is to start getting some traction in this challenge, so to support that goal I'm going to commit to playing at least 15 satellites next week, I'm also going to record one of the satellites I play and upload it with next weeks update, and would appreciate your thoughts on how I played. Have a great Easter weekend guys!

Hey Stubbe just to clarify in case it wasn’t clear this wasn’t minimising the app (i demod in the attached video) it was exiting it. The app was no longer running I had exited it. So I hadn’t simply switched to another app or out of the app, but I terminated the app. This is typically how you exit any app on an android tablet, and the app wasn’t listed as a running background app after doing this. Here are the gestures/actions I used. The video I attached of the actual error is only visible to Unibet staff I think. This may well be intended from what you’ve mentioned above anyway, but just clarifying in case any misunderstanding. 🙂

Hey @Andy-Relax noticed it’s the same with the 2’s so might be worth doing this for all of the UO ticket events

hmm ok that's dissapointing. If i could have registered to the tournaments, and didn't have time commitments i wouldn't have asked in the first place! But ok noted! I don't think the monetary value of the ticket is relevant, regarding the 40cent vs 40 euro comment, the ticket is representative of time spent playing. By way of some feedback, I think it would be nice if the length the tickets are valid for was noted on the games they are awarded in. Just so people have a headsup. A week isn't a huge amount of time if something crops up in the middle of your week 🙂

Hey these are expiring in 5 hours now and some in a few days so if they can be extended that would be useful as I don’t think any games start before 5 hours cheers

Hey guys one week on I played a fair bit on one day and then have not played with the consistency I would have liked to - but hey we are up and running — I had a 5 buyin winning session at live cash a couple of days ago which helped my confidence as I’ve been losing with great frequency this month before that ! in terms of my Unibet open challenge I have the following tickets. So we are up and running ☺️ i got 15x 0.40 cent tickets and 2 x 2 euro. I really like the ticket system as it keeps me disciplined 😀 as I feel like I have a set amount of resources and I need to build them. I made £50 profit at sports betting this week then promptly set a £1 profit / loss on sports so I can’t give it back 😀 In other news I started a challenge with my friend to cut out junk food from our diets yesterday and so far I’m on track. I am also trying to get healthier using walking as exercise and am enjoying that. Two days ago I walked my longest ever walk of 12 miles 🚶🚶🚶 So all going quite nice here , hoping to breach the 10 euro ticket threshold in next weeks report 🙂

Hey I have about 16 0.40cent ticket and some are due to expire in <24 hours some <48 hours are we ok to ask for UO sat ticket to be extended? and if so, can someone extend then please

Thank you both! That’s a relief !

Hey given this is Unibet open “poker” I just wondered why there are so many flips for 0.40cent sat during the day but only a couple of poker games. The flips are just pure lottery and given this is the lowest ladder in the unibet open sat tree I just find it strange they are pretty much all coin flips in the evening! is there any chance we could have at least one “poker” sat for each flip in the evening to even it out a bit? i say this because as someone taking the sats seriously from the bottom , there’s a requirement to play the 40cent ticket within 7 days - so the more poker sats the better imo! just some feedback - I’m not complaining just wanted to share some feedback 😀

Hey guys not much to update since last post , unibet bankroll wise, it was down about 10 euros. But at 3:57am on the way home in an Uber from another frustrating live cash game session, I've decided to really commit to doing something with my poker this year and it's going to be on Unibet. I need to get strategic with my poker now. It's no good just playing cash indefinately and making a few quid one day and losing some the next, I need to make the time I put into the game count for something. So I'm going to concentrate most of my energy on Unibet Live Satelites. Because at least then I get to travel a bit. I don't have the funds to buy directly into these events this year, but I can satellite in i'm sure, if I focus my efforts at becoming a winning satelite player. My main push for the rest of the year, will be to attend the last three Unibet Deep Stack Open's. If successful that will see me playing poker in Barcelona, Sanremo, and Marrakech. What an amazing year of poker that would be. Dara, the Unibet pro is a world class satellite player, and has written a great book on how to beat satellites, I am going to be learning Dara's strategy and applying it on the Unibet felt. I'm also going to play MTT's less than or equal to 5 euro buy in, and will allow myself to play 4nl if i feel like it. So that's the rules of my challenge going forward: Games allowed: - Unibet Live Sats (grinding them so using the exchangers to ensure i always have 20 tickets in reserve before attempting the next ladder) - 4nl - MTT's <= 5 euro buyin - 5 man sngs 5 euro or below Update a minimum of once a week with games played, and running profit / loss for this venture. Week 1 commencing Friday 15th March 2024 (today)