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I get that feeling every day @Nestabear, don't worry :) I didn't mean to make is sound like I hate my daughter, just wanted to highlight that other than growing, babies don't do a lot in the first few months :) After that you get rolling over, crawling, words, walking and everything else that's amazing on a daily basis.

Welcome to my world brother. Fatherhood is going to destroy your ability to a) play MTT poker, and b) play it well when you get a chance. Hate to be miserable about it but I found transitioning from being able to play every night for long sessions to half paying attention on a Sunday for a few hours very difficult. Even now with MiniTBC going down at 7-8PM I still struggle to find things I want to play as far as MTTs go because I know they're going to run late and I need sleep! Also, at any moment she might wake up an I'll have to blind out for 20 minutes. Weirdly, having said all that my drive to play and improve is at it's highest now. I'm at a point now where I'm fighting with myself every night over studying vs playing a because I know my game is slipping but I also just want to play. Transitioning into shorter formats (SNGs and cash) has been working for me to an extent although I hate cash and I still feel miserable sitting out in a SnG I think if it's at a buy-in you don't mind losing at it becomes less of an issue. Babies are really boring in the first few months, parents don't like to admit it but you should see the relief on their faces when you say it. Change nappy, feed, sleep, repeat. They don't do or say much and it won't take long for the novelty of holding a 10lb sleeping blob that you can't interact with to wear off and you'll be keen to put them down as soon as they're sleeping. You're going to have these 3-4 hour blocks while they are asleep to get stuff done, whether it's sleep yourself, housework, eating or relaxing. Use this time to get a SnG or two in, watch a training video, review the last two SnGs you played. I did none of this stuff and blindly tried to play MTTs. It was a terrible decision :) Also, play lower stakes, much lower. You need to go into anything you play fully comfortable that you've just potentially lit that buy-in on fire, regardless of how you actually play. I could go on but this is turning into one of my blog posts :) If you need any more info on things not to do let me know and all the best with the baby. P.S. Enjoy feeling like a completely useless human being for hours during the birth ;) P.P.S. All newborn babies look like wrinkly big toes after you've been in the bath too long, anyone that suggests they are "cute" or "gorgeous" is lying and you should never trust them with your child.

May Not much to report. Played 5 days according to my results sheet and made €1.20. I've been doing a terrible job of tracking stuff as I've been using tickets a lot so I may have played a little more. No notable results off-brand either, got whacked during SCOOP and the KO series :( I've not been playing well at all but I've also not been getting run outs either. june Bink! Lite package is Travel money + accommodation for 4 nights + money for smaller buy-in events at UO. Very excited to take the GF and MiniTBC away on our first family holiday in September. BR is at €26.78 so up a little after a 2nd in a SNG and mucking about with the June Community promotion and making bets I didn't need to. Plan is to see if I can sat into the DSO for Malta and complete the missions this month. Also going to try and watch more than 30 seconds of a RIO training video. Another short post but at least you know you've got a 10,000 word trip report to look forward to in September :)

80/20 IMO, nice halfway

Stars do HU Zoom Total PKOs, the payouts look silly.

Don't have the client open, not me :)

Good ol' fashioned sticky notes work every time

Why do people care so much about this? You waiting 2 seconds or 3 seconds to click call makes no difference to the run out.You questions about actions altering things was answered in Stubbe's original quote. One shuffle. That's it. Cards are set, if the ace of hearts is 6th in order after the shuffle, it's staying there until the next hand. This is all Lee Jones fault and his stupid PS videos from back in the day.

I save them for UAT now Stubbe :p

Everyone loved the quick update so here is another :) April Lost €12, down to €21 in the BR. Have lots of bonus points so using tickets for most buy-ins. Played 11 UOS events, cashed one. Won money on the Grand National and and two other horses based on tips from randoms in Discord/Twitch. Finished 4th in a Hot $7.50 on Stars for $160 (It was an early one on a Saturday morning) May Played two UOS events, cashed one :Thumbsup: Played the €5 EPT online on Stars last night, made Day 2 :Thumbsup: Stars did ticket drops during said tourney, my table got selected twice! 1x €22 EPT Madrid sat ticket and 1x €162 EPT Madrid Final ticket in the bag for doing nothing :Thumbsup: See you at the start of June :)

Access please

Why do you need 100 tickets at each level? Present some proper arguments if you want to change anything :) https://www.cardschat.com/f59/mtt-brm-how-many-buy-ins-275565/ The majority says 100 buyin is optimal. I don't think that math works for sats because you chance of cashing is so much higher. You need to look at it as, for example, a €2 to €10 sat pays 1 in 5 players so on average you're going to get one of those tickets 1 in 5 times. That means you need 5 tickets minimum for BRM.

I really liked what @pinki did with his tables where is was the same base design but different felt colours. I find nearly all the non-standard table designs unbearable and pretty much a waste of design time. If you look at any other site the themes are all normally quite similar and unobtrusive. I know Unibet likes to be unique but as far as table design goes there really isn't any point reinventing the wheel. I'd much rather have them develope a way to change felt colour per table. I've always liked the option on other sites to have sat tables one colour, SNGs another, ITM tables another etc. Adding MTT names or graphics to table felts would be good too.

Cleethorpes and Skegness

Look up powerline or Ethernet over power plugs online. Let's you use existing power cables to transmit network signals and will save having to run Cat-5.

I did an April post but the forum didn't save it and I'm too lazt to type it out again :) I lost money and BR is about €35. See you in May :)

** END OF MONTH REVIEW - February 2019 ** +/- for the month: -€15.29 (BR Total: €106.64)Days played: 6Losing days: 4Winning/Break Even days: 2Sessions/Games played - Cash: 0, SNGs: 7, MTTs: 8ROIs - Cash: N/A%, SNGs: -68.97% , MTTs: -48.15%So I basically ignored everything I said I was going to do in my post at the end of January. I didn't bother with any of the promos on Unibet and in all honesty barely opened the client all month. I continued to play more tables than I should on Sunday's and got battered. I played a sum total of 2 Irish Open sats, none on MPN (because they never bloody run) and generally just continued to play and run badly. The only two screenshots I saved in Feb were $109 and $215 sat wins on Stars for the Turbo Series that I ended up making no money in anyway. Strangely I've been finding myself spending more and more time playing cash. I don't really like cash that much but I'm finding myself playing $0.01/$0.02 NLHE/PLO zoom on Stars or games on Run It Once more and more. In a world where you can be called on to be responsible for a tiny human at any point, MTTs really don't gel well with that kind of time management. With that in mind I'd been trying out different quicker formats to see if any stuck with me as interesting. I tried 45 man SnGs and although these work quite well it feels quite robotic playing them. With the lowest limit cash games I feel much more free to just splash around and have fun. I'm a terrible cash player but it's entertaining to abuse player tendencies and 4-bet all the time because everyone just assumes you have aces. I've also really started to get into PLO because I find it a lot of fun to play. Hope is not lost for good ol' Texas holdem though. I still have a plan to get to Malta at some point this year via any operator that will have me through sats so I, along with most of the poker world, purchased Dara's book and plan to read that this month. I also took part in the easiest promo of my life on Run It Once to get a free month on the training site so I've started watching some videos as well. I'm struggling with the videos so far, mostly because I'm not very clever, and also because I just can't seem to absorb the information in the way I want to. It's probably just a matter of finding the right set of videos that work with my brain but I've not quite found them yet. I'm not sure how much I'll play on Unibet this month as I'm having a very hard time looking at the table and wanting to play good, solid poker. It's all in my head but everytime I load a game brain tells me that no matter what I do someone is going to get there with garbage and stack me and then I just play high variance and lose. Probably need to use Primed Mind or Headspace before I start and get all zen or something :) If anything exciting happens before the end of the month I'll post an update but if not, I'll see you in April :)

I've tried opening and closing it 10 times or so and can't get it to grey screen if that's more constructive. Does it tie into the main site login at all and would having a language picked (and thus using a localised website for login, .co.uk for example) make any difference?

** END OF MONTH REVIEW - January 2019 ** +/- for the month: €5.36 (BR Total: €121.93)Days played: 14Losing days: 7Winning/Break Even days: 7Sessions/Games played - Cash: 2 (see below), SNGs: 103, MTTs: 37ROIs - Cash: N/A% (see below) , SNGs: -6.8% , MTTs: -11.22%The blog is alive! A positive month on Unibet (ignore the results for just now) on and off the felt has rejuvenated my desire to carry on detailing the world of the regular Joe Internet poker player. I've always found this blog makes me accountable for my actions so that, for example, if I decide to completely ignore BRM and start firing the Supernova each week I have to write about the fact I did it, it didn't work and that BRM should really be followed if you want longevity in poker :). Having that accountability keeps me roughly on the straight and narrow and minimises the risk of full degen :) I was also lifted by the comments of @UAC, @GR1ZZL3R and others that people actually still read this nonsense. When I started it, blogs on the community were few and far between so it was easy to get visibility of it. Today the listings are filled with quality writing, fun challenges and generally more proactive content creators than myself so it's nice to know this, now, monthly blog still has some legs. I'd love it to be as vivid as a blog like Daras or Lappins but I just don't have enough stories/knowledge to use as reference points and I think baby metaphors will wear thin pretty quickly. I've always battled with the idea that the blog felt like I was just live reporting and didn't really have any meat to it but that might have been a side effect of how often I used to update it. Now we're on a monthly schedule it seems to work better in a recap form with highlights of the month and thoughts rather than day by day run downs. Anyway, let's see what's been going on in January. Turns out I have not completely forgotten how to win poker tournaments. I played it to complete the "Play a singularity" mission and ended up shipping the thing. It was a long time ago now so I remember very little about what happened but I know it felt good to get a trophy that early in the year. I followed it up with a rare profitable Sunday where I bagged a Nova ticket on the first attempt from tickets I bought with BP (didn't cash) and finished 2nd in a €2 PLO for just under €50. After that I spend the rest of the month mostly losing while chasing those pesky Hexapro jackpots. The total month ROI on SNGs (which I class Hexapros as for results tracking) shows a small loss on them which makes sense considering how well I ran last month.. I was due some runbad. It just seems to take a few big multipliers not going your way to really hurt your bottom line. The field seems to be getting -slightly- tougher as well now as people get the jist of the format and more people come in to enjoy the marshmallow pit. One area that doesn't look good from the results but was actually really good was cash games. I had 2 cash tickets I'd been working through after getting them via Challenge points and Community promos and managed to get them completed during January. The biggest ticket cleared for €37 and the small one was €9 so that's a pretty good return on €0 invested. It doesn't work with the ROI calc (because it's trying to divide by 0) so there is no % total and I didn't record what days I played because the results would be 0 in, 0 out so cash sessions played is also wrong but I played enough to clear 300 flops :) Off brand it's been a fun month as well... Managed to satellite twice into a $215 PKO on the same day as the Singularity win and FT'd a $5 turbo the day before. I can't remember where I finishing in the turbo but it was worth about 10x buyin I think. Edit: Found a screenshot in Discord.. My other big FT was in the Hot $22. This is not a tournament I normally play and on a day/time I don't normally play (Saturday night) so it was an unexpected FT for sure. I think the GF had gone out on a night out so I was home alone with the baby. The Hot 22 starts around 9:30pm I think so the baby was sleeping through most of it, which always helps. I got in via a $3 16 player 4-max 2x shootout (say that 3 times fast) so by the time I reached the FT we were talking about many multiples of my investment up for grabs. As you can see things were not going particular great as we headed into the FT but considering most of the table had 20bb or less you're just one flip away from being in a comfortable spot to get some decent ladders. It didn't take long for me to find myself in a position where I needed to win a flip. I had ATo in the SB and it had folded all the way around to the button who shoved with a stack that was marginally bigger than mine, and by marginal I mean there was maybe 500 chips different in it. It did not feel great at all but I felt I had to go with the hand I had and I called. BB folded and the button showed 22. Flop comes down xxA, turn A.. river 2. :Puking::Puking::Puking: A truly miserable way to bust in a spot I really wasn't comfortable or sure about. I Insta-opened ICMizer. Maths said it was a fine call. It should have been a relief, but it wasn't. There was a player with 3bb at the table when the hand went down and I couldn't stop thinking about whether I should have folded and let a few more players bust. I don't know how to describe it but I had a feeling that I would have witnessed some ICM suicide if I had just folded and waited for another spot. I posed the question of folding to the Discord group and got a pretty unanimous "call" response. Ultimately the goal is to win the tournament and you can't do that folding. For every 2 outer hit by the villain there are going to be more results where I win, double up and possibly make a decent run at a 4 figure score. Still hurts a little though :) There seems to be plenty to do in February on Unibet. Bounty Badlands is back which is a promotion I love. It brings back fond memories of beating Ian Simpson in our first prop bet and him having to wear a silly outfit at the Glasgow stop of the UK tour. There are a new set of missions to complete and some stuff here on the community too. The Podium hunters promo seems like it would be fun to do and I'm going to try and remember to play the weekly series games when I can. Maybe it's just me but it feels like everything is moving again at Unibet. Between all the new promos, more requests for player feedback on all products here on the community and the new 'player panel' (not sure what the official name is) it feels like things are getting back to the 'By the players, for the players' mentality that spoke to me as a customer when I signed up. Obviously I'm going to take full credit for it as my previous few blog posts, filled with negative comments, have been the catalyst for all the movement ;) As far as poker goes I'm not sure what my plans are outside Unibet. There is always so much to choose from that it's easy to get overwhelmed. Right now there is the Turbo series on PS (although nearly all the buy-ins are too high for me), a PKO series and Irish Open sats on Party, Irish Open sats on Paddy, MPN live sat.. the list goes on. I've had some pretty miserable Sundays recently and I think it's partly down to wanting to be able to play everything and ending up with too many tables and just playing poorly on them all. I'm going to try and make a conscious effort to limit table and play better. Whether this means picking one site a session to play on or picking one MTT from multiple sites to play at a time i'm not sure on yet but hopefully it'll mean better play and results either way. I also appear to be running below EV which isn't helping.. Not to worry though, we'll just power through it and continue to try and make the big bucks :Cash:

You should probably update to 2.26.0 ;)

Posted link on 2+2 for you @Stubbe-Unibet, some of the guys there might be keen and the thread has always been very active.

@ChapInAChair @NeriPoker @KrustyTheClown @MathrimC @pirahn

Are people really offended by some of these usernames? sh1thole is a perfect example of something that uses a word that can be used offensively but as an alias just sounds like that's what the player that's using the alias is. It could just be a statement about the players feelings towards planet earth for all we know :) At least the one DaVitche posted for example is attempting to be personal. Swear words and racial/gender/anything else phobic words should really be classed as two different things. I also don't understand why the filtered word list doesn't have simple letter/number combos in it. It's not too hard to work out which letters in offensive words can be replaced with numbers and filter them too. It would make more sense to have the filters be hyper sensitive to these things and have people post about how they wanted to use drumsh1tter as an alias and it doesn't work, be told it contains a combination of numbers/letters that triggers the filter and to use one of the other trillion or so combinations of numbers/letters/symbols as an alias.

** END OF MONTH REVIEW - December 2018 ** +/- for the month: €68.66 (BR Total: €116.73)Days played: 17Losing days:9Winning/Break Even days: 8Sessions/Games played - Cash: 7, SNGs: 119, MTTs: 46ROIs - Cash: -43.42% , SNGs: 22.04% , MTTs: -7.38%Bit of a slow bleed to round the month (and the year off). Fired pretty big on the UOS main Sunday and came up back with nothing to show for it unfortunately. No other big wins of note either, just small winning days on Hexapro really. It's good to book a positive month to round off the year but it's not been one to remember on the poker front. ** End of Year Review ** Start BR (Jan 1st 2018): €1739.38 End BR (Dec 31st 2018): €116.57 2018 has been the complete opposite of 2017 on Unibet. I'll be honest and admit I don't really remember when or why the downfall started but there are a number of factors that probably assisted in creating the black run of a graph you see above. Probably the best one was the introduction of Esmee aka BabyTBC into the world. Preparation for her arrival took time, money and energy (physical and mental) which meant sitting for 8-10 hours on a Sunday clicking buttons stopped being an option pretty quickly in 2018. A lot of the time I just wasn't in the right frame of mind to play and when I did, I was playing badly. It's taken me a long time to get into a rhythm where I can play again at a level close to what I used to by adjusting when I play and for how long but I think things are starting to fall into place so that I can maybe get that graph heading upwards one more time in 2019 Another factor was the slow decline in my passion for the Unibet product. It's well documented here that I believe the product has changed for the worse in the last 12 months and when you don't like something you feel negative when you use it. I'm still having way more fun on other clients playing big MTTs and other game formats and really struggle to find a reason to open the Unibet client. I'm hoping the UO/UK Tour schedules get released fairly soon so I can plan at least one poker trip and spark some motivation to play again. The death of the ticket exchange has made the prospect of qualifying a little less appealing but I've always had the best times at Unibet live events so I'd like to continue supporting them in 2019. The final factor is that I'm just not a winning player anymore. I may never have been a winning player and just ran well for a year or two, it''s very hard to tell. I know for sure that just now I'm way behind the curve and it'#s going to be incredibly difficult to catch up given how little free time I'll have in the next few years. Luckily I've already come to terms with this idea and it's stopped really phasing me. Over the last month or so I've gone into any MTT I play knowing that at any point I may just need to sit out and do real world things which are more important. It's -ev for sure but that's OK. Sometimes you'll come back and still have stacks, sometimes you'll be in 10bb push/fold mode but either way I'm still playing a game I enjoy and getting anything back financially is a bonus. So much of the focus in poker is on the money and I think sometimes people forget about enjoyment and fun. If you take golf for example, 99% of players are losing players, they make no money from it and actually lose lots of money in equipment and fees every year. They just play it because it's fun and they enjoy it. That's essentially how I see poker now. Having said that I'm not going out there to punt in 2019 and breaking even/winning is still the ultimate goal. In any spare time I do have I'm still going to be trying to watch training vids, reviewing hands and talking strat with the Discord boys. On Unibet specifically I still want to get to a point where I could withdraw knowing I'd have withdrawn more than I deposited. That's around the €700 mark so I think it's completely doable in a year even without huge volume. I've got 2x cash tickets to play through and both are currently above starting stack so if I ever get through the flop requirements that will be a few bi in the MTTs. Other than that I'll just plod through the missions each month and play MTTs when I have time. Not sure how I'll play it BRM-wise as it's a mental struggle to play €1 MTTs again and have to dodge all the craziness but it might be a good test of discipline. I'm going to play it by ear based on promos and drive really. I've got some money on most of the major sites and am just going to continue to bounce around playing wherever has a decent promo or MTT series running. I've been making several deep runs in the Winter Series on PS over the last few weeks, including one in an NL08 PKO which was a lot of fun, so I feel a little better in my game getting through fields of 20k+ players to the last few hundred. There might be some hope yet, we'll see in 2019. Before typing this out I had planned on finishing this post with the closure of the blog. It's been getting increasing harder to type these posts because of lack of content to talk about and lack of passion for doing it. I'm now on the fence. Looking back at what my BR used to be I'd really like to get it back. I have two tables of NL4 open while typing so I can work through the mission and cash tickets so there is some desire to work to a goal left :). I expect what will happen is I'll play on Unibet in between the MTT series running on other sites and see where it gets me. I'll be around for the UOS as well and hopefully another bounty promo if they do one. If anyone has any honest feedback on the blog over the last few months or wants me to write about anything specific then let me know. I quite like writing stuff, I just need more subjects to write about :) There definitely be another post at some point, whether it's an update or a goodbye is a AKs vs QQ at this point :)