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Got a second seat only for the UK tour the other week, can this be moved to Day 1b for Glasgow please.

Why would they allow exchanges now they have stopped all manual exchanges? Do you really expect the response to be "Yeah, we're not going to do automatic ticket exchanges for the Belgian Champs via MTTs but we'll do manual ones even though we're not doing manual ones for any other ticket available in the client"

April 2018 - The month so far. Best to get the fun stuff out the way first huh? Deposited $100 (from the Party winnings) into PS to try and sat into the $10M GTD Sunday Million that happened on the 22nd. Got really lucky and managed to bink a ticket on my second try so it only cost $17 total. Decided to YOLO on the BRM with the rest of it and just play whatever was on the schedule and ended up with these two results and an accident PS BR. They're not particularly exciting in terms of $$$ but I've not FT'd something on Stars in a long time, let alone taking home the gold trophy. On Unibet the results have been few and far between. This is mostly down to it being my lowest volume month on the site since I began this blog and probably ever. There is nothing I want to play on the nightly schedule any more and now the Cosmic Rays has been dropped for a punty 6-max turbo rebuy the only thing I want to play on a Sunday is the Nova. MiniTBCs arrival means I don't want to play any live sats so I basically log in now to complete missions and keep a cash ticket from expiring. He's a quick run down of the results so far in the month:- 04/04 - 2nd in €10 Malta Rumble for €72.8007/04 - 2nd in €10 Shooting Star for €33.1308/04 - 4th in €10 Singualarity for €18.9811/04 - 1st in €10 PLO Shooting Star for €127.8412/04 - 4th in €10 PLO Shooting Star for €38.7615/04 - 23rd in €10 Cosmic Rays for €40 (Fired 3 bullets and the addon) & €17.20 in bounties in the Ice GiantPicked up one €25 UK tour ticket (which has since been dusted off) and been in the Supernova every week but no deep runs. I've played 50 MTTs this month which is about 1/3 of my normal volume and unfortunately I don't see that increasing any time soon. The new Team promo, which basically just looks like more missions, will probably keep me logged in next month but I'm struggling to find MTTs I want to play nightly. Now that my total bankroll is spread over 4 sites there is always a better option somewhere else to play. I'm not really sure how to explain it but it feels like there is no momentum any more with the poker client. When the client gets updated the bug fixes are normally just fixing bugs created in the last update, there is never anything new besides avatars and there doesn't seem to be anything to look forward to. Tournaments change and get added/removed on what feels like a whim without any consultation with the players. I fully understand that the poker team is small, Relax's team is small and everyone is under varying degrees of restrictions and restraints from a number of factors that all compound into slowing the progression down so I'm more lenient to the timescales for change. I'm not sure how long that leniency will last for players that are not aware of these factors though. As long as I play poker I expect I'll keep telling people to play on Unibet. I think they're doing things in the right way to keep the game going for as long as possible but I think sometimes the fundamentals/basics get pushed to the side in order for things we don't really need to be added. The Community It's a :Heart::Hearts::Heart: show right now isn't it? I think someone needs to say it and I'm quite happy to be the :Heart::Hearts::Heart: that does. For everything that is great about it, like the Malta Rumble and other promotions or good quality discussions about changes, there are now twice as many pointless posts and spam from people trying to level up and whatever else they might be doing. I know it's going to come with the turf as the community expands but it's becoming so difficult to wade through the garbage to get to the good posts these days. I think Jeppe and Ray are doing a great job but it appears the Community is getting too big for two people to look after. It started with 3 staff members looking after it in the beginning and it was much smaller than it is now with 2 staff. Much like the poker client I'd expect this is down to available resources and constraints like the forum software so the guys just have to work with what they've got which is a massive shame as this is a great resource for Unibet. Anyway, that's enough moaning for one post :) I'll be back next month with the end of month review and probably more complaints :)

"We will add new tournaments in the poker client every Saturday.." It's Monday

"Players will not be able to exchange poker tickets/bonuses or extend poker tickets/bonuses via customer support or the community site." "We will add new tournaments in the poker client every Saturday in which players can only enter with a *live event qualifier ticket*..." Seems pretty clear. Got a Supernova ticket? Play the Supernova. Got a Supernova sat ticket? Play the sat. Rinse and repeat for any other non-live event ticket you might have.

** END OF MONTH REVIEW ( March 2018 )** +/- for the month: -€58.33 (BR Total: €1373.51)Days played: 21Losing days: 17Winning/Break Even days: 4Sessions/Games played - Cash: 12, SNGs: 7, MTTs: 154rois - cash: 19.18% , SNGs: 33.38% , MTTs: -32.20%Pretty miserable month as far as Unibet goes. The silver medal in the Cosmic Rays early in the month really saved me from a pretty painful month of losses. I went through my general feelings going into April in the last post but the late addition of the community Malta promo may mean I fire up the client a bit more often. I also picked up a Cosmic Rays ticket from Ians stream and an Ice Giant ticket from a Unibet twitter comp so I'll be playing at least one Sunday session this month :) Talking of Sunday sessions.. Bit of a weird one this. I had actually planned to play one tournament on Sunday and that was a $109 PKO, starting at 2pm, that I had won a ticket for earlier in the week. I was DJing at 8pm so couldn't really play any kind of major session and the plan was to just win a few bounties and consider it a profitable day. It's hard playing just one table though so I fired up whatever else was already running under the impression I'd probably bust or they'd be over by the time I had work. It didn't work out that way. I ended up installing the mobile client on my phone at about 7:40, which was roughly around when this $11, that started at 1PM, hit the final table. I lost a big hand AK vs A6 just as I left the flat and though 8th place was for me. By the time I got to the bar I had less than a big blind and was forced all in when the blinds came round. I won that one, and the next one and suddenly had 10bb and a dream. I'd look down in between mixes and someone would disappear off the table or I'd fold a good hand because my phone locked but basic push/fold was working well enough to keep me in the game. I went to the toilet in the break at 9pm and I think at that point we were down to 4 and I had $500+ locked up. Another 10 minutes went by and a big hand played out that I completely missed and I'm staring at a heads-up match on my phone. It lasted about 5 hands as the other guy had all the chips but I didn't really care considering I expected to win $100 and not $1K+ an hour before :) If you play regularly on mobile you are an incredible human and I commend you for your patience. It's the worst experience ever IMO. It might be ok on a tablet but I was actually glad to only have to choose between fold and all-in because trying to do anything else would have probably caused me to throw my phone out the DJ booth. It's not an experience I want to do again, especially not when it's headsup for $500 of extra profit. That being said, first 4 figure score since 2015 I think 👍 The nappy fund has been well and truly bolstered as we head into April.

March 2018 - 13th to 29th As expected, play has been sporadic after the UOS. I've played 10 out of the 17 days and most of them have been short sessions with only a handful of games. I only had two winning sessions out of all that and neither were from playing good poker. The 13th was because the leaderboard prizes came in and the 17th was because I won a decent bet on the last day of the 6 Nations rugby. I've found myself back in that rut of not wanting to play the schedule again. I have no tickets at the moment and with MiniTBC on the way I don't really want to get started on the UO or UK ticket grind as all the events are going to clash with something happening in real life. The regular schedule just doesn't have anything that's appealing to me for some reason. I don't have the patience to sit through the Black Hole or Gorsky and just find myself late regging the Event Horizon and Titan because they're there, not because I actively want to play them. I've been exploring some other networks to see whats on offer and there seems to be two distinct levels to a micro/low MTT schedule, 'too much' or 'not enough'. Unibet manages to fit in the middle of this somehow, which would sound ideal for most people, but for some reason it's not for me. At the 'too much' end is PS (and to a lesser extent 888 and Unibet). On these networks you could deposit $100 and spend it in less than a day playing nothing more than $2 MTTs. The choice on PS is incredible but it can be overwhelming. On the plus side you can sit down at any time, on any day, and know that you can fire up 4 tables straight away and get going. The flip side of this is that so can everyone else, so the fields are big and you have many more opportunities to lose money. At the other end of the spectrum is the 'not enough' networks. Strangely PP now fits into this bracket after their recent schedule changes. They only run regular MTTs on the hour now and rotate buy-ins per hour ($1.10 and $2.20) so if you deposit $100 and follow BRM you'll have 1 MTT to play every 2 hours (2 if you play PLO that run on the half hour). I tried the GG Network this month and it's even worse in this respect as they only run 2-4 MTTs on the hour over all the buy-ins. Strangely though, I kinda like this. :laugh: If I use PP as the example I know that when I get home from work there are probably 2-4 MTTs I'm going to play on the site. Late reg the 5pm-6pm MTTs and when they're done that's it for the night. All the games on Party run for 6+ hours so playing the 7pm ones is pointless if you want a decent nights sleep. This means the earlier ones are my only shot that night. That makes me want to play them and also means I have an end point to my session. With sites like PS (and to an extent, Unibet) there is always another MTT you could play. A Turbo here, a hyper there. Having less options almost makes it more attractive. I find the same thing with the Nova and some of the Sunday majors, because they're not there all the time they seem more appealing. I'm not sure how I'll deal with it going forward at this point. Maybe I'll make up some sort of schedule of play and follow that but I expect i'd deviate from it after one session 🤣. Ultimately I want to end up with Unibet and one other network for my nightly sessions. I think being able to collect hand histories and review has really helped my game but because I can't do that on Unibet I need to play somewhere else as well to get this kind of information. I'm torn between an iPoker skin and PP just now but leaning towards iPoker because the games are much softer. The April promos don't really do anything for me so I'm not sure how much I'll play over the next month but we shall see. I'm still planning to head to Glasgow for the UK tour event in at the end of June so I'll maybe try and get a second bullet/package to cover the high hotel costs. There is a music festival on that weekend so room rates are double the norm :(. Other than that it'll be Nova sats and random nightlies for the foreseeable future.

March 2018 - UOS Week 2 Week 2 of the UOS began in exactly the same fashion as week 1 ended.. with bricks flying everywhere. No UOS cashes and barely scraping the top 50% in a handful of events. The only cashes I had between Monday and Wednesday came from a min cash in the Black Hole on Monday and HU SNG wins on Tues-Wed to complete a mission. Things picked up on Thursday with a cash in E64, a €25 event. 12th place was good for €100 and some much needed points. Also picked up a bronze medal in the €10 Titan for €120 and made 1.5 buy-ins at PLO10 completing 'Moving on up' to chalk up the first winning day in March.. finally. Was DJing on Friday night so missed out on the events that night and bricked the few sats I played in the afternoon. Saturday was a strange one. I ended up down about €100 for the day even though I final tabled E77, a low r/a. I thought I was going to be DJing Saturday night so exchanged my €50 ticket for €25s but it turned out the club decided to close so I ended up buying in to the €50 UOS with cash and only got a single bounty. I also played many sats and bricked them all. Main event day! This was the one MTT I wanted to do really well in so I got all my real world stuff out of the way early, got myself fed and watered then I was ready for a big Sunday session. Started off with a little cash to get some missions out the way so lost a little playing NLHE and won a little playing PLO. The first 'MTT' I played was a flip for a UOS E80 (low main) which I managed to bink for a ticket which was nice. I went on to bink a second ticket in another flip as they were running all day to keep the ticket fund topped up. Placed some bets on the rugby to try and clear the bonus I got for being on the FT on Thursday and then the real work started. Picked up a E79 ticket in a supersat, good.. bricked every other sat I played, bad. The UOS events went pretty terribly in general. In the high main I'd fired 4 bullets before the addon period and because I didn't have any more it ended pretty abruptly. I did a little better in the low main after getting through 2 bullets and an add-on I finished 50th, 14 or so places off the money. No result in the Nano and no real results in the late events, although I did finish two off the money in the Nano after the lobby glitched and I thought I was already ITM. Luckily I registered some other tournaments and they went much better. I picked up a silver medal in the Cosmic Rays, which is a MTT I normally do horribly in. It was a swingy FT but I couldn't clinch the victory and had to settle for 2nd and a tasty €655 profit. I also picked up another cash in the Titan for €40 and I won all my rugby bets and picked up €50 or so from them. Not the ways I wanted to make a profit, I'd have rather made some day 2s, but you can't complain with a profitable Sunday. UOS Leaderboard Results Nano Leaderboard: 154th - No Prize Low Leaderboard: 102nd - No Prize High Leaderboard: 67th - €30 Overall Leaderboard: 66th - €20 Not the results I'd hoped for but I really do feel I was running bad during the series. It wasn't Merenitsu '0 lucky' level but I was getting it in with the +50% side of the coin flip and losing more than what felt normal. It might be a bias towards remembering the bad beats but it sure felt like those runner runners were coming think and fast :) I really enjoyed the series and I had no problem playing all the levels knowing that a cash in Nano didn't mean to much but the points sure did. I really hope they leave the leaderboard structure the way it is for future events. I know it means there are better players in the lower events and that some people feel they are a waste to play but I see it as a way to boost the prize pools and increase the awareness of the event. I was in it for the glory of being top of the leaderboard, the money is just a nice bonus :) Going to take it easy for the next few weeks I think. I've been flicking in €10 UO sats every now and again to make a half-arsed attempt to get to Malta and I may do the same with the UK sats to try and get a second bullet for Glasgow. I've moved some of my off-site BR around to take advantage of some deposit bonuses so I'll mostly be playing them and seeing what else the poker world has to offer. I also have this to contend with going forward.. MiniTBC is on the way and is 12 weeks old. Time is going to be a lot more limited after September so I'm going to need to get as many hands in as possible before then :Rofl: I'll probably be back at the end of the month with the usual review unless something really exciting happens. Shout out to @theMachine for crushing the blog section of the community with his genius incite into the Nano world and to Lappin for being the end boss he is and winning the UOS leaderboard.

Please start using the code tags for the blog to increase it's awesomenessEdit: Actually, don't. It breaks the dark skin. @testuser1, still doing updates?

March 2018 - End of UOS week 1 Event 19 through 24 ran on Thursday and it was a reasonably good day. Top 50% finishes in 5 out of the 6 events and a min cash in a nano :) Picked up another E79 ticket which meant I now had 3 so that got chopped up into 4x €25s to use in week 2. I'm sitting on 4x €100 tickets (2x Nova and 2x E79) just now and 3 bullets plus an add-on is about all I'm willing to fire on the main event. I've looked at the structure and I think there will be enough chips flying around, as the starting stack is 5k instead of 15k, that building a big pile of virtual chips should be slightly easier than in a regular Nova. It might turn into a Spectrum/Nebula puntfest as well though so we'll have to wait and see on the night. Friday and Saturday were write-offs as I was DJing both nights.. well I was supposed to be. I ended up getting a text from the boss at around 9pm on Saturday telling me they were not going to open so I missed out on events I could have played :( I did play some sats and small tourneys and picked up a UOS 50 on both days but no cashes. Turns out I now have 4x €50 UOs tickets and I'm probably only going to need 1 more. Week 2 has 3 €50 events, one each on Thur-Sat. I know for sure I can't play the Friday and Saturday is unlikely so I'm left with Thursday as my only day to play. I'll just split the others into €25s I guess as there are a number of rebuys in week 2. Sunday was an absolute ❤️♥️❤️show :waterfall:. I ran miserably losing pair vs lower pair more times than I want to remember. I busted out of the Nova AGAIN with Aces all in pre, this time against fives with a five on the river. I was down to 2bb at one point so I thought the comeback was on when I got dealt the AA but it wasn't to be. Busted 4 off the money in the L rebuy and got a few points in the Nano rebuy. Direct bubbled an Odyssey sat as well, which was lovely. Did pick up a €25 UOS ticket in a sat but at that point I wanted to close the client and didn't really care, I'd had enough. My only game on Party, that was just ITM and I was doing well in, crashed during the evening as their servers went down so it was a pretty poor evening all round. If tickets were cash I'd be about break even for the month so far, but they're not, so I'm down about €250 :) Plenty of big events to play in the next week though so hopefully I can cash one or two of them. I really want that winners avatar! Leaderboard standing after one week are as follows:- nano: 159 Low: 200 High: 80 Overall: 85 That deep run in E1 is really saving my ass just now :) Top 10 finishes in any of the leaderboards are probably out of the question now, bar some sort of sun run, so I guess the goal now is to just try and get in the top 100 of each and claw back some money from all the buy-ins :) Tonight is all rebuys so it could get expensive, especially the 4 minute (hyper) rebuy later on. I might also miss the PLO rebuy tomorrow as it's VTL and the blinds are probably going to be too high by the time I get home and can late reg an hour in. Maybe I'll just go nuts and double stack and make it a €75 donation :) Most of the rest of the week are €25 r/a so I'll be playing sats to try and have enough bullets for all that and/or torching BR going for glory :) Once the dust settles at the end of the week I'll post some results and possibly begin rebuilding my bankroll from 0 again :D

@Leo-Unibet, Any chance you can move the UOS sats that start at xx:5x? They run through the scheduled breaks and only pause for a minute or something.

Nova tickets. Forcing the E79 tickets to be used only for the E79 events means it'll be more likely to reach it's GTD

February 2018 (18th to 28th) The countdown to the UOS was still on so ticket hunting continued to be my priority on Sunday. I only ended up play 4 actual MTTs and they all ended in deep runs but not enough to cash. On the sat front I picked up 2 UOS25 and a Supernova ticket to continue building a fund for the UOS events. I was also invited to play in Ian's Battle Royale as a thanks for being the worst mod he has :) I of course luckboxed my way through the 9 handed SNG and took down the €66 first prize and am now in the final for what I think has a UK tour package for first. Not knowing is probably confirmation about my poor mod skills :) Week 3 started by picking up a UOS 50 and UOS 100 ticket on Monday, skipping Tuesday and then cashing the Black Hole and Titan for €80 combined. Thursday had another Black Hole cash for €58 and I didn't play Friday. I withdrew some money on Saturday to play a series on another site and played a small losing session. Sunday was pretty terrible as I only cashed in the first tournament I played in and then bricked everything else. The highlight of my brickathon was lasting 20 minutes in the Supernova as I lost Full House vs quads for all the chips. Not the best of preparations for the UOS :( 26th of Feb So here we go then! Day 1 of the UOS and I was pumped up. I had/have no intention of playing anything else other than the 6 events per day and was ready at 6pm for the first events to kick off. I want to give them my full attention and I really want to win an event! I did not win an event on day 1 however. The closest I got was 12th in E1 which was the €50 FO which was worth €170 in profit. I didn't manage any other deep runs but did get some small points scores for being in the top 50% in a few events. As the tables started closing I added a UOS25 ticket sat and scraped through to pick up some more UOS funds. 27-28th Feb Brick city. I started late on both days, felt tired and really wasn't in a good mental state to focus and play my best. Multiple bullets fired at the L and Nano rebuys to no avail and single bullets in the H resulting in nothing as well. I also accidentally fired my 3rd/4th bullet in the €10 E14 last night thinking it was the Nano event.. €20 I wasn't expecting to spend on that :Laugh: ** END OF MONTH REVIEW ( Februaryy 2018 )** +/- for the month: €325.71* (BR Total: €1431.84) *Includes €146 withdrawalDays played: 19Losing days: 14Winning/Break Even days: 5Sessions/Games played - Cash: 10, SNGs: 9, MTTs: 167ROIs - Cash: -36.34% , SNGs: -87.07% , MTTs: 50.08% The Odyssey score really saved my ass this month :) I was expecting a losing month in February as I tried to convert €s into UOS tickets so to end up positive is great. I still have €500 worth of tickets (mostly in Nova/E79 tickets) so the conversion process has gone well and when I focused I am doing well in the Sats. Volume was low but that's to be expected when you take a week off and I also didn't bother completing the missions which normally generates SNG and cash games. That MTT ROI though :Inlove: Going into March it's all about the UOS. It's been awesome to see all the GTDs get smashed and everyone really getting involved. There seems to be a buzz from players of all stakes and BRs about competing for the leaderboards and for the first time it seems like the MTT side of Unibet is important to players again. I think I heard that they plan to do these after each UO so that sounds amazing and with the potential addition of a new game type there is room for the series to grow into something people get as excited about as *COOP or similar regular series. I'll try and get this thing updated a bit more often during UOS with leaderboard places and things like that.. but I need to get on the leaderboards first :Rofl:

Assuming I've done the formula correct 3rd place in the Nova is worth less than winning a MTT with a 10th of the buy-in and less players?

February 2018 (1st to 17th) It's been a mixed bag so far in February as I continued to battle with a lack of motivation to play on Unibet. I still can't explain why I'd rather get beat up in tough 1000+ fields than actually win some money playing in lower variance and generally perceived softer MTT on Unibet but it's what I've been doing. I remember listening to Davitsche talk about this on his stream once when someone asked him why he doesn't play on Stars. His short answer was because he wanted to make money. This is something I completely agree with him about. For all the glitz and glamour of massive prizepools PS can generate it's incredibly difficult to actually get the gold trophies and requires much more work and effort than on smaller networks. To prove this I went and checked my sharkscope graph and Pocketfives results for PS. I have 2 outright wins on PS in my entire playing career, just two. They were also in 2014 and 2015 which would have been a time where I didn't know anything about poker beyond the hand rankings so can easily be put down to me being smacked with the deck. I have played thousands of MTTs since 2012 (which is the first result P5 gave me, it could easily be longer than that) and only won twice. That's pretty grim in terms of making money. If you go and take it a step further (and sorry for throwing you under the bus) everybody's favourite ChapInAChair has played on PS for 10 years plus and never won a single tournament. I consider him a much better player than myself so that gives you an indication of how difficult is is to win any decent money at the top. Now if you compare this to Unibet I've probably won at least 1 tournament a month on average for almost the last 2 years and sometimes more than 1 a day (#thinbrag). Unibet is the only site I can safely say I'm in profit on (from poker anyway.. damn you slots!!) yet I'd still rather play elsewhere to chase the title. I'm in it for the glory it seems, not the financial gain. I just want to be able to say I won a 'Big' something or a whatever other mass field and well known MTTs are called. The closest thing for me on Unibet is the Nova but that's only once a week :( Anyway, it's time to see what's been going on in the first half of February. I started off the 1st with a fairly mixed session. I wanted to see how easy it would be to earn some flips so I played some PLO and some SNGs. I didn't enjoy either and didn't win at either :). I also didn't enjoy the actual flips as I only got to stage two once. I did cash the big 1k €5 Multiverse for €30 to stem the bleeding but ended the day down about 10 euros. Friday was a slight winning day thanks to a 6th place finish in the afternoon €10 Deep Space but that profit quickly disappeared after Sat-Sun. Sunday was particularly painful as it saw me losing with Aces in the Supernova for the 3rd week in a row and I also direct bubbled a Sputnik sat. I ended the first week down about €95. Then I took a week off. I didn't stop playing poker, just on Unibet. I had absolutely no desire to open the client let alone complete the mission I was on, which was the MTT one. It may have been one of the best decisions I've made. I came back on the 11th with a renewed enthusiasm to grind. I started off completing the MTT mission by playing a Singularity, Multiverse and Shoorting Star. I min cashed the Shooting Star, soft bubbled the Singularity and finished 10 off the money in the Mutliverse. Picked up a ticket for the Ice Giant Bounty in a Sat which I then finished 5 off the money in (but got enough bounties to make it a profitable tourney). I skipped the Nebula and Spectrum and played an Odyssey sat instead which ended up in another ticket collected. The Odyssey went well, really well. By the time we got down to the last two tables I had the company of Lappin and Iany (although they were both on the other table). Lappin managed to survive to the FT but poor Iany did not. I felt pretty comfortable on the FT and felt like I knew how most of the opponents were playing. At that point in the night I was down to one or two tables so I was really paying attention to every hand. The tournament ran long into the night. It was just after 1am I think when I eventually called a flop all in 3 handed and lost with the nut flush draw. Tiredness and a lack of patience played major factors in my decision and I think if I didn't have work in the morning I would have folded and waited for a better spot. It was still good for €870 which is not bad at all from a €5 sat investment. Lappin went on to win the tournament and was very complimentary on my play when he streamed the next day. Almost too complimentary, bordering on insincerity, which makes me wonder if he's just feeding the ego of a fish he can catch regularly. I'm on to you Lappin! The 2nd full week of February started with the excellent news that Unibet would be running an online MTT series for two weeks. I have already drawn up a schedule. A couple of notes to go with this schedule. Firstly, I'm probably not going to play all the high events, I just filtered by 'High' to de-clutter the full schedule. My plan is to play all the 'low' events and play as many of the high events as I can based on tickets I win beforehand and my BR in general. Regarding the colour coding it a simple scheme. Green should be playable, orange are a maybe and red is unavailable to play. I think it's going to be a fun series to play and with the added incentive of the leaderboards I plan on playing as many events as possible. With that in mind Monday was made up mostly of sat grinding. With the official UOS sats not in the client yet I fired things like the Milky Way sat and the Sputnik to try and get some tickets together. I collected 1 ticket, a Supernova ticket. Only other cash in the session was a 15th in the Black Hole for €25. Not the best start to UOS prep. Wednesday was a much better day all round. Picked up a UOS 50 and UOS 10 ticket out of my 7 attempted to get a ticket. Also direct bubbled Supernova sat to miss out on my second ticket which was a shame as I'd made a good shove from the button and got called light. Probably one of those situations where I should have just folded into the money. I also picked up a 4th in the Event Horizon after max late regging it for €90 and picked up my first trophy for February by shipping the Gorsky. Good to finally get back on the winners podium after a bit of a dry spell. Thursday and Friday also both went well. 3 more Supernova tickets and a UOS 50 collected over the two days and cashes in the Black Hole and a €10 PLO singularity on Thursday to boost the BR. I rounded off the week so far with a small session on Saturday where I bricked everything. That brings us up to today, Sunday the 18th. At this point things are looking good for the UOS. The ticket roll is at €540 (I had some €10 tickets left over) and I still have BP to use in the shop to get a few more so it's a good start. I'd like to have at least 2 bullets and an add-on for the Main Event so we're on track to have that by the start of the series and I'm sure there will be plenty of extra sats running during as well. The actual BR is looking healthy again too after the Odyssey cash and is now sitting just above the €1800 mark. I fully expect this to go down over the next week and I'm ok with that so long as real world €'s are being converted into tickets for the UOS :) Right, time for a shower and some food before the big Sunday grind!

:dissatisfied: I remember the days when people played a sat to actually play the target.

I like option 4, the rest just seem gimmicky and a bit much for the first series. There is enough value in the GTds and leaderboard without the extra stuff.

@Leo-Unibet, couple random questions about the schedule.. Are all the bounty tournaments going to be 50/50 prizepool and 25/75 and are they all PKO?Are any of the events re-entry and if so how many?Are the R/As unlimited rebuy?There doesn't appear to be a regular speed PLO :( Completely unrelated, the Odyssey had a double add on break last night.

@GothMoth, I prefer 9-max, I was just mentioning it as the majority of the daily schedule is 6-max just now. I wasn't even aware there were 9-max PLO MTTs running.

With the "progressive start" ones is that 3/4/5/6/etc or something else? I think it would be clearer separated out to explain structure. How long does the main run for on Day 1? Jesus titty ❤️♥️❤️ christ, 100k GTD on the main?!? What's the sat schedule going to be like and will they be event specific or generic tickets for the buy-in? Edit: More stuff.. I think it would have been better to just have Event 1 N/L/H instead of numbering each event. I know it'll make the press release sound cooler/bigger but Event 1 just being 9-max NLHE and Event 2 being 6-max turbo bounty rather than it counting as 6 events seems to make more sense. This is going to be weird coming from me but the schedule seems to be 9-max heavy. Not sure if it's a typo but there are 9-max PLO MTTs in there.. can the software even do that?

** END OF MONTH REVIEW (January 2018) ** +/- for the month: -€633.25* (BR Total: €1106.13) *Includes €168 withdrawal so -€465 really.Days played: 29Losing days: 21Winning/Break Even days: 8Sessions/Games played - Cash: 27, SNGs: 13, MTTs: 182ROIs - Cash: -15.42% , SNGs: 49.27% , MTTs: -16.79%Not the best way to start 2018 was it :Annoyed:. Finished the month with 3 more losing days to round off January in style. I actually played my first session using the new filter plan I mentioned in my previous post and it worked out ok. I didn't win anything and had a miserable session, including direct bubbling the Gorsky, but I was mentally prepared for the madness and didn't want to smash my laptop up too much at the end of it. I did want to smash my laptop after this though.. This would have put me comfortably in the top 50 places in last nights Powerfest event and an almost lock for a cash but ultimately turned into the beginning of a demise that ended in me being called by Q9o vs 55 AIPF and losing the last of my chips about 100 from the money an hour later. Anyway, enough with the bad beats, let's look forward. The Queen of Flips is here so I think I'll play some more SnGs this month to clear the bronze tier. It would be 25 games a day to get all the tokens but the Ts&Cs don't stipulate table size so you could rattle through some HU €1s shoving every hand and letting variance balance things out :) The page for the Promo is not very clear and I can't remember the promo so I'm not sure if you can only win lower tier prizes with a bronze token or if you can win the big prizes but you just have to get through more flips but after day one I'll know either way and be able to work out if it's worth doing. If it is worth doing I might take the odd shot at PLO25 to get a silver token but that'll be based on MTT results. Other than that it'll be the regular MTT grind and mission completing as we rebuild the BR. I have a solitary Supernova ticket left and then I'll be ticket free. I've got about 3700 points in the shop so I'll probably get a couple tickets from that and fire the sats to start a roll again there. This will hopefully mean I'll be playing the Nova for the foreseeable future. As a final thought I wanted to touch on @4soul's comment about being a pro. I consider myself about as far from a professional as a player can get :) First and foremost it's not my main source of income so by the very definition of the word I can't be a professional. I also don't have the work ethic that a pro needs to have and don't put in the hours required on and off the virtual felt despite having almost daily results. I consider myself a 'Rec Reg' which might sound strange but there is some method to my madness. A number of words get thrown around when describing poker players, Pro/Rec(reational)/Regular/Casual, and I think they sometimes get muddled up. A lot of the time people use 'Rec' and 'Reg' as a way to distinguish between a player that plays a lot and player that doesn't but this actually doesn't make sense. To do something recreational is just to do it for fun, the amount of time you do the activity doesn't really matter. Someone that plays video games every day isn't instantly a pro gamer and neither is someone that plays poker. They just do it because they enjoy it but it doesn't automatically make it a job or profession. 'Casual' and 'Regular' seem to me to be much better way of describing the type of player someone is in relation to how much time they spend playing. If you're opening the client a couple times a month then you'd be a casual player IMO and anyone opening it weekly or more would be a regular. With the last two paragraphs in mind it's much easier to classify myself as a 'Rec Reg'. Someone who plays for fun and plays a lot. As much as I'd like to quit my day job and study/play poker as a profession it's not going to happen :) I don't have the work ethic to study enough to get better, I don't have the discipline to always follow what I've learned and I just don't have enough time to do the study in the first place. It's very easy to play a few tables while you do other things like watching TV/Twitch or making dinner but you can't study and do those things. I'm easily distracted and if given the choice between studying and playing + some other activity I'm going choose playing almost every time. It's something I want to change a little this year because I think improving is good and helps the enjoyment of the game and I actually quite like running ICM sims and looking at hand histories but I don't plan on having it take over my life or be a priority. In summary, this means I'll never be a professional poker player and I'm perfectly ok with that :) With that strange ramble about nothing over we'll wrap things up for another post. I've got at least one more DB review post in me at some point but mostly things will be back to the reviews of the daily grind from now on. I bet you can't wait! :)

January 2018 - Week 2 The second week of 2018 started pretty well. Picked up a little profit chasing UO slot spins and then binked this little diddy.. Ended up HU against NMPfan and luckboxed my way to the win. I'll be using this in Glasgow and hopefully picking up another one so I can have a spare bullet if required. I've completely stopped playing the qualifiers to the package with the final being moved to Saturday so this is my only route from now on. It never get's enough runners to clear the overlay so it's good value but much higher variance. I direct bubbled a DSO sat and bricked two tournies but finally winning a seat to a Unibet event on merit was enough for me :) It's easier just to show the results for the week and highlight any major incidents I think. Tuesday-Thursday were all pretty miserable and also spelled the end of my slots quest. Sitting in PLO10 or 25 was just not worth it and I was losing more than I was making so I gave up for the month. Most of Fridays loses are not loses, it's a withdrawal of £150 (€168) which was migrated to another site ;). I cashed two Shooting Stars on Saturdays to turn a profit and then mincashed the Nova on Sunday to make a tiny dent in the loses. January 2018 - Week 3 A profitable week for a change but a low volume one. I played a total of 12 MTTs between Mon-Sat as my desire to grind the evening schedule continues to wain. I just can't bring myself to play things like the Black Hole and Gorsky and would rather play $1.10 MTTs somewhere else with less crazy plays and with teh ability to track hands. Lappin spilt the beans on a MTT series coming in March so that might perk up my interest but other than the Nova I have very little desire to open the client just now. I tried a full session on Sunday and managed two cashes, a 2nd in an early €10 Singularity and a min cash in the €50 Sputnik that I satted into. Finished 13 places off the money in the Nova but won a sat to cover the ticket for that so it was a decent session to round off the week. January 2018 - Week 4 Another big dent in the BR after this week. I'm playing too many satellites basically. 18 out of the 38 MTTs I played in week 4 were sats. Normally this is ok if a) you win tickets and b) you convert those tickets into cashes but I wasn't doing either very well. With not really wanting to grind the normal schedule the only things I was really regging regularly were the Nova and Sputnik sats. Sometimes I'd play the Titan or Event Horizon but other than there there are not many real MTTs. The only winning day actually came on Friday where I played 3x €25 SNGs against Lappin and won two. Only thing I did on Saturday was sat into the Milky Way and then not cash and Sunday was a typical Sunday :) Where do we go from here then? The plan is to protect the bankroll basically. Filter out qualifiers and everything in the €10 and above range. I need to get back into winning ways so I have to get back into the mean streets of the €5 (and possibly €2) MTTs to get some green cells on the spreadsheet in preparation for this MTT series. The Nova sats are so juicy so I can't drop them completely but I'll leave the DSO and Sputnik for just now and maybe start chopping up Nova tickets to lower the direct pain on the BR when I play them.

Thanks for the responce @monkeyheaven. You're right, with most of my volume being on Unibet I'm never going to have a big enough sample to make any defining conclusions. I'll be lucky if I make 200k hands in a year, let alone a month (I'm at 17k for Jan) so I'm aware I should be using and results as a guide and not a hard ruling. Completely agree about using as many resources as possible to study the same kind of situation. I'll be honest and say I watch a lot of poker on Twitch but rarely pay any attention to it, it's just background noise while I play. Absorbing more information is something I need to do more. I wasn't suggesting TT+ was going to be a EP open rule explicitly, more that I would just take a moment more to evaluate whether anything below that is a good open on the table I'm at. I went back and looked at the smaller pocket pairs and 88/77 are both profitable. The 99s seem to just have had more big bb pots where they've ended up losing. Post analysis, just looking at 2018, 99 is still a losing hand in terms of bb/100 (where pairs above and below are not) but when you just do a count of hands where it won chips vs lost it's ahead so it's not a major concern. #SampleSize too. As a reassurance I checked VPIP for the pocket pairs in 2018 and 77+ is in the 90%+ range and below that there is a sharp decline to 22 with 15%. In 2017 22 has a VPIP of 50% and then every pair above that is 70%+ 🤣. I think that means I'm heading the right direction at tightening my range and sample size shouldn't really matter as VPIP should be pretty static if I'm onpening teh same range all the time, I think. :) To your last point, I completely agree as well. It just so happens that the article I was working through started at Pre-flop analysis so it looks heavy towards that just now :) We'll get into vast array of post flop mistakes in good time.

January 2018 - Week 1 The slow 'downswing' that started happening in December has continued into January unfortunately. I'm in the same position mentally as I was after the last prop bet in that I find it hard to get motivated to play the normal schedule. So many of the MTTs in the €5-10 range are 6-max and I just don't enjoy that format as much as 9-max for some reason. Here is a quick look at how the evening schedule shapes up for me :- It's great to see €5 MTTs thriving and getting GTD boosts and they are juicy prospects now but they can also be punishing if you're not in the mood to deal with the crazies of Unibet. The big 3 at the €5 (and the Gorsky) all play roughly the same too. They're all rebuy/re-entry so you can easily spend €10-15 per MTT and they all feel like the same sort of tournament when you play them. It's just not that exciting for me just now. I should probably bother Leo to see if any changes can be made but I think I'll save all my gripes up and just do one big post in the future :). I'd like to see the €10 Meteor changed into a r/a as I think it could easily turn that into a daily €1.5k+ MTT and have either the Black Hole or Gorsky changed to 9 max, preferably the Black Hole. Anyway, I seemed to have gone off on a tangent.. let's get back to what's been happening in January. With it being a new month there are a new set of promos and missions to complete. The prospect of completing the UO slots promo via SNGs sounded like a great thing until I realised I'd have to play 9 €10 SNGs a day to do it. I can't stand playing the 5max SNGs for very long so quickly realised I wasn't going to be completing the promo that way. I did try it out on the 1st and went 1 for 6 before giving up for the day. Only other notable win on Monday was a Sputnik sat for a €50 ticket on a day where I played 3 MTTs total. Tuesday I moved my attention to PLO to complete the UO Slots requirements and had a decent day bagging nearly 3 buy-ins at PLO10. On the MTT side I played a mix of regular and sat MTTs and bricked them all. Wednesday was a losing day on the PLO streets as I dabbled in PLO25, which I lost a buy-in at, and PLO10 where I lost a 1.5 buy-ins. MTT bricking continued apart from a single win in a UK4 for a €25 ticket. I've been actively burning through my UK tour tickets because I'm not going to get many chances to play the Final on a Saturday night because I'll either be DJing or out doing stuff so I'm not converting the tickets anymore and just using them for the target as and when I get them. There is still a Monday night 'seat only' sat I can flick in from time to time and I don't actually mind withdrawing to cover a buy-in if worst comes to worst if I really want to attend a stop. Thursday, Friday and part of Saturday were spend completing missions and the UO slots. I didn't bother with the Slots promo on Thursday, broke even completing it on Friday and booked a €25 win on Saturday. I think I got a couple cash tickets out the spins which were promptly converted to playthrough bonuses as I don't have the time or patience for 350 flops or whatever the clearance is for them. One of the monthly missions was to get a bounty in a Shooting Star. This turned out to be a lot harder than I remember and took me 8 attempts before I finally got one on Saturday. Saturday also had a "Play SNG one day.." type mission so I binked a €10 SNG completing that. The rest of Saturday was filled with near misses.. UK25 - 4th with 3 paidMilky Way - 12th with 9 paidEvent Horizon 20th with 18 paidSputnik Sat 4th with 3 paidIt wasn't all bad though as I won my Milky Way ticket in a €5 flip and picked up a Supernova ticket via tickets I'm now grinding. A losing day for cash but a winning day for tickets. I type these out on the fly while looking at the results and thankfully there are some green cells appearing now :) Sunday started with a €4 SNG win, a 5th in a €5 Shooting Star for €10, 2nd in a €10 Singularity for €38 and direct bubbling the €5 Singularity in 10th with 9 paid. I also booked a 1 buy-in win at PLO25 completing the UO slots. I remember there being some server issues which made knowing where you stood in the evening MTTs pretty hard. I only played 6 with all the issues happening and didn't cash any. I direct bubbled the Sputnik sat for the second time in a row and then made up for it by binking another Supernova ticket to cover the one I had spent earlier in the day :) All in all a pretty miserable week for the bankroll with multiple bubbles resulting in a -€220 red mark on the results sheet. On a completely unrelated topic I have now entered the world of cryptocurrency, much like most of the poker world and earth in general. I invested £200 total in various different coins and tokens at the end of last year and it's been fun watching the swings up and down. I'm not about to start talking about it actively here because I have a very basic understanding of the technology and even less understand of how to maximise returns on investments through trading and things of that nature. If you're thinking about getting involved and investing into the crypto world I have two pieces of advice that I think are worth considering. Number 1, only invest money you are happy to lose because there is no telling what might happen with this space in the future. This seems like common sense but you hear of stories about people having over 50% of their net worth in crypto and that's just silly. Number 2, if you're going to invest in multiple coins/token make sure you get $50+ of them. On more than one occasion I've found I could not get a crypto off an exchange because they were only willing to transfer/exchange over x amount and I had less than that as I was buying £10 of a crypto that was worth $0.01 or something. Something like $50+ in any crypto should be ok to deal with on exchanges but below that they get a bit fussy about it. They also tend to like converting Bitcoin and Ethereum into the the smaller coins so make you buy enough of either or both to cover any initial investments. It's been an interesting space to watch over the last few weeks and if I was to cash out everything now I'd have made £50 for basically doing nothing. I expect this sum would have been higher had I done more research and learned about transaction fees and not bought Bitcoin so high but I'm happy just sitting with what I've got and just seeing what it's worth in 6 months or a years time. It certainly doesn't seem like a technology that is going away soon, even if the value of the assets does from time to time. I'll add a crypto update in the end of month review if anyone is interested in how it's going and will answer any questions with wildly inaccurate statements and misleading financial advice as required :) Int eh next post we'll go back to the HM database and look at some post-flop play and, depending on when I type it out, a week two recap.

@whereisrivaldo, the hands are filtered by VPIP = yes so the results don't include any hands where I folded pre, purely ones that I saw a flop. If I included the folded hand I would expect there to be more -bb/100 hands but they're not hands I'm actively playing so I got rid of them. I think it makes sense to do that so that I'm analysing purely my actions?