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Update 3 First drink has been bought. Pretty uneventful and standard drive down for me. Traffic in random places and missing the hotel turn and spending 20 minutes in traffic finding a way to turn round because the Glasgow road system is silly. Seen a couple of faces so far and I can hear Hensie but I've not seen him. 20 minutes until kick off.

UK Tour Glasgow Live Update #2 12:40 - Finally busted everything :( $3.30 WTB - 11th - $13.14 $7.50 PKO - 40th - $12.47 + $11.49 Bounties $5 Deep stacks - 11th - $25.15 Profitable day but ominous FT missing results as we make a move to Glasgow. Managed to tidy flat, eat, iron clothes and 95% pack while playing so we're back on schedule! Next update when we hit G-Town :)

UK Tour Glasgow Live Update #1 It's 10:10 on Friday morning and I'm sat in my PJs listening to the latest episode of the Chip Race (Have a listen here, it's really good). My plan was, and technically still is, to leave around 2pm and make the drive down south to Glasgow. It's about 2 and a bit hours away so I'll hopefully miss the traffic and it'll give me time to get something to eat before Day 1a starts. Unfortunately I've already made some schoolboy errors with preparation which is going to make today a longer day than I originally anticipated. Error 1: Watching Paul Blart Mall Cop 1 & 2 last night until 1am and then getting up at 8am this morning. Day 1a (if you go by the the schedule sheet) is going to finish at 4am tomorrow morning so a 20 hour day is not ideal. If my self predicted last level bust out comes true it'll also make a 1pm Day 1b start time a tough ask too. As someone who does not drink hot things (tea and coffee) artificial tiredness suppressants are going to be hard to find. I'm hoping excitement, adrenaline and probably alcohol will get me through the night. Paul Blart is a champion though :Cool: Error 2: Playing poker this morning. I figured I could play for a few hours before getting ready and fired up a few tournaments with the idea that I could just make it ITM for a buck or two and then pull my thumb out my ass and do things I need to do, like pack and eat. The poker gods disagreed. Here are the stats as of 10:30am (takes me a long time to type a few paragraphs it seems) $5.50 Deep stacks - 1 of 36 (470 runners) - ITM $3.30 Win the Button - 11 of 22 (325 runners) - ITM $7.50 PKO - 56 of 125 (887 runners) 108 ITM Now I like winning money and going deep in tourneys but this really isn't ideal. I am not a morning person so I just opened the client and just went 'click click click' on anything that was close to the end of late reg without really thinking about how long they might last. The deep stacks was a really bad misclick as I now recall watching Kevin Martin on Twitch wasting 11 hour of his life winning a $11 deep stack once. I don't have 11 hours, I have 1! I've not even showered yet, let alone pack, eat, go shopping so my gf can eat while I'm away/get essentials for Glasgow, wash my car, fill it with fuel and probably other things I've forgotten I need to do. I have a horrible feeling I'm just going to have to sit out and prey the servers crash and I get a ICM payout :) I don't think that will happen so some tough choices will have to be made in the next hour or so. NExt update will hopefully be at half 1 as I pack my laptop into my bag and set the sat-nav for Glasgow :)

Swings and roundabouts May continues to be one of the weirdest months as far as poker goes for me. On Unibet, i've been getting crushed :( I went on a 12 day losing streak after the 13th and that included 2 big -€100 days. It's been brutal to be honest and I've really not been enjoying my time playing. I've only played a handful of MTTs in the last week and some days I don't even open the client. I'm have a crisis of confidence :wow: This is a great visual representation of the 'downswing'. It would be very easy to blame it on variance and being card dead but I don't feel like I'm playing well. I'm getting it rough as far as the cards go, don't get me wrong, and feel like I'm getting it in good most of the time and losing but I also never believe anyone anymore and am getting punished for it. I have now used all of my UO/EO tickets so that dream is dead and I bubbled one UK final and just played badly in the other so I can't see myself getting a cheap bullet for the weekend either. I have one solitary €25 UK ticket that I won last night left and a betting freeroll ticket from the weekend. I'll be in Glasgow for the May missions tourneys so those tickets will be useless. Away from Unibet things have been much better. I played a number of SCOOP lows and cashed 4 I think. None were for big money but when you're getting through a field of up to 10,000 people it suggests that you can't be playing that bad. A quick check of Holdem Manager confirmed this as I have a 27% ITM over 81 MTTs on PS for the month of May. I just feel like I play better when I see a PS table on my screen over a Unibet one just now. I have no idea why and it's got to just be some sort of psychological tweak I need to work through but it's causing havoc on my BR just now. I also deposited a little money on a site that rhymes with pie after hearing @Darkangel7 talk about it on Ian's stream. It's a strange place with only 6 max MTTs, no antes ever it seems and oodles of bounty tournaments. As with PS, I feel like I just play better when I see a pie table on screen. My initial £30 deposit was returned to my bank (in record time I might add, cashouts take about 2 hours to Paypal and then same day to my bank account) after I final tabled the first 3 MTTs I played. They had their Super Sunday yesterday which had a 30K main event £110 buy in bounty MTT. I satted in for £12 and took 7 bounties and a min cash for £460ish so results everywhere but Unibet have been great. I've cashed most of it out and it'll now go on covering my buy-in for Glasgow :) I could not be more excited about playing live poker in Glasgow this week. I've made two trips to the local casino here after gigs this month and enjoyed it so much on both occasions. I'm not a cash player but it was the only thing running at 1:30 in the morning so it had to do. First session I ended up £150ish after 2 hours or so basically because of one bizarre hand... the story of which you will now read about :) I had be watching reruns of High Stakes Poker on Twitch before my gig that night and I think that set the tone for how the hand played out. If you've ever seen the show you'll know they players would often go to war with less than premium hands and it worked out for them. With that in mind I look down at 64s in the SB after it folding round to me. The game is £1/£1 or £1/£2 and there was a straddle to £4. I figured I throw in the extra and see a flop. Flop comes T53 (or something similar). I check, straddle bets and I call. It wasn't a big bet as far as I remember (maybe £3 or something) and the player in the straddle was playing Chinese against another player on the table on his phone and just looked like he was betting to get his straddle back. Turn is a 6. I've picked up a pair which is nice. I check again and the straddle bets bigger this time, around £15 I think. At this point I get the feeling that I'm actually ahead and he's just trying to bully me off the pot. I figured that as he's a reg on the table and I'm new to the table that I'd look like an easy target and for my time on the table and the chat it sounded like he was a loose player. I call and we go to the river. River is a 9 I think and the straddle puts me all in for about £150. I lean forward and put my hand on my chips to shuffle them and have a think about things. Straddle then picks up his cards and throws them into the middle of the table face down. Everyone looks a little confused and the dealer gives him his cards back. I don't know if he just saw me out the corner of his eye and thought I'd called but at that point I only really had one option. I looked at one of the more chatty players at the table and said "well, I have to call now" and stuck the chips in. Straddle instantly mucks and I flip over my 6. Bizarre hand, excellent profit :) My second session later in the month was also a profitable one but only £50 or so as I played most of the session 2 and 3 handed so it was pretty swingy. It's so satisfying having chips to hold and cards to peak at and I can't wait to get down to Glasgow on Friday. I plan to play everything I can. I've budgeted for a bullet a day in the main and I'll play any side events I can get into as well just for the experience more than anything else. End of month wrapup and Glasgow report next Monday hopefully and I'll sprinkle some updates in the official event thread if I'm doing well or just to complain about suckouts :)

I'm a community guy, what can I say :)

May, It's a funny ol' month This poor little blog has been so neglected recently. I'm going to be honest I think the next decent update with be the Glasgow recap at the start of June but I'll see what ramblings I can get out before then. Let's talk about Glasgow first shall we, or more specifically, qualifying for Glasgow. It's been an interesting experience so far. Let's look at the numbers so far :- € spent on qualification: Just over 100 I think. I mistagged some entries as cash when I think they were ticketsTicket total: 2x €100 final ticketsSats played: Too many.It has been a painful experience trying to qualify for Glasgow. I tend to forget these things are satellites and end up playing them like it's a bounty and just punt my stack or play too many hands. That doesn't seem to be much of an issue at the €1 level as people are more than happy to punt before me so I've done pretty well in them. At the €4 and €25 level people seem to know what they're doing a little more so I've been getting crushed. That was until last night when I decided it was time to run as hot as the sun. Played 2x €4 and won them both (including knocking out Mathrim on the bubble twice, sorry!) and then played the 2x €25s and binked both of them too! . If you were in the second one (starts at 8:30 GMT I think) I apologise for my horrible time wasting. I had a feeling one of the players was going to rebuy but with a minute and a half left on the late reg and them only having 72 chips I did some stalling. The sat had overlayed by €75ish so I wanted that extra value all to myself :) There doesn't appear to be a final I can play until Sunday (Fri and Sat are no good) so I'll have to sit on my tickets. I'll keep firing the €4s because I'd like to hit Glasgow on the 2nd with at least 2 bullets as my Unibet live record suggests I'll get to the last level of Day 1a and then bust :wonder: Next up for May, €10 bounties. Now I know the Bounty Badlands promo is over but I have a certain love for the 9pm and 9:30pm Ten-X bounties. They are just the right amount of crazy and decent play for me to handle late in a session. They have also been generating the most final tables for me this month, 7 to be exact. I've played 12 in total this month so that's a pretty good return if I don't say so myself. I've only managed a 4th as my highest finish but these runs have basically been paying for all the UK tour sats :) I've had 8 other cashes this month, most of them being in Turbos but no gold trophies as yet. Qualified for the Sunday Entitled last weekend but didn't play well and did not cash. Overall I'm showing only €47 up for the month but that also included the €100 from the promo last month so it's been a losing one so far. It's pretty understandable when the majority of my play has been in the satellite systems that don't really reward cash. Hopefully one (or both) of the two €100 uk tour tickets results in a win and I can claw back some loss for the month via the allowance for accommodation. Next update will be when something interesting happens or at the end of the month :)

Wednesday 26/04/17 Wednesday started off in the best possible way, a gold trophy in the morning €10 Bounty. Only small issue was that I only managed to get my first bounty when we were down to 4 players and I knocked out the 4th place finisher. I did manage to collect the remaining two and my own for a nice boost to the points on the leaderboard. The rest of the day was a miserable bust, including firing two bullets in the new €1K 1R/1A €4 that appears to have replaced the Daily 4. I can see this being a great value tourney for a a little while so it's one I'm going to play regularly. Profit/Loss for the day: -€28.48 Thursday 27/04/17 Was DJing at night so only played the morning bounty, did not cash and didn't get any bounties. Profit/Loss for the day: -€10.00 Friday 28/04/17 Two bounty based scores on Friday night to seal victory over Mr Simpson. First was a final table and cash bubble in the PLO bounty but by collecting 4 heads I turned a small profit and some valuable points. Second was the nightly €25 bounty. Not a tourney I normally play as it starts so late but I was up so I thought I'd see what happened. There ended up only being 5 entrants and I took every single bounty and the gold trophy for first . Nearly €70 of sweet profit and some well needed points. At that point I was only a few points behind 5th and an extra €100 payday. Played the other regulars but did not make anything of them. Profit/loss for the day: €23.17 Saturday 29/04/17 Pretty good day on Saturday. Started off with a min cash and 3 bounties in the morning €10, followed that up with the booby prize in a €10 UO sat getting €8 back and then won a €4 UO UK ticket from a €1 sat. With the afternoon schedule being pretty thin I jumped into a €10 turbo deepstack which turned into €33 profit for a 4th place finish. Finished the day binking a €50 UO ticket to round off a pretty good little afternoon of play :) Profit/loss for the day: €25.72 Sunday 30/04/17 With it being the May Day weekend I was due to DJ 2-6pm but it got switched to 8-12 so I missed out on all the juicy Sunday action. I did play a few things in the morning/afternoon with mixed results. Bricked 2 €10 UO sats and could not go back to back in the deepstack turbo. On the plus side I won €2 in a PLO flip and binked a €4 turbo for €47 so it was another profitable session and a great way to end the month. Profit/loss for the day: €35.66 ** END OF MONTH REVIEW ** +/- for the month: -€339.44 (BR Total: €249.09)Days played: 27Losing days: 14Winning/Break Even days: 13Sessions/Games played - Cash: 12, SNGs: 4, MTTs: 218ROIs - Cash: 23.14% , SNGs: 116.55% , MTTs: 7.79% Goals for April Get out the hole and start playing with profit again :Teardrop:Blog regularly and post hands for discussion and analysis that will be helpful to the community. :Wonder:Qualify for the Sat Stack/Sun Entitled whenever possible :Waterfall:Build UO ticket stack :Speechless:Community League victory! :Rofl:CRUSH @IanSimpson's BOUNTY BASED SOUL!! :Thumbsup::Cash: I'm getting pretty good at playing some of my best poker when I'm donking my money off elsewhere on the site. Positive ROIs in all disciplines and multiple decent cashes wiped from the record books by one moment of madness, but what can you do? Well just exclude yourself from everything and focus on poker I guess :Rofl:. The rest of the goals for the month didn't go too well. I constantly missed the league games through work and my bounty obsession, I've not posted a hand since 2016 or something and I never qualified for any of the big weekend MTTs. The only win for the month was defeating my new arch nemesis and all round gentleman Ian Simpson in the prop bet. It was getting very close at the end of the month and I think if he didn't have so many real life events to attend he probably would have overtaken me and won the bet. I'm still going to take it though and bask in the glory come the start of June when he has to wear a silly costume. It was fun to hang with the big boys at the €25 stakes but I think it'll be time to mingle with the minions at the €4 level for the foreseeable future. On the UO front I'm doing slightly better than when I started the month.. well I think I am.. I could have €150 in tickets, I could have €210.. depends on which bit of the client you believe :Rofl:. I'm pretty sure I started the month with €100 so either way I'm up. Goals for May Get out the hole and start playing with profit againBlog regularly and post hands for discussion and analysis that will be helpful to the community.Build UO ticket stackCommunity League victory!Qualify for UO UK Glasgow May is going to be a weird one. There are so many big MTT series running during May on the dark parts of the web that I can't really see myself playing a lot on Unibet. Having said that I'd like to get into Glasgow on the cheap so I'll be firing UO UK sats whenever I can. With everyone trying to get to Copenhagen I can see the UO sats being juicier as well so hopefully I can build that roll too. I was going to have a rant about Unibet not competing on the MTT series front but I suppose dropping a €50K kinda makes up for it :)

Not trying for Copenhagen, looking to build the UO ticket roll for the secret 3rd stop.

Hello stats fans! As a warm up for this months 'end of month' I thought we'd have a quick look at some of the numbers so far in pretty graphs :) Let's look at the big one first, the bankroll. As you can see it's quite the graph. I wish It could be just a poker bankroll graph because I think it would have looked like a gradual positive line but it's not so it looks like a mountain range instead :) It's also hurt be the withdrawal in Feb for UO London but overall I think it's a positive graph that shows steady profit when I'm not being silly with other games. Not that anyone didn't know this already but I play MTTs mostly and the monthly breakdown of games show this pretty well. The big spike in December was for the Around the world promo I think and the same for the Moving on up SNG promo last month. Cash play is pretty consistent at the bare minimum to complete monthly missions. This is my favourite graph because it's complete madness. Up until last month I was recording games I played using tickets as a 0 buy in fee so when I won things it would create a massive ROI as my 'investment' as I saw it was nothing. NMPfan kindly pointed out that this was not the best way to go about things and that I should really record each game at the official buy in and then just comp myself the ticket back as cash on the results to balance the books. The ROI looks a lot more normal for the last month or two so it's creating a more accurate picture of my results which is good. Having said that, the 100%+ ROI on SnGs is actually correct this month as I've only played 4 and won 3, including a €10 at the start of the month. :Cool: I don't think there is much else I could really report as a graph as far as results go that would be of any benefit to myself or the blog. MathrimC did mention maybe adding days and times to things but even if I did see a trend where I won more on a Tuesday over a Thursday or before 5pm over after 5pm it wouldn't stop me playing. I considered doing the same thing with 6 max and 9 max but again I don't think it really matters to me as a fun player. I'll just play whatever is running, I've never worried about picking the 'best' games, especially on Unibet. There you go, some 'fun' graphs to look at. If you have any questions or queries let me know

The ups and downs of April Man I have been slacking in the blog department :(. Apologies for this, I will explain my absence in the upcoming paragraphs and get you up to speed on what's been happening in the world of MoreTBC (or Andy to the people I've met) since the last post. It's going to be a slightly different style this time around because I've basically been playing exactly the same block of tournaments whenever I play because of the bounty promo/prop bet so I figured I'd just skim over the weeks as I'm so farbehind :) That was the results for the week following my last post (Monday to Sunday). Best get the the most obvious number out of the way first :( Anyone who has read any of the previous posts will know exactly where the €500 went and I've basically been too embarrassed to write about it until now :). After typing out earlier in the month that there would absolutely not be another slots blowup I got bored at work decided to ruin all my hard work in poker again. I can imagine you all reading this, rolling your eyes and saying to yourself 'will he ever learn?'. Don't worry, nobody felt more stupid about it than me :) Strangely, losing the money wasn't the bit I was fussed about. I was more upset at the fact I had put myself in a position where I couldn't comfortably compete against Ian in the prop bet without possibly having to deposit again and that I was getting so close to hitting a 4 figure BR on Unibet and torched it, AGAIN! . I've now had a lovely chat with support and they happily accepted my request to just perm exclude games from my account so I can safely say there will never be anotehr blowup :) With that out the way lets talk about some positives from the week. A 5th in the Community league for some good pointsGoing on a rampage in a Ten-X turbo bounty collecting 15 heads and the gold trophy for €160Winning the very next MTT I played 2 days later, the morning 4, for €384 other FTsI didn't feel like I was playing well so I think I was just lucky to get the results. I fired a decent amount on the Saturday and Sunday and bricked everything. The BR was at the lowest point it's been in a few months. :( Luckily my gf had booked a few nights away in Newcastle at random without telling me and that's how my week started. It was perfect timing and a great opportunity to clear the head and forget about my stupidity in the previous week. I had a lovely time and definitely felt refreshed when I got home on the Wednesday night. By the time we got back I could only get in to the two €10 bounties but I managed to get 3rd in one of them to start my BR revival. I was basically firing €55 of buyins every day for the bounty league/prop and at this point the BR was just over €170 so management was well out the window and it was basically go hard or go home time :) Not wanting to do the 'go home' part I was really trying to play my best and make good decisions. Unfortunately it didn't help and I ended up down €10 over the week. Not to worry though, I was still ahead in the prop bet and comfortably in the top 10 of the high leaderboard. Monday 24/04/17 Monday was one of the most fun nights I've had playing poker in a long time, both on and off the virtual felt. I have not laughed at a twitch stream as much as I did during David Lappins one on Monday. I urge everyone to go to https://www.twitch.tv/videos/137808161, skip to about the 16 minute mark, sit back and enjoy the absolute carnage as Ian and David play a €100 SnG against each other. It was one of the best ways to start a session and really put me in a good mood for the night. On the tables I had easily my best night of the month. David had jumped into the €50 UO sat that was running and I figured I would do the same with my last remaining ticket. I ended up winning the thing and getting a €250 ticket (which I've now chopped back up into 50s and 10s). I won the Ten-X Turbo Bounty for the second time in the month for €110, final tabled a €4 turbo and strangest of all finished 4th in the Daily 4 :Wow:. Well on the road to recovery now :) Profit/loss for the day: €117.98 Tuesday 25/04/17 Not such a good day :(. Did not make it ITM in any MTTs I played. I did manage to get 4 bounties in the €25 to extend my depleted lead against Ian, who had clawed his deficit back to 5 points before the start of the week. Profit/Loss for the day: -€39.29 So there we go, bang up to date again. It's been an emotional and financial rollercoaster but we're out the other side again and doing just fine :). I feel like I'm focused on my play again and in a good position with the BR that I can play the games I need to and not go bust before the end of the month :) Ian only has 2 streams at most to catch up as I think he's got a stag doo this weekend and I'm 18 points ahead (spoiler alert: I won the morning €10 bounty this morning) so I -think- I should be safe from a costume in Glasgow. I'm also a single point away from 5th in the leaderboard and an extra €100 in prize money so all is to play for. I'm at the point now where I have 20 recorded results so getting single bounties is no use anymore, I need to get 2 or more in a single MTT for it to mean anything. I've really enjoyed the promo and am really disappointed there are only a few days left. I'll sort out a quick end of month review with stats next week, hopefully gloat about winning the prop bet and have a big ol' moan about there being no MTT promo next month when every other site is running massive MTT series. :)

Thursday 06/04/17 In a rare moment for me I sat down at a cash table to start the session, and won. With a mission to complete I hit the NL4 streets and put in some work. I came out the other side up 2.5 buy ins and ran away with my bag of swag laughing into the sunset. I live in Scotland so there is no sun or sunset so I laughed my way into a full schedule of bounty tournaments instead. The laughing stopped pretty quickly as I could not get a bounty to save my live and bricked all 6 I played :( I also bombed in the community league and played 3 €10 UO sats and ended up only winning back one ticket. I actually forgot I was playing the sat and because the table prioritisation has stopped working for me I sat out until I busted. I had a decent stack too so would have had a good shot at a €50. I forgot about the table because I played some slots and was winning. Ended up closing the browser €80 up, this strict regime I've given myself when it comes to slots is working well :) Profit/loss for the day: €17.19 Friday 07/04/17 I wasn't expecting to play on Friday but had plans cancelled so another day to get ahead in the bounty leaderboard/prop bet was had. Started off doing my bit for the Unibet community by testing a new release of the client. It fixed the graphics bug people were having and probably more importantly for me table prioritisation. I lost 59 cents helping make sure the client works for you guys, I hope you appreciate that! :Cool: I fired on Andrei's tennis bets during the day as the odds were high and 'In Andrei we trust'. I didn't win :( I now have a pretty solid schedule of bounties to play. At the €4 level there is the deepstack and the 'early' and at €10/25 there is the PLO Bounty and 3x NLHE ones. They're spaced out nicely over a 3 1/2 hour period and tend to not get in the way of each other so I've really been enjoying playing them :) I'm not trying to win the 'low' league at all but the €4 ones are tourneys I've always played and they're good value with all the wild play this month. I'm sitting in the 50s somewhere on the low board so I don't expect to win anything but if I can scrape a min cash I'll be happy. I had a mixed bag on Friday. Started off with 2 bounties in the deepstack but finished well before the money and then finished 2 off the money in the PLO. I then went on a heater in the €25 NLHE and scooped a graveyard filling 9 bounties on my way to 2nd place. €180 profit and a massive boost to the leaderboard and prop bet. I played like a complete idiot heads up and paid the price with second to be honest. I wish I could go back and review it because there were so many mistakes but I think I was just happy with the bounties at that point. I didn't collect any more bounties in the remaining tourneys and finished the day winning a HU SNG and playing some PLO to complete missions and then dusting most of my slots profit from the day before to celebrate my 2nd place :Rofl: Profit/loss for the day: €70.85 Saturday 08/04/17 I was working at night so had to miss all the main bounty tourneys. Played a little afternoon session that started with clearing missions, lost a €4 HU SNG and then won nearly a buy in at NL4. There was a €10 turbo ante bounty running during the afternoon so I hopped into that and it was an eye opener. If you thought the play was wild in the regular bounties you should see the action in the ante ones. :Wow:. Seeing flops with 6+ players in it was regular and people would throw all their chips in with 3rd pair or worse. It was fairly easy to abuse as you could just raise really big preflop and people would come along because they had already put a few chips in. I ended up finishing 8th for a mincash and took one bounty for a spectacular €3 profit. I played the afternoon €4 bounty which ended up being a good one as I got 5 bounties and 13th for €7. Actual cash return wasn't great but a 5 bounty MTT can only be a good thing for the leaderboard. Played a UO sat and didn't cash and then lost on the Grand National to round out the day :) Profit/loss for the day: -€27.88 Sunday 09/04/17 I was hungover on Sunday :Puking:. I spent the afternoon watching the GP and generally feeling sorry for myself. While browsing twitter slumped on my couch I noticed that Ian was streaming. Bit early for him I thought so I fired up the stream to find out he was going out on Sunday evening and wouldn't be playing late. Well that was all the motivation I needed to get an extra bounty session in :Cheeky:. Fired a UO sat to start and ended up getting my ticket back and then hit the SE last chance streets. Bombed both the €5 and €10 and then lost in the flip too, no Sunday Entitled for me :( Played another UO sat but did not cash, getting to the secret 3rd UO stop is going to be harder than I imagined. In bounty land I started off by picking up a single head in the €4 deepstack before getting knocked out. Next up was the PLO bounty and things went much better. So much better in fact that I ended up picking up the gold trophy for the win. That's right, we're winning PLO tournaments now it seems. 5 glorious bounties to add to the leaderboard and €100 into the BR. I sent Ian a picture of my win this morning (Monday) as a daily needle. That win was followed up by a cash in the Community League. 8th place for €12 and some seriously needed points. Played the Sunday deepstack and did terribly. I think I got knocked out when someone called my large 3-bet with 52 or something and beat my KK. I'm going to add it to my list of MTTs I do terribly in for no apparent reason along with the Daily 4 :Rofl:. I managed to cash both the €10 NLHE bounties, a 10th in the reg speed along with 3 bounties and 7th in the turbo with no bounties :( €16 profit but more importantly some more bounty points to secure lead in the prop bet. Profit/loss for the day: €74.98 Things are not looking good for poor @IanSimpson. The current bounty prop bet score is 47-17 in my favour. 47 points also puts me in 6th on the leaderboard and 2 points behind 5th. Unfortunately I'm 42 points behind the leader who has been crushing it but I'll honestly be happy with a top ten finish in a promotion I'm not bankrolled for and is a little above my skill level. Make sure you check out https://www.twitch.tv/iansimpsonpoker from 5pm UK time so we can all enjoy Iany stress out about potentially wearing a silly costume in Glasgow :)

Some quick housekeeping to start. I forgot to mention in the end of year report about my UO sat ticket situation. Quick recap, I got 10x €10 UO tickets as my prize for coming 3rd in London and spent last month trying to run them up. It was a mixed bag really. I think at one point I had 4 €50 tickets locked up but every time I fired one I did terribly. Eventually I wound up at the end of the month exactly where I started, converting my last 2 remaining 50's back into 10 x 10 :( Essentially I need to win a 3x €50 tickets for every 10 €10 I play for things to work out and I don't think I've ever had 30% ROI in anything I've ever done in my life . I'm going to bash on this month though. Now Unibet have released that the UO package for 'the BIG one' is going to be €3300 it has provided me with a little extra incentive to qualify, or at least have a number of chances to qualify when they fully announce the stop. The other thing I forgot to mention was that I fired on @MathrimC's recommendation of Joylent as a meal replacement. It's weird stuff, I'll be honest. I'm not one for having fluids with 'bits' in it so the grainy texture takes some getting used to. I'm slowly adjusting to it and have started having it as breakfast every day which has been going well. It'll take a few weeks to see if it has any major benefits but it's definitely improving my vitamin and mineral intake which can only be a good thing. Now, on to the poker.. Saturday 01/04/17 I had completely forgotten about the €10 SNG I won during the SNG promo in March but the kind folks at Unibet brought it back from the dead so I made sure using it was the first thing I did that day. Sat down at a 5-man, went about my business, collected a gold trophy :cash:. Considering how I ran during March in SNGs I may fire a lot of them next month if there isn't a good MTT promo. They seem fairly easy to beat (I understand 1 €10 is not a sample size I should be basing that on) so it might be a fun experiment next month. With that out the way it was time to get the missions completed. First up was a quick double up and run in Banzai for a cool 18 cents profit. After that I started my attempts to get into the Saturday Stack. Attempt one was a €5 sat where I ended up getting my money back. Attempt 2 was a €10 that I did not cash and attempt 3 was the flip where I won my money back. I was in and out the flat a few times during the day so wasn't really firing every sat I could so it was good to have only spend €10 trying to qualify. With the Bounty Badlands promo starting in April I fired on all my favourite MTTs. First off were the €4 bounty deepstack and early (?) bounty and both were beautiful fails. I did pick up 2 bounties in the early to get my tally going so can't really complain but I would have wanted more. Next up was the €25 bounty. Now I know what you're thinking, a €25 buy in, with your BR? Now I kind of agree with you, it's a bit stupid but I have some method to my madness. I figured a number of the €10 regs would fire the €25 and I am doing fine at the €10 level so how much harder can it be? Also, if I can get top 10 that's €100 which would go some way to covering any losses caused by firing the 25. I'll know at the end of the month if it's a stupid idea and I can always stop playing it if things get really bad and I drop €300+. Day 1 of the €25 went really well. I ended up finishing 5th and getting 4 bounties for €42 profit. It didn't feel like a tougher tourney which is good and the action was just as wild so I can get on board with that too :) I followed that up with a 6th in the Ten-X bounty, including 5 bounties, for another €30 profit. Also cashed the late €4 bounty in 12th with 3 bounties for €9 and finished 3rd in the Nightly Ten for €30. A pretty great start to the bounty hunting month! I think I was sitting 2nd in the High league so was feeling pretty good about myself. I also did one other thing on Saturday, I fired on the slots. I know what you're thinking but don't worry, this was a sober and controlled £10 to try and get a win for Slot of the week promotion. It worked thankfully :) I ended up making another €45 profit and won some free spins from the promotion to boot. Using the free money versions of the slots the last few months for the promo has really hit home about how likely you are to lose playing slots and that if you hit and win.. run. Run really fast and really far . I have no desire to play slots outside the promo as I'm completely focused on Bounty Badlands and beating Ian in the prop bet so don't expect another BR nuking any time soon :) Profit/Loss for the day: €154.03 Sunday 02/04/17 Sunday started off in the usual way now, firing SE sats and €10 UO sats. I converted one €5 SE into a 25 but could not win the next one to get a ticket. first cash of teh day was the €4 Bounty deepstack where I picked up 5 heads and a min cash for €14 profit. At this point I think was when the discussion started on @IanSimpson's wonderful Twitch stream about a prop bet for Glasgow. Luckily it was booked before I entered the €10 PLO bounty as I ended up with 7 scalps and a 3rd for €40. Unfortunately I bricked the 25 and the two 10's to end up down for the day. Profit/Loss for the day: -€23.75 Monday 03/04/17 BountyDeepstack BountyEarly BountyTen-X PLO BountyPLO BountyBountyCrazy Deep BountyTurbo BountyTen-X BountyTen-X Turbo BountyPLO Ante Bounty That basically sums up Monday night . The prop bet was in full swing so I was fully focused. Some of them are €4 but basically every 10/25 bounty there was on Monday night I was in. I bricked every last one of them :Teardrop:. One single bounty in the PLO and that was it. Thankfully I think Ian did even worse and collected zero heads to leave me well ahead in the leaderboard. Maybe the pressure of the prop bet was getting to me, maybe it was just variance. Profit/loss for the day: -€65.09 Tuesday 04/04/17 Started off the day losing a buy in at NLHE trying to complete the 'win at showdown' part of the missions and then picked up a single bounty in the early €10 bounty before work. I'm still waiting on clarification as to where it counted because I didn't get any points for it as far as I could tell. After work it was back on the bounty grind. I really need to use the days Ian isn't streaming to keep ahead so I plowed on with another full schedule. For a second day I bricked all the high qualifying MTTs and it sucked :(. I also had a terrible start to the Community league finishing well out the points places. My only saving graces for the night were a 5th in the €4 deepstack bounty with 5 bounties for €30 and binking my first €50 UO ticket of the month. Profit/loss for the day: -€33.82 Wednesday 05/04/17 Played a similar schedule on Wednesday and continued with similar banter on stream with Ian. Another FT in the €4 division with a 6th and 3 bounties in the early for €15 to get things going in a positive manner. Also managed my second cash in the €25 bounty with a 6th place finish and 3 bounties for €38. Some well needed points as Ian had been catching up and actually finished 3rd in the same tourney. By the end of the night the score stood at 24-17 in my favour, he's a little too close for comfort now! Had a deep run in the Daily 4 (which I've not played in ages and still has a terrible starting stack for a rebuy) but couldn't convert it into a cash and bricked the other bounty tourneys pretty early. Profit/loss for the day: €16.88 There we go, nice and up to date. I'll be firing big again tonight bounty-wise while Ian is off and then I think I'll miss everything for the next two nights with IRL things so It's going to be a big Sunday :)

** END OF MONTH REVIEW ** +/- for the month: €358.23 (BR Total: €582.92)Days played: 27Losing days: 13Winning/Break Even days: 14Sessions/Games played - Cash: 12, SNGs: 67, MTTs: 143ROIs - Cash: -15.83% , SNGs: 18.74% , MTTs: 17.94% ** FULL RESULTS ** Good month :). I'm sure @MathrimC will be proud of my SNG ROI this month :Cool:. Really happy with the MTT ROI too as it's a lot higher than it should be considering how badly I've been playing and how little focus I've had. I've had one really big flaw in the last month and it's been spreading myself too thin with regards to poker. I have BRs now on 4 sites and when you have 4 lobbies to look at and only one screen to play on things get crowded and you lose focus. I do not feel like I've been playing well at all and it's because of this. Too many windows open, regging too many things, not being focused :(. Luckily I've got through it on the positive side with two big wins but it's definitely something I'll be stopping going forward. Goals for April Get out the hole and start playing with profit againBlog regularly and post hands for discussion and analysis that will be helpful to the community.Qualify for the Sat Stack/Sun Entitled whenever possibleBuild UO ticket stackCommunity League victory!CRUSH @IanSimpson's BOUNTY BASED SOUL!!Goals are identical to last month with one extra special new one. I was watching Ian's stream on Sunday and he was talking about the Bounty Badlands promo on this month and how he was thinking about using it as a challenge type narrative for the stream. He didn't seem convinced so I thought I'd give him a little push and suggested a prop bet. Initially I went for a 'Loser buys the beer' scenario but Ian quickly pointed out that Unibet are really good at hospitality (See: printing drinks tokens) so it wouldn't really be much of a sweat. The talk quickly turned to a costume based forfeit and after a quick T's and C's check with the boss we were booked. Whoever finishes lowest in the 'High' leaderboard has to wear a silly costume at UO UK Glasgow. The bet was booked on the 2nd of April so I was very honest and let Ian know I had a decent head start on him after playing on the 1st but he seemed unfazed by that. I also have the advantage of being able to play every day where as Ian is only playing when he's streaming but he is much, MUCH better player than I am so I'm sure it'll balance out. This is great for me as it gives me a little extra motivation to play as well as possible and to focus on Unibet tourneys this month. I'm going to be playing well outside BRM this month so I expect it's going to be pretty swingy and could end up being a painful one by the end of April. Previous experience in the €10 bounties suggests I'm not a huge dog in those so If I can be consistent in them I can hopefully cover the daily €25 Bounty. I'm not going to be firing anything higher than €10 in PLO as it'll just be a donation every time but I think I'll be able to scrape some cash in the 10's, expecially with people playing just for the promo. Full month of MTTs ahead and hopefully lots of bounties. Besides not being humiliated in Glasgow there is €1k for top prize in the bounty leaderboard so there is lots to play for. I'll be more consistent with updates this month so expect the return of long posts and rambling :) Also make sure you follow https://twitter.com/IanSimpsonPoker so you can see my #DailyNeedle while I'm still ahead in the bounty prop bet :) I'm fully aware I'm going to get punished by the karma police for doing it but it'll be fun while it lasts. I'll be back later in the week with a recap of the action from the first few days of the month and a first look at the Bounty Badlands prop bet leaderboard.

Friday 17/03/17 More moving on up and UO sat action on Friday. 2x 1st and 1x 2nd out of 6 SNGs and 2x €50 and 1x €10 out of 4x €10 sats gave m a good haul of results. Lost a bit playing a SE sat and the two €10 bounties to end up slightly down for the day. Profit/loss for the day: -€6.87 Saturday 18/03/17 3x 2nd place finishes out of 6 SNGs to start the day. Then played 3 UO UK sats and busted them all :( Misclick regged a €1 18 man and busted that before randomly playing some cash (probably to complete a mission or test a bug) Profit/loss for the day: -€20.90 Sunday 19/03/17 Fired a bunch of UO sats and SE sats and bricked the lot :( Only cashes came in the two €10 bounties with an 8th in the reg speed and 3 bounties in the turbo to turn a slight profit on the buy in. Profit/loss for the day: -€45.02 Tuesday 21/03/17 Back on the SNG grind on Tuesday and back to my winning ways. 2x 1st and 2x 2nd out of 6. Binked a €50 UO ticket and then busted both bounties. Fired on @AndreiBN's tips and won a decent amount. Good day at the office :) Profit/loss for the day: €54.23 Wednesday 22/03/17 Just played SNGs to complete the promo and went 4x 1sts over 8 games. I wrote on my results notes that I misclicked my entire stack off by accident in one game as well :Rofl:. Fired on Andrie's tips again, dodn't win this time :( Profit/loss for the day: -€20.85 Saturday 25/03/17 Had a couple of days off with the client issues and work. At this point I decided to scrap playing the SNGs for the promo. IT was just too much screen space for too long for too little reward. I just don't enjoy them enough to play them for 4 hours. Only played 2 UO sats, lost one and got my ticket back in the other. Profit/loss for the day: €1.47 Sunday 26/03/17 Tried to get into the Sunday Entitled, failed. Played the Sunday deepstack, failed to the point where I didn't even record my finish. Profit/loss for the day: -€35.00 Monday 27/03/17 Monday was another losing session in all areas. Was definitely not playing my A game at the end of the month and it shows on the last few days results. Really wasn't focused at all. Profit/loss for the day: -€32.93 Tuesday 28/03/17 Small session, continued my brickathon. Profit/loss for the day: -€9.00 Wednesday 29/03/17 Another small session, another fruitless day. Profit/loss for the day: -€29.88 Thursday 30/03/17 Played a €50 UO sat and ended up winning €20 cash for basically bubbling it. Only other MTT was the community league and I didn't do very well. Profit/loss for the day: €17.35 Really quick recap on the month as I've just not been focused at all, not been paying attention and not been playing well. I'll do the end of month tomorrow as it's getting a bit late just now for graphs and stats.

Look at all those tasty high odds.. "In BN we trust"

Don't worry Andrei, it was only £1 :) Got plenty of 4-folds left.

8-fold is on. I feel a 100% day. "In BN we trust"

"In BN we trust"

...and the beer list begins again.

In!! :cash:

Monday 13/03/17 I still have dreams of binking the Jackpot MTTs and winning the €2K or whatever it is for running like the sun however I've been slacking and not played it in the while. I was feeling fresh and focused so I fired into both looking for the big bucks. At one point things were looking good as I made the money in both but I couldn't get my small stack to do any work in the €1 and busted in 22nd for a tiny profit. Did much better in the €4 and picked up a 4th and €42 of sweet profit. Not the jackpot but a healthy return. Next up was the Bounty Deepstack, a real hit or miss tourney for me. Today was a hit, a big one. The gold trophy for the cabinet and 8 heads for the wall, another €72 in the back pocket. Next up I picked up a €50 UO ticket in a €10 sat, 4/4 at this point in MTTs and living the dream Of course, all good things have to come to an end and I bricked my next 4 (inc a poor show in the community league) and got my €10 back in the last UO sat of the day. Profit/loss for the day: €87.91 Tuesday 14/03/17 I must have been feeling flush after my previous nights wins as I only entered €10 MTTs on Tuesday. Started off with two in the morning, both were quick exits. Then in the evening I played a UO sat (busted that) and then fired the two Ten-X bounties. The turbo ended REALLY quickly as I got knocked out by an underpair hitting a set AIPF. The regular speed one was a different stroy though. I was a one man bounty collecting machine! I ended up with 12 when all was said and done and another gold trophy for the cabinet . €187 for the win and all the bounties was another excellent score and continued an excellent week. Profit/loss for the day: €155.84 Wednesday 15/03/17 A new week of Moving On Up had started so I started the session getting through the 6 (?!) SNGs required to complete the promo. Two 1st and a 2nd to continue my decent run of results in the SNGs. Fired two more UO sats but bricked them both and then hit the bounty streets again in the Ten-X's. I almost went back to back in the regular speed but ended up finishing 9th and did slightly better in the turbo finishing 4th Profit/loss for the day: €40.89 Thursday 16/03/17 Another day, another batch of SNG's. Two 1sts out of the 6 to basically cancel out entering them. Another terrible display in the community event and losing a €10 HU SNG because I was trying to play @DaVitsche while he streamed from Brighton meant I had a losing day. I also fired on some of @AndreiBN's tennis tips as he had crushed it the day before. He didn't do so well on Thursday :( Profit/Loss for the day: -€33.55 So there we go, bang up to date :). It's been a cracking month so far and I'm tickling the balls of €500 profit for the month. SNGs have proved to be profitable so far as I sit on 10% ROI just after the halfway mark and my ROI in MTTs is over 50% which is crazy. As I sit across the virtual felt from @vongrundal in a UO sat waiting for him to bust me again with AK (Edit: he got knocked out before me) I can definitely say I'm having a good month :) I'm also running well in off site action as I tripled my deposit on another site on day 1 with a gold trophy in my second MTT so lady luck is shining bright for this guy. How long will it last? Probably not long knowing my history but we'll ride the 'run good train' until the wheels fall off :Rockon:. I'll be back next week with all the weekends action and hopefully some more deep runs :)

Wednesday 01/03/17 Started off the month with some SNG's. Not my favourite thing to play but a promo is a promo and the chances are the fields will be softer this month because of aforementioned promo :) Played 3, got one 2nd. Other than that I only played two MTTs, the €4 Bounty deepstack where I finished 4 off the money and the Daily 4. Remember when I said I thought there might be a possible strategy to max late reg the Daily 4 and make the cash? Well I gave it a bash, played 2 hands and finished 21st with 12 getting paid :haha:. Due to some bad record keeping or some random mistakes I didn't end up too bad for the day. Profit/Loss for the day: -€5.76 Thursday 02/03/17 Another block of 3 SNGs to start the session. Faired a little better this time as we got a 1st and a 2nd. Played a €10 UO sat, didn't do well. Played the Bounty Deepstack, didn't do well. Played some Banzai to clear a mission, won a buy in. Played some cash NLHE to clear a mission, won a buy in :). Jonny gave me a heads up on a social media freeroll Unibet was running so I hopped into that, finished 8th for €4. Had a €25 UO ticket from the community league last month so fired that and got everyone's favourite cooler AA < KK to bust. Had another crack at the 'max late reg in the Daily 4' thing, finished 19th this time after 3 hands. Cleared a challenge step and picked up a €5 boost and confirm the first winning day of the month Profit/Loss for the day: €13.98 Friday 03/03/17 More SNGs, no results :( I had got lots of tickets from the community league place so I was firing them so wasn't really trying to be honest. Not the best way to play but at least it didn't hurt the BR. Played some cash to clear a mission and that was that. Profit/Loss for the day: -€0.93 Saturday 04/03/17 I didn't have a gig at night so I buckled in for a big Saturday session. Started off with a little cash, both PLO and NLHE to clear mission steps. Won small amounts in both. Bricked an early turbo and then went on a Saturday Stack qualifier rampage. Played 7 in total (including the flip) and came out with a €5 ticket, a €10 ticket and €100 ticket . Time to hit the main event! [insert action I can't remember as it was two weeks ago] I finished 7th for €227.70 :cash:. The first decent cash in what feels like forever on Unibet. Followed that up with a 6th in the Ten-X Bounty for another €28 profit and scooped up my first €50 UO ticket from a €10 sat. Bricked the rest of the evening but I didn't care :) Profit/Loss for the day: €188.74 Sunday 05/03/17 After the excitement of Saturday I was fired up and ready for a big Sunday with more big wins. RNGesus had other ideas. I bricked everything I played apart from getting my €5 back for finishing 2nd in a SE sat. I did however win the SE flip and get to play the Sunday Entitled . The spot that ended my tournament I've already posted and the general consensus is that I was just unlucky :(. Profit/Loss for the day: -€59.62 Monday 06/03/17 It was the start of the new community league season so I was determined to focus and play my A game in that. Warmed up by completing some mission steps, a 1st in a €4 SNG and almost breaking even in some cash. It was a bumper turn out for the first league event and with it being a turbo chips were flying. When the dust settled I found myself getting to the final table but finishing 6th. A healthy €25 profit but not the points I was after. Bricked a bunch of the normal €4 MTTs I play but picked up a silver medal in the Ten-X Turbo Bounty for €32. Not sure how but I did not get a single bounty.. yep, finished 2nd without a bounty :Wonder:. Profit/Loss for the day: €21.88 Tuesday 07/03/17 Only played a single MTT on Tuesday and it was in the morning. The €10 turbo bounty that has brought me so much joy in the past. Well it did it again with another silver medal, 4 bounties and €42 profit :cash:. Don't really need to put a win/loss for today :) Wednesday 08/03/17 Played 8 MTTs on Wednesday and it was a mixed bag. Didn't cash the bounty deepstack but collected enough bounties to make a tiny profit. Finished 2nd in the Ten-X Bounty with 4 bounties for €70 profit and picked up another €50 UO ticket. I'm really enjoying playing these €10 bounties just now, people just love punting off their stacks in them :) Also enjoying the UO sats as they're forcing me to think a little more about my play. Played 4 SNGs for Moving on up and got a 2nd to round off the session. Profit/Loss for the day: €33.77 Thursday 09/03/17 Only played a few MTTs on Thursday, including bricking the second league game and then hit 2 1st place finishes and a 2nd clearing Moving on up. Profit/loss for the day: €22.13 Friday 10/03/17 Just played to clear moving on up. Another 2x first and 1x second session. Profit/loss for the day: €15.67 Saturday 11/03/17 Won some money on the rugby on Saturday, played my 4 SNGs and finished 1st in two of them. Played two MTTs, didn't do well and then randomly punted 2 buy ins at PLO10. No idea why :haha: Profit/loss for the day: €20.80 Sunday 12/03/17 Sunday was a strange one. I bricked every attempt to get into the Sunday Entitled and basically all other MTTs apart from the UO sat where I won another 2 €50 tickets. I played 5 in total and got my €10 in one so it was a pretty good return. Not so good for the BR though. Profit/loss for the day: -€66.88 Apologies again for the short (in terms of daily reviews) and rather sporadic post. I feel so far behind it's stressing me out and I just want to get caught up. Now that I'm only a few days behind I feel much better :) It's been a pretty good month so far and I've been enjoying playing things I maybe don't normally. I've also been really enjoying Ian's streams and they're great to have on in the background when grinding. Maybe he's given me the run good :) I should be able to get fully caught up tomorrow and then peace and zen will be restored :Angel:

Some quick admin first.. @MathrimC, how was the Joylent? Does it taste nice? @Nestabear, good find. Not sure I want to fully integrate poo based items into my life though.. I also don't drink anything hot so I don't have a need for a mug :) Right, let's catch up on the last few weeks shall we.. Friday 17/02/17 After the withdrawal for London I left myself enough to play the MTT league games. None of them went well and the day was a bust. Cashout run bad confirmed. Saturday 18/02/17 I cashed in all my bonus points for tickets and just played with them. Made a small cash in the daily deepstack and a single bounty and made about €4 Sunday 19/02/17 Played 6 MTTs and cashed 4 :Cool:. All were min cashes so nothing exciting and profit for the day was about €2.50 Tuesday 21/02/17 Just played some cash, no idea why. Lost less than a Euro overall Wednesday 22/02/17 Just played the community league, did not do well :( [insert UO London here] Monday 27/02/17 Busted 9 MTTs in a row. :( Tuesday 28/02/17 Deposited £200 to level up the BR a little and then busted every MTT I played again. Great finish to the month :( ** END OF MONTH REVIEW ** +/- for the month: -€125.75 (BR Total: €224.75)Days played: 22Losing days: 13Winning/Break Even days: 9Sessions/Games played - Cash: 13, SNGs: 5, MTTs: 123ROIs - Cash: 25.95% , SNGs: -29.45% , MTTs: 8.13% ** FULL RESULTS FOR THE MONTH ** As always with my stats, they're misleading :). My BR may be down for the month but my liferoll is up. The £200 I didn't redeposit at the end of the month skews the figure so it was a winning month, even if the BR doesn't say that. More losing sessions than winning can't be a good thing although most of them were under the €10 mark. MTT ROI is down but still positive which is what I want to see and the other two don't count as the sample is so small. Goals for March Get out the hole and start playing with profit againBlog regularly and post hands for discussion and analysis that will be helpful to the community.Qualify for the Sat Stack/Sun Entitled whenever possibleBuild UO ticket stackBuild UK Tour ticket stackCommunity League victory!The BR is back to a stable level and I can now start focusing on building it up again and trying to get back into a profit only BR. The cash in the UO London freeroll has giving me a great start on the road to qualifying for a package with 10x €10 tickets to work with. I 100% want to go to Glasgow for the UK tour stop and will attend whether I get a package or not but it makes sense to try and get in for cheap so I'll be working on that as well over the next few months. I also feel it's time to try and get back into the big weekend MTTs as a score in one of them would definitely put me fully in the green. I won't go crazy but I think I'm safe now to fire a few sats whenever I have the time to play. The new community league looks fantastic so the final new goal is to compete whenever possible and try and land a big prize. Ok, that's February wrapped up, apologies for the sporadic updates to the main content, UO and my random thoughts have got in the way. I'm writing this in the middle of March so I have some more catching up to do and the next post will probably be a brief summary again and then we'll be back to the fully blown and overdrawn content you all know and love :Cool: