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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:

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The big ol' Unibet London recap (Part 2, finally) Saturday 26th February We begin part 2 of the London recap with a word of warning :Wow:. If you're going to attend a UO at any point in your life I strongly suggest that you make sure you get ample amounts of a) sleep and b) food. I'm happy to admit I did terribly at both and suffered for it. Energy and a full stomach are the two things I wish I had more often during my trip to London. Anyway, I woke on Saturday to another cancelled alarm for breakfast and a hangover. Not a 'find the nearest vet and put me down' hangover, but one of those ones where you'd like to slither around with your eyes barely open hangovers. Did the usual and caught up on the Community stuff and then it was off to Oxford street to do some shopping. I did no shopping, I was just playing bodyguard to Shannon as she went rooting around shops that were too bright, too crowded and too hot for my poor dehydrated body. With that out the way we grabbed some lunch and headed back to the hotel. A sensible man would have had a little sleep at this point, recharging the batteries, knowing full well there was the single most important tournament of his life ahead of him and a night of drinking to boot. Not this guy! The rugby was on and Scotland were in fine form. Using their run good to help my own as I sat in the hotel and finished 2nd in a €4 turbo :Cool:. The grind never stops apparently :Rofl:. Rugby done, I slithered to the casino for the peak of the weekend for all involved, the community side event! Now I'm a man of my word so when I drunkenly said I'd wear a hat shaped like a poo emoji for the side event I damn sure was going to do it. I did not however think about having to walk down a busy London street holding it or having to try and sneak it past the casino security on entry. I imagine drug smugglers must have the same sort of feeling going through airports as I did, it was a stressful time. Obviously what they're doing is on a different scale legally from what I was doing but it was just as important, I had a bounty in my hands! Safely stored under the table all the community guys were sitting at near the bar, the poo hat had made it. I was cool, calm and collected and the security at the front door suspected nothing :Cool:. I grabbed a refreshing (and hydrating) soft drink from the bar and then we made out way to the same little side room I was in for the sat on Thursday. There was 4 tables in the room, we had two and the other two were being used for a rather serious looking final 18 of the deepstack tourney that had been running since Friday. I can't imagine how off-putting it must have been to see a giant poo bobbing about while you're trying to make a decision for potentially thousands of pounds. Luckily I think they moved the final table to the main room so we were left to make as much noise as we wanted for a while. There were two tables that made up the Community freeroll, a loud table and a quiet table. I was at the quiet table. The loud table consisted of Andrei, vongrundel/Christian, Vikings AS FOOK, Stubbe, Remco, Davitsche and a few others where as the quiet table had Marco, Uhlen/Espen, BBP, YpresX/Hugo and a hungover me sweating my existence away in the stupid hat. Blinds went up every 7 minutes or so as they were going to need the tables for the bounty tournament later in the evening so play went pretty quickly. In the first level or two Espen turned to me and said.. "So NMPFan, what do you do for a living" :Wow: What do you do with that? Here I am wearing a giant :Heart::Hearts::Heart: on my head talking to a young man who I had introduced myself to less than 24 hours before and he thinks I'm someone else. These highrollers eh? :Rofl: After a quick correction and a few laughs it was back to business. The eSports guys decided they also wanted one final game and ended up in the room with us playing a SnG of their own. I didn't know any of them which is probably a good thing considering my headgear. I'll be honest, I did not pay much attention to what was happening until we were down to the final 3. Espen, Alex[insert last bit of his username here because I can't remember it] and myself were battling it out for €250 of tickets and Espens bounty. The bounty was all I wanted. I wanted revenge for the mistaken identity. I did not get it :( Lost the first flip against him 33 < KQ and then the second to knock me out with 86 < 75 or something similar where he hit a 7 on the river. I went for the glory and got punished. I did take away €100 in tickets though so I can't complain and I could finally take the hat off. The blinds were pretty high at this point so HU did not last long and Espen took it down. There was no time to waste, the UK rep Jarle had organised a players dinner that started at 8pm and it was already 5 past so I nipped back to the hotel, had a quick shower and then headed to the bar. There was about 8 of us there and it was a good size to get to have a chat with everyone. I had my first conversation David Lappin, one of the new ambassadors, who told me about living in Malta and I told him how I was in London on a misclick ;) It was good to hear about some of the upcoming projects Unibet has in store with the ambassadors. I'll be honest, I'm terrible with names so I've forgotten everyone elses names. If you read this, I apologise. I worked in clubs for a few years as a manager and developed a reflex for when someone said "Hi, my name is.." my brain would completely shut down. After a good meal and some peer pressure to start drinking again (thanks Mr Lappin) we made our way to the club for the players party. It was my worst nightmare :) I've DJ'd now for about 10 years and the one thing I hate the most is functions. You know.. birthdays, weddings etc. As a DJ they are horrible because you're playing exactly the same music every time. The room we were in was like being in a function, or maybe worse, a hen doo. Everyone had whistles and hats on the average age of the regular customer was creeping into the 30's. It wasn't for me. It was however for everyone else, and they were loving it. Don't get me wrong, I had a great time. We were well looked after by Jarle, didn't pay for a drink all night and were around good people... I just didn't like the music :) I'm also not a dancer, it's why I DJ, so I don't have to :) It took a few hours (and several vodka red bulls) before I was pursued onto the floor (thanks again Mr Lappin) and danced away til 3am. When the club closed, a new adventure began.. getting home. At this point I was running on fumes and just wanted to eat and get into bed. Luckily there was a convenient hot dog stand right outside the club so we had a quick snack with Andrei and Vikings and then set out about working out how to get back to the hotel. We also decided it would be a good idea to try and help Stubbe get back to the hotel, as he was more focused on taking random videos of anything in his path than getting home:Rofl:. We scooped up a (I think Serbian) player we'd met at the dinner who was on his own, Remco and Stubbe and followed David/Davitsche and his girlfriend Satu (SatuNAV) as they seemed to know where they were going. Turns out we were one street away from Oxford street and it was a fairly easy navigation back to the hotel, but it was a long one. 20+ minutes normally I think but it took us nearly an hour :Rofl: We crossed paths on Oxford Street with Mr Lappin, Dara O'Kearney (another new ambassador) and Daiva/balticblonde. They were on the hunt for chicken, well David was, I thing Dara and Daiva were just looking for a cab :). We ended up adding David to our group and continued the trek back to the hotel. A questionable chicken retailer was found and David took his chances, brave man. Stubbe was also taking his chances, with traffic, as he darted about filming countless MBs of useless GoPro footage. I ended up chewing David's ear off for the last 20 minutes of the walk home about everything Unibet poker while he finished off his food poisoning coin flip. Finally the hotel appeared and everyone headed to bed. Sunday 27th February I felt surprisingly fresh on Sunday considering the previous nights drinking. We missed breakfast again but that was now normal at this point :) Another top tip for anyone attending their first UO, take lots of clothes. In my cancelled flight panic on Wednesday night I decided I would probably only need one outfit per day and something for the players party, how wrong I was. Needless to say, I needed more clothes so we headed back to the busy streets of London and I picked up some cheap items to cover me until I got home. The final part of my community package was entry into the Sunday freezeout, a £110 (i think) buy-in with no re-entry and 15/20/40 minute levels depending on where you read the info or if you played the first level. Yes, we played 15 minute blinds for the first level and then it went to 20 while players argued with the tournament staff that one website said 20 minutes and one banner said 40. It was a bit of a mess but to be honest I didn't care. I was half excited to play and half ready to fall asleep at the table. You will have read the reports as to what happened already no doubt so I won't go into too much detail about the actual play. I only played a handful of hands on my first table and the two that really counted were both when I had aces. The first one was against a local player where we got it in on a safe looking flop and he turned over queens. "We could have got it in pre-flop" he said to me. "I've only played 1 hand so far, thought it might look a bit obvious" was my reply :) We ended up chatting after the hand and I explained I was freerolling the whole weekend on a misclick and that my Unibet lanyard and badge did not mean I was sponsored or a big deal. It's amazing how important people thing you are if you have an official looking badge on :) Hand two was about as straight forward as you can get. Early position player goes all in, middle position player goes all in, I go all in. Aces hold against cards I can't remember and that was that. The table broke shortly after that. I don't remember much else of what happened until my last big hand. I was mostly watching the tournament info to find out either how many players were left or when I could go pee. I shoved UTG I think with less than 10bb with AK suited, big stack just calls and then a third player goes all in. Everyone flips over their cards, big stack as AK suited as well and the third player has AA. I get up thinking it's all over but it turns out he had less than me so I ended up chopping a small side pot with the other AK player. A few hands later I shove with 'any two' and don't win and that was that. Out in 16th with 13 paid, the exact same finishing spot as the sat on Thursday :Smirk: In hindsight I should have tried to milk the short stack as long as possible that close to the bubble but I'd had enough at that point. I was tired and starving and just wanted to go back to the hotel (I sound so miserable all the time when reading this back, I wasn't, I was having a great time honest :Angel:). Some of the community guys were at the bar and consoled me but a bit like the satellite I wasn't too bothered. I'd made the last 20% of every event I played over the weekend in what is my second live play experience ever, I'd consider that a win. In the worst possible timing ever, just as I was away to leave, Stubbe introduced me Andrew, head of poker for Unibet. I've spent close to a year now annoying him (probably) on 2+2 and here about bugs and changes to the product so you never really know how your first live interaction is going to go. Being barely awake and dying for a McDonalds it was a very brief chat and one that started with "Hi, I'm Sleazy P".. not something I say very often :Rofl:. Andrew did offer to by me food so maybe I'm not on the :Heart::Hearts::Heart:list but I politely declined, burgers and bed were calling. Sweatpants on, stream on, life was good in the hotel. An amazing weekend of new experiences and new friends had come to an end. Monday 28th February We made breakfast! It was a bittersweet victory as it was the last time we saw most of the community guys before everyone went their separate ways. We got a group photo next to all the food (which I've not seen yet) and then made our way back to the room to grab our bags and begin the journey back to Aberdeen. It was a much easier trip home but not one without drama. I ended up walking through the security photo booth as my girlfriend, when she tried it failed and they manually updated it but forgot to redo mine. BA then took me off the flight thinking I hadn't gone through security and when I went to board they said I didn't have a seat. That got sorted but they were unsure if my bag would make it. An anxious wait at the portacabin Aberdeen airport is calling baggage claim just now resulted in my bag being first off the belt, phew! What an adventure! That's it, a far too in depth look at what it's like to attend a UO. If you've never been before or are a little hesitant about going to somewhere you know nobody I hope this has eliminated your fears a little :) I have to thank all the community guys again for making my girlfriend feel so welcome, I genuinely think she ended up having more fun than me and still goes on now about how she misses London and all her 'International friends' :) It was a great experience on and off the felt and something I'm already trying to qualify for again (but that's for another post). I only took 3 photos the whole trip so I don't have a lot to show you. It's basically two pictures of chip stacks and a picture of a Unibet CS guy that won a trip to London posing with Isildur. Next time I'll take some more :) If you have any questions for the first-timer let me know and if not normal blogging will return with the February end of month review at some point in the near future :)

Fear not blog fans, we have found a way and part two has been brought back from the dead. Should be up later today :)

R.I.P part two of the London report as the draft got deleted when the thread was moved :teardrop:

Sorry, should have said the chart is based on 9-max but didn't state the format (Cash or MTT) I agree that the chart shouldn't be a hard rule for opening but I was compiling a list of things that would try and help me curb my loosey goosey approach to the game and thought it would be a good thing to include. For any remaining discussions lets assume we're deep (50bb+) when it comes to the chart :)

I'll get part two of the London report done before the end of the week.. promise 👼 Before that though I have this for you... I signed up for a free account on a training site and one of the free downloads you got were charts for what to raise with if you're the initial raiser for every starting position. I copied them all into a spreadsheet so they were all on the same page and they look like the above. My question is, do you think this is too loose UTG? There is no indication on the site as to whether this is a cash game opening range or an SNG/MTT one but to me it feels a little loose for MTTs. Am I being a nit? What would you add or remove if it was your chart?

An idiots guide to finding leaks in your game when you don't know what you're doing or looking for by me, an idiot /html/images/emoticons/Asset1.png (Part 2) Ok, so last time out we worked out that I'm too loose from early position, I don't do well against single raises preflop and you should never try to steal my big blind. In part two we'll continue going through the blog post here and see what other mistakes I'm making. Preflop - Blind vs Blind This is one of those things you can keep track of while playing on Unibet in a spreadsheet as it only needs a few variables. Did you win or did you lose, that's the basis really. It's also something you can just remember on a game by game basis as it's mostly a situational thing against opponents and/or stage of the MTT. First up lets look at what happens when I raise out of the small blind.. 129.61bb/100 :wow:. I expect the small sample size is distorting this but it suggests that I'm doing OK in this situation and winning more than I'm losing. I had a look to see what my biggest single win/loss was and the top two were both T9o and both losses. One was a turn shove on a 4359 board that got called by 48 and they hit the 4 on the river and the other was an all in heads up for an MTT win. Take them away and I think we're doing just fine from the small blind. Last up on our preflop checks for just now is how we do vs a raise from the small blind when we're in the big. It's a pretty miserable -70.82bb/100. Same as above, the results are skewed by the lack of samples. My biggest loss was for 1 million chips in the same heads up as mentioned above (I actually think this is the one I chopped and we just went all in every hand after the deal was done). If I remove that hand then the bb/100 get's cut in half but it's still not a great stat. ** Editors note: I typed the above out before London, the rest will be post London. I've also worked out I can combine hands from every site HM2 will track to improve the sample. It's up to 45k hands which is still tiny but slightly better :) Post-Flop Leaks "Quite a few small-stakes players call too often on the flop turn and river." This sounds like something I do so let's take a look. Call PF and Flop: 273bb/100 Call PF, Flop and Turn: -340bb/100 Call PF, Flop, Turn and River: -938bb/100 So from the small sample I'm calling the turn and river way too much and losing a lot. I excluded me being in the small and big blind as I think blind defence will be a section all on it's own. Pairs, Ax and Broadway cards appear to be the only thing I'm call/calling with so at least there are no random starting hands in there :) I did some other filtering and found the following things out:- Low pocket pairs where I didn't hit a set on the flop I lose every time I call a flop bet. This is the gambler in me wanting to hit the 3 outer and it's costing me chips.On flops where I have 2 overcards I'm calling the turn bet too often and getting punished.I lose way more calling flop and turn out of position over in position. Positional awareness is something I really need to work on.There are probably more things I could look at but I don't know what yet, it's a learning process for me too :) "Another area of concern for many players is how they play draws" I don't really know what the best way is to find leaks at this part. The results don't really matter for draws I don't think, it's whether or not you're getting the correct odds to call isn't it. I wish I'd wrote this before London so I could have picked one of the Ambassadors brains about this :Rofl:. I'm going to come back to this at a later date I think once I have more hands and a better understanding of what to look for. If you have any ideas then let me know :) 3 or 4-Bet pots Last thing the post suggests is looking at 3-bet pots to see how you do. First off I looked at how I did when I was the one doing the 3 betting and things appear to be good, 380bb/100. Next I removed all hands that were all in pre-flop. I think this is a good way to remove random shoves when really short and focus on things where there is some post flop play.The numbers improve to 714bb/100 :). A quick look at the hole card chart shows 7 hands where I lost money 3-betting overall. I narrowed down to just the REALLY wide raises to see the results. The weirdest one out of that list is the Q8o hand. I've watched the replay and I actually think it was a misclick gone good. I only min 3-bet so I'm pretty sure it was a mistake because I'm not one to make that kind of raise. The rest all appear to be BB defences and just confirm I need to tighten up a little bit. Next I checked what I was doing when facing a 3-bet and although the bb/100 is positive (423) excluding AIPF situations the same things keep coming up as losing hands. Small pairs and broadways below KQ. Strangely I'm winning more often calling 3 bets with offsuit broadways than suited but that's just down to sample size. We're looking at 1-5 hands per hole card combo. There were a few other combinations I ran but they give basically the same results, I just need to tighten up :) Hopefully this disjointed and rather rambling look at some of my hand histories will at least give you something to think about in your own game. It's obviously really hard to try and analyse things on Unibet when you can't track anything but I think you could focus on a concept for a week of play and analyse how you get on in a broader level. I've never actually tried it before so whether or know it's just a ball ache to do or not I'll probably never know :) If you have any questions about anything written in part 1 or 2, want to see more stats or situations or want to just tell me what I've written is completely wrong and explain how it should be then please do. I've never done this before so it'll be a minor miracle if it's all correct.

Thanks for the replay @GamesDean. A min cash would have been a 50%ish boost to the BR but I've always been a 'go for the glory' type when it comes to poker so while part of me thought it might be a good idea to wait and try and sneak into the money the rest was saying "I think this is the right play, click the button". For reference, the flop was K5K, turn K and river 5 so I'm not too sure if I could have got the villain off their hand. They ended up finishing 2nd.

Thanks @MathrimC. I didn't put much consideration into a limp or raise because I felt the villain knew what they were doing and would shove over either so it would have been a waste of chips. I guess I just got "dealt a game over" as Jcarver would say :)

Hello blog fans :) I've not even started part two of the London trip yet and I'm nearly finished part two of me rambling about stats in HM2 and not knowing what they mean but I'm not here to talk about them just now, I'm here to ask for your help. I played a hand last night and it's been annoying me ever since and I'd like the ICM bosses and/or the Push/Fold wizards to tell me what I should have done. The set-up It's the Sunday Entitled, there are 12 players left, 9 get paid. It's a farly tight table and nobody is really getting out of line. Stack sizes are as follow :- Seat 1: 17904 (11bb) Seat 2 : 64289 (40bb) Seat 3 : 23906 (15bb) Seat 4: 21404 (13bb) (me) Seat 5: 49048.50 (30bb) Seat 6: 62397.50 (39bb) Stack sizes are after posting the 200 ante and blinds are at 800/1600. I am 11 of 12 at this point. I get dealt QTo in the small blind and it folds round to me with seat 5 in the big blind. Is shoving the correct play or should I have waited? I've never done any ICM calculations but I ran it through this and I think it's suggesting I should shove Q8o+ against the BB? Seat 5 had AA and obviously crushed me. What is it with me finishing 3 off the money in Unibet tourneys? :Teardrop: That makes the live sat to the main, the live freezeout and now this!After the hand all I could think about was that I had 13bb, I could have waited and found a better spot. Did I just get unlucky or was waiting the correct play? ICM gods, assemble!

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The big ol' Unibet London recap (Part 1, probably) Wednesday 22nd February Always best to start at the beginning with these things :) I'm sure most of you know by know that my UO London experience did not start off particularly well. I finished my day job at 17:30 on Wednesday, all excited about packing and getting ready for a hopefully fun adventure in London, and at 17:33 received a text message from British Airways to tell me my flight on Thursday morning was cancelled. WTF?! :Veryangry:. I got 3 minutes of excitement before something went wrong. Turns out there was a storm named Doris on the way and she was about to cause some havoc. The BA website refused to let me change my flight for about an hour and a half which added to the stress and ruined my plans for the evening. I only had three things to do on Wednesday night, pack my bag, collect my girlfriends bag from her house and play the Community League. I ended up doing all three at the same time :(. I started the league game, played for about 20 minutes, sat out, drove to the gf's and back and then had my laptop on my bed trying to play while I packed. I didn't play well obviously as I wasn't really paying attention and busted in some low scoring position. I'm going to be writing a strongly worded letter to BA this week about how they probably cost me a cool in-game avatar with they're flight cancelling nonsense :Angry: Got packed and began to chill out a bit so obviously the next thing to do was to fire up the stream and watch the eSports/Ambassadors SnG's :). I'll admit I was mostly watching the eSports one to see if any of my bets came in :) I was convinced that the stream would hit over 12.5k viewers and put that in almost every one of my bets so I didn't do very well :Waterfall:. I think they peaked at just over 10k views which is huge for a poker stream so congrats to the guys for surviving the carnage that was the chat box that night. The Ambassador SnG ran pretty late and I ended up falling asleep around 1am when they were down to 3 so I missed Charlotte's win. Thursday 23rd February The Re-booked flight was set to depart at 12:20 so I woke up blurry eyed at 9am ready for a day of travelling. Doris was still kicking up a weather fuss so I checked to see if the flight was still running.. it was, but it was delayed :(. By the time we reached the airport the fight was due to take off at 13:55, well over an hour and a half late. Aberdeen airport is not a fun to be when there are delays. It's got three shops and one bar so it was a loooooong wait. Once we finally got in the air things didn't get much better. The high winds in London meant planes had to approach slower which in turn slowed how many planes landed per hour and caused more delays. Circling London in 40 mph winds does absolutely nothing for a guy that gets motion sickness so when we finally landed I was feeling worse for wear. Things didn't improve as we chose rear facing seats in the express train from the terminal so by the time I finally got to the hotel I was ready for a lie down. The Unibet welcome desk was nice and easy to find, it was on the way to the lifts for the rooms. This is where I met the immaculately dressed Jarle. He was looking after the UK (and another country that has slipped my mind) players and it only took two minutes to get my players badge and find out about the Welcome drinks being hosted in the bar across the road from the hotel. Everything was very relaxed and it was good to know as soon as you arrived that there was a point of contact if you had any issues. Then it was time to hit the room. It was like any other room in a hotel to be honest, bed, TV, bathroom etc. The one good thing about it was that it was on the 21st floor. The view was amazing. I stupidly forgot to take a photo of it but you could see things like the London Eye and it was over an hour away on foot. I'm hoping Andrei took a photo as we found out on the last day that we were two doors away from each other the whole weekend and never crossed paths :Veryhappy:. Grabbed a quick sandwich and then it was off to the casino for the first time. I'll be honest, it was a little daunting. I've been in casinos before and my local casino is under the same brand so I didn't need to register or any of that because I already had a players card but walking into the room and not knowing where to go and who to look for was a little confusing. There were lots of people with Unibet passes on but you didn't really know who to ask first. I think this may have been a community members only issue as there was a Welcome booth as you came in but I think it was for the main event players and late reg ended at 5pm and I turned up at half 7 so nobody was there. I took a quick walk around and found what looked a bit like a registration desk. Turned out it was and after a quick ID check I was handed a bit of paper with a table and seat number. I think if I was going to have to pull out a 'room for improvement' comment it would have been the first 5-10 minutes in the poker room. For the first time/new player that has maybe never registered for a live tourney it would have been good to be walked through the process and shown about a bit. It's a gripe that lasted until I turned around from the registration desk as I was met by Stubbe and Marco. Meeting people you only know from the Internet is always going to be a strange experience but I had the bonus of knowing what Stubbe looked like from the 'Road to Unibet' video and he had watched one of my two very brief streams so knew what I looked like. We exchanged some travel stories and updates on other community guys that had/had not arrived and then it was 8pm. Time to try and qualify for the main event. Most of the tables for the satellite were in the main room and there was also a smaller side room with 4 tables in it, I was there. Let's say the temperature in the room was inconsistent during my time there and some of the other players were quite vocal about about their unhappiness. I however was just excited to play some more live cards. It felt like a new game playing live with all the fun of chips and cards and that. I found myself constantly counting my chips to work out how much I had and trying to count chips in pots when other people were playing. You'll see the guys with headphones on, watching videos on their phones and that, they're missing out! There is always something going on and it was great fun just watching it all unfold. I had planned to take notes on my phone of hands I played not realising Stubbe would pop his head in every half an hour or so to see what my stack was like and get a quick update. I think this confused a lot of the players all weekend really as the combination of players badge and intermittent rail made them think I was a bigger deal than I really was :Rofl:. I had a pretty active table so I just sat there and let them rumble with each other. I do remember getting pocket tens pretty early and folding to a three bet because I didn't want to bust quickly and felt the guy was playing a little snug. If I could go back I would have called, bust and then got a pint :) You've probably already read the live updates thread so you'l know I was sitting in the 2-10bb range for at least 2 hours. This was mostly caused by me being completely card dead (The 10's and an AQo being my highlights) which there really isn't anything I could do about. Live play is much looser and players are calling a lot wider so I figured I'd just wait until I had the cards/position to shove and then cross my fingers. Luckily I survived every time and by the time I hit Vongrundal's table I was sitting with a 'comfortable' 10bb. Two double ups in 3 hands and I was now in the strange position of having lots of chips. It didn't last long as BadBeatPeete (BBP) hit a set on the turn during a hand to take a decent chunk of my chips and put me back into the sub 10bb zone. At the last hand before the second break I had 2.5bb and a rather unhappy girlfriend who wanted to go out for a drink. I'd been telling her I was going to be out 'soon' for the last few hours and the poker gods kept deciding otherwise. I put all the chips in, got the expected call, and flipped over A10. It held and I entered the break with a stack I might be able to survive with. I've just read the live updates again and I think Stubbe got it wrong in his reporting :Wow:. Down to 16 players and 2 tables we had a little community corner set up with myself in seat 7, BBP in seat 8 and vongrundal/Christian in seat 9. Everyone was trying to survive as the average stack was around the 10bb mark. In the hand that crippled me the updates say vongrundal shoved and I called but I think it was the other way around because poor Christian had to give me the 'I've gotta call' speech which I would have done if it was the other way round against a community player. The saying goes that there are no friends in poker but I could tell he wasn't really happy about calling and that he was going to have a big hand. The cards went on their backs and it was KK for me vs AK for vongrundal. It was the first time I thought I'd be good in a race.. but I forgot about the KK curse :( I've always thought he hit an A on the flop or turn but looking at the picture from the night he turned a straight and I couldn't find an A on the river for a chop. Strangely I wasn't that bothered at the time. I was at the point after a full day of travel and nearly 6 hours in a chair that the thought of getting up for 11am the next day for potentially play another 12 hours of poker wasn't really what I wanted. I wanted some sleep. I also had a lot of fun busting. That might sound strange but I had developed a little rail of supporters that were making noise during the action. It felt a little bit like my own final table and I really enjoyed it :). A big thanks to Andrei, XpresX/Hugo, RemK_95/Remko and Stubbe/Marco for handing around and making bubbling a £1K payout from a freeroll a very pleasant experience. I hung around to see vongrundal just miss out on a Main Event seat and then walked back to the hotel with Remko, who gave me a glowing review of my blog :Cool:. Smoothed things over with my very unhappy girlfriend, who strangely could not be persuaded to go out for a drink at 2am, and then went to bed. Friday 24th February I set my alarm every morning for 10am in order to try and make breakfast but I never did (except Monday when we left). With vongrundal missing out on a seat in the main it left BBP as the lone community player for the day and there was only the high roller and the deepstack running so I morphed into full tourist mode and went to see the sights. Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, The London Eye.. all that good stuff. Being from a city that isn't known for it's tourism you quickly realise just how big a deal all these things are on an international level. For example, people were queueing up to get their photo taken next to a red telephone box, which was strange to me as I'd grown up with them on most streets. I'm one of those guys that's a bit 'I've seen it on TV' about landmarks and wasn't really fussed but I really would recommend the London Dungeon if you visit. It was a very entertaining hour and a half of stories about the history of London with the odd scare here and there. We went round Madame Tussauds (again, I was a bit 'meh' about it), had a look down the big shopping streets and then headed back to the hotel for some food. After dinner I headed down to the casino with my girlfriend for a drink or two and ended up meeting all the community guys and now VikingsAF, who arrived late. I have to thank the guys for being so welcoming to my girlfirend and making her feel right at home in a group of degenerate gamblers. From Andrei trying to get Facebook details of her friends to Stubbe giving giving me 2x drinks tokens instead of one each time it really helped integrate her into the evening and she ended up have more fun and attention than me:Rofl:. 'A few drinks' became lots and lots and we spent a good few hours in the casino chatting and laughing about various things. I had my first conversations with David Van Der [insert dutch ending here] and Marc Convey which was good, both were very approachable and open to answering questions about the stream and Unibet in general. We also witnessed this. From the video thumbnail you can just about see Andrei talking to my girlfriend on the far left. It was quite a surreal thing to watch but was clearly set up as the camera guys were waiting for Kassouf for a few minutes before he turned up. Griffin had been drinking most of the night and at one point appeared at our table while talking to Laura (who does all the interviews during the UO). We ended up having a quick conversation and then he disappeared out the casino to find a more lively spot to carry on his night. I'd be lying if I could tell you what time we left the casino but I do know why we did leave :). Someone (Stubbe) decided we should play a SnG in the hotel. Seemed like a good idea at the time:Rofl:. We had poker sets with chips the size of fingernails and several drunk players all with a different idea of how the blinds should work. It was chaos.. but fun chaos. I left the guys after being beaten by Andrei in some horrible runner runner hand after flopping trip 10's. Spoke to Espen/Uhlen for the first time too briefly, not that he remembered (more on that in part two), before heading to the lift and bed. In part two we'll cover the community side event, the players party and all the action from Sunday :). It's taken me 3 days on and off to finish this part so expect part two next week or something :Laugh:. Rather than tag mid-post I'm just going to mass tag at the bottom of the posts if you're in there somewhere :) @testuser1, @MarcoV, @Andrew, @AndreiBN, @vongrundal, @VikingsAF, @YpresX, @BBP, @DaVitsche, @Hymn2Ninkasi.. am I missing anyone?

An idiots guide to finding leaks in your game when you don't know what you're doing or looking for by me, an idiot :) (Part 1) I've not played a lot of poker over the last few days (withdrawing nearly all your BR can do that) so I've been looking into finding holes in my game via hands I've tracked on another site I've been playing on recently. Obviously you can't track anything on Unibet easily so it's going to be harder to find leaks sometimes but I think by going through it using data I've collected somewhere else that information can still be applied here. I've not had Holdem Manager 2 for long and it terrifies me. It's a wall of numbers and abbreviations I don't understand so when I decided I was going to use it to fix my terrible plays (and write this hopefully useful post) I did what any person would do.. Google how it all works. Specifically I searched for how to find leaks in my games using HM2 and found this: http://www.pokerlistings.com/strategy/leak-finding-using-holdem-manager. This post is basically me going through this link step by step and seeing just how bad I am :) Things did not start well. The post suggests I should have 300k hands of data to be able to accurately find issues in my play. I have a 1/10th of that to work with :) It's ok though, we'll plod on and see what's happening with my preflop play. Preflop "In the main filter tab click early position. This will filter to all hands played under the gun and under the gun +1. First and foremost look at your VPIP and PFR. They should be almost half of your overall VPIP. You should be playing very tight from early position." VPIP/PFR (Total): 17.6%/11.6% VPIP/PFR (EP only): 12.3%/11.3% That's not too bad is it? :) I might be wrong here but I think the PFR stat doesn't need to be half the total value. You're never really limping from early position so the amount of time you put money in the pot in EP and the amount of times your raise preflop should be pretty close right? There doesn't appear to be an official 'best VPIP/PFR total' as it's always situational but 15-25% seems to be in the realms of where you want to be based on a quick google :) "Filter your UTG results further in the hole cards tab and see how you do with the bottom of your UTG range. Let's say the bottom of your UTG range is something like ATo , Axs, and T9s. Look at each one independently and see if you're turning a profit. You may surprised to learn the results." I don't have a "UTG range", I'm not clever enough for that. I see cards, they look pretty, I play them. I chose the above as a rough example just to see what it spat out. Well it's thrown up some interesting information. The first thing that sticks out is that 66/44/33/22 are winners. I'm pretty confident that this is down to the small sample size and some run good. I've checked the 22 hands and can confirm this is the case. The most I've lost with 22 is around 7k chips and the most I've won is over 50k and that was a 5BB shove that was called and the board bricked for the villain. When I checked 99 I only have 36 hands as a sample so you really can't tell if it's going to be a winning hand at this point. Even with the small sample I think there are hand combinations that I should be folding in EP that I just don't. I looked at pocket pairs first and did an additional filter to only see hands when I was 50BB or more deep. This is the kinda level when I get my head torch on and go set mining. It pretty much looks like the chart above, I'm losing at everything up to TT. It feels horrible to fold a pair at any time but the stats don't lie, they're costing me chips. There are a couple others I'll probably make a conscious decision to not play as well (ATo and KQo) especially when there are no antes. "Next, you want to look at how you're playing against raises." Unfortunately the post doesn't say what to look for specifically so we're just going to have to make up some stuff here :) Actually, I don't really know where to begin with this one because there are too many options based on positions and actions etc.. The base stats are that I'm -9BB/100 total when facing one raiser so there is something going wrong somewhere. I'll come back to this one once I've done a little more digging to work out a) what I'm looking for and b) examples of it :) "Next we have in the blinds vs late position steal." I ferociously defend my big blind so this should be a good one :) Woohoo!. I appear to be doing something right (I think) :Cool:. The hand sample is just too small to get into it on a 'per hand' basis as most of the combos have <5 results. There are no doubt areas where I'm torching money by defending but it's just too early to tell. One thing I did notice is that AA is the only pocket pair I've not called with when coming up against a steal. I thought this was strange so I checked my KK hands and there has only been one but I called an all in so it's different from defending as far as I'm concerned. It's something I'd need to play about with in the filters to narrow down but my gut feeling is that I'm not doing as well at the stats say if you remove calls against all ins and there is some post flop play. That's enough numbers for one day I think. HM2 is a gift and a curse because it gives you so many stats and ways to break down the data that it can help you find things you're doing wrong and make you think you're doing things wrong when you're not. If I remember I'll revisit this post near the end of the year and re-run everything to see what's changed and what hasn't. Obviously you can't do any of the reporting on Unibet hands but there are some simple processes you can apply based on what's above. With a spreadsheet you could track results of pocket pairs in various positions fairly easily for example to see if you're winning or losing. Chips won/lost isn't really important so it would just be a column for win and one for lose for each position along the top and the pairs down the side and just tally them up. If I've made any mistakes about what the stats mean or how to interpret them please tell me, I need to learn, and if you have any questions let me know, I'll google the answer :)

@FeelsBadMan, That makes perfect sense. I will implement that from March. Thanks. Monday 13/02/17 Working again on Monday night so I only had time for the €4 turbo. Finished in 30th :( Profit for the day: -€4.00 Tuesday 14/02/17 Wasn't really in the mood to play on Tuesday but I knew I was running out of points scoring opportunities so plowed on. Bubbled the Bounty Deepstack by two places and then after that really could not be bothered with it. Bricked the other MTT's I played and actually closed the client while still in the Deepstack Turbo so I don't even know what place I finished 🤣 Profit for the day: -€18.65 Wednesday 15/02/17 Went into Wednesday's session ready and focused. I'd been out for a meal with the gf before I started so I had a full belly before I started and set myself the goal to win some UO London fun coupons so I could go do some things in the non-poker times next week. I've never been able to actively try and win money when it comes to poker. I know that sounds silly on the face of it but I've always had the mentality that winning money isn't something I can control and making good decisions is something I can. I can't sit down and say "I want to win x amount of money" because I just don't think that works, especially in tournaments. I just go into each session trying to play my best and hoping the gods of variance are on my side. Things did not start well. Poor finishes in all the low league qualifiers and the Community league meant I was heading for another losing day. I took a stab at the €10 daily deepstack and was quickly punished as some maniac called my 30BB reshove with AKs with 74 and hit a 7. You just don't expect stuff like that at the €10 level but it appears it happens and it was rather tilting 😠. Having not won a single cent in the session I decided to throw BRM out the window and go back to my old faithfuls, the €10 bounties. Many a Euro has been won in these tournaments and Wednesday was no different. The turbo bounty added another gold trophy to the cabinet after a very up and down final table. I had 5BB at one point and didn't get a bounty until we were down to the final 5 but a good run heads up lead to the victory. Couldn't quite close out the reg speed bounty and finished 4th in that for a total of €130ish profit. It has been a long time since I felt that focused playing poker. I was thinking about every decision, playing tighter and making ever chip count. It was very rewarding for that focus to pay off with some cold hard cash and the satisfaction of a 1st place 🆒. I also cleared a bonus step by playing the €10 MTTs so it covered the days earlier losses too. Profit for the day: €133.44 Thursday 16/02/17 Working again, no play. The BR has just crept over the €500 mark so I've done what any sensible human would do and withdrawn nearly all of it 🤣. Don't worry, I'm not leaving :) Just using it to cover gf's flights and travel expenses for London until she gets paid and then I'll redeposit. I'll probably put half of it back in and mark this as the start of me chipping away at the deficit. This time next week I'll have busted a live UO Main Event sat and be wandering around London looking at things, it's all very exciting :)

@MathrimC, I have ROI % in the end of month reports as a value. The problem with SNGs for me is that I rarely actually buy in for cash so it can make the number seem a little strange. I'm not even sure the formula is right but it makes sense I think that if I use a ticket (0 investment) and win a €2 HU SNG my ROI is 394% :) I track daily but only by date, not day. Could maybe add a day colum to filter out more. I should be able to do a finishing place chart for HU and 5max SNG and was thinking about doing a top 20% finish pie or something like that.