GothMoth

And my last post here, as I'm sure the new year will bring a new curse! This time to all the junk hands played like the nuts by many players on Unibet :laugh:

Not this time/year, for sure @Silver1 @Patsgnome thank you for advertising my image - lots of calls to my "all-in bingo overbets" with pairs and broadways for 20-100bb lately :Cool:

I've had a losing month or two and I'm playing around 500 tournaments in a month. As a cash player from 2008 to 2016 it wasn't uncommon to have downswings or breakeven stretches of 50 000 - 100 000 hands esp. when playing zoom. But despite that I managed to turn some profit every month (part of it was due to the better cashback programs in the past). @papaI doubt that you've played more than 100 000 hands from 15.11. even if you play regularly and multitable at least 4-6 tables. Some of the best players experience such long downswing and most of them more than few times in their careers. The breakeven players or the small winners especially those playing 2-3hrs after work may never know their true winrate and be on a losing streak for several months.

I don't know your strategic skills, but your mental game needs improving @papa ... If you can't win no matter what, better quit for the day/week and return fresh and with positive mindset 😃

Yes @RayL if it wasn't for the bad beats we all would be millionaires :laugh: It is the easiest thing to blame everything but yourself. And the truth is that most players have no idea of the variance impact especially when their BRM is almost non - existent. And the long run is much longer... But what matters is to lose less than the others when in downswing and to profit more when you get your fair share of good luck. Afterall everyone gets the same ammount of good and bad cards, but in the same scenarios winners win more and lose less than the recreational players. And this has nothing to do with the absurd claims of rigged RNGs. It is achievable through playing mllions of hands and thousands of tournaments year after year while constantly improving. @Gio000 , @papa and many of the conspiracy theorists however won't change their points of view as it is ego - suicidal to admit that they are not so good as they believe. This is actually not a bad thing, otherwise the old saying "no money... everyone is solid" might become true.

Papus6 min-raised, Nakki called and I shoved with 16bb, not a bad call by him afterall. Yet another nasty set-up and no chance at all in MTTs with bigger buy-in lately 😞

I guess the players which have some actual edge in poker at all will stay away from this games elsewhere and at Unibet in particular... And you reminded me of the meaning of HEX @RedHotChiliP which is: Hex - a curse or malicious wish. Maybe the intent is to hex the pros :laugh:

@RedHotChiliP I must admit that my 1st session ~100 @ €2-€10 buy-in rewarded me quite well as I won x10 at €10 and 2 X5 at the same buy-in. The second one ~50 games however was 90% at €10 and 90% x1.5 and the few bigger ones I lost. So I'm about breakeven after this rather meaningless sample, but the bitter taste from the 2nd one remains and the impression that it's the most luck dependant format if we exclude the flip tournaments is very strong too 😞

I considered skipping it too (still can't believe how quickly I lost ~€150 ат €10), but was lucky at least today to hit x10 in my 5th game. Also my only two x25 were the 1st day and at €1, which I lost to 2 and 3-outers... This format is simply anti-poker esp. when x1.5. Will play it only for missions(€1 buy-in) , as it's getting on my nerves :puking:

Happy Birthday! May all your wishes come true 😃

@Farseer then it might be a random occurence and we were unlucky in this aspect as well 😞 At first I thought there were some server issues, but I saw no complaints here and later everything was back to almost normal.

@Farseer when this happened to you? I've had such issues because of which had to late-reg the Monday UOS tourneys. My play was suboptimal as I wanted to play from the start of these... @Patric-Unibet , @Leo-Unibet you should make something to prevent such things. The various bugs are almost daily occurence lately, especially the infamous tournaments' lobby-bug when the positions ans stack sizes are not displayed properly and even some busted players are still shown as playing :speechless: The other regular bug is when the time when next level begin isn't displayed which is crucial at the late stages of the turbo MTTs near the bubble.That combined with the messed up lobby makes the optimal play harder for the players that pay attention to such details. I made two screenshots when no MTTs were visible at all:

Maybe you just suck at poker :p <3 And maybe not - the variance in these is not to be underestimated @VikingsAF . Some say that 100-600 BI(ROI 5 to 1) is the optimal bankroll for such jackpot hyper SnGs. My brief test experience was possitive at first as many big multipliers were given, but the two x25 were on €1 which I had ticket for. On €5-€10 buy-ins too the 1st hundred gave many x5 and X10, but later the x1.5 were probably 90% for ~50 games in which I lost over 20BI in about an hour. The most crucial factor is whether you'll win most of the big ones, in which I failed in my second and probably last session.

Sometimes I flop well too. Direct "overbet all-in" after both BB and the min.-raiser checked the flop

Tell me about it :puking:

@GR1ZZL3R I stopped playing the Supernovas regulary although I made 1-2K more in (min)cashes and qualifying cheaply for a decent ROI. These tournaments and all the major ones are too large-fileded and so more luck-dependant than the regular ones. Also the SN buy-in, despite that actually the cost rarely was more than €30 weekly, is way too high for me. So having to go through this every week takes the joy of the daily grind, especially after some nasty bust-outs near the bubble... On the other hand it's good to try the "deeper waters" once in a while, as in the Series for example 😃

@GR1ZZL3Ras I totally agree with your statement in some blog reply that we shouldn't focus on the negative outcomes (it's a KK curse thread so I post sometimes bad beats). Now few very nice ones that ended all-in preflop (typically for the overbet all-in bingo players like me :laugh: was called so by @Patsgnome ) And my all-time favourite :

Ms-donut deceived me by just calling half-pot c-bet(by DemiG0d). Being OOP I decided to shove...

@Want2Believe Daiva is still the queen, but Emelie is definitely the Princess :Inlove: @triceraatopp nice to see you back here:Smile: I missed your blog-posts(in fact it's the only one to which I'm subscribed).

I don't know, but probably no :wonder:

@Boby it was the same to me - the other poker clients, browsers, games worked just fine. But flushing the DNS helped. If you decide to give it a try write down/screenshot your current Network Connection Details to be able to restore the connectivity if something goes wrong.

@Boby maybe it's DNS related, I've had to flush the cache once when the disconnections were too frequent and the other players didn't have issues at the same time :wonder:

For me too, so far @Boby - not so many disconnections, but the bad beats... The last one was when I squeezed with ~20bb:

I'm so much fed up with this bullsh1t 😠

And because I feel a bit nostalgic today... The Lyrics: I hear the roar of a big machine Two worlds and in between Hot metal and methedrine I hear empire down I hear empire down I hear the roar of a big machine Two worlds and in between Love lost, fire at will Dum-dum bullets and shoot to kill, I hear Dive, bombers, and Empire down Empire down I hear the sons of the city and dispossessed Get down, get undressed Get pretty but you and me, We got the kingdom, we got the key We got the empire, now as then, We don't doubt, we don't take direction, Lucretia, my reflection, dance the ghost with me We look hard We look through We look hard to see for real Such things I hear, they don't make sense I don't see much evidence I don't feel. I don't feel. I don't Feel A long train held up by page on page A hard reign held up by rage Once a railroad Now it's done I hear the roar of a big machine Two worlds and in between Hot metal and methedrine I hear empire down We got the empire, now as then, We don't doubt, we don't take reflection, Lucretia, my direction, dance the ghost with me