CuteRaven

Ok, now I know the day ends at 2 am Finland time

Also when does "the day" end? So how long of a time do you have to climb the leaderboard.

Ok I now know the answer to the second question. If your name is on the leaderboard it will highlight it in yellow. It is some other name than the alias name.

On the page it says: "Earn extra points every second time your multiplier is 1.5x" In the Finnish language version it says every time, not every second time. Do you get the points for 1.5x every time or every second time? "Keep track of the daily leader boards in the Poker client" How will my name be displayed on the leaderboard? Will it be my alias name, or something else? If it is not the alias name, how do I know which one (if any) is me? "Every HexaPro hand you play puts you in the race to win cash." Do you get points for every hand you play or just every game you play? I assume it's just every game that is played? Maybe a stupid question :P Also some feedback: I really like this idea but I think it should be divided by stake. Basically if you want to win right now it seems like you should play the higest stakes of each category otherwise you have no chance.

Better overambitious than underambitious :D. I like it! Good luck, are you planning to ever move up in stakes?

My bankroll is now 670.70€ I played some poker the evening and night before this night (Wednesday/Thursday). I played a mix of 4€ and 10€ heads up SnG games, 10 NL cash games and a few 2€ Hexapros. I played a really long session that day and had a nice profit. Tonight I hosted a game night, dinner and drinks with 2 friends. We played some board games and then some dealers choice poker with all kinds of weird games. The poker included 5 card double draw, sökö, 7 card stud, 4 and five card omaha and texas holdem. All games were no limit. Needless to say it was a lot of fun! In general I am socially isolating myself and avoiding meeting everyone who is older (including my parents) and most other people who I'm not as close with. Considering the state of the world right now I think I am a pretty lucky person. I am young and healthy, financially ok, and I don't have the sort of personality that gets too anxious about situations like this. I live in a country with good healthcare and I have enough to do with the extra free time. I think the biggest issue I have is motivating myself with studies when all physical teaching has been cancelled (then again I'm not the greatest student anyway, so maybe I have more issues with this than the average person). For some reason drinking alcohol causes insomnia for me (which everyone seems to find very strange) so I thought why not update the blog now that I am still awake (and a bad sleep schedule does not help with that either) :P

@FirstVillainThat does sound annoying. I would imagine that the option for automatic activation of the timebank that is coming later will partially solve the issue. Have you tried tiling the tables? That might make it easier to play.

Some sort of bug I have then? Edit: So it was "cancelled" so I can reregister later :D. Ok I think I understand, thankyou @FreedoM

It would be nice to know why was it cancelled and will there be anything else for people with the freeroll ticket :) ?

Nice hand analysis and thread idea! I think I played against close2broke, warhammewrrr (whatever the spelling is) and partychan on some table last weekend when playing NL 10 cash :atisfied: These hands so far are hands that you played?

Hopefully you can turn the downswing around! If folding AK is correct there I'm happy I don't play much of the formats that involve ICM :laugh: It's probably not the same for the 50€ level, but at the lower stakes you regularly see players that would open jam T6 suited or A3 offsuit deepstacked because why not I guess (at least if the 4€ HU SnG are anything to go by).

Right now my bankroll is at 450.02€. Since the last update my bankroll reached a high of about 380€ and then a low of about 260€. The low came after a 10€ PLO cash session a few days ago where I played badly, in that session there were some hands that I definitely should have folded that I didn't. They were the sort of calls where I kind of knew I was lost but called anyway for some reason, probably because of tilt. The ability to fold full houses with deep stacks is pretty important in PLO :D Today/yesterday I played a really long session, starting from the 260€ BR. I was mostly playing 4€ HU SnG and 5€ Banzai. I started playing the Banzai originally because I wanted to complete the March mission "be all in in Banzai" section and there were no free spaces left on the tables in the 1€ Banzai, so I played 5€ Banzai. I stayed because the action was pretty good. I ended up getting almost 100€ on one table and about 120€ on the other table (I had 160€ on that table at one point). I think I won about 50€ from the HU SnG and about 150€ from the Banzai. I got to play some heads up poker during the Banzai session, which was a lot of fun. Playing Banzai at odd hours seems to be a good way to end up playing HU cash on Unibet. Here is the biggest pot that I won during the Banzai session (I'm the player with AK. The pot size is misleading in the replayer, it is actaully 122.90€ in the end): http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/9889873. Villain was a player that liked going all in a lot whenever they had a good hand regardless of stack depth. Hopefully I can stabilize the (hopefully upward) trajectory of my bankroll in the future. Maybe I need to be more careful with bankroll management and jumping into various different games when tired.

@Stubbe-Unibet Ok, I respect the opinion. I just though it resembled the infamous "more rake is going to make the games easier to beat because the good players will leave" :P. I'm not convinced that the rake changes will actually make players move up but I could be wrong (but the table cap could do the job). But anyway that's not really that important. In the end I do agree that these chages are great and overall the changes mean less rake (so they live up to the "less rake is better"), and the rake at the micros is still great and the rake increase at those stakes is justified. So all is very good about this :)

Thankyou! These changes are great! "We believe that the rake at NL4 is almost too good today, in the sense that it gives little incentive to move up in stakes, and the stake becomes much tougher and not as great a place for new players to start out, as we want." This is a weird explenation if I understood it correctly. Sound like the classic "more rake is better". I don't think the NL 4 games are at all tough. But anyway I think it is fine to increase the rake there because it used to be so low. What is the table cap on other stakes than NL 4?

I played a pretty long session of 4€ SnG today. My results were ok I guess. Competition is quite soft at those stakes and I'm very happy with how I played today. BR is 346,40€ : "You played 156 games and won 83 of them. You paid 18.72 in rake and your ROI is 3.22%" 400€ here I come!

Ooh that makes sense. I think you are right, my bad :D.

What I mean is, without knowing the gametype that is being played (including blind levels and stack sizes), it is completely impossible for any calculator to accurately calculate variance. It is the same difference as trying to calculate the variance for pot limit omaha cash games with a standard deviation that you use for calculating variance of texas holdem cash games. Or maybe I am wrong somehow but in that case I don't understand what I am missing :)

Yeah @psrquack, you could definately be right, my nunbers aren't really based on any real data beyond my own intuition. 4 months of breakeven sounds pretty brutal :o @FreedoM Thanks for the link :). I like the answer, I do prefer more aggressive bankroll management straregy nowadays. Of course winrate and tolerance for risk affects how big a bankroll should be also, so I guess finding a fixed number on the internet isn't so useful. But I think it's an interesting way to (try to) compare variance of HU SnG to a gametype that many are familiar with.

"Starting stacks and Blind levels don't influence the variance if you use your estimated ROI for the calculation. " I'm not sure why this would be the case? To quote Wikipedia: "Informally, variance measures how far a set of (random) numbers are spread out from their average value." As far as I have understood it, your ROI has nothing to do with the variance, because the variance is a measure of how far your results are spread from your (real) ROI. So variance is a property of the gametype and can't be calculated from your ROI (but the amount that you are likely going to win or lose can be calculated from ROI and variance figures). I think what primedope is doing is that it uses some variance number that it thinks a "normal" tournament on some site would have. But it can't differentiate between Hypers, Turbos and deepstack tournaments in terms of variance (and these gametypes do have different amounts of variance).

I haven't updated for a while, and I have not been playing as much recently, but I have played a bit. I had a really bad session earlier where I probably played between 20 and 30 SnG and I could probably have literally counted the amount of all ins that I won with the fingers of my hands (I lost about 130€ that session). Then I went down in stakes to 4€ heads up SnG and lost some more. Ironically I felt like I had been playing better than ever during those sessions but the variance was just not on my side. After a low of about 250€, I managed to turn it around a bit and my bankroll is now at 326,32€. I have strated to realize that I have been underestimating the variance in Unibets HU SnG games. If I compare the "typical swings" of HU SnG to the "typical swings" in cash games, I would guess the variance of 10€ HU SnG games are about equivalent to NL 25€ 6-max cash games (or maybe even slightly more?). Maybe some other players who have been tracking their results more closely (or Unibet itself) would have more accurate data on this. If you think about it intuitively, HU SnG is not super far from HU Banzai, except in HU SnG the starting stacks are slightly deeper and the losses are capped to the buyin amount. From some of the articles that you see floating around online, a bankroll of 20 buyins for cash games is considered "very aggressive", 30 buyins is "aggressive", 50 buy ins is "medium" (this is the standard in someones fantasy world at least) and a "cautious" bankroll management involves 100 buy ins. Converting these recommendations to HU SnG on Unibet assuming the variance of 10€ SnG equals the variance of NL 25: - 50 buy ins would be a "very aggressive" BR - 75 buy ins would be "aggressive" - 125 buy ins would be "medium" - 250 buy ins would be "cautious" I remember seeing a Youtube video where some cash reg (maybe Ryan Fee) claimed that the biggest downswing he had experienced in his career was about 50 buy ins. So maybe people who grind HU SnG on Unibet for many years can expect a 100+ buy in downswing eventually (and a upswing of similar caliber). Of course my estimates could be way off too. I probably don't have the patience to wait until 75 buy ins to move up in stakes, but maybe 60 buy ins with a stop loss of 50 buy ins will be my go to from now on. I might also play more of the other game types. As much as I like the volume that you can get playing HU SnG and the large role of exploitative play that HU SnG involves, the hands played there just aren't as intertesting (hence the lack of discussing hands in recent posts) because of the short stacks. HU SnG are also "more solved" than many other formats like cash games, which makes it easier for the regs to be quite good (preflop ranges play such a big role, even though they are not the only important thing of course).

What are you using as a simulator? I have started believeing more and more that the variance in Unibets HU SnG are severely underestimated by some of these online tournament variance calculators, because they do not take into account strating stacks and blind levels, which make a huge difference if you think about it.

So I have played a bit and results have been quite breakevenish. Nothing really that interesting, though I feel like I have been running a slightly bad in all ins at least so considering that I'm pretty happy with the results. BR is now 427.64€. These are probably my stats: You played 82 games and won 43 of them. You paid 24.6 in rake and your ROI is 1.73% I recently tried to learn better preflop strats, since preflop is undeniably such an important aspect in HU SnG. I have come to realize over time that my simplified start at around 15 to 25 bb effective stacks of limping colse to 100% was not very good. Sure, it made prices for 3bets worse for my opponents, but it also let my opponent in the pots for free. All the better regs had some minraises (and reshoves) at those stack sizes and intuitively it made sense too. I looked at the charts here to get an intuition for what sorts of hands I want to put in different parts of my ranges in general https://www.pokersites.io/heads-up-hyper-pre-flop-charts/. I was playing only 2 tables for a short while today so that I could learn to apply the new preflop ranges while playing at a relaxing pace (but then that got boring so I started a third table). I also had a personal project to make a calculator for Sökö in Python. Sökö is a variant of 5 card stud. But it is much better than 5 card stud because it contains 4 card straights and 4 card flushes in the hand rankings (so it's actually feasible to chase draws, and what is a good poker variant without the existance of decent draws). Also unlike most stud games it is pot limit and not fixed limit (fixed limit is super boring :D). I pretty much completed the project today, and it has been interesting to learn about staring hand strategy (also now I have a calculator that I can adapt to other game types pretty quickly too if I want). I think I am quite good at figuring out strategy games intuitively, but starting hands are the hardest part to figure out intuitively because the effects of starting hand selection are the the most indirect to the final results of the hands you play (there are still many betting streets to go and many brances of the game tree to take). Sökö is a game that can be played on only one Finnish poker site as far as I'm aware and there are little to no resources on the game. It's a fun challenge to figure out games that have not been "quite so solved" and to try games that are really different to NLHE. I probably will be spending less time playing poker for the next few days. I want to try and get other stuff sorted (including my terrible sleep schedule).

I have also played a lot against LieutenantHU and NR23 (especially NR23) at the 10€ level. I know their games better than almost anyone elses that I play against :D. I find sleep, excersize, some nice relaxing social events in good company, and nature, in no particular order seem to help most my mental state reset. Enough excersize seems to be crucial for my mental health in general (and how well I think and by extension play poker), so finding some form of excersize that you genuinely enjoy would probably be a good thing. I have also noticed that it is easy to play too much poker, burn yourself out a bit and fukk up your sleep rhythm (and I'm not even a pro so there is no pressure for me). I'm the type of person that tends to focus way too much on the things that interest me and I can forget other things in life, so it's important for me to be aware of that weakness (I haven't figured out how to fix that weakness yet though). Idk if you are similar.

Thanks @Dennis_ ! If there was one good thing about the session, it didn't leave any doubt in my mind that today was up to much else than bad variance. The way I was running, the money was going to go in any case :D. And when playing against decent/good aggro players and they are running great, it is very hard to counter/adjust to them. It's easy to play too trappy/passive, or call down too light vs them and bluffing becomes scary if it feels like they always have it. Let's hope that we can all turn these downswings around soon :)

Well, I ran horribly today at 10€ HU SnG. When I bluffed they called, when I value bet they folded. There was one particularly annoying aggressive opponent who managed to somehow constantly have it even though they were almost constantly betting and constantly betting big, very hard to play against, and they won most of the all ins too. Not that I was running well against other players either. I started tilting so I had to stop. One of those days I guess...my BR is at 413,44 € after a recent high of about 550€ Since the last update: "You played 113 games and won 55 of them. You paid 33.9 in rake and your ROI is -5.58%"