CuteRaven

Haha I remember that hand, I was villain. I was thinking that the 20% flop lead didn't make much sense on that flop texture, so I decided to float. Makes sense though that it was a misclick (I did think it might be a "continuation bet" misclick where you thought you were the preflop aggressor, but usually these small cbet ranges have lots of air). After you checked the turn I thought you rarely or never have Kx (probably flush draws keep firing usually too), so I thought if I blast away I can probably get you to fold whatever weak hand you might have, and represent a strong but narrow range of mostly trip kings. Turns out not and I got owned (I think you almost snap called river too) 😂. Good read, I quit my session pretty soon after that one 😄 . Admittedly not the greatest bluff candidate. It was an attempt to exploit gone wrong I guess, but not really a good play from me.

Not uninteresting at all! Good luck with the poker (and other, much more important things).

I've been pretty busy recently and thinking about the future of my poker hobby. The main issue is that university often starts at 8, so I need to wake up for that between 7-7:30. On the other hand the games that I enjoy playing the most (25€ 5 man SNGs) run best from around 22 to midnight. One partial solution might be to skip morning lectures and watch the recordings of them later, but some morning stuff is compulsory attendance. Also, I'm not disciplined enough to watch lots of lectures on my own, so in many ways it's better to just attend them live. It's probably an unsolvable timetable situation, so I might have to try out other game types or sites with more volume. Tournaments are off the table for the same reason, which is a shame because now I actually like Unibets tournament offering unlike before. This weekend I was visiting my parents (fathers day weekend) and some friends in another city. I needed to wait a few hours after I arrived for my friends to be available, so I made an impulsive decision to try live poker at the casino. Live poker in Finland kind of sucks. It's controlled by the government monopoly Veikkaus, and since COVID there are only 2 (legal) places in the whole country where you can play (Casinos in Helsinki and Tampere). The minimum stakes nowadays are 2.5€/2.5€ blinds (high stakes for me). There used to be about 10 places in the country to play and 1€/1€ stakes existed in the past. In the city where I live there is no live poker. "Pilalla", as you would say in Finnish. Anyway, I sat down on a NLHE table with 100€ (40 big blinds). I've only ever played live a few times and I needed to (re)learn some stuff, like how to fold properly (push the cards far enough so the dealer can reach them) and that throwing in one chip means call (and not raise) if the player doesn't say anything. I did enjoy it. I spent most of my time not playing hands and observing the table (think I made some decent live reads), and listening to banter. Most of the players seemed to know each other and the dealers, which made for some fun conversation. It was probably a pretty reg heavy table. I played an hour or two and ended my reckless gamble with a profit of 116.5€. The only remotely interesting (and " big") hand that I played was this (other profits were from players folding to my 3bets). Game is full ring (rake 5%, 10€ cap) My stack was about 95€. I opened the button to 7.5€ with KsTs. SB (loose aggressive player, 3bets a lot pre) made it 25€. BB (loose passive) cold calls, and I call. Flop is Kh Jh 8s. It's checked to me and I bet 20€ into a 75€ pot (keeping track of pot and stack sizes was a struggle XD). SB calls and BB folds. Turn is Kh Jh 8s 8d. It goes check check. River is some low blank. SB checks to me. Pot is 115€ and I have 50€ behind. I didn't expect a live LAG to ever trap with a better hand so I shove my remaining 50€, hoping for my thin value bet to get hero called by something. SB thinks for a bit and makes the call, and mucks after I show. Meanwhile on Unibet, I played a few 25€ 5 man SNG sessions (on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday). I still regularly make some silly punt plays that I regret later, so I'm never entirely happy with my play. Still managing to make some slow profit though. I got my roll to about 1352.77€ (for what, the 3rd time XD?) and decided to withdraw 600€ (I guess I'm some sort of semipro instead of recreational nowadays :p).

That's a shame 😞. I think Unibet should always at least inform the reason for account termination (if there's not some ongoing crime/cheating investigation). I guess for some reason Unibet flagged you as a problem gambler (can't think of any other reason)? Especially in that sort of case you would think it would be beneficial to inform the "gambling addict" that they have a "problem". Hopefully you can get your account back!

Probably I would check back preflop with this hand. You're in a ugly spot if you raise and get jammed on. But I think I would be raising small (3-4 BB) with all my strongest hands and a bunch of trash offsuit hands since villain should limp quite wide. And jam a few hands too that play badly postflop (e.g 44, A7o). On the other hand, if you think villain will call you with any 2 then this shove is great and you just got unlucky this time.

What a shame 😂. Well, thanks for the info, seems like you know more about it than I do.

I though I would share some hands from yesterday's tournament because they were kind of interesting spots. Both hands were on the final table, and I had a big bounty on my head. In this first hand, EP bigstack minrairaises and CO calls and call in the BB with 56o (antes were worth 0.75 BB total). CO was very LAG and EP I didn't have many reads except that they liked to make loose value shoves preflop. I ended up check shoving the flop, which I think is a pretty huge punt, when EP villain should be calling me really loose, when I have the biggest bounty and villain has a lot of stack to expend. What should I do here? Maybe folding the flop is best even though it sucks. I shoved here and villain called with J8 offsuit, I bricked and busted. Being a short stack in a bounty tourney really sucks, because of ICM pressure and the much lower amount of fold equity, you're incentivized to play quite tight. On the other hand you can't just blind out and you want to regain you bounty collecting ability, so you probably have to take many minus EV spots because of future game. Maybe as the big blind short stack here, you should have a pretty narrow calling range preflop (and forego low card draw hands) and play more 3bet or fold with a broadway heavy range, because people will call you light and you can get it in pretty good? And maybe postflop as the short stack it might be optimal to hardly ever bluff, but valueshove lighter, because your opponents are getting the odds to call anyway? 77 hand: Same villain (this happened earlier), preflop went minraise call. Flop went check, bet half pot, raise tiny, call. What would you do against this turn bet? I folded, 53 gets there and I have terrible blockers too. I think it's either a very good fold or a terrible fold depending on villain, since players are almost never balanced here.

Came 6th. I think I misplayed the last hand, going all in with a draw as the short stack in a bounty tournament when people call you quite light is maybe not a good idea 😄

Shouldn't take too long for me to bust in 12th place 😄

It says this in the law: " Maksutapahtuman käynnistämistä ja toteuttamista koskeva kielto Poliisihallituksen tulee pitää yleisessä tietoverkossa saatavilla konekielisessä muodossa luettavaa luetteloa sellaisista rahapelien toimeenpanijoista, jotka markkinoivat rahapelejä 62 §:n 2 momentin 1 kohdan vastaisesti ja joiden rahapelien toimeenpanon Poliisihallitus on 62 a §:n nojalla kieltänyt. Maksupalveluntarjoaja ei saa toteuttaa tai käynnistää rahapelaamista koskevaa maksutapahtumaa, jossa maksajana on pelaajana toimiva luonnollinen henkilö ja maksunsaajana 1 momentissa tarkoitettu rahapelien toimeenpanija. " Also: "Lain 62 l–62 n §:ää sovelletaan kuitenkin vasta 1 päivästä tammikuuta 2023." https://www.finlex.fi/fi/laki/ajantasa/2001/20011047#a22.12.2021-1284 Doesn't seem too serious but looks like it hasn't been cancelled either (though I don't have any legal qualifications so maybe I'm wrong).

There's a crap new arpajaislaki law coming into effect in 1.1.2023 in Finland. Will Unibet change something, or will things stay the same for Finnish players? https://maksublokki.info/arpajaislaki-uudistuu/

The 25€ pool is just so small that it's pretty easy sometimes to notice a new multitabler with a new style. 😛 I would say that from the tiny sample you mostly stood out to me for playing better than what I'm used seeing from regs, so I don't think you need to worry too much 😄 Though I'm definitely not the best judge.

Managed to come 3rd for a few tickiyitzcszs in the Halloween mission tourney, so I guess it was worth it in the end 🤩. I lost a few buy-ins from mostly 25€ 5 mans, the liquidity there was kind of disappointing, and I didn't cash in the community MTT promo freeroll in the end.

I recognize villain! Fun hand, I think I would've done something different than villain at every decision point 😄 . Oh well, sometimes tilt or playing too many tables can make you do silly things. I'm wondering if flop was a misclick or halldir just saw the gut-shot and 2 overs and didn't think it through. 🤔 Were you also neoElvis?

I've played a few short tournament sessions along with 25€ 5 man SNG (and some 25€ HU SNG too). So far I like the new tournament schedule from my limited experimentation. There's more 6 max and bounties and fast format stuff so more tournaments that I'm willing to play basically which is nice! I've been losing some money at the tournaments (probably from bad play and over-adjusting to the bounties) and HU (mostly some run-bad I think), but that's been compensated by running really hot at the 5 man SNG, so my bankroll is now 1184.19€. I also punted some stacks at 4€ NL to complete the Halloween mission. Probably it wasn't smart or worth it monetarily but it's kind of fun playing when you don't care too much about the money and just overbet or 3-bet lots of hands. 😂 I had a good friend and old ex visiting. It's nice when the breakup is so long ago that it doesn't really bother either person anymore and you can just enjoy each others company.

I like your attitude, not dwelling on your mistakes and having the self awareness to leave when you need to! I think QQ6 is underbluffed as a checkraise. I think big bluffs are fine if you choose the spot and the opponent carefully. Good luck and hopefully your weekend was awesome like you wished for others 😎!

Wow thats a nice Saturday score! 🤩. Congrats! Took me a while to realize you didn't win all 3 in the screenshot. 😂 @Stubbe-Unibetplaying secretly in the pool as turbo_boyy trying to get a piece of the pie after seeing how much you're winning?

Albania seems like a pretty cool country otherwise, maybe I just avoid Tirana if I go then or visit on a public holiday 😄 Having a lot of hiking experience helps with sleeping outdoors. I don't think I would have the skills/equipment/courage to do it otherwise :p. I actually returned from a nice weekend hike today. Lots of nice autumn landscape, lakes to dip in and mushrooms to eat. 😋 Weirdly I often sleep better outdoors than I do indoors nowadays.

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Nice progress! L5 should be very easy once you reach 25€ stakes. If this chart is accurate it's about 15%

Yeah same. Sometimes I have been suspicious while playing but after playing for a while more I've noticed some mistakes. But if there are players using RTA only on later streets or in bigger pots for example, it would probably be quite hard to detect. I thought about it some more and I think you are right in many ways. It feels like the HU regs are a bit tougher on average than they were in 2020, but there could be many more important causes for this (like the corona boom subsiding, winter volumes not quite there yet, me running well in 2020 without knowing etc...). On the other hand I would be surprised if most of the 25€ HU regs weren't using solvers, especially now that they are free and so accessible (presolved stuff run on potato machines too). When you are trying to beat competition that gets instant accurate answers afterwards on what sort of mistakes they made in the session, it gets tough (especially with the "small" game tree of HU SNG). Mostly the sort of exploitability that you are left with is trying to figure out in what ways they are implementing ranges slightly wrong (usually turn or river) or taking shortcuts because of multitabling (and timing tells/game flow/tilt sometimes with certain kinds of regs). It's not that much to go on but still something I guess... Hmm...not sure.

Awesome, thanks 🥳. I'm running bad in the poker but good in getting tickets. More free buyins to punt away right before the bubble 😄

Yeah I think chops should not be included at all or then they should be their own category. Seems like a oversight/bug tbh. You're not stupid even if you were a losing player! I'm not an expert but I think cash games are maybe the hardest game mode to beat, it's quite study-able and seems to attract grinders and it has relatively high rake. Some pros are probably playing already at the stakes that you play at. Managing to just about break even though you seem to have had quite a bad run in the past few months is not bad. I guess it still doesn't change the fact that it sucks 😕

I've been on a pretty brutal downswing. Yesterday I lost about 500€ and today a bit more. BR is at 805.73€ Most of that was in 25€ HU SNG and some of that was in 25€ 5 man SNG. I didn't realize before that there were free solver tools out there 😮. There's GTOwizard where you can look at solutions for free and also some free and open source solver called Texassolver (I tried it out but seems like my laptop is too much of a potato to make use of solvers). GTO is becoming very accessible 😄 Yesterday I was wondering if I was doing something wrong since a 20 buyin+ downswing in one session seemed quite unlikely (it's easily a bottom 5% run), so after the session I spent some time recreating my biggest losing hands (and later biggest winning hands). I was quite happy that I wasn't really making many mistakes in the HU SNG. I learnt that I should give up a few more bluffs on the river, 3bet more A high flops when I'm the small blind player (in single raised pots or limped pots), and fix some slightly loose preflop shoves where the shove was +EV, but there was a better way to play the hand (maybe some of those shoves were tilt). Mostly the hands looked good though, and a pretty big downswing was inevitable with the way I was running. There were some hands that the solver thought were not so good, but I thought made sense exploitatively (and vice versa where the solver thought they were ok but that I think were kinda misplays against specific opponents). I think the biggest thing that I was doing wrong was something that the solver couldn't properly measure. I was mostly playing 3 tables and probably 2 tables is optimal for me. So I was probably not making the best reads and paying enough attention to things like timing tells (while maybe giving off some) and game flow. I was playing pretty solidly but probably not taking the "feel" aspects of the game into account well enough. I think there's a lot of edge in those kinds of things that's hard to measure. If you played against me and saw some leaks I would be curious to know though 😄 As the avatar from the past few days suggests, I'm not really going to be playing on weekends in the medium term because of social stuff 😎 Using a "solver program" for the first time made me think, I tend to like games that are hard to solve and where there is a lot of room for intuition. I guess I have learnt indirectly from solvers before by watching Youtube videos, but in general I think I've gotten my game to a pretty good level without them. If anyone can sign up for and use a solver program to improve in, it really levels the playing field, to the detriment of "intuitive players". So that makes HU SNGs (and also cash maybe games for example?) less attractive. I think SNGs with ICM and tournaments are much better in that regard, so I'll have to think about what game types I want to focus on more in the future. I'm not saying that you can't make a profit in HU SNG, but it's so easy to become so good nowadays. Or maybe these are just downswing ramblings 😄

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