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@ITSMEOKAY Rakeback + leaderboards is about 500$ per week on 10s and 20s. Not sure how much I got on Unibet but it was a fraction of that. From the $ perspective PP is more profitable for me

Poker: Ups and downs as always, can´t complain when looking at the total. Unibet Didn´t play on Unibet at all with the exception of the Magnus Carlsen Open. I was lucky enough to find myself on the left side of Magnus Carlsen, busted him after several minutes. He made a rebuy but soon I had him at risk again. Unfortunately, KK < AKs happened, so no chess board for Dennis. Damn you, @Magnus_Carlsen Meanwhile, my account was frozen because I couldn´t prove my old German address. This turns out to be a real ordeal as I haven´t got any documents that Unibet will accept:geek: Chess: Still busy memorizing my opening lines. Languages: I have learned about 150 new Welsh words since the last update which helps me to understand an estimated 5% more than I used to before. The plan is to learn a lot more in the weeks to come. My French efforts have been rather minimalistic. Lifestyle: I am keeping up with the running and am discovering all sorts of plant-based dishes almost on a daily basis!

I won´t complain about losing 20€ or not winning some wood (or is it plastic?) but the near miss experience in which it happened is rather tilting

Just as I was writing this

Well, someone did the did the dirty work to get him down to 10BB, next hand he openjams and I snap with 88. SB overcalls with Q4o and we check down all three streets. He did, however, rebuy and is still playing. Not sure if this counts

I have to my right someone by the name of "Mag_Carlsen", using the Magnus Carlsen Avatar. In the tournament lobby of the Magnus Open it says he will use the Alias "Magnus_Carlsen". I am asking because if we are talking about the real Magnus I will be playing ATC against him🆒 @Stubbe-Unibet @RayL

Hi @ITSMEOKAY I play about 250 SNGs for 3 days a week. I get 25% in direct Rakeback plus typically 100$ on the leaderboard on the days I play, totalling to over 100% :atisfied: If you play 100 SNGs a day it will be less, maybe 50% to 70%?! Greetings back to Germany

100 SNGs a day is super ambitious. I´d be surprised if you kept that volume up for more than just a few days. GL anyway

I had this interesting spot in a hyper 6 Max SNG today. I played with different stacksizes and found that an extra 0,1 BB decreases our calling range. I tried to understand the reason behind this but it seems to me that the extra 0,1 BB shouldn´t make any differences. Does anyone understand this and can provide an explanation?

I bet you a nickel that one of them is trolling the other one. If they were colluding then why on earth would they choose similar usernames?

Poker: I have been playing almost exclusively on the other site these past two weeks. The swings are ridiculous, but it hasn´t been going all wrong. Unibet: I bought some 4€ HUSNG tickets with my remaining Bonus Points. Played 8, won 3. Still 1.000 Challenge points to go until the next rakeback batch of 15€ but at least I finished this silly ´get a flop with at least two sevens´ challenge. Chess: I have almost exclusively been memorizing my opening lines as part of my chess training. Not much else to say. Languages: The motivation is up like never before. I spend the first hour before getting out of bed with studying vocabulary every day, both French and Welsh. In addition, I work my way through the Welsh Wikipedia, listen to Welsh Radio or watch the France24 newsstream quite frequently. However, fluency (in understanding) still hasn´t decided to show up yet. Lifestyle: About a month ago I made the decision to go from vegetarian to full vegan for ethical reasons. And recently I decided to cut down on soya products in favour of more fruit and vegetables. I am also keeping up with the running every second day. Never felt better.

that was rather shortlived

@LFCJJ Possible reasons: make new players win to keep them in the games while the regulars will stay anyway. Or make the bad players win so they don´t burn out while the good players will put their misfortune down to bad luck. That being said, it would be a huge risk for a tiny extra profit, absolutely not worth it and most certainly not the case either.

@Koljamen I think you didn´t understand my claim properly, because even if you played your bankroll up to a billion that wouldn´t prove me wrong. As for a possible ROI at 4€ SNGs, 10% is definitely possible, but you have to know your stuff very well, which presumably, given the fact that you don´t understand simple bankroll management, isn´t the case here. This isn´t ment as an insult, it´s a piece of advice from a professional who thinks you have a serious leak which makes itself seen before any cards are dealt.

I can only stress out on what has already been said. With that bankroll management your risk of ruin is 90%+, and that is only if you actually beat the games you play

Nice read as always, but how do we all manage to permanently run this bad?!

1st hand: I prefer to block the nuts when doing something like this 2nd hand: The Ace of spades is a weird card, basically a brick (which is somewhat unusual). It doesn´t help your range at all. The only value hands you ever have here are 97, 93 and 73. I give up on the turn 3rd hand: It really depends solely on the opponent. Against most 25s regs I fold it, I guess against an aggro 50s reg the call is fine. 4th hand: I love the check on the turn. The 3 is a perfect card for our opponents range, so let him hang himself! However I am not giving him the chance to check back the river. Might not apply to very aggressive opponents though

@FreedoM jamming is definitely the standard play here. Flatting would be a mistake for sure. The only other option is a NAI 3bet. However, AKo is difficult to play on a flop out of position. I would much rather have something like AKs or a premium pocket for this. But with a sitout shortie I prefer to just avoid any tricky spots and play strictly shove or fold to a minraise. Keep it simple and avoid mistakes. Edit: Just realized he 3xed not minraised. Still doesn´t change anything though

both your call downs are fine. It´s important to not overadjust vs tight opponents, which is of course easier said than done w😏 Congratz on your results and good luck with your shots!

I hope it´s ok if I post results from another site here. After all I will be back playing some HUs on Unibet sometime in the near future, because I still need a flop with at least two 7s to clear the next rakeback step 😛 What is even better is that I managed to retrieve my chess analysis. No idea what went wrong in the first place and what exactly I did to get them back, but, they are back👍

@CuteRaven I used it for my opening analysis. Frankly, it´s the only thing that has vanished

@CuteRaven I usually play quite a few chess torunaments but whenever there is a huge global pandemic and everyone is confined to their homes I tend not to. Onlinechess it is for now. I have all my analysis saved an another laptop so that´s not the end of the world. The real problem is that I had all of it in a program that was designed to help people remember chess positions by giving them values based on the spaced repetition concept (worth looking up). If those are lost that means I have to put a lot of effort into creating new ones, which is tedious and unnecessary. What strives me most though is how data can just disappear like that from a laptop...