P0kerM0nk

Is there an issue with the rebuy when using a CG ticket? Had several times on desktop I ended up with this pop up and not being able to top up to 100bb. 100% enough cash left on the tickets.@Stubbe-Unibet @Andy-Unibet

Edit: same happening on iPad.

2 hours ago, GR1ZZL3R said:

Flop Number 3,000.

 

The bare facts. I won't  you with too many details, just the major ones. 

Eighty two hours played over 50 sessions, varying from 1-6 tables. (One table bad, six tables bad, I just can't find the sweet spot.)

23,892 hands at just under 300 per hour.

3,000 flops seen, one every 8 hands.  

€75.67 won at just under 8 BB/100.

   And at the end?  Should I be happy? Not exactly stats showing a crusher, more of a small winning (definitely me) but up till 4 days ago I was running at 16 BB/100 () and then hit the wall. If I'd started off losing then climbed back up I would be so much happier, but it's just a matter of perspective. 

   I think I'll stick at 2-4c at least for the rest of this quarter but not playing 3,000 flop tickets, they seem to take forever, at least for a casual rec anyway. I'd be interested if any of you, grinders especially, have some stats on those. 

   I can't say my original enthusiasm for poker has fully returned, the last few days just go to show how mentally strong you must be. Seriously I don't think I've played badly, I actually know I haven't, but there have been two serious tilt occassions only compounding the losses. At least with the ticket I couldn't move up in stakes to "win it all back"  something I could and have done in the past. The mental game is still a huge part of my problems anyway. 

Enough drivel, back to the (slow) 

Have Fun. 

 

Looks like a decent profit anyway, don't think you have to stare blind on the actual bb/100 as 24k hands is I'd say still a relative small sample. Also 4NL is soul destroying with the amount of limpers, short stackers and multiway pots and you should only start to worry if you are barely winning on that stake as that means you haven't got the basics right.

Just build a bankroll and move up to 10NL and that's where is starts to become a bit more normal, more regs where you can play your range/position etc more instead of your actual hand.

Not sure if I regret buying 3k flop tickets now  I checked my 50NL stats and I see a flop for every 6.7 hands ish. And on 25NL it comes closer to 6. As long as I don't forget to play a hand every week I'll be fine I hope 

I started playing bad as well tbh, bad beats are part of the game as that's how it goes and I'm fine with it but I've never experienced it like how it went recently so this is the way I'm going to deal with it, drop down and see where we get with the tickets. I also signed up to another site and will try and work my way through a welcome bonus there too. And who knows I might just go through a few other sites to profit of the bonuses and just see what the pools are like.

At the same time, I have subbed to poker scientist again for 3 months and will put in an effort to work a bit on the GTO approach and check my own plays again. GTO wizard looks an amazing tool as well and depending on how poker goes might give it a shot after my poker scientist sub runs out.

Haven't seen any replay rewards appear but I guess I haven't lost any big amounts as what I lost is actually what I won to start with lol. Can't remember last time I deposited on Unibet and if I did it was maybe just to top up the bankroll with €100 or something to keep me away from playing 4NL 

What I do understand now is how big name crushers out there sometimes tell their poker story and say they have been broke a few times and I always wondered how on earth you could go broke being a crusher but now I understand it a bit better lol, I have read and watched a few things about downswings and even though I'm not a pro nor a crusher it shows that even the biggest crushers can have months without making a profit and that shows how brutal variance can be.

Cleared the playthrough, waste of my time, running crap, playing crap... needing a regroup as lost my patience. This high volume grinding is no use as it makes me play when I don't want to and when the pool is terrible. Often during the week NL50 is just full of regs, every table 4-5 other regs... wouldn't play but when you have to... so waste of time and efforts. Month is again a loss, 8 buy ins or whatever but doesn't matter because took my balance off, €1850 something:  

Still have this laying around:  

So:

Still left for more playthroughs probably:  

Let's see if we can build a bankroll again and turn these tickets in to cash.

@Andy-Unibet @Stubbe-Unibet 

Anyone able to revive my playthrough please, think I have like 5% left on it  thanks.

You keep your bonus points but the loyalty level will reset and everyone starts back from lvl 1

Note that if you get to loyalty lvl 6 or higher you will keep the bonus point multiplier you are on but you do start from lvl 1 again.

You can press the i for info in the client for info on the loyalty tab.

What's up with these regtards on the cash tables 3 betting to 9bb+ IP and 8-9bb OOP... Actually a few who do this, is this a new thing or something? Don't mind the OOP size giving me better odds to call but IP size is just lol.

@Andy-Unibet Just to confirm, when playing with a cash game ticket bought in the bonus shop, can you clear a playthrough bonus at the same time whilst using these tickets or do you need to use your 'own' cash?

10,5 buy ins down so far, if anyone is wanting donations, it's all happening at 50NL please come and join me. My all ins today, guess I just need to nit it up to AA and KK only.

AQ-99 1-0
AA-AK 0-1
AK-QQ 0-1
TT-QQ 0-1
KK-AK 0-1
AK-AA 0-1
KK-QQ 1-0

The way I run in 3b pots, I always get a piece of it but never the nuts. I'm really good at flopping just enough to sucker me in.

3b pre and cb the flop, ofc he has to turn a set and I got it in with my combo draws booh!

Standard flop when I squeeze, worst flop for my hand over and over.

3b pre and 1/2 the flop, x it down... ATs ok nh.

CO limp, I iso, he min clicks it back I call,  flop he bets 1/2 I raise and he clicks it back again lol, I mean AA-QQ wp if you have it, I jam and he shows AK... of course K straight away on the turn and meh.


 

AA all in pre, 2nd time in 2 days vs AKo and lose again vs a straight.

No joy for me when I get it in with AK vs AA, and I even have the suited version! Could have guessed as BTN 3b and SB nit 4b... 

Feeling like my poker journey is coming to an end tbh, coming close to 2  years since I started this blog and have yet to withdraw some money. Never really been able to 'break free' and this latest run has crushed my soul pretty much. Prob still try to get to loyalty lvl6 although I'm not sure why but if I lose even more I probably end up withdrawing my bankroll and call it a day on Unibet.

Don't really want to post these crap hands all the time either as it makes me look like some sore loser or whatever + it's a waste of my time anyway so this will be my last post here unless I make a comeback in the future of some kind or something, highly unlikely but who knows.

Over and out,

P0kerD0nk

And another 4.5 buy ins down today, no end to this. All this run bad makes me play worse than ever. Rigged sh!t.

Well done even if he / she isn't on this forum. Nice win. Hating life if I came last 

12 buy ins down in the last 4 days, started today and within 5min I get AA, woop all in pre vs AKo...

Aye of course! Even giving me a set just to stab me a bit harder in the back. 

Then later this rubbish, UTG rec limps, I iso, SB calls and BB who just sat in again squeezes, I call and see a flop, he bets 1/3 and I raise, he jams... ah well if he has JJ+ well done but AKo... and gets there again.

45min played and had enough of it. Off to watch tele, not even bothered anymore!

How funny would it be if a T came up on the flop 

Forgot this gem, although it was only 16bb's it still does my nut in lol. Might be that villain lost a pot before but can't remember, anyhow, he openshoved UTG and woop KK, easy call but yeh, can't even win vs 72, although it's the suited version so not exactly the worst hand in poker but still 

@fornicator99 Not sure what I'll do but I'll see when I complete this bonus. Dying to get my sub for poker scientist back and dive in some theory again as the more I play and therefor the less I 'study' the dumber I feel every other day I play without studying   Think it is also nice to have a solver to check some spots that came up in a session to give me feedback on how I played the hand without me having to guess if it was an ok play or not. 

I might also start on another site and just see if I can get a bonus somewhere and clear that for a change. I could at the same time also buy a €500 50NL CG ticket on Unibet and just play that ticket without needing a normal bankroll on here. Have enough to buy another €100 playthrough bonus on top of a CG ticket as well so who knows... lots of options.

Most frustrating for me is lack of results, it actually isn't about the money although it is about the money as that's the way results show in poker  I just feel like my bankroll doesn't go anywhere whilst I feel I should be beating these games. Not saying I'm a crusher, or I know how to play most spots that come up etc but I see so many bad plays even from some long standing regs I've seen for years that I wonder how the hell I can't win (although I don't know if they are winners of course).

There is of course the part where I move up when I can so in a way I'm always playing the hardest games I'm rolled for and/or that I'm capable of as grinding 10NL for 'a living' isn't really the goal I have in mind. I also don't have the goal to become a professional poker player by any means but I would see it as an amazing achievement if I could work my way up to let's say 500NL showing that I understand the game and am able to beat these limits. But trying to mix this with a day job is also another thing lol.

I'm on a roller coaster, up and down, upside down, my head is spinning and no idea where I'm heading to (back to the start? ) Time will tell.

Bonus at 30%, a good week left on it but should be doable.

Getting seriously fed up with this run bad crap all the time or am I just a retard. Every time I have a good day it seems to be followed by a crap week. I actually don't know how I can build a bankroll like this. Played like 2h yesterday and lost 7.5 stacks... 

3b he calls, I get x/r on the flop I call, he jams turn I call... feck

UTG 50bb stack opens 4bb, rec player, CO rec calls, I iso and both call, pot is 44bb and UTG has 35bb left and CO 25bb... CO jams wtf want me to do here, can't really fold anything so call and UTG folds lol... feck

CO opens, I 3b, BB whale coldcalls and so does CO. BB donks 20% CO folds and I raise he calls then he donk jams the turn, easy call... nope... feck

Open TJs on CO, get 3b, I call, decent flop and we are flipping, he bets big on flop and I call, prob misplayed this hand, money went in on the turn as he bet so big I just shoved it in... feck

MP opens CO whale calls, I squeeze, CO calls, I bet 1/2 flop and jam turn, of course 46o ... feck

I open A3s in CO, BB whale calls, monster flop for me and he donks pot and I raise and he shoves it in... bricks out again... feck

Tilt mode, CO whale limps, I raise and bet flop get raised, I call and call it off 3 barrels... feck

Tilt mode. Same whale, MP opens I 3b and whale in BB coldcalls, MP folds, he donks pot on flop and I just stick it all in, 30% but never hit anything anyway... bye bye 150bb... feck

Everyone else sticking it in with silly hands and silly equities and they get there but when I do, never any joy...

I honestly have no idea why I even keep bothering. Gonna get this playthrough cleared and by then I also reach loyalty lvl 6 to keep my multiplier for next quarter but prob take my money off and go lose it somewhere else. 

And off we go, started 23:00 Friday evening so that way I have most of Friday in 2 weeks left to clear this bonus. Been a bit of a hectic weekend with crap nights but we're at 20% now, feels more doable than the RAKE 900 I received before. Most volume has to be done next weekend though.

Month so far so good as well, ran well on Friday and hit 8 buy ins up at 50NL, then yesterday only made €1 profit  , today down 1.5 buy ins but it has been a rough session today. If the 2nd half of February is like the 1st half I'll be happy enough 

Cash table, everyone sitting out so no hands getting dealt, how silly  And no other tables to join so would always end up on this one 

Just read some of the last pages of the ipoker thread on 2+2 and looks like lots of problems so not decided yet where to make an account. But it's not a priority anyway, starting my next RAKE/GET playthrough bonus tomorrow so will be busy enough for 2 weeks. I'll try to get my current playthrough at around 90% today so I can start straight away with the RAKE/GET tomorrow.

Just some hands now,

Set over set, always nice when you are on the winning end, I open reg in BB calls, I bet big on flop even with top set as is my standard bet size, I get x/r 4.5x lol, I call and turn he bets 75% and I just stick it in, could lose vs 78 but so be it but luckily it was set vs set. Shows again though how nitty regs can be as in general I don't think many regs raise or raise that big with something less nutted.

I open in CO and SB and BB both recs call, BB then donks just under 1/2 and I call and SB raises to 9bb. BB folds and I call, turn he 2/3 and I call, river he checks and I have a decision to make, I think I jam is the best play and yes sometimes you will lose and you think feck should have checked back but we win vs lots of hands and lots of draws missed and you never know he could call with 7x of clubs. We win vs all weaker Ax and even if he had A7 or A5 we now win vs that too.

Think this hand was when I was ending my session, I open T9s, BTN 3b and SB whale calls, easy call for me. Goes x/x to BTN who bets 1/2... we are 150bb deep and BTN is 175bb deep vs whale so maybe that's why he makes this cbet bigger as mono boards are mostly x or small bets, def in multi pots too. SB calls and I just go for the raise here, I don't want to see another club rolling off tbh, BTN folds and SB calls, turn SPR is 1:1 and I just jammed it, although a smaller bet was probably better but I thought he would snap me off with some one club hand or whatever he had but he folded.

When you open the BTN and get min 3b... easy call and easy call on the flop too to get there and face a small overbet jam, easy game.

Another hand vs a whale, BTN opens, I 3bet and BB coldcalls, BTN folds. Was going to x/r but he checked flop back. I bet 1/3 on the turn and he called, river wasn't too sure here and actually not a nice board but him playing so random I put in a 2/3 bet and would have folded vs a raise. But called with T5o, or basically 2 napkins 

Same whale, call pre which isn't a call in these positions but is vs this guy, not a bad flop and goes x/x, call a bet on turn and I x/r the river for some extra monies, thanks.

One of the biggest pots of lately vs reg, I been 3b him a fair bit on all the tables and got in some pots but he mostly had the better hand or I had to fold. This hand, what a beauty, I called a 3b pre as 200bb deep with QQ, MP vs SB wasn't to keen on a 4b and facing a 5b or jam... best flop I've seen and called a 1/3 cb. Turn he bet 75%, shows you again that its always value. Easy call, No need to raise being IP. River he jammed 160bb in to a 93bb pot lol, ever a bluff lol? Of course does not matter for my hand and boom, lovely turn! And I slow rolled him for a few sec too 

Bit of a lucky hand I guess, open UTG, BTN 3b and I call, oh look at that flop! I c/r 2.5x just as this flop is so good for me and feck all for him. Turn is pretty crap in general, just because it makes the board worse vs his overpairs so I bet 1/3 and he calls. River I jam, should never be behind in these positions unless a rare 77 and he tank called with 88. Not sure if this is a good call, he loses vs all my overpairs but he does unblock my heart bluffs and does block the 8x combos for a STR. But I'm a nit too so never bluff either 

Wish poker was always this easy, rec opens I 3b he calls, I bet small on flop and get x/r 5x lol, easy call and he jams turn, easy! And don't even have to worry about the river.

If I complete the 750 RAKE which is 75k loyalty points then it will take me to 225k or lvl6 again, pretty much where I got in the last quarter. Should be able to get the 1st reward on that lvl which is €500 playthrough bonus before the end of this quarter if everything goes well. 60k BP atm, still wondering if it would be worth buying a €500 50NL ticket at some point, prob only if I can keep getting or buying playthrough bonuses at the same time. Lots of stuff to worry about later and lots of ifs 

Ok I found all the skins share the same pool just different sign up deals etc.

@Pionrj Seems there are a lot of ipoker skins out there and not sure which one is for the UK? Which one do you play on?

Found Bet356 and Playtech? Don’t really understand the point of all these different skins. 

Apart from that, 888 poker seems one that pops up a lot as best in the UK (lol?) but I hated the software  

Last €10 of my €50 playthrough to clear and then on to the RAKE 750, GET 150 playthrough. Bit of a silly situation now as I want the start the next bonus Friday evening so I have the Friday afternoon in 2 weeks time to finish the bonus if needed as I just don’t have enough time in the middle of the week. So here I am not playing a few days on purpose lol, don’t think that’s Unibets intention 

Also need to see for another site to play on (small volume) as before I played a bit on RIO but they’ve shut down now so… not sure what the best / softest other site without HUD’s there is out there atm. Will need to have a nose.

Will see to make another post with some hands tonight. Winning hands this time 

One of those days again 

Random funplayer opens I call on the BTN and he barrels 3 streets, giving me a good price on the river too  I'm like ffs not loving this but how do I fold AQ.

Same player BTN vs BB, barrels 3 streets again I'm like oh man not again, wtf is going on and again he gives me such a good price on the river lol, ffs.

Funplayer limps, I iso, BB squeezes and I'm not having it lol, some regs really do like to attack these iso raises so I raise again and he jams, I call... and fuuuck.

Next few hands all vs same funplayer... frustrating... Each hand all in pre...

At least I got one back, jammed 88 out of frustration vs same guy and then quit the session...

And only 1 buy in down today! Imagine that 

Finally a decent day at the tables, still working my way through a €50 playthrough bonus (at about 60%) before I get to my RAKE 750, GET 150 Will have to up my volume again as I've been pretty lazy lately lol, but still watching vids every day etc. Saving some stamina before I get to the next playthrough 

Also other channel on Youtube I've been watching lately: 

https://www.youtube.com/c/NoLimitGamingTV

Only watching the cash game vids with go0se.core aka Steffen Sontheimer and it's top notch material 

@GR1ZZL3RYeh that's never how you want to start a session, losing a stack straight away and you are like, ffs now I need to start a comeback already to break even 

Running better than that 1st hand now anyway.

One interesting hand, I open 89s MP (MP in pic is sitting out), get 3b by CO reg and I call, call small flop cb, then call a big turn cbet, have to call here with my FD etc, not sure if jamming is a good option, doubt it in reality, not enough bluffs. T river and I thought for a couple of sec and jammed it in, just repping a T as don't think I'm good often here with my 9. He went in the tank for a while but then folded, he must have had a proper hand anyway so happy to get this through. Wish I could check this in the solver but will keep it for later.