P0kerM0nk

Just a quick mid week update, only played 1h a day so far and last 2 days were on the ipad so only 4 tabled. Playthrough at 33%, think goal is to be at 80% on Sunday as it's just hard to get lots of volume in during the week. Last 2 days have been interesting playing on the ipad, some right whales in the pools later on the evening 😀Might play a bit more during that time lol. Also today, joined the pool and were 90 players in it, not long after I joined it went down to 40 players... I mean... am I that good that people run away now? 😝 Will post some hands on Friday. Were some entertaining ones, mostly for my benefit 😆

Should maybe put your hand strength off if you are streaming live. @Livertool

Unibet deal off.

@Livertool well done, nice bink 1.8k 🥳

Also don’t forget the entertainment value when people post videos on YouTube or stream on twitch etc. I’m sure some people follow these channels just to watch it like they would watch any other sport. And lots will be micro players too even for the same reasons, watching for entertainment as why wouldn’t you watch someone playing the highest stakes/biggest buy in MTT’s online making you dream about it that maybe one day it could be you lol. Imo there is a lot more decent free material out there nowadays but obviously just watching it is not going to make you a crusher. And why do people move into coaching or making videos? Just because as said a steadier income but also not everyone wants to keep grinding 10h a day and some people enjoy teaching others. And not that I know a lot about The Wakko but he seems a competent player and that video that was posted here is just promoting his own CFP site. Kinda normal some videos are of no real value as they run a business now and want to attract people to their product so they can take your monies 😄

Can we have a look at hotkeys at the same time then as asking for more volume is fine but last time my wrist hurt this much was when I was a pubering 14 year old 😂

@FreedoM You should sell those artworks as NFT's, I can see a goldmine in there 🤣 That classic music did wonders btw, just breached 3k bankroll (for now lol) Playthrough bonus @ 27% we can do this! 💪 Prob be less updates during the week. Trying to get some volume in after work.

Needing a bit of this whilst playing 😝

Played 5h yesterday, up 4 buy-ins, play 1.5h today, down 4 buy-ins 🙄 Do I ever get a break from this bs? 5 all-ins today, lost 4, shopped 1 The way my 4bet pots go... BTN opens, I 3bets, he 4bets I call, flop the nuts, go all in on the turn... for real. Sometimes I wonder if people play back at me because I lose pots left right and centre like here, CO opens I 3b and BB reg 4b and I jam he snap calls wtf is that all about... oh nice runout thanks again. He has same equity on the flop as hand above, just under 4%... and 9-10% on turn again as above... joke. I open 33, SB reg (or so I thought) 3bets small ish so I call, he pots the flop lol, don't think that's a size mate but wp. Again I don't get this, do they play back at me because I'm losing pots all over? F knows, I'm prob imagining it lol. MP opens I 3b he calls, small cbet and he calls, then he donks 1/2 on turn wtf and then jams the river... not 100% sure but guess I could have folded this... weird lines mostly mean the nuts, think my river call is pretty bad. And so is his donk although he got all my monies, but I would have barreled it off tbh lol. Where is my bloody mojo? Think I need a drink and I don't even drink 🤣

I will take @Pionrjadvice in to consideration and even in spots where it looks like an obvious shopped pot to get it in nonetheless, I agree you actually never know that they call it off with as the example above with his A2o lol. Yesterday finally a better day, played 2 sessions 2h & 3h and ran better. Games look def a bit more reggy at times, not sure how many people are getting these playthrough bonuses but maybe it does affect the 'regginess' of the games. Last night wasn't too bad, enough fun players in the pool. Worst hand from yesterday: I 3b KK SB vs BTN, he calls, I cb 1/3 and he minraises lol, I call then x/c 1/2 bet on the turn and shove on the river... just 🤮 and I honestly thought he had 22 or 33 with that dumb minraise on the flop, playing his hand so face up actually. Feck that turn. Best hand from yesterday: AA in the BB, got to love it with this preflop action, UTG limps, MP iso's, CO 3bets, short SB coldcalls lol, I just jam as already 30bb in the pot and maybe makes it look like I have AK more than AA. Raising to 30bb or whatever makes it look really strong even though it didn't matter much here. CO calls obviously and so does SB, nice he has a K blocker lol and no sweat on the flop. Playthrough bonus @ 15.5%, need about 7% per day so good start. I sometimes end up playing 7 tables at times as I can't make my mind up which table to leave 😆 All in luck finally back to what is should be imo, numbers are a bit skewed as played those 2 tournaments and all ins in tourneys are much wider than cash games for obvious reasons, imo should have separate stats as having all formats combined makes it a pointless stat.

@Pionrj A4 hand he should never just call a block bet on the river with a boat with the way we ended up on the river. QTo, I don't know villain but don't see what you would raise on the turn which isn't a Tx. Even if he raises 2p or a FD, you'd never value bet that on a blank river so in that case I don't see any value in jamming, ofc I actually should if they end up with such a hand. As a general rule I maybe should jam anyway vs pool as there are some players who overplay 2p and would call it off as well. Or even play a weirdly played set this way although seems bizarre. Once I have Poker Scientist again I'm going to have a look at that QTo hand and see how it gets played reg vs reg.

And that's us started, atm just passed 3% 😆 Bankroll has been very static for the past week and half, not good but guess it could be worse. Still waiting to break through 3k lol. Just a few hands from yesterday for the rest: Start of the session: 60bb stack opens 4x, I 3b 3x as he made it bigger + he is shorter... lovely flop, x/fold vs that size lol, easy decision. Co opens, I 3b on the BTN he calls, I big bet the flop and he jams, easy call. Just ahead on a flip 58% vs 42% and we brick yet again. Open AQs on the BTN and get 3b small and easy call, face a small cb and easy call again, face a small cb on turn again and easy raise and he calls, river is meh but still think there is some value and checking back feels so nitty so I bet small and he calls with a flush... 68s random hand. Open QTo on BTN and BB calls, I big bet flop and he calls, I bet 1/2 on turn and get raised and I call, face a 60% bet on river and easy call, I actually just though we would split this 100% lol, strange line. I open 65s UTG, get 3b by MP and BTN coldcalls so easy call for me and my hand, crap flop so x/f but flop goes x/x/x and so does turn and river. I remember thinking on the river that I could win this at times and we did 😀 funny 3b pot. And just a hand I won for once, open KK UTG, CO 3bets and SB coldcalls, easy 4bet and CO calls SB folds. I x flop and he bets 1/3 and I jam. Think we can call flop if we have a diamond and then get it all in on the turn and never fold with KK in a 4b pot... and he calls our shove with 44... bit surprising... seen this player before and vaguely remember being splashy but KK hand is pretty standard from my end I guess. So yeh, lots of weird spots where random hands get there. Sometimes hard to play range vs range when these fun players can have all sorts, because of this I do make lighter bets / calls but obviously not working out the best at this moment. Different times I win most pots when they call with random stuff and it's a different story so still happy with my plays. Haven't renewed my Poker Scientist sub yet as will wait till after I cleared this bonus, only weird thing is that I haven't even received an email to ask if I want to renew my sub, bit strange from their point of view imo.

@GR1ZZL3R I have kept my x12 multiplier and don't think even at this rate I can keep buying playthrough bonuses and earn enough to buy the next one whilst clearing a current one. But you do earn a few BP here and there with loyalty rewards and few from missions or those santa flips etc. This is actually the reason I have accepted this rakeback offer (as I first thought of asking to delete it) as I can keep earning BP whilst I get a free playthrough bonus although I have to up my volume. Currently I six table 50NL and gain about 275 BP on average per hour I think. I need to check this again as it all depends on the session and how many pots you played etc. Once I start this €900 rake offer I'll keep track of how many loyalty points and BP I started on. Not too sure how many hours I play per week, average last month was 12h per week which I think is quite high. Normally I play 1 to 1.5h during week days and 2-6h during weekends but it all depends, I sometimes skip a weekday and some weekends I play monster sessions of 3-6h lol. Another reason for doing this rakeback offer is to play more volume and to find out how I do at 50NL over a bigger sample, so far I think I'm beating it for an ok bb/100 but I don't want to make any assumptions based on a small sample. And I just want to become better as well, so playing more should definitely help. I will try and spread sessions out as I know these offers can sometimes be a trap where you end up playing too much neglecting your game play and lose actually more money by playing bad than the offer is worth making it pointless. And one more reason is that last quarter I ended a little shy of the 1st loyalty lvl6 bonus which is a €500 playthrough bonus so if I can reach that as well by the end of March that would be great too. Obviously a while ahead and will only work if I can keep playing 50NL so hopefully I get the results we hope for 🙃

Another rakeback offer coming up, will be a challenge to rake €900 within 14 days but starting with it tonight, have tactically waited till this evening to clear my current bonus so I have 2 weekends and if needed a final Friday afternoon in 2 weeks time in case I still need to put some hours in lol. Most damage has to be done during the weekends though. 2 Hands: I open JJ in MP, everyone calls lol and then BB reg squeezes to 18bb, very weird spot with that size. CO is a whale and squeezes happen quite often vs so many calls so I raised to 36bb, as you can see CO called and then BB jams... don't think we can fold here as CO is pretty much coming along most of the times. Open MP, CO calls and BTN squeezes, BB whale cold calls and now I have a decision to make, I jammed as BTN isn't that of a nit reg so can see all kind of hands in there that will fold to a jam and if I jam and BTN folds it will pretty much always get called by BB. 99 is pretty much bottom of my range I'd jam here I think and depending on BTN reg.

Double starting stacks for cash game players 🤗

Bit of run bad in the freerolls I guess, don't know any MTT strategy so I just wing it 😅 Forgot to change my nick as was playing some cash before this so yeh, would have played with P0kerD0nk but obvious was too late when tourney tables popped up. Bloggers Battle, all in on the flop... what can you do... Ran fine in the Member of the day freeroll up to the final table, biggest stack but 1st out so finished 6th for €30 Hands in chronological order: Pretty bad at flipping so far this year... story continues lol.

Great, I got my €0 twice, thanks Santa 😆

@Superhansi Thanks a lot, nice to hear from people enjoying the blog even though it isn't a poker donk to super crusher blog, but I'm working on it 😆 Finally a day with some profit, we are up for the month now, about €40 😂 will post some hands later on, still not running the best but at least I'm keeping my head above the water ✌️ And just going to quote my previous post or it's going to get lost on the previous page, hope we can bink some money tomorrow if I remember to play them 😁 I'll set my alarm lol.

2 Unibet Community freerolls coming up tomorrow evening, 1 for people with a (active) blog and the other for all people who have won a member of the day reward in 2021. (most likes during a single day) Prizepool €575 for the blog one and €500 for the member of the day one. How do you join? Well you can't unless you already qualified for one or both mentioned above. But you can join the forum and/or start a blog and who knows you'll get an invite in a years time 😛 Good value for money anyway as the player pools will be relatively small and full of donkeys, me included 🤣 Thanks Unibet 😄

@Samba these losing stretches are pretty normal within poker variance so I could ignore to post about it but I like to moan now and then anyway, and it’s my blog after all 😁

Getting fed up with it ffs AK-66 0-1 AK-22 0-1 KK-AK-JJ 0-1-0 Variance taking the p!ss, don't think I've won an all in with AK so far this year 🙄

@Stubbe-Unibet Had a closer look and might hold on to it for now, rough calculations it will take me 36h to complete, might give it an effort. And yeh, previous months I had a week off work per month and mostly don't take many holidays start of the year...

Hopefully we are turning the tide now, maybe this hand is the cut off point lol, all in pre but both ended up with a boat, me having the better one, must be a sign! 😛 Random hand again, I open, SB 3b, BB coldcalls, I 4b and SB folds and BB calls, SPR 1:1... feck flop, these spots are murder... x back flop, then face this on turn...

So the first time I got one of these playthroughs it was rake €500 / get €100 which was said already on the higher end but doable. Sure I had some days off so was fine with some extra effort. Now I have one in the queue for €900 / get €180 which is the same rakeback % but it's like the goalpost has been doubled. I already said before that this hopefully wasn't going to be progressive but in my case it looks that way, it seems like it's based on the last few months or month even as now I have to rake €900 in 2 weeks and if I'm correct I raked about €800 for the month of October, then €900 for November and €1,300 in December. How exactly does this feel reasonable or logic? @Stubbe-Unibet Can this bonus please be deleted, thanks.

So requested my stats at around 6pm on Saturday and they were on the case! Got an answer back an hour later... only they forgot to attach the files 😂 But I only checked my emails the next day so I told em and they came back to me withing 15min! Better than the week wait last time round 👍 So as said I made €1,053 profit last month, pure profit + extras like bonuses etc. NL50, €1,049 profit / 34,795 hands = 6.02 bb/100 NL25, €69.09 profit / 521 hands = 53 bb/100 (sample size 😂 ) NL100, €472.14 loss / 1,054 hands = -44,8 bb/100 (sample size 😬 ) €1,323 rake paid in total Note how my total profit is almost same as NL50 profit... spooky 😋 So yeh, ran pretty bad at 100NL for the few hands I played there, but just focusing on 50NL, seems reasonable, thought it would have been 4-5 bb/100 so kind of surprised. Think it's decent going forward. Running pretty bad for the start of the year, not much going my way but I managed to end up at the cash game leaderboard for a 'free' €50 so only down under 3 buy ins this month. Sounds like nothing actually but been running like hell. Can't wait for a heater to come my way now 😄 Not winning any flips and getting outflopped by recs in 3b pots when I have an overpair and the board runs out good enough to triple barrel it off but they always have it so far lol. Just need to persevere.