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I thought the name came from something or somewhere but never googled it to check, good to know but doesn't make it more catchy 😂

@FreedoMThanks for posting and I do understand and am aware of the differences between GTO vs exploitative play but maybe my view on the game is indeed totally scewed because of GTO. Not that I play GTO but I keep falling for the traps of 'I should call this' and yet villains almost never ever show bluffs in big pots etc. "Folding is free" lol. And not sure if you were asking me those questions or you just quoting the blog? I still study yeh but probably not as much as I would like to as time is the biggest issue, play vs study, try to balance it but I also have other stuff to do / want to do other stuff. Why do I play, because I still like the game and I don't mind studying it either, doesn't feel like a grind or anything but I still want something to come from it, investing time for no result is a bit pointless imo, especially when the result of poker should be making (some) money. Anyway, I'm not bankrupt so can still keep on playing 😄 Just played a bit on RIO and fired up my NL4 ticket on Unibet, all in or fold strategy, we are halfway flops left and still alive 😝 think some kind of reg (if you can call players at 4nl regs?) was so kind to donate 3 stacks to me today calling my all ins with A6o and the likes when I don't really jam super light, pocket pairs / ATo+ ish. Thanks anyway, be a miracle if I get the amount of flops completed but you never know.

Rant post, not played too much this week as had to work overtime and just played over an hour today. Minus 5 buyins. Poker isn't going anywhere, really struggling to get a win on the board, don't really get what is happening, I struggle to even win a pot nowadays. Seems every random reg fish just plays random hands preflop and is able to double up no bother and I try to keep it solid yet never get anywhere. I don't overcall, don't call in SB, don't coldcall 3b's etc etc yet no results. Every 3b pot I get annihilated as people outflop me time after time. It's like I get outplayed all the time. Very frustrated to say the least. I probably keep 'trying' for the rest of the year but if it is more of the same l move on after that, waste of my time I could be spending more wisely. Only won 1 hand today AK vs 99 but was vs a halfstack. Not won much else beside that. 3b pot, all in on the turn... I don't have the Ah and beat KJ on the turn, shouldn't have a 6 as I big bet the flop. Regfish, been 3b'ing me a lot but here I open UTG he calls, I x/c 3 streets... manages to get there, surprise surprise. Loose call down but hey ho. 3b pre, barreled it off, guess not a good idea. Qh is prob bad as I block the suited hands. 3b pre, he calls big flop cb, x/x turn, I bomb riv with A blocker, ok nice hand. Open pre, regfish in sb calls and so does bb, I cb flop and get c/r big, I call 3 streets, all draws miss 2p and 44/66 still win vs me, guess could have folded the river also having the nut flush blocker but this was last hand and couldn't give a f anymore. So yeh, seem I just need to keep folding vs every raise and barrel. Nothing works anymore. Month had a terrible start but been pretty much breakeven ish after that, very boring. Unibet roll €250 / RIO €475 Also FU with these pictures, crap system. Can't even delete this bottom one 🙄

@GR1ZZL3RI just drag em in my post as it gets too messy otherwise, it's a weird system lol. About your hands, that's the problem at those very low stakes, so many random players playing A2C so really hard to put people on a range. Just need to grind it out and play mostly ABC and tighter preflop I'd say. Don't mind limping behind with mediocre hands or open limping small pocket pairs etc. But I rather move up to where they respect my raises 😂

@FreedoMI know that but bit annoying if you want to have a break or a holiday and have to remember to see one flop a week.

Maybe handier? Up to you I guess. Don’t forget to post the bad beats, AA getting cracked by T4o and such 🤣 And those tickets, kinda sad they have the same 7 day expiry as a normal ticket, should be longer imo as you spend 4K points on it.

Catchy name 😆

Did anyone watch it? 😂 I hope there is a bad beat coming for Italy, disqualification for snorting drugs lol. Crap song anyway!

Good luck, the lowest stakes possible on a site are always soul destroying imo 😄 Shouldn’t this be in the blog section btw?

4 tabled for 5h last night and 👎 Not sure what's going on recently but it's like my game just tanked big time. I do think I call too many rivers where in theory calls might seem ok in reality nobody ever bluffs! 🙄 3/4 tabled for 3h today just on RIO so far and think I played much better, just thinking more and folding more on rivers lol. I opened AJ and got 2 calls, flop goes check and I cb turn small and overbet the river just trying to get us off a chop, worked 😝 Biggest pot of today, I 3b MP and he 4b me, being deep I just called, called 2 barrels with FD IP and he jammed A river which is pretty narrow range if its for value, AK / AA / AT. Very rarely a 5 in his range, not sure if 4b KTs is a thing this deep. Don't think I should have played it differently, obviously we'll miss some rivers where we end up mostly folding to a jam I guess. Another splashpot albeit only 100bb from last night, 34o 🙄

C'mon Switzerland! Have only checked a few and lots of rubbish again, Italy won't make the top 5! Malta, bit like the Israel chicken song from 2018, got a chance. Iceland is slightly disturbing, looks a bit like a 90s clip from a Calvin Harris song lol. Belgium, as I'm from there, Hooverphonic is a good group and had amazing songs but this isn't one of them, too flat, could have added some spice to it. UK, as that's where I live now, good song for eurovision but not good enough, too bad he can't sing either lol. Imo you should get some bonus points if you sing in (one of) your national language(s) as too many English songs. Also, any rock song should get points retracted 😝 Anyone else who likes to watch Eurovision just to slag everyone off? 😂

Not too much to mention, mostly played on RIO so far but not much change in the bankroll for both sites. Had a funny hand today, BB vs BTN, call pre, x/r 1/3 flop cb and barrelled the turn and then bet 1/4 on the riv, kind of representing a semi good hand but not a 9 and sometimes it makes villains go crazy vs the small bet as what happened here 😛 guess he has blockers though lol. Also weird how there are often more players at 50NL compared to 25NL 🤔

Average day, bit up on RIO, bit down on Unibet. 4 all ins today, lost em all 🙄 RIO JJ-AK 0-1 UNIBET AK-A5 0-1 🙄 AQ-A4 0-1 🙄 QQ-AK 0-1 Another splashpot, only 100bb this time: Why oh why lol BTN limp calls my iso, then x/r the flop, bet small on turn I think then 1bb on riv lol, rlly... Those crap multi way hands where you get such good odds to call street by street, I raised the turn vs a 1bb cbet, MP called and I x/c river as he only bet 5bb into 50bb pot lol. Not that I was super optimistic... Deleted 888 poker as software was terrible and player pool didn't look that big either tbh. Might give GGpoker a go at some point, I know they do a 100% matched welcome bonus up to $600 and 90 days to clear it. Not sure if you have to clear it all to get the full amount or if they release it in chunks and you only get what you cleared within the 90 days. Will need to up my volume for this anyway as don't want to quit Unibet or RIO. And still have my €500 bonus to clear on Unibet too. Decisions decisions, maybe the summer isn't the best time to start playing on another client anyway lol.

And another day gone, played 2 sessions today, played mostly on RIO, decent day, bankrolls are just under €500 for Unibet and just under €600 for RIO so I'm kinda mixing in games on both sites, on Unibet still mainly 25NL but RIO I play 10/20 or 50NL depending on what is running. Here another hand from yesterday, busting the rockets yet again 😂 guess I should have moved up to 50NL with this rungood. And here a list of my all ins today on RIO, all mixed games so dunno which one is what stake but doesn't matter, running fine. And don't think I fold QQ btw, just never had it going all in 🙂 Quite like keeping track of all ins as it gives you a bit of an idea of run good / run bad and how biased our brains can be. Sometimes (or mostly) you think you run bad but in reality you just run more or less normal. And I haven't forgotten to do my bb/100 calculations for the past months or since I started on Unibet but I cba doing it atm but will do at some point. Just be patient 😋

Good luck with the personal side of things and thanks for keeping a blog here. I think everyone can benefit from a break now and then for whatever reason it might be. There are other more important things in life than poker. Take care!

Just played a small hour and not much to mention but this: Was 1 tabling a 50NL on RIO and 3x 25NL on Unibet: Then this happened on RIO, 1000bb splashpot, J3o crap, then on turn I had 70% pls pls pls 😆 but no luck 😢 would have been a nice €350 booster to the bankroll! Instead only €30 lol. But managed to crack a reg his AA for my only all in today so far, only 6% on the flop, pretty much dead. Wish I could have swapped my luck to RIO, rather had the 700bb 50NL pot 😝

The reward is that tiny making it hard to spot 🤣

@Stubbe-Unibet Not planning to find out if we can lose more this week but won’t be possible anyway with the current bankroll 😂 Update for poker this week: so far haven’t played as no time, gf has been away for a few days visiting family/friends and I’m too busy taking dog out when I get home from work and cook etc etc, will def catch up on poker starting tomorrow (Friday).

2h of 25NL battling on Unibet, funny how there is some d!ck swinging going about with the 'regs' even at that stake. First 3 shots are the same hand, I'm not in it beside preflop, had miss clicked pre as only made it 2x instead of the 2.4x it is on 25NL in bb's. But SB called, BB (fish) minraised, easy fold for me then SB 4b, BB 5b and then all went in the middle. Not a fan of the AKo call pre. Can't remember who won but w/e, normal flip. Another random hand, UTG (fish) opens, SB 3b, BB coldcalls, UTG calls as well, SB cb flop and BB calls, UTG folds, SB cb turn and get jammed on and calls it off, crap river for him. Whale on my table, managed to get this beauty vs him, thanks. Another hand vs same whale, think I 3b pre then let him bluff it off lol, thanks again, ended up with 640bb after he left. Those annoying spots with JJ, I never really call so 3b is standard, get 4b so big lol, makes it easier for me to fold. This hand was from Friday I think vs fish, crap river! Almost back to having a shot at 50NL 😄

More importantly, did you win the hand? 😁

Forgot to mention that I've found another good youtube channel Have only watched a few session review videos but it looks pretty solid to beat the micros.

So been a low profile poker week after the disastrous opening weekend of May. Went broke on 888 poker after getting the bankroll up to about $10 but eventually busted out at 2NL, games are hard 😂 Software is pretty average and mobile vs desktop is for whatever reason different. Their bonuses are crap as well, normal bonus is deposit 10 and get 10 on top of it. Then I had a deposit 30 and get a free 10 offer. And then a deposit 10 get 10 on top and 30 to spend on slots or something. But think they have a 100% deposit bonus up to $400. It's all very confusing lol. I'll leave it for now anyway, but might put a small amount on and play when I have time during work depending on what I'm doing. So about stats, still need to have a proper look through all the stats I still have but for RIO since I started on there: played 205k hands at -2.26 BB/100 and BB is half bb [1 big bet (BB) = 2 big blinds (bb)] so I'm basically running -4.52 bb/100? Not sure, doesn't look good, Bit strange as I've withdrawn 2k now and definitely never deposited that much lol, guess bonuses and extra rakeback stuff must add up 🤨 Says my VPIP/PFR is 28/22, guess that could be a bit closer to each other. Now Unibet for April, €211 rake paid at 50NL, won €695 / 5900 hands at 23.6bb/100, must have been running good! €338 rake paid at 100NL, won €46 / 4900 hands at just under 1bb/100 Obviously 100NL fell off a cliff first few days of May so that giraffe is sticking its head in the ground now 😅 Just time to rebuild now, have €350 on Unibet and €430 on RIO, I'm sure we'll get going again although might take a while 😁

Poker aside, as a Belgian / Flemish person, I’m happy I moved away from that hellhole 8 years ago now 😛 Lovin it here in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

It’s even worse when they hand out a cash ticket for a stake you don’t play and only 100bb so you are forced to lose half of it and cash half the ticket or play less than 100bb if you can’t double up or win a pot for a while. And then you still have to grind 300 flops assuming it is the same as any other ticket. I think it’s hard to compare it with the DT or SDT as you wouldn’t win every time but maybe the idea of having a chance of winning €40/€400 and now and then actually winning it is more satisfying than receiving a €25 ticket even if they spread the ‘wealth’ over a bigger player base. Wonder what the criteria is to receive a €100 ticket 😆

So not really played much, bankroll on Unibet is now €350 ish lol 🙄, last 50NL session I had just went same as before, had 3 all ins and won none. AQs vs KK, I had a screenshot but can't find it, there was a massive whale at the table opening 10x or 30x so was just waiting for a hand good enough to get it in as he was playing any 2. He opened 10x or w/e on BTN and SB 3b to 30x? , sb was playing back a lot and I just jammed AQs with all the dead money in the middle and wide ranges. No luck. Other hands were my JJ vs AK and my AK vs J9o (seriously). So plan is to play 25NL to €500 then back to 50NL and drop down again if it goes down to €350. Also taking money off RIO leaving around €400 and drop down to play NL10/NL20 if and when it runs trying to build up a roll again. Also made an account at 888 poker, just having a wee go at it, haven't deposited as not sure if traffic is any good. Had some free micro tourney tickets, barely worth it but I played one last night and managed to cash for $4.70 (dollars) something, start of a bankroll, just playing some NL2, see if we can grind it up and gives me a chance to get used to the software and see what traffic is like even on lowest stake. On top of that, after losing €1650 or something in a week at Unibet, they sent me a text today saying I had won a Replay Rewards Poker mission worth €25. I honestly don't see how this is meant to be of any value, sure nice to get a €25 ticket but if you play higher stakes than that it feels silly to grind away a €25 cash ticket. Looks pointless to me even though I'll be using it now with my current bankroll. Still waiting on my stats from Unibet, wonder if I need to request again as last time I had it within a day I think. I did get an answer from RIO but they don't hand out such stats but they were kind enough to put all my hands through holdem manager or something and give me those stats. I just need to have a better look at it but running -2.26/100bb for all hands I ever played on RIO. Which is kinda weird as I've withdrawn more money than I deposited but guess with bonusses etc and the stats aren't sorted by stake so it's not all that crystal clear. After 3 failed 100NL attempts, 100NL basically giving me the finger time after time 😅 I'm going to keep it a bit tighter with bankroll management. 30 buyins for 100NL and move down when I hit 20 buy ins. But this prob is a couple of months away in the best case lol. Let's see how it goes from here.