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@Legend_Kileer @GamesDean @conmebol99 thanks for the visit and the comments all 😃 I agree that mental game is a special part of a poker players arsenal and it can affect you in all kind of different ways. So far I feel pretty impartial about the downswing and the bad shot I had at NL100 probably because I still have enough money sitting in my bankroll and I'm pretty confident I can grind my way out of this. My game has evolved a lot since I started again almost 6 months ago now and I think I can see myself as a winning player now (even if its marginal) but that doesn't mean there isn't space for improvement as I still make bad plays and also recognise that I can still improve in a lot of spots vs decent players. I still enjoy playing and if I could improve my game let's say by the end of the year so I could play NL100 on a more regular base and with a solid game then I'd be happy with that. As long we don't go broke it's all good 😏

Not too much happening on Unibet, was up for the month but then lost 6 buy-ins again on Saturday lol which I have so far recovered 3 of, have played a bit more on RIO as seem to be running a bit better there on NL20, up €330 for the month there and they have a rakerace going on this week so depending on traffic I might play a bit more there when possible. Wasn't going to bother with part 5 of the July Mission as need to end up in the money during 2 consecutive days in a MTT but kinda managed to reach the final table of the Sirius Banzai Bounty twice so I'll finish up that mission now for the 500 bonus points and €5 banzai CG ticket. Been buying €5 hexapro tickets with my bonus points but haven't had much success with winning lots of them so think I'm going to switch back to the €2 hexapro ones and hopefully get a better return there. Also have the double trouble and super double trouble freeroll to play so fingers crossed I bink em both for a potential €440 bankroll boost :happy: but I'm keeping my expectations low haha. Bit of a weird month so far, think with losing a bit at NL100 it feels like I haven't got anywhere this month as it screws the overall balance but don't think NL50 has been that bad overall, 2 weeks to go and we will find out when I request the results of the month. So for the meantime, keeping on grinding!

Can not seem to get away from this runbad stretch which kinda started when I took a shot at NL100 😞 ended the day yesterday with almost 6 buyins down at NL50, very frustrating period of time, every pot I enter with some value hand always ends in disaster, rivers in particular have been very brutal lately where villains hit there 4 or 2 outers. This is the last hand I played last night when I finally had enough of it, not the best example and it is what it is. UTG opened and I overcalled with whale in the BB, BB checked, UTG cbets I call, BB raises UTG folds and I just chip it as nothing else to do with SPR. Happy to see the turn, river not so much. Unibet this has to stop! Now please!

@AKQTNIN New members registered today won't get a ticket, but there is always the next tournament in a week.

NL4... Standard

So haven't played as much as I thought I would being a holiday but can't really be an antisocial *beep* all day long when gf is home as well 😛 Battled a break even stretch for most of the week since last update not making much progress, not winning flips and facing lots of regs there top ranges... not much to be said. Friday was a better day and just been playing on my phone for most part but managed to get up over 4 buy-ins at NL50 and now bankroll is back at €1820, back in the profit as started the month with €1800 lol. 2 hands vs a whale at the same table Hope we can start building up the bankroll again from here on and I have a decent weekend, still got another week of holiday to go and Im still working my way through From The Ground Up and watching other videos so eventhough volume has been a bit low I've not given up lol.

Not much luck either today, barely started a session and lost 2 buy-ins vs the same reg 😞 Then lost AK vs his QQ, no screenshot as standard. Then the same reg went AIPF vs another person, all these hands happened like within 5min of each other lol, when is my turn again Unibet? And not all bad, ran better at end of session for some damage limitation, this one was a nice one: Might play some more hands later so will see, Unibet runbad continues, €80 up at RIO at NL20 in last few days so it's not all doom & gloom 😀

@Merenitsu I hate it when others are on a massive heater. I often see some regs at my cash tables and they double up and then triple up in no time and I look at the hands they played and they just hit the best hand over and over in a short time whilst I'm just folding my way to crap hands 🤣 Hard to deal with at times as all you can do is just let it pass by and wait for your moment and just keep playing solid. But I would be raging if I lost 4/4 big multipliers 😀

Just saw your post in the Hexapro topic, 4/4 loss of big multipliers :wow: so harsh! How many hexapro's do you play a day? Or per session? Wish you better luck soon, variance is a b*tch.

Bottommed out at €1350 but back up to €1500, bloody Mondays 😞 Lost 1k in 2 days :wow: No worries I'll get it back tomorrow 🤣 Good night!

Monday madness! Had another session at NL100 but seems I've won too much lately and Unibet switched on the doomswitch, can not flop a thing, nor win a flip and what not, lost a few buy-ins again and now back at NL50, even there I lost like 4 buy-ins and bankroll sitting at €1400 which is pretty absurd. Had a break even stretch last month lasting a week but not experienced a downswing like this for ages, excellent timing Unibet 😠 New plan will be grind NL50 till €3000 then give NL100 a shot again. Finished the July Mission Part 4 today giving me 20 free slot spins, won exactly €0.00 from 20 spins, sums up my day!

Good luck @Eeezee Do you do any studying at all or just grind?

At least you don't have to do much to get that suited omaha mission done, depending on what stake you play you can just join PLO4 and keep folding hands till you get it done. I'm trying to finish in the money in a tournament and as a cashplayer I think it's harder than getting a suited hand in PLO on a cash table.

Let's do a recap of the weekend, been watching some training videos although still have to start that From The Ground Up course which I will as of today. Poker been going ok, hit a high of €2545 on Saturday and had a feel at NL100 just to see what betsizes people use and how the pool plays compared to NL50. Started on NL50 but lost about a buy-in, nothing special but then played NL100 on Sunday night which was pretty rocky, feel like the regs are much nittier and my play has to be more on point and also less random players than at NL50 as well. Was down 3 buy-ins, got most of it back and then ended up with some bad flips and called it a day lol. Bankroll now sitting at €2105. Quiet a bit of regs who play both NL50 and NL100 and overall I don't find NL50 amazingly hard so still trying to find my feet a bit at NL100. Probably will be playing bit of both stakes from now on depending on how many tables are running and be a bit more selective for NL100. And revert back to NL50 only if the bankroll takes too much of a hit. That's the plan!

Well that's me on holiday for the next 2 weeks, had a lazy day today so never fired up a table but watched a poker video and will watch another one before bed. That will be the focus for the next few days, starting with From The Ground Up course on RIO, watched it before but will do again and take notes this time to sharpen up my current game. So far so good this month, played poker on 7 days and only lost on one of those days with only €11 down 😛 Running pretty good and Im up €670 on Unibet for this month and hope to keep this trend going but guess variance will hit back at some point but not gonna worry about that for now lol. Played a bit on RIO but games are just too mad there, low traffic and lots of shorthanded play and probably 10x more aggro than Unibet. Can't find my way in those games, not sure if it's variance or my game just doesn't work for the aggro games. My small bankroll there is pretty much stagnant atm, bit of a headscratcher. Maybe the studying will improve my game on there but Unibet will be the main focus anyhow, not sure when I'm taking a shot at NL100. Bit of a mental barrier maybe as not sure how the games are or how good the regs are compared to NL50. Probably isn't that big of a difference as long as there are enough weaker players but moving up always requires a small period to adapt I find. Maybe try and reach €3000 first and then give it a shot. Or maybe try it tomorrow night, weekend evenings are mostly a bit softer so we will see.

Those hand histories are so hard to read, also hard to know position or pot size etc. Hand 1 is what it is. Hand 2 mostly a fold. Hand 3 is a fold when you get raised on the flop, even to a min raise, it's an exploitable fold but it's 4NL and you don't really have any decent outs. But depends on what you think villain is doing, I look for better spots as if villain raises mostly value hands then we have a crap hand with ace high and a poor runner runner straight draw. Min raises are often a good to strong hand unless villain is just clicking buttons. I just completed the 300 flops and had €5,14 on the ticket at the end, went over €20 at some point then ran into aces a few times and was down to €1.35 before getting back to €5,14 I just don't have the patience anymore playing on NL4 as lots of passive play going on and all you really have to do is wait for good hands and no real need to make many bluffs and that will already make you a winning player as there are enough very weak players about.

AJo < A8o Re-entry QQ < TT Rubbish tournament 😀

@RogueWitch 33 flops seen and I've had it completed.

Never seen so many 4 board flushes in my life! And I'm always on the wrong side as well, fix it Unibet! 😏

Forgot to post a nice hand, I just joined the table and this is the 2nd hand I was dealt. Button openshoved so happy days, 3-way pot and a small sweat but we got there, 2 free buy-ins thank you very much 🆒 Guess some history between button and big blind. Say again online poker is dead 😛

Sometimes I just take it as a small challenge, see how far i can get the ticket up to, got it up to €20 but then ran into aces 3 times and now I've got about €5 left, think I'll just donk it away, give it back to the Unibet community

Haha, I'm the same, not like I look forward to it but I try and complete as much as possible for the few rewards, and tbh, think it's more of a waste of my time 🤣 Here I am trying to get this NL4 ticket run up whilst watching F1 🤣

And the numbers are in! @ReCorpH 😏 😉 25214 hands played and €626.95 profit aka 4.97 bb/100 guess I'll take that thanks! Got €50 less profit on the actual Unibet bankroll so I've lost €50 on tournaments and hexapro's etc, not bad I'd say as I'm not a 'specialist' at anything else than cash games. Played the Ice Giant Bounty again today and the 2 Mission tourney's, bricked em all. I really need some tourney basic strategy and I might buy the From The Ground Up MTT version on RIO for when I'm off in holiday in a week. I loved the cash version of this course and I'm sure the MTT version will be excellent for someone like me. Not done too much learning lately and put in bit more volume instead. Another week of work then off for 2 weeks and will see to get stuck in and appoint some proper time to RIO training site etc. Current bankroll €2136 that's €336 up for the month already, played around 4500 hands probably (based on flops seen) so think I'm running a bit hot so far, on Unibet anyway, RIO not so much. Also facing redundancies at work (pretty sure I'm safe for now) so at least with these poker profits I'll still be able to buy bread every day 🤣

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Pretty impressive, not sure why we were discussing the difference between NL10 & NL25 for? 🤣 What stakes of cash games do you normally play btw? Or what is highest you have ever played?