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Or they are keeping away from us as they don't want anything to do with us. World is a shambles, we have come so far with technology and all round knowledge and yet it is like we are living in the Middle Ages. We shouldn't underestimate human stupidity. It is sad especially for those who can see what the world COULD be like instead of what it is now. And wait till the electricity bill goes up again next year 😅

Gratz on 1st and 2nd scores! What's the cucumber for? 🤭 🤣

Another update before my blog falls off the 1st page of the blog section 😆 Played less than I wanted but I always struggle with that lol, was away to a comedy gig on Thursday in Glasgow and was meant to play Friday but felt so tired as only came home during the night and ended up only sleeping 5-6h. I fired up some tables for 40min and I just quit as I ran bad to start with and my play was just horrendous. Bankroll bit up and down, back around 2k mark after dropping to 1.75k, not sure if I'm dropping the ball sometimes or just run bad. Wish my bankroll would go a bit upwards more regularly or bit more constant. These multiway pots are real killers imo as you can't really bluff in these spots. Currently at 140k xp so 80k to go to loyalty lvl 6, think I average 1500xp/h (8 tables) so that's 54h to go or lets say 3h a day... need to start clawing back before it's too late. Also trying to keep somewhat track of amount of rake I pay, roughly €2.25 per table per hour x8 = €18 per hour. Actually crazy if you see it like that. RAKE 250, GET 50 at 62.5%, 9 days left so easy enough, need another 9-10h ish. After that it is a RAKE 350, GET 35 so probably pushes me for more volume so that's good to help reaching lvl6. An interesting new series from Pete Clarke, a public view on how he coaches people, only 2 episodes in but I find it interesting to see where this will lead to in the end. Watching videos from crushers or high stakes players is nice to learn but watching videos from similar edged or worse players than you (with all due respect off course) can be interesting as well as you can spot the mistakes before the coach explains them and in that way you can kind of judge if your own game is spot on or not. There is a hand where the student squeezes or 3b (cba looking it up lol) and the SB coldcalls and they end up heads up but Pete says these spots can be trivial as they don't happen that often to be important enough to study the spot. Guess he never played on Unibet 😂

Some people are just learning the game though... I mean who checks ATs behind in the BB vs all limps 🤣 And I honestly thought you wanted us to guess villains hand as you didn't include the showdown lol.

Best hand of the day, woo quAAAAds 🥳 Crap hand of the day, CO limps and I flop a boat... not to be yet again...

Played 2h yesterday afternoon and up 7 buy ins, then played 5h last night and down 14 buy ins. (so 7 down overall) Actually unbelievable how spazzy the play is Saturday evening/night, so many drunk? whales wow... and the run bad is amazing as well. Feels like I'm battling a bingo machine at times. Rough guesstimate of how many hands I have to play to reach loyalty lvl6 is prob about 50k, will be interesting to see how this will turn out. So far this month I've played 11k hands, choppy waters so far lol. I like the way I play and I'm about 90% happy with all the hands I play. Only here and there where I think, ok I shouldn't have done this which sometimes cost me a stack and when I replay the hand I realise I should have just folded or given up. Should also battle a bit more for smaller pots. But there are so many weird spots when there are so many recs and bad regs on the tables, so many multi way pots as well making it a real guessing game. Sometimes makes me wonder if making a decent profit month after month (without extras) in such a player pool is actually possible. 100k xp to go to loyalty lvl6 - current RAKE 225, GET 23 at 86%, I'm dreading the next couple of RAKE, GET bonuses I will receive if they will reflect the volume I will be playing this month... RAKE 1000 😂

So that's me finished a weeks of work already after coming back from my week away on holiday. Didn't play any poker that week nor watched anything poker related, didn't have the time really and just good to switch off completely now and then. Came back on Sunday and too tired to put many hours in so didn't make it for my €23 playthrough but that's all right. Currently on this which includes the €50 playthrough reward of loyalty lvl5 (1st step). Have 107k XP atm and kinda aiming to get to lvl 6 by the end of the month which will be a big task as I need about 4k XP a day lol, we will see. Last months profit was €285 (including bonus money) over 25k hands, 3-4bb/100 maybe? Pretty average... Up 5 buy ins so far after dropping 4-5 to start with this month... it's strange when you come back after a week off and you open up some tables, the looks/fonts etc look so unfamiliar for whatever reason but now it's pretty normal again, weird thing. Here some good to be back hands, oh I missed poker 😂 Prob wont be as many posts this month, maybe just some short updates with the progress. Lets hope we make loyalty lvl6! If it goes well I could mix in some NL50 soon 🙈

Pretty sure the guy is just holding his knees 😀 I thought this initially but think most people now spam it to tell each other that they are a fish 😂

25% through the €23 playthrough, not sure if I'll make it as won't be able to play Sunday to Sunday but yeh we will see... Nightmare of a day again today, flopping skills 0/10 and people hitting sets over and over in 3b pots when I hit TPTK. And fed up with losing my last big hand in every session, I don't know WTF is going on but once I press leave every table next big blind, I end up getting a premium hand and losing it. This happened like the last 5 times 🤯 Only 50BB deep but still, I open, he 3b (lol) and BB coldcalls, I 4b and BTN just calls, BB folds... check call as gives them an option to bluff and never folding anyway with this SPR, obv he jams and I call... seriously... Annoying when you see so many bad plays and you run like crap... why does rungood only last a day and never a week lol.

So table chat has been here for a while now, some get used a lot, some others less, the emojis are pretty self explanatory but the GIFs are Unibet exclusive as much as I know so although most are pretty easy to see what they mean, some others are kind of depending on the person using them and could even be used sarcastically. I first thought table chat would get used a lot more but it's actually not that 'bad'. Obviously it's mostly recs who use them or regs (me) when they are pissed off / tilted 🤣 Thumbs up! Cool / I'm (playing/running) great Popcorn gif, watching the mayhem unfold on the table when you aren't in a hand. Facepalm Fishy play / You are a bloody fish! (everyone's favourite) Well played, imo as a sarcastic slow clap? Thumbs up, well played. Small nod, thank you, well played. Dry your tears, for someone who lost a pot. VAR (Video Assistant Referee from football) - Can't believe my eyes, WTF just happened? I need to see the hand again. Thinking in levels, I know you were bluffing so I called etc, good thinking. Running hot Re-buy when someone lost a stack or is about to lose one. Sarcastic way of telling someone 'aww poor boy' after losing a pot? Setting money on fire. Thank you! Not liking money / Losing money left right and center. The VAR is probably the weirdest one for me personally. Not sure what others think what these mean or if you think it means something else from what I mentioned. One GIF I actually miss is one genuinely saying 'I'm sorry' for example when you made a terrible play but got away with it or a bad beat hand etc.

@CuteRavenYeah I also remember this kind of perception that climate change was something for the next generations and we only were going to feel the start of the change later in the century but reality has come knocking on our door rather rapidly. Sad thing is that there was already scientific knowledge about rising CO2 lvl's because of human activity back in the 70's (before I was born) and to think that everything has just been swept under the carpet to keep businesses making profits is quite disgusting. We never learn from our mistakes and big corporations together with corrupt governments will result in lots of people suffering together with the planet. It's a pretty somber outlook. And to keep it a bit on topic, poker: Received another bonus lol and I'm also close to the €50 loyalty playthough bonus from lvl5. Currently on the last €5 of a €20 playthrough bonus, then €23 next, another €23 after followed by a €50 and then this €35 and by then also the €50 loyalty one lol. I must say, sometimes as a cash player I have felt a bit overlooked especially when promo's out there only target the high volume or high rake players so this is a nice change and will keep me busy for sure. Still lacking volume as per usual and will be off on holiday next week too, not sure if I can play whilst being in Ibiza, Spain?

Works fine for me (UK) although took a bit longer than normal to get to the log in screen on desktop.

@CuteRavenI thought I lived pretty north as well north east Scotland but turning more like the weather I used to see in a moderate Belgium. Weather just becoming more extreme, longer droughts and if you are lucky enough to get rain it will fall out of the sky with buckets. Probably the trend in a lot of places. Seems to me that there are a lot more fires around the world as well year after year. Maybe I have the wrong perception but growing up in the 90’s I can’t remember it being this bad. Another example, last night we had thunderstorms and even woke the house up at 4am. Now, I’m used to thunderstorms from in Belgium and in the 9 years I’ve lived in Scotland I have barely seen thunder and lightning but now it almost seems like this will be more common here too in the coming years. Poker, barely played again as was absolutely knackered with a headache on Saturday and was out most of the day yesterday. Maybe I should stay off work to play some poker 😂

If I'm going to get AK or KK vs AA again on 888 I'm going to cry!!! 3x today 🤬 On Unibet, just passed the 2k mark. Haven't played as much as I wanted yet as the heat is just doing my head in. Never liked the heat much as it just drains too much energy out of my body and my brain lol. Climate change no good.

Here some of the promised recreational hands, proof online poker is not dead 😀 but therefor not less swingy 🤪 Haven't played today apart from a bit on 888 at my work as been too warm, 30 degrees. But should be back on the grind tomorrow.

I always program my bots to take the maximum amount of time, just saying 🤭 😜 One of the reasons I dislike tournaments, some people use their whole time bank just to drag it out so they end up in the money, makes some sense when you are almost at a final table but not to get within the top 1000 for a 20p reward 😐

For whoever follows UK politics, slightly disturbing avatar name 🤣

That's the €45 cleared now, thanks for the added few hours @Stubbe-Unibet, much appreciated 👍 Not been too much movement on the bankrolls till the last week or so, on 888 I dropped down to $600 or something which started to piss me right off 😂 but managed to claw back up to $900 now... had $950 for a moment today today at work but had 2 AK in a row vs AA 🙄 one all in pre, other I called a 4b IP and flopped K66... and rec villain just x/c till I was all in, how not to go broke on that board I do not know lol. Unibet was a bit the same, hovering around the same amount but been better last few days, and added €170 today which includes the €45 bonus so almost back to 2k again. Will post some crazy hands from past few days in the next post (not sure when) @AbvUrPlayGrd, like you said it is sometimes hard to know what is happening in the hand lol. Can be very swingy at times when recs play any hand and even the reg fish as well, some real crackers coming up 😂 always hate it when I end up folding the best hand multiway and you see 2 nonsense hands showing down. Also a nice thing, shows my €50 bonus as mentioned somewhere in a previous post, only requires €250 RAKE 😎 Not going to let that one go to waste but will be for in September as I'm away on holiday last week of this month. Currently at loyalty lvl5 and target is to make lvl6 again before the reset so I can keep my multiplier. 83k XP and 47,200 BP atm. All in luck 10 lost vs 20 won, guess I'm running over EV just now, not boding well for next few days 😂

Good old 0.87BB fold equity 😂 I'd cb the flop or jam pre 🤪

@Stubbe-Unibet Any chance of adding a few hours on to my current GET, RAKE as will come a few short tomorrow evening 😅 Had a slow start as suffered from covid followed by the monkeypox and ending with a heatstroke, and it's also my birthday today 🤪 cheers 😀

Poker, a game where excellent play gets punished and terrible play awarded 😁

@GR1ZZL3R Bit strange you have never heard of him, as you have already mentioned, he has multiple books and courses about poker and is quite clued up on the theory aspect of it. He has a course on RIO - From The Ground UP which is pretty decent and prob similar as to what he now sells on his own site as well (albeit a lot more expensive there). He has kind of transitioned in to selling / coaching and now has lots more presence on social media / gaming platforms etc. It comes over a bit too cheesy at times to me personally and he has been in the industry for so long, can't even remember when his first book came out, and I won't ever come close to what he knows about poker lol. Can't go wrong with him for micro/mid stakes.

Crazy Saturday night on the tables, such a soft field but no luck on capitalizing on it. So many multiway pots as well, nightmare at times. UTG minraises, MP calls, I iso somewhat loose but absolute whales on the table. Get 3 callers and pot is already huge and this is the action, BB donks, MP shoves... 🤷‍♂️ lots of these spots, like limp x4 I have AK so iso to 8-10bb and the whole table calls, flop 567 and I have to fold yet again lol. Some good spots too, all in pre... yup Q7o And then hand it back 2min later to same guy... 🙄 Nice hand, I open 76s, BTN raises, BB coldcalls so I come along, nice flop. BTN cb 1/3, BB minraises which is already weird so I just call which is also weird just repping a K or a 7 really. BTN calls as well pretty much repping AA KK or AK, maybe KQs. Turn BB bets 1/2 which I just call lol still repping a K. BB is actually repping quads now lol. BTN jams BB folds weirdly enough and BTN shows AA. Bad luck. Not sure why he is jamming AA now tbh as the board will barely ever change. Yeh, saw stuff like this a lot, UTG shoved his 12.6bb stack and 2 just call lol, pot is already huge. 3b MP and he calls, then he donks flop big and 1/2 on turn, guy was just splashy so just calling, guess a shove is maybe better on turn. I wasn't going to fold anyhow vs him, then he bets riv and I just shove my remaining 3bb... and he tank folded lol, no we aren't chipdumping 😅 he maybe didn't want to show his QTo crap 😂 Might have posted one of the videos before but a good reminder anyway: Only half way the playthrough atm although I've played a fair bit, going to be tight, again 🤣

Will post a bit more tomorrow or so and react to some posts, playthrough at 40% so need to give it some whip this weekend, ends Wednesday I think. Bankrolls back on the mend, trying to stay focused and ignore all the hands I lose or go tits up 😂 Yesterday I played an hour, all good, up 1.5 buy ins ish, closing all my tables, last table, last hand I get KK... nice, open, 80BB stack 3b me, ok I 4b and both stacks go in the middle... AA 😏 😂

Nice to see I've inspired someone to write a post 😆 this game can be brutal at times and I'm sure there are high stakes pros who wouldn't be able to beat these micro stakes 😂 AQo hand, seems like a big iso pre vs minraise. Donk can be anything depending on villains tendencies, hate it when I miss and rec villain is sticky. Raise seems fine but not if he never folds, think I would just call having Qs and see what happens on turn. After turn x I just want to see it get x down on river, vs overbet jam... think fold is standard unless you have a read villain is crazy. Having Qs is not ideal now as you block some flush combos. Think I rather wait for a better spot, you will have better hands here anyway. Q4o hand seems fine, not loving the spot but if you are going to fold bottom boat then we are probably overfolding especially vs recs as they can spaz with anything at times. Think it's an easy fold vs nit regs though lol.