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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.

“Just lost 10 buy ins at poker” Pop up: ”Do you enjoy playing at Unibet? Cheeky #@&! asking me that 🤣 1 star 😂

They need to start adding more space on the bonus page as you can only see the 3 next ones so can't even see this one yet lol. Working through the €45 one and at 30% with 8 days to go. Have received my stats for the year eventually after sending a reminder email and: Played 65k hands at 50NL for -5.4bb/100 🥶 (can't even remember me playing so many hands at 50NL this year) Played 104k hands at 25NL at 4.66bb/100 😕 Just finished July and almost 20 buy-ins down for the month, played 27k hands and gained almost 5k Bonus Points (44,250 BP atm), dropped like 10 buy ins on Saturday 🙄 Not really been plain sailing this year, have a suspicion I'm over complicating things tbh along with some proper run bad in the mix. Have wasted a few stacks here and there out of frustration though which doesn't help. I can do this, I just know as I got it inside of me, I just need to find it again 😅 I take some consolation in the fact that some poker players who stream, struggle too in building a bankroll so in that way I don't feel too bad, if the "pro's" can't even do it in the short term... 😂

So didn't make the RAKE, GET bonus which expired today as was only at 50% on Sunday so just ignored it. Only played a few short sessions keeping my head straight and just getting on with it. I will try to get the next RAKE, GET completed as my volume is pretty shocking lol. Funny enough they keep giving me more RAKE, GET bonuses, I'm actually not sure if they just stack up week after week 😂 The current one is slightly big so will need some decent volume but as you can see the 2 last ones should be easy enough to clear once I get there. Have requested all my cash stats for the year but have yet to hear back after a couple of days, bit of a hit or a miss when you contact Unibet support, sometimes you get an email back within hours, next time it could be up to a week. But maybe I wish I never asked the stats once I see them 😅

Been a while, haven't played that much with the warm weather and I haven't got much motivation as I just can't win anymore lately. Bankroll 888 now at $700 and just above €1,700 on Unibet. Can't remember a day I've won more than 1 buy in tbh. 17 buy ins down on Unibet so far this month... don't think I'll be playing poker for much longer as I've put so many hours in this and I just don't get anything out of it. Not worth my time. Haven't played for a few days and played a bit today 2-4h or something, ended the day somewhat break even and only had 1all in preflop, I 3b and he 4b to 33BB (tell?)... bit silly calling that big of a 4b so jam is only way imo. And then this hand and I quit after this, 3b get 4b... bit deeper so guess we call most of the time, villain has barely played any hands... funny how I again get 4b to 33BB... And then he insta jams flop, like no thought whatsoever... this is just like wtf am I meant to do with KK no d... don't beat AA, QQ, TT... could have KK with a d, AKdd but these spots are so stupid... And ofc he has AA even with the Ad... So far this month I've ran in to AA 17x and had only my own AA all in pre 8x... And they keep giving me playthrough bonuses lol, currently on 42% on a RAKE 300, GET 30 bonus and 4 days left on it. See how it goes tomorrow, if it starts with losing again then I don't think I'll be pushing to clear it tbh. I don't really understand what is happening, trying to play my game with following my gameplan and for whatever reason I always end up losing, I always seem to get the 2nd best hand over and over... but yeh, as I said prob won't play much longer if there isn't any change soon.

@AbvUrPlayGrd You can only look up hands if you were sitting at the table and got dealt hole cards I think. I guess it's a 'safety' measure so you can't datamine every hand played on Unibet.

Unibet was just setting up a party because a crusher left so now they have to take the bunting down they've just put up an hour ago 🤣

Just got contacted by the Guinness Book of World Records for the amount of times I’ve run KK into AA this year 🤣 🥲