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Just bought a 50NL ticket for 50k BP... have enough playthrough bonuses to keep me going and this way I get to play some 50NL. Won't be playing on pc as going to stick with 25NL for now and def when I'm multitabling. But I can play this on my Ipad just 2 tables or something and see how it goes. This way I can focus more on table selection, villains and hands etc. Hopefully we won't go busto 🤞

3rd video from Pete Clark is out for who wants to check it out, haven't watched it yet.

I almost had a Royal Flush last week...

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But then the Queen died... 

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.

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MP reg opens 3x, CO rec calls, BTN random fishreg calls, I squeeze obviously, everyone calls lol, pot is not 60BB and I have 100BB behind and cover the rest, based on this there is no way we are folding AA here ever imo... I don't want this to go x/x/x/x so I bet 1/4 on a pretty dry board where I'm mostly ahead % wise. MP calls, CO calls, BTN jams... even though it's a disgusting spot I can't fold this so I call and end up being the only caller...

And we hold... just shows you it's a bingo game trying to guess peoples hand/range. 52s isn't even a calling hand pre and this is some kind of weak multi-tabling reg. 

 

I open KK UTG, MP rec and SB rec both call, I decided to x flop and MP open jams, SB snap calls, easy fold for me as I haven't invested much in the pot yet anyway + someone must have a Q right? 

Oops, guess not... A8o bingo players...

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 😂

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CO opens, I 3b, BB 4b and I decided just to call vs 75BB stack, he bets just under 1/2 on flop and I call and he then sticks it in on the riv, call... bloody 4 outer

BvB, open he calls, I c/r the flop he calls, I bet turn and riv and 42o lol...

BTN opens I 3b he calls, decided to cb 1/3 vs bad opponent, he jams it in... he's the spazzy type so call it off expecting to be ahead vs some crap, some draws and have some outs vs pp. Just didn't win the flip.

Regfish opens UTG, I 3b he calls, he donks out 3/4 lol I call, he donks 3/4 again on turn so I stick it in, if he has a set I'm dead anyway and if he has some draw it puts him in an annoying spot, I also don't have a heart so maybe more reason to jam. He binks one of his 5 outs... that's some donk on the flop with ATo lol

3 handed, BTN opens, I 3b he calls and I barrel it off 3 streets and he snaps me down lol, guess a non believer putting me on AK? Although he has an A! 🤣 But he doesn't block any STR draws that's true 😆

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 🙈

2 hours ago, cris1285 said:

Nr 14 for the bubble (specially satties) when someone is visibly too passive. Like grasping the chair. 

  Pretty sure the guy is just holding his knees 😀

2 hours ago, jerry said:

5 you had fish in your hand but he somehow slipped from it 14 youre in prenatal shape cause youre fighting for your life 

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 🤣

1.   Thumbs up!
2.  Cool / I'm (playing/running) great
3.  Popcorn gif, watching the mayhem unfold on the table when you aren't in a hand.
4.  Facepalm
5.  Fishy play / You are a bloody fish! (everyone's favourite)
6.  Well played, imo as a sarcastic slow clap?
7.  Thumbs up, well played.
8.  Small nod, thank you, well played.
9.  Dry your tears, for someone who lost a pot.
10.  VAR (Video Assistant Referee from football) - Can't believe my eyes, WTF just happened? I need to see the hand again.
11.  Thinking in levels, I know you were bluffing so I called etc, good thinking.
12.  Running hot
13.  Re-buy when someone lost a stack or is about to lose one.
14.  Sarcastic way of telling someone 'aww poor boy' after losing a pot?
15.  Setting money on fire.
16.  Thank you!
17.  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.

@Stubbe-Unibet @Seb-Unibet Just to let you guys know that the last text I received worked as it should.

@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 🤪

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Hand vs megawhale, I open, he 3b small, I 4b he calls, flop meh but I bet 1/4 bit of a one and done situation for me, he calls, turn x/x, river best card in the deck and he leads out and leaves 12BB behind lol, I just shovel it in don't care if he has a better hand but he folds.

Same mega whale, he has 215BB and I cover him. He is BTN. CO opens, he 3b, I 4b, he 5b and I just stick it in and he calls, waiting for the T but didn't come 😂

Hands that make absolutely no sense and where I end up folding the best hand, hate to see it but based on play nothing else to do. UTG who is a regfish limps, CO shorstacker fish iso, I 3b and BB fish and UTG both call, CO folds. Flop goes x/x/x and turn UTG bets just over 1/2, I just fold. Being OOP and in the middle makes it even worse. BB calls. River BB x and UTG shoves with BB calling for a split pot... I have no fecking idea what da feck went on in this hand... 🤯

MP and BTN limp, I iso and only MP calls, bet 1/3, 1/2 and pot and he just calls me down.

I open ATs, BTN and SB call, BTN whale and SB I perceived as a reg I think but not anymore lol.  SB and me x/c 1/2 bet from BTN on flop and turn and he bet 1/2 on riv again with SB just calling and I folded... seems nitty but my concern was SB, saved myself 25BB anyway.

CO limps, 177BB deep and I iso to 5BB, good flop lol, small cb which he calls, big bet on turn which he calls, boom locked in on the river, big bet again and he raises almost 3x, easy shove and he snap called. Bad beat but then again, don't limp/call T9o lol. Would have been a sick river raise if I didn't hit a boat.

CO limp, I raise he calls, 1/2 flop he calls, big bet turn and he minraises, I just call, and he goes halfpot on riv so I just call again. Sometimes you see recs do funny stuff with their hands like donk or raise and then they get 'lucky'. They'll lose more often than win it though.

Nothing too special, rec jamming random crap, 35bb QJo good enough after I open and he jams.

Weird ass hand, BB is guy from above, CO opens, BTN 3b, I 4b, BB mad guy 5b, CO jams. I folded because didn't know CO, BTN nit reg. When BTN 3b, another reg 4b and you shove over it then it its pretty nutted so let my QQ go...

And a good fold... 43o bloody hell lol.

Regfish calls my open and I just call down his 1/2 bets on 3 streets, 43o like wtf. This guy plays often and multiple tables, I really don't get this eventhough I know he plays fishy even 43o is out of line lol.

MP opens, CO and BTN call, I squeeze and only BTN calls, I bet 1/2 and he minraises and I call, turn goes x/x, river I block 1/3 and he minraises me again and I just called. Random button clicking in action.

Open AK UTG, BTN min 3b so I 4b he calls, I bet 1/3 flop he calls, I bet 1/2 turn he calls and I stick it in on the riv and he calls... ty.

CO opens, BTN calls, I squeeze and both call, flop goes x/x/x and I bet 1/2 on turn, CO is reg so if he folds I'm happy, I knew BTN was a whale so don't care when money goes in. He minraised me and I just stuck it in... trips, good for him.

Weird hand, just started a session and I open and he calls, then he open jams lol... I'm like ffs, snap called it kinda, in hindsight prob not worth the 5BB pot...

And he shows the nuts ish...

Open JJ, BB min 3b like clicks it back, I 4b he calls, bet 1/3 flop he calls, I bet 1/2 on turn again but imo gets too thin, only get value of 99-88 and 66 and lower... and he clicks it back again, I call and river is like lol, he shoves and I call it off... can't exactly remember villain but guess it's ok ish if he's a whale, can't remember. Imo all depends on his previous hands etc.

CO opens, SB 45BB stack calls, I could squeeze but think it gets awkward with TJs vs the shorter stack and it does play good enough multiway. Flop TP and SB donks out pot, bit bizarre already but I call and CO folds. Then SB overbet shoves turn so I just call again, ok just random.

UTG halfstack opens, I 3b, CO jams and I call it off... again can't remember him but depends on previous hands, AJs is prob bottom part of what I call off, not too sure. Depends what I think about his spazzy percentage lol.

Calls 99 in BB, I x/r flop and he calls, I bet turn again and he raises which I called, then he shoves riv and I call... looks almost spew but all depends on how they played previous hands. Also all draws missed and I don't have a diamond. And if he had Qx or Tx of diamond good for him lol but doubt he would jam Txd.

Whale which I've known for a long time opens UTG, I 3b and he calls, I 1/2 and he calls, dream turn and I 1/2 again and he calls again, shove riv and he calls it down... 63o damn non believer lol.

Lots of these hands and situations, one or more limps, or iso and I squeeze and they all call, then I whiff the flop and mostly its just x/f as multiway its hard to have decent fold equity. I might sometimes stab depending on flop texture or villains but its rare. And in this case its easy fold vs big bet.

MP limp, I iso, BTN and MP call, well that's a nice flop! MP bets out pot lol, I call BTN folds, then he bets 1/2 on turn no reason to raise so easy call,  and he shoves river... bad luck mate.

Vs 1 nit reg and tight rec. I open KK and both call. x to BTN who bets 1/2 and I x/r him. Nit reg CO jams LOL and BTN calls, easy fold. Nit reg had 55 and tight rec TT. Not sure I like nit reg his jam even though its a drawy board.

Open A9o on BTN, SB calls, BB squeezes. I fold obviously. SB calls, BB then bets big and SB calls, turn x/x and riv SB donks out 1/5 and BB calls... again a hand where I don't have a clue what either of them is doing 🤯

Think I 3b someone and SB and BB both called... crap flop for me and my hand. Then w/e action went on all money went in somehow lol. What are people thinking preflop.

CO opens, BTN 3b, I 4b and they both call lol, BTN reg with AK just calling, mad. Flop is crap even with TP as not much to improve my hand on a dynamic board but think CO bet out and BTN raised or something so I let this one go. Don't even know how he got it in there with AKo, try and bluff the rec with your As? Good luck... 

 

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 😂

37 minutes ago, psrquack said:

Reraise allin.😀

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.