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888 Bankroll down to $635, becoming a joke really. This variance bullshit is taking the piss again. Open QJ and get CALLED by BB, bet flop, overbet the turn then get jammed for w/e was left... joke. Get 3b by BB, call, flop a set, not the best on monotone board but still strong, guy went like bet jam instantly, he's one of those weird ones on 888, never even thought about betting the flop just instantly, and instant jam on turn... smells dodgy. And again I hit a set and they hit a better one, no point in me folding as they can have AK with one heart etc etc... Typical 888 runouts, they call sb and then donk, I raise and sure they always hit whatever on turn or river. Just an example but happens all the time. UTG rec opens, I 3b, get 4b, all in... fuck not again, great flop finally!, what fu turn, wth river... BS CO limps and I iso to 5bb, BB calls and so does CO, think CO donked small or w/e and I raised, BB re-raised so I just stuck it in and he snap called... again BS Can't remember exact sequence of this hand, prob I open raised and 2 callers then cb and BTN call and SB rec jammed so easy jam, stacks are short as well so not much to do then get it in with TPTK... never ending this piss... Big nit 3b me from BB so I actually know exact what hand he has AA or KK lol, calling to get a decent flop, hit 2p and he x/r me on the flop, decided to call to avoid a 4 flush card and then jam as that gives less equity for him on the turn. Think he jammed himself so easy call, he had exact what I thought and basically a flip on the flop, slightly ahead on the turn but hey ho... what did you think eh? Seems Unibet is going the same way again too... 3b AA, get 4b, call, call it off post flop and of course he has KK... BTN limps, SB minraises lol? I make it 9BB both call, cb 1/3 as BTN is short and he just jams, SB folds easy call.... yep same bs... KK vs AA... ofc! Again! Open QJ and rec calls in SB, bet big on flop, overbet turn and big bet on river... f me... and he just called. Splashy CO rec opens and rec in BB as well, so call 56s, x/r flop big, bet turn, worst riv... x/f... Again pot with 2 recs, MP min opens, I 3b, BTN and MP call, 1/2 cb flop, both call, bet turn again and BTN jams and MP calls lol, I folded... These weird hands, I open QQ, BTN calls, SB squeezes, I 4b and both call... K on the flop sure... flop goes x/x/x and turn J SB bets 1/2... I fold BTN calls, SB bets 40BB in to 160BB then folds to a BTN jam and he only had 40BB left lol... 2 all ins with AK on Unibet, one vs AK other vs KK and lost it... 2 all ins I remember from today on 888, KK vs AA x2 and lost both... Still waiting on a bloody heater that lasts longer than a day tbh...

Don't have access to a solver atm and don't really have time for it anyway just now but I'll probably give GTO Wizard a go next time I pay for a sub. This video is just the last one that came out on their YouTube channel and just a good reminder of some basics. Haven't had a good look at all their vids but seems like they have a few good ones on there.

Been a while since last update, trying to get some volume in but weather has been amazing here, especially last few days, kinda needing some rain tbh, pretty dry year again here at the NE coast of Scotland. Lots of people loving the nice weather but I find it quite worrying knowing climate change has a big part to play in this 😕 Poker, almost got through the €50 playthrough and then on to the RAKE, GET bonuses next. Bankroll dropped to €1.8k ish but back at €2k again just today. Bit on the fence with 50NL atm, think I'm going to keep going at 25NL till 2.5k at least and then mix 25/50NL with 2k as the bottom limit for 50NL. 888 poker, bankroll just above €800, have nothing good to say about that crap site lol. I just can't manage to run any decent on 25NL SNAP. For one I get a lot of ridiculous run outs after flopping what is pretty much the nuts which then turns in to a pile of poo lol. And I'm getting destroyed in 3b/4b pots like there is no end to it. And regs are so bloody nitty its insane, if I keep running like this I probably take my money off soon. 888 zero points from me 👎

Sometimes I play some 888 SNAP (ZOOM) during my lunch break for about 10-20min... as I did today... Lost with AA in a 3b pot vs a flopped set to start with... then won some small pots here and there... till these 2 hands happened within 4 hands of each other. UTG limps, I make it 5x he calls, I bet flop 1/2 and he raises, I re-raise and all goes in on the flop, and we win the flip. Again limp and I raise 4x and he re-raises 4x so easy call, flop the nuts and flop goes x/x, then he x turn again so time to start betting, bet 1/3 and he raises me again, call again as I'm IP anyway. Then he bets 1BB on the riv... wtf is that even so I shove which is only play here... bloody KK feck me... €124 pot 🙄 888 all over, no movement on the bankroll what so ever... haven't won 2 hands in a row for a while now 😅

Went limp call, I bet flop and turn and then he donked the river lol, he’s an aggro fish so all weird lines and big bets etc had like AK 10x vs him where I raised his non limps but I got like the worst flops 9x out of 10 where I had to x/f. But when he donked I’m like well it’s like he has Jx that’s now a boat as how can you have quads and not raised the turn. So I raised and he jammed so can’t really fold KK here imo, what if he showed up with Jx that would be a crazy fold, wp I guess.

When you play 1.5 hours and are just wrapping up the session and all the profit gets wiped out by a daft hand... what a run out djeez, nice one Unibet!

@GR1ZZL3RWatched a bit of it but not feeling any better 🤣 Keep on getting bonuses lol, that will keep me busy for another month and half 😂

You can always ask them to cancel the bonus if you don’t think you’ll make it so that way you can get on with the next bonus straight away.

@Rushbie So you are always? calling a 4b with AK then and fold if you miss blind vs blind? Don't understand the 72o line sorry. AK is still a premium hand in my books. Maybe your post actually proves my point that people are just nitty as hell nowadays and I should take my hands postflop unless I have AA or KK I guess.

Well, 4 all ins today, 3 on 888 AK-AA 0-1 QQ-AA 0-1 QQ-AA 0-1 And one on Unibet, QQ-AA 0-1 I mean, how stupid is this actually, am I just running like hell all the time or what? BvB, standard BS... BB vs CO I could flat the 3b and would have gotten away from it on that flop lol. This was actually a stupid one, UTG vs SB but I 3b him few hands before and then he 3b me twice in a row after lol, so now I 3b, he 4b again... like I leveled myself in it... so yeh, call 4b and then fold that flop I guess... crap QQ SB 3b, I 4b he calls, he calls flop cb and turn x/x, he jams riv... guess I don't win vs much value... don't have a heart which is good I guess but lots of bluffs are around the Q and I block AQ if he turns that in to a bluff... SB vs CO... 4 handed, all in pre, CO opened, BTN fish called, I squeezed, faced a minraise, jammed it, bit deeper but would still go all in on that board I guess although not loving it... One hand I won, called a 3b pre OOP for once as they always fold vs 4bets, never get action with my AA very strange... managed to get the lot. Thoughts anyone?

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RAKE 350, GET 35 cleared 2 days ago, asked my stats for the period of that ticket and no surprise I got hammered on small sample of 2,400 hands at 50NL at -17.5bb/100 which is no big deal as lost a few all ins. Better are the 25NL stats, won €489.82 over 13,706 hands aka 14.3bb/100 So had to drop back down to stay with my bankroll management rules and win some more stacks at 25NL to complete that RAKE 350, GET 35, when I completed it the bankroll was just under 2k again and managed to get the 4k Bonus Points for the half way mark between loyalty lvl5 to 6. Sadly enough back to loyalty lvl 1 and start from scratch with the multiplier due to the reset and not reaching loyalty lvl6. (hopefully we get back there this quarter) Yesterday I logged in and bankroll was just above 2k due to exchange rate so was allowed to play 50NL again lol. Better start this time so see if we can ride it out and stay more at 50NL but I'll see how the tables are and if there are not enough players or if the pool is terrible I just drop down to 25NL. Working my way through a €50 playthrough bonus from the loyalty scheme and after that still have a RAKE 300, GET 30 to clear. And still 39,330 bonus points left. And have yet to win anything from the 25th Anniversary flip tournaments. 888 poker is still the same, impossible to get the bankroll going, played 2 tables of SNAP one day, one table I ran up to 700BB and on the other I just kept losing pot after pot lol. Bankroll just above $900... 🤷‍♂️ Just posting some winning hands for a change: Going to start keeping record of my all ins again, not to see how bad I run 😏 but actually wonder how many people actually still jam QQ. Unless it is a weird sample size, I have this inkling that people just got tighter for whatever reason. Seems I'm never up against QQ and a lot against AA and KK... and I can't even remember last time I had an all in when I had AA, very strange. Hope it's a sample size thing.

Some more rant hands, and that will be the last post as tilt is back and just CBA anymore. Open JJ, bet big on flop, get minraised, ok I call, call a turn bet and a river bet... nice how they always get there. Flop decent, turn the nuts, oh yeh countered on the river, nothing new there. But he had nothing anyway. Lets 3b and jup, half the table calls and same old same old, worst flops ever. Call QT, he bets pot on flop like wtf, should prob already fold but hey ho, I don't like money, then get 2p and he obv turns the nuts... tilt tilt tilt... When you 3b UTG and the guy barely ever played a hand... and he x/r the flop... was expecting AA tbh... 4b pot with KK, crap flop, decent turn ish, but then still gets there with a flush... fuck my life... 3b, x/c the flop and call his jam on the turn... jup J on the river is exactly how it should go. Squeeze pot and jup, best flop ever yet again lol Lets 3b AA for once, aids board yet again and no they never show up with some weird KJ hand as they always flop the nuts... 3b JJ, aids flop, turn pretty decent but yeh river has to kill it again so can't even bet. Yeh seems like a good river again... usual crap. Open QJs, SB calls, I bet big on the flop and he calls, then he donks the turn, I raise he calls, I bet riv again and he just calls... I mean... Very next hand, I didn't rebuy in time and he opens BTN so I just shoved my hand, KK of course! These are meant to be regs and just don't understand what happens here, I open KK he calls in BB, I bet flop he calls and then instantly he donks turn, so quick it's like he uses some software or something, so bizarre. Can't remember if I called or not... Again a reg, I open BTN he calls, I get x/r on the flop which is already weird, he bombs turn and jams river... what does he even rep? K6/66 ? A6 wouldn't bet turn anymore... Some terrible played hands but I'm always up against the nuts for some reason... so yeh... stick it.

Literally getting pissed off again, what kind of bs is this actually I have to run bad all the bloody time. Bankroll 888 down to $950 and on Unibet back at €1,850. 888 is just beyond believe, if I was a new player I would for sure say I'm getting scammed on that site and that they can see my cards or something. Since I started I'm down $13 from my actual play although I'm still up from the bonuses etc. 50NL on Unibet, yet another shambles, move up and never able to win, 5 all ins and lost 4 and tied one, 2x AK in to AA yet again !! AK in KK and 88 in to AK and then tied AK in to AJo when the board paired up to split the pot 🙄 Have games changed suddenly that AK is just a call pre and never a jam?? Just play AA and KK ok I got it. Lets 3b and then just barrel it off... get snapcalled by ATo lol Let's 3b again and flop TP on flop so bet anyway, pick up equity on the turn so let's keep betting and we get there so we jam... wth is going on... Don't think I can win any fecking hand with AA or KK in a 3b or 4b pot ever... all in on the turn vs halfstack but ofc he has the nuts... Again a 3b pot I decided to barrel off... snapcalled by random crap again. BvB, I x/r flop, crap turn x/x and riv x/x again... giving up this combo I think... and then they hit the river... 1st hand of the session, lets 3b K9s which you can do half the time, get insta jammed on lol Again these silly hands where I flop decent and board just runs out tits up. These weird things, can't remember pre flop exactly, 3b TT vs UTG reg, get 4b small I think, I call, call small flop cb although not happy ofc, then jams turn whilst I still have 108BB behind... wtf is that meant to be... Again 3b pot vs a reg... what is this, think I 3b then cb flop and x turn and get jammed on lol, similar board as above... am I missing something? 2 next pics same hand. Somehow a 4b pot but can't remember action, then BB donks flop, MP raises, don't see any point in raising as I would just blow the BB out... But the money goes in anyway and I'm practically dead... can you believe it... Just a semi tilt hand, open 88, SB calls, BB squeezes, ok I call, low board so just call it off, yup never see a bluff. And then you have some sponsored reg playing the pool for a few hours, stacks people left right and centre no bother... Glad I won one hand vs him, I open, BTN calls, he squeezes, I call and so does BTN, flop goes x/x/x I think, then he bets turn big and I call, BTN folds and he jams riv easy call obv... guess his play is ok, lots of draws missed and he doesn't block any suit.

@Pionrjseen that video before, not sure if it was on here lol Apart from it being a funny video, it isn't the exact reason why it doesn't affect me as much as it used to (and hoping it stays like that!), it's like I'm more focused on the actual hand rather than the hands I lost before etc. Just like playing a strategy game really and every hand is a different game.

@Estzen I wouldn't say too many shots at 50NL but maybe not moving back down on time due to frustration instead of just moving down and grinding in out again till it sticks. I feel like the bad beats and bad runs don't affect me as much anymore as they used to as I have a bit of a more realistic view over variance now especially after the brutal one I went through a few months ago. Losing a few hands during a session are fine and having a proper bankroll behind makes it easier to take and get over them as well. It's always funny how people get angry/tilted when others play bad and get lucky but that's where the money comes from in the end so why be mad, just accept you lost the battle but will win the war against them 😀

@Livertool That must be one of the most vague descriptions of John Cleese lol. (Fawlty Towers)

Or a cheese shop 😂

Right, some hands: MP opens, BTN calls, I squeeze from SB and MP folds, BTN calls, I cb flop, not the best flop for AK as BTN prob flats lots of pp and suited connectors around the 8 and 5 but should also have suited broadways etc, can't always x AK here so just see what happens, gin card on the turn so just keep on betting and BTN keeps on calling, ram it in on the river... nh. Fancy spot next, UTG opens, MP calls, I squeeze and SB whale coldcalls and rest calls as well so we see a flop 4 way and the pot is 45BB already. Flop x through, I guess I could cb flop for 1/5 maybe having the Td but vs 3 it's prob a bit thin. Turn J pretty bad, very good chance one has a J and possibly still slowplaying a flush at this point. But whale bets out 1/2 and UTG and MP fold so at this point I'm not ready to fold yet lol. This is more about reads as he's a bit of the spazzy type of whale. Then at the river he bets out just under 1/3 which could still be a flush on a scary board now, or a 7, or another random pp. Can't see him having a J as he would jam that. Not folding for that 1/3 price and there we go 43o... nh. Another fancy spot BvB, can't remember exact preflop actions but went x/x to the riv where I then bet and he raised which didn't make sense to me so I re-raised and he folded anyway lol. He maybe knows I'm stabbing too much on the river when it x down or he raised some weird Jx hand? Having the T is good for blocking some str draws imo. Not a lot of people would x a flush till the river as most would bet their draw on the flop and if not bet the turn when they have the flush. Bit of a weird hand, I open AJs, get 3b from BB which is always pretty strong and I call, I sometimes fold depending on villain, looks pretty criminal folding but some people don't even 3b AK so... anyway we call and he bets 1/3 on a board where he should be betting 1/2 especially with his holding. You could bet smaller with AA I guess as you don't care about any card coming up on the turn. Qc very interesting turn card, I think he bet 1/2 now which is strange with JJ I think, better line would be 1/2 flop and 1/3 turn I think but w/e, normal play is just call I guess but I decided to throw in a raise. Still not sure if I like it or not lol, would love to check with a solver but no access to any atm. He just called and then x/c my jam on the river. Think there is no need for my turn raise as Im IP anyway and if I get jammed on it's terrible. Prob better to jam when he x the river to us. Not sure what to think about his river call, especially when I raised the turn. He does block the straights but at the same time he also blocks my bluffs... I'll save this hand for when I have a solver again, interesting spot. And next all can't win / moan hands 😀 MP fish opens, I 3b, BB 4b and MP calls, easy jam, BB folds surprisingly, MP calls 56s lol... what a flop again... and nope, can't hold. Next 2 pics same hand, UTG opens, MP and CO call, easy squeeze, think I went a bit too small here even though IP shouldn't be that big but UTG opened 3BB and I went 12BB vs 10.5BB in the pot already, prob should of went 14BB but hey ho, everyone calls and we see a crap flop, I'm basically already done with the hand at this point. Can't remember exact action and if money went in on the flop or turn but seeing KK flatcalling my squeeze is heartbreaking 😂 should have been KK jams and rest folds and I call and win the pot 🤣 Again next 2 pics same hand, can't remember preflop action, prob open and 2 calls, flop top set so think I bet flop and get called then decided to keep on betting, flush card isn't the best but don't want to see it get x through with still many draws out there and I have nut outs too. Obviously easy fold when I get jammed on and coldcalled which is stupid in itself lol. Again someone calling KK pre wtf really, another hand I should have won all in pre... good he lost that one 🥳 😂 When you 3b and regfish coldcalls, A high board good for me small cb as dry board and I get raised lol, what is he raising here really, 44 very rarely, 88 bit less rare and most likely AK which shouldn't be raising anyway, wp easy fold for me. Not sure about preflop again but flop a decent draw, money goes in and never hit. Stinky hands, why do these boards run out like this all the time lol, can't fold K flush tbh although in reality with Q on the board if they don't have the A what do they jam on the river. Can't remember villain so depends on that imo, prob fold vs nit regs. Call in BB vs BTN open, decent flop and even better turn, all in on the turn and yet again no joy. Oh look, eastyyy22 on the table lol. Bet bet bet... nice river and call down with 77 🙄 All in on the flop I think, grrr... Get 3b from SB so just call with AQ depending on villain again, good flop but yet again, why oh why lol. 3b QQ pre, he calls, might have bet flop small to deny some equity to a one diamond type hand, money went in on the turn I guess, how do they always hit it, and then the Qd to add some insult to injury lol. See what happens next couple of days 😀

And halfway the RAKE 350, GET 35 playthrough bonus (5-6 days left on it), going reasonable well on Unibet atm, just passed 2k bankroll. Might have a shot at 50NL and drop back down to 25NL when I drop 3 buyins aka bankroll at €1,850 but will see what the pool is like and be a bit selective. Just started my holiday for a week so will get some more volume in, been slacking this week with the weather being pretty nice up the north east of Scotland for once (low to mid 20 degrees), living on the coast we often miss the best of the weather as we mostly have a bit of a breeze coming in lol. Might post some hands tomorrow or so, I know everyone is dying to see my crap losing hands 😂 888 is just an absolute nightmare, bankroll just above 1k now and just not able to break away there, win one / lose 2 🙄 no bonuses going either or any promo worth mentioning. With all the playthrough bonuses lined up on Unibet most of the volume will be on here anyway this coming week. Let's see if we can double the bankroll 🤪 🤣

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@CuteRavenWelcome back! Yep still moaning my way through my poker 'career' 😂 quick recap of the past 2 years: bit like a reflection of the bitcoin price, very swingy and not much profit at the end 😆 It's going the right way but it is a slow process, but still enjoying the game very much despite bad plays and bad runs. I've learned a lot since the start of this blog and yet sometimes it feels like I don't know anything at all lol. Good luck with your SnG journey, however big or small it might be. I'm sticking with cash games 👊

I just keep on plowing through it I guess, 888 just isn't working out, made $125 actual profit on the tables since I started there earlier this year 😂 Another 3 buy ins up on Unibet though today in a 1h session even with some bad beats in the mix. Guess I'm not getting much of a break: got another RAKE, GET bonus 😂 keep em coming! 😀

Watching 500nl videos probably doesn’t help when playing 25nl lol, obviously more 3betting at 500nl and I just wanted to incorporate more 3betting vs earlier positions in my game to see how it goes and obviously I don’t have a HUD and 3bets with like A5s QJs AJs and what not should be rolled for as they aren’t 100% 3bets but I just decide in the moment myself but overall impression is people are bloody nits UTG / MP while I mostly open any suited A, K8s+, Q9s+, AJo+, mixed frequency with low pp depending on table etc so you’d think others would open similar so how can you 4b so much? Running somewhat mediocre with the cards prob doesn’t help either as I seem to run in to the nuts quite often when I have overpairs / TPTK etc… I always think oh they could have these draws beside the nuts but mostly they just have the nuts 😂 would be funny to see some players stats as lots of regs are probably a lot nittier than I think.