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I don't understand... As far as I can see in the first examples you made 2 losing bets on games with different names that were the same teams but formatted differently? And you want your money back?

If we could change the time frame for "hands played" in the achievements section that would be awesome instead of total hands played, hands per quarter or per month etc.

Now that I have just found there is a total hands played section, probably a bit more lol

@EstzenYeah it probably will slow me down but I'm okay with that. I always used to be in a rush to get to high stakes and look how that ended up.. The allure of playing high anywhere other than in live games where I can look at my opponents before I sit isn't really that appealing to me anymore. The higher you play the lower your winrate becomes and the higher the variance. I'd rather grind micros with a good winrate than battle and go on 50 buyin downswings. Just gonna stick to the plan of grinding hard and booking small wins and then taking shots in good live games during festivals. I've got 3 more weeks to work my ass off before I head to the GUKPT London cash games so if that means I have to just be a rakeback grinder at 25PLO that is absolutely fine it will pay for my hotel 😄

The turn is a pure check w/ SPR > 2 considering the hand has 5% less equity with a T and A in it vs nuts and no blockers to the nuts. Solver would call your hand vs GTO but he isn't GTO and you block turned 2 pair that villain could be over valuing, you block hands you beat apart from aces and you unblock KQ hard considering you also have a T

Just had avocado on toast for breakfast for the first time in a few years, one of the upsides to not doing all of your money at high stakes is that you can afford to have pretentious breakfasts again. I've played more volume in the last 48 hours than I have in years and I'm up around £100. There is one "reg" who VPIPs 70% from all positions and gets it in with top and bottom pair on any texture other than monotone for 200bbs+ with any SPR, they get a set in for stacks at any SPR for infinite BBs on any texture and I can't beat them. For the sake of my mental I am gonna ban myself from anything higher than 25PLO for the remainder of the month because I can't resist sitting these tables when they play so bad but it isn't good for me since running bad at 50PLO hurts compared to 25PLO where I don't feel as much. Cashed out £1200 so I don't do anything stupid and left £250 on the account, up to £375. ❤️ Sam

This is great at first glance it seems way more fair

I span a freeroll ticket into a 680 cash in the supermoon bounty and the cash tables treated me well too. Definitely got some of those EV bbs back. When I was doing some hill sprints earlier today I was going through spots and ways to play the day 2 and considered playing a total ladder game since every ladder is like 6 buyins for me and I start the day off 12/12. I remember thinking "I'll be an uber nit and open fold 66 and jam 77+ OTB and not tell anyone" Well my bustout hand was 66 OTB < KK in SB for 12th place and no ladders. Justice. Stick to the fucking plan Sam. Net profit (including BP + Tickets): £2177.45 ❤️ Sam

GG out in 12th, +680 from a freeroll though. We take those for sure!

Depends if you beat me in 12 moves again or not? JK I am in

Made day 2 12/12 fingers crossed

@Estzen I'd compare it to other masochistic behaviours, it's essentially financial self harm. Even when I have done it in the past I know in the moment I am being an idiot but I didn't care. Consider yourself lucky you don't have those tendencies, I was crippled with that sorta behaviour for a long time and dusted off 5 figure rolls multiple times back in the golden days of online poker. (And back when I had no understanding of the value of money)

@Wokeyedwill Well done and good luck bro. And regarding the sportbooks argument that is going on in the comments, real pro sports bettors are mainly using arbitrage to generate the majority of their profit if not all of it. Betting on things you think are going to win is what punters do, and betting with inside info is what crooks do.

Managed to grind through it. Also found some amazing content that went into deep analysis of the GG player pool vs PIO ranges and of the top 20 players vs PIO ranges to see how the best of the best exploit the player pool to achieve the highest winrates. Eureka moment sorta stuff. Not something I can directly implement into PLO but will try transposing the ideas into my game and it will definitely help me win more when I play NL. My e-sports bet lost in a 5 game series 2-3 I should have laid it off after watching the semi finals and locked up profit because EDG were not a 5:2 dog ❤️ Sam

1.5k+ under EV this week so far. Also accidentally sat .25-.50 on 2 tables and went 0/4 in all ins, didn't realise until after the session. Lifetilt.exe

Thanks @Rushbie. Trying not to project anymore of that energy. I guess it's better to have a downswing now at the micros than playing in London. Usually when I have a bad run over more than a few thousand hands I put my account balance on the highest stakes possible and play like a monkey until it's gone. It only took 16 years to develop any sort of self control with my gambling 🤣 better late than never I guess?

The degen apes have been getting me good. I didn't play any .25-.50 luckily otherwise I would have probably busted the account and my laptop. 15 hours grinding micros and losing every all in ain't it. Gonna do hill sprints until I pass out tomorrow, can't fucking wait. ❤️ Sam

Who doesn't love a good DNB drop

I've started mainly playing the .25-.50 instead of the .10-.25 games and the PLO regulars are considerably more whaley, they just want to get the money in and realise their equity. It's basically roulette with cards and I guess it works on punters who tilt from the sw0ngs and then give it away when they're on tilt but it is pretty motivating to see. I withdrew my balance on the 25th and redeposited £195 on the 31st together with £11 from a rake race payout so started this month with £206 on the account. The sessions have gone well, and I even won a Supermoon ticket in the Halloween freeroll. What a life. My fave hand from the sessions so far was a 3b pot where I call flop & turn and then induce river: ❤️ Sam

So you were lucky enough to win a ticket for free and you are still complaing? Bro wake up you have a problem

BOOM! First MTT back after I babyrage banned myself for a week. I love Unibet!

Just in the nick of time!

Hello again! I've spent a couple of days of my downtime doing some solver work around 2 betsizes, pot & half pot. I use a lot of 1/4 pot when I play online since the god Phil Galfond does. Most of this is going to be for when I grind the GUKPT London cash games later next month or to respond to population tendencies who use 1/2 and full pot without much nuance. What I have noticed is that the EV difference between decisions in a lot of spots is very close as long as you are categorising your hands correctly based on their hand class. My main losses in EV came from making bad flop calls or bets in pure fold or pure check situations, so learning to recognise the qualities of a hand (including backdoors) helps with accuracy. Take a look at the EV difference in this example scenario of a BvB 3b pot where you call a 3b and call a flop 1/2 pot. Turn c/c and you are now to act on river. Your decision to check or bet is almost neutral regardless of the sizing you choose if you choose bet. The qualities of this specific hand are that you block rivered 2 pair and the nuts, although the value of both of these qualities is marginal but still relevant. This illustrates the utility of having a good understanding of GTO. You can start exploiting neutral EV decisions based on your specific opponent to generate some EV. If your opponent is over-folding you can start mixing with hands that have a high % river check to print money (until they adapt) Are they over c-betting and then pot controlling with hands that should be pure checking the flop? Hands like A544 w/ a suit with no backdoor is pure checking but the population are definitely c-betting this. Well in that case a flop fold might be better than an 80% flop call as they are unbalanced in their flop construction. A few days of study has definitely made me feel a lot better about starting up the grind again, mainly because a lot of streamers (even up to 5kPLO) are making tons of errors. I watched the final table of the 25k PLO and was amazed at how many calls were being made on flop/turn/river pure fold situations where they were calling with terrible call candidates. Shaun Deeb just printed money by exploiting and TID. People really do suck at PLO still. Goals for November: Study more, get a calisthenics routine, No shot taking ❤️ Sam

I want to preface this post with noting how insanely hot I have been running to win as much as I have over the last few months playing at such low stakes and I am very well aware that my winrate shouldn't be as high as it has been, with that being said: In my experience I always know when the downswing is coming but I just try to grind through it. Not this time! The poker gods punished me for not sticking to the great game of PLO and after punting £20 in a NLH satellite I got cold decked on repeat until I tapped out. Top boat vs quads, NF vs SF etc. you get the idea. I decided to go and play a different card game (MTGA) to blow off some steam and I lost 11 games in a row. I have a 65% winrate over 8k games. Yep the runbad is definitely with me. Even if it isn't I know I will be seeing monsters under the bed and tilting off stacks at the slightest bad beat until I fix my mental. Tap tap tap tap tap I submit. See you guys in November! Net profit (including BP + Tickets): £913.13 ❤️ Sam

Damn those are some cold boards. Glad you decided to move down, it's good for the mental even if you are still winning at higher stakes. GLGL