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  1. That's what I see. I have money on my account and at least one cash ticket, but it shows that I don't. Also I can't go to my profile, it looks like client loaded without logging in.
  2. Hi! I've been away for a long time. I was still playing SNGs, but I want to give up with my challenge. I want to share a couple of points with you. 1. I'm a lazy guy. Yeah, I'm not gonna lie, the main reason I'm givin up is my laziness. I had a lot of reasons to give up, but I'm still have feeling that I could easily beat my challenge if I wanted to. 2. I think that I'm overrolled too much. My bankroll is ~€1000 and I'm still playing €1 games. I'm always have a feeling that it's time to move futher and it's hard to play your best game for the money that is just a drop in a sea, you know. As I said before, I was an €4 SNG games regular and now I don't have a feeling that I'm playing for money (I hope you understand what I mean). I want to come back to €2 and then €4 games ASAP. 3. At the beginning of my challenge I didn't realized how much 100 days are. I mean, a lot of things are changing and it's hard to predict your way for such a long period of time. I had to made a ~30 days challenge, not 100. That was a big mistake by me. 4. I have some really bad runs at 2019. I mean, it's not a big problem, but it's hard to play after a couple of hundreds games without profit at €1 stake, you know. 5. I have some personal problems. One close to me person got sick with a serious illness. I don't wan't to talk about it too much, but I want to say that at such moments you are realizing that money is the not main goal in the life and also I can't play with a bad mood. Any emotions has bad effect on a game, no matter bad or good they are. Thank you for all the support! It really means a lot to me. I think that I will play €1 games until March and then I'm gonna move to higher stakes. Presenltly my goal is to come back at €4 SNGs til the end of the summer with %10+ ROI. That challenge gave me a lot of experience and I think I will start a new one only when I'll be sure at my succsess.
  3. UPDATE 3! Didn't played a lot, I skipped almost a week (only played some games for missions to get €10.000 Freeroll ticket and won some money). I was running pretty good last days except today. After first 50 games I had 23 second and only 3 (!!!) first places! Was really close to tilt, but somehow I found strength to keep playing and ended up day with profit. Day 31: - Day 32: +$2,71 (0 games) Day 33: +$2,93 (0 games) Day 34: -$5,20 (10 games) Day 35: +$11,85 (0 games) Day 36: +$13,69 (0 games) Day 37: +$48,34 (162 games) Day 38: +$17,24 (99 games) Day 39: +$43,62 (147 games) Day 40: +$16,56 (61 games) Day 41: +$44,45 (165 games) Day 42: +$14,94 (130 games) Overall results: Profit: +$710,54 (day 42 goal: $840) / Games played: 3197 (day 42 goal: 4200). I hope for some running good in January and I will do everything to beat laziness, cause my low volume is the only reason I'm lagging behind the plan. Thank you for reading and happy New Year! @GR1ZZL3R I'm trying my best, thank you! @Brocky So you can move somewhere in Africa and play 1-2 days in a month to get average salary, but do you really think it worth it? 🤣 Thank you! @Kesha17 I'm 100% sure that average salary is about $300. Except Minsk, but that's the only one city and living is a way more expensive in Belarus capital, so it's almost the same thing. @successlaw & @Silver1 here's an update, thank you for support and have a great holidays!
  4. Tom Dwan always had his own style. 😃
  5. It kinda funny that when you hit x3 multiplier, the background music sounds like you just hit a jackpot, but it's just a 3-max sit-n-go without rake. 😃
  6. UPDATE 2! Honestly, my challenge is now looking a little bit harder to me than I expected. I still can't beat my chief enemy - my laziness. I have a mixed feelings about my monthly results. On the one hand, I have a good profit for €1 games and my "dirty" ROI is ~20%, but on the other hand I can play a way more games and play it better. I'm always looking for some excuses to not to play (like bad run or bad mood). But, as I said before, I will try my best to complete that challenge and even a 500 games streak without a profit didn't break me! 😃 Day 23: - Day 24: -$3,43 (0 games; lost some in tryings to complete a challenge) Day 25: +$35,96 (209 games) Day 26: +$22,03 (100 games) Day 27: -$7,55 (25 games) Day 28: +$2,96 (21 games) Day 29: +$72,02 (151 games) Day 30: +$4,87 (48 games) Overall results: Profit: +$499,41 (day 30 goal: $600) / Games played: 2423 (day 30 goal: 3000). Now it's time for some Christmas and New Year preparations, so I'm not gonna to play a lot until 2019. But I hope that I finally catch up with my plan at January. Happy holidays and thank you for reading!
  7. @catalintm my visual memory works better when it comes to it and after you told me what your avatar is I definitely recognized you. Yeah, we played a lot of games togehter, I think 500+ in total. 😃
  8. @Kesha17 sometimes variance may be disappointing, especially at games where you have to play a lot of preflop all-ins. I also had a lot of losing days when I was playing MTT mostly, it was a usual thing to win $200+ in one day and then lose $100 in next couple of days. Of cause I think that it's easier to play live poker with profit, but I don't have a lot of experience in it. But people mostly play a way worse at live poker games and also some tells can help you a lot, but it's too boring for me to play just a couple of hands in a hour. Congrats with win and thank you for following. And where are you from? I have a feeling that russian is your native language. If so, send me a PM, please. @catalintm I will try my best! What alias are you playing with? Seems like I saw a player with similar to yours Community alias, but don't remember for sure. 😃
  9. It's always good to challenge yourself @successlaw, but I don't think you need to set a big goals. That's great that you have a job and I think that it's not worth it. It's good to have a lot of money, but nobody wants to be a nerd spending 16H daily in front of PC. You can start from something small to see how it goes (like 750 SNGs monthly is pretty achievable if you will play 1H on the evenings and 2-3H at weekends). So, if you decide to start a challenge one day I will follow it for sure, but my opinion is that you shouldn't waste all your free time on it and do it gradually. 😃
  10. Thank you for asking @successlaw ! I'm running a little bit better now, but still not satisfied with my results, but at least I'm playing with profit now. 😃 I think that I will update my results after 3.000 games (I have already played ~2.200 presently).
  11. @Kesha17 I don't remember for sure, I think that about 3+ years.
  12. Thank you @gazthehippy What alias did you used? If that's not a secret. 😃 What are you talking about @Kesha17 ? :wow:
  13. Guys! We have a little Discord chat where we are talking about poker. Unfortunately, activity is a pretty small lately, but you can join us using this link: https://discord.gg/t3cUMaN We are sharing our results there, discuss some hands and have MTT, SnG and cash players from different countries there. It was about 20 people in the peak moment in the chat, but now only 6 left. :Smile: Welcome! If somebody wants to talk about poker with me personally or play something, you can add me on Steam (my alias and profile pic is same as there).
  14. @successlaw sometimes I have days when I just can't win, you know. Now I feel myself really tilted only a couple times in a month. First of all, I understand that the stakes I play is filled with beginners and people who just don't care about money and only play for fun. Everytime when I lose because of a really stupid bad beat I'm thinking: "it's ok that still so many people in poker who can make mistakes". Secondly, I have a really big roll for the stakes I play. As I said before, when you lost €10 with €20 bankroll it's a way more tilting then losing €10 with a €300+ bankroll. It's could seem a way too nit, but actually I have €1000 bankroll and playing €1 games and that's the main reason I don't tilt too much, I think (I'm speaking not about Unibet bankroll, but about my actual "poker money"). It cames with experience. I can lose 10 games in a row and it happens to me almost every day when I play 100+ games, but I'm trying not to care about money and always thinking about my overall results. The most useful advice is to take a couple days break for improving your game, I believe. I've seen some people who are profitable at poker/bets, but after a couple days of running bad they wanted to return their money by raising the stakes and that was the biggest mistake.
  15. @GR1ZZL3R I'm trying not to give myself even a chance to relax. Of cause, I can't say that I'm playing from morning till night, but I know that the bigger the goal the better the result. 😃 Just an example: when I was a child I used to like track-and-field athletics a lot and my coach always compared me with the best guys, so even I knew that I was better than average, but I still felt like I didn't made everything I can to reach big results. And that's was the best motivation. So I'm trying to be good, but want to be great! :happy: Thank you for the support! @Silver1 It took me a lot of time to understand that money is just a tool in poker. I think that there are no winning player who cries about every bad beat. You need to love poker and work on your game and money will come by themselves. Money is still a main goal for me, but I'm trying not to care about "what if" situations. Actually, it's another big topic fot discussion, but I hope you got the main idea. Thank you for the support! @successlaw one of my long term goals is to play 4.000 games/month (it's about ~200 hours/month or 6.5 hours daily), so until I reach that number my volume looks not enough for me. During the challenge I played 4.5 hours/day, so I'm sure I can go for the biggest numbers! 😃 Thank you for the support!
  16. UPADATE 1! My plan was to update my topic once in 10-15 days, but I was running really bad last couple of days, so I decided to take a little break. I have everyday notes where I record some things I should work on, so I better take that time for study. I can talk forever about reasons of that bad run, but the main are: - bad luck (nothing I can do there); - tilty calls (actually, when I see that I'm starting make a stupid decisions, I'm finishing my session, but anyway it happens sometimes); - too many 2nd places (usually I have about 40% of 1st and 60% of second, but now it's about %25 to %75; for me it looks like runbad, but anyway I'm always thought that deep HUs is my weak side). - small amount of games (my plan was to play 600-800 games during last 6 days, but I only played 400+, but it's hard to play when you get nothing bad, you know); - soft problems (still have everyday disconnections, sometimes it doesn't matter, but it hurts when it's push/fold with ~5bb at some tables and I skip 2-3 hands). Day 17: -$2,34 (28 games) Day 18: +$9,23 (18 games) Day 19: -$6,38 (146 games) Day 20: +$1,80 (149 games) Day 21: +$0,71 (54 games) Day 22: -$4,47 (21 games) Overall results: profit: +$372,55 (day 22 goal: $440) / games played: 1452 (day 1868 goal: 2200). Good news: at the beginning of my challenge I was running pretty good, so I was relaxed last week; now I'm running really bad, so it's stimulates me a lot to try my best to catch up with my plan. I've seen worse times, anyway. I will try to play ~1.500 more games until 20th December and then I will update my results again, I think. I'm still feeling optimistic and don't even think about giving up. A couple of bad beats can't break me. :Laugh: Thank you for reading! :Smile: @Silver1 thanks a lot! It's really motivates me when I see people who supports my view of life. Actually, I don't think that a lot of people wanna be just like me, because I'm really "rich" guy for only poor countries. :Smile: It's impossible to play such a small stakes and live good in EU. @n_X I will suport it for sure, but it looks like developers already answered you. :Smile: Good idea!
  17. @polarbear Don't know from what country you are, but I want to remind you that €300 is a good salary in Belarus. Now I have about $4-5/hour what is about $700 monthly (I agree, that it's just a theorethical number). Actually, for 1.5 years that I'm playing poker for a living I had 2 monthes with a $1.000+ profit and had some monthes with only $250 profit. So I can say now that $550-600 is my average (what is 2 monthly salaries in my city). At August my girlfriend decided to quit her job (with $7 daily and a lot of responsibilites), so I decided to make money in more stable, but in a little less profitable way. I started this challenge to fight laziness and my plan is to finish it in 80-90 days, but I seted a 100 days goal, because everything can happen, you know. Fortunately, she already at probation on a new job, so I'm gonna move to a little higher stakes after that challenge, I think. I know, that for most of people from Europe it looks kinda funny with their salaries, but I have graduated law university and can speak 3 languages on a quite good level, but the maximum salary I can expect by working in law sphere is $300. Some of my university friends are now working for $150-200, can you imagine? You must be a lucky guy or have a "good friend" to find a well-paid job here (I mean $500+ monthly). So, what do you think is good for me: playing poker for 100 hours and even $400 monthly or working on a job I don't like with a lot responsibilites and a small advance chance for $300? For now poker for me is the only way I can feel myself a person who are working not only for money for food and bills. Life is pretty cheap here, but not cheap enough for most of people. I'm now only 23 years old and I understand all possible outcomes, so I have plan B, and even C & D plans. But now poker "job" is the most perspective way for me. I wrote you an answer, but somehow deleted it and wrote it one more time. 😃 Thank you for a really good question, hope you get the answer. Best of wishes! @tatuaj7 Thank you, I will try my best! @RayL I don't know what happend, but after editing my post for a second time it just disappeared and it happened twice. Luckily I made a copy after first time. 😃 Looks like a Community bug, can you check?
  18. Unfortunately, bad times have come. :teardrop: I don't give up and trying to play as much as I can to reduce swings, but for the last four days I won only $2. 🤣 I'm not gonna cry about my bad luck, all of us had downswings in their poker careers and here is nothing new to talk about, but just a two screenshots to understand what is happening with me now: Got it? :laugh: Actually, I'm still full of optimism, because it's not the first and not the last time. Just hope for an early upstreak. Anyway I will play 5 more days and then I'm going to update results and go for a couple days break if nothing changes. It's funny, because today I have played 149 games with 72 ITM places (about %46) and ended up day with only $1,80 profit. How does it happened? Just 24 1st & 48 2nd ones. :puking: @Causality Thank you, Kyle! One day we will meet at Uk Tour ME final table. 😃 @Silver1 once I started the day with 14-16 loses in a row, lol. But I ended it up with 40+ euros profit. Sometimes swings are looking like a stupid joke from poker gods. 😃 Actually, I want to share some experience, but nothing more I can tell you. 80% of my skill is experience + YouTube channels that I have sent to you. But I'm always open for some interesting hands discussion.
  19. @successlaw I had some bad experience with €2 SnGs. I mean, I haven't played a lot of games, I think 300-400, and I don't know what my actual ROI was, but somehow for me it seems that €4 euro games are even softer (I have played about 4.000 games, I think). My theory is that people who think they are too good for €1 games are moving to €2 stake and that's why games are heavier (€4 games actually play a lot of people who just have money). But maybe it was just a bad luck and heavy tables for me at €2 SnGs. And I played it a long time ago, so don't really know about actual picture now. 😃
  20. @MadAdo I never played cash games (unless for some missions or with tickets), because it's hard for me to think when I see real money on the table. I was starting from 3x 50 games daily sessions, but now it depends from my mood. I'm trying to play as much as I can and I'm going for a break only if I feel tired or tilted. Last couple of weeks my average day is usually 70-100 games (4,5-6 hours) + 50-80 games (2,5-4,5 hours). I have some thoughts about playing ~1.000 HUs, but only because I think that deep/mid stacks HUs is one of my weakest sides, so I want to do it just for improving of my game. I think that 3-max bubble play is my strongest skill which helps me to make money, so it's impossible to use it in HUs. 😃 I think you have to try SnG games, just beacuse they are mostly soft here and I know some people who are playing just for fun and their are playing just without a profit or losing their money very slowly, so I don't think that just trying is a risky move. Who knows, maybe that's just what you were looking for? Thank you and wish you the best of luck!
  21. @freddies Thank you! Even for me sometimes it's tilting, but I'm trying not to think about money and not to care about things like slow rolls. I think it's just an experience question. A couple of years ago losing AK <- AQ on the bubble was a supertilting for me, but now I just don't care about such situations. Also I'm playing with 250-500+ BI bankroll. It's a lot of difference between losing 10 euros when you have a €20 roll and €300 roll. @pinki Thank you! Hope we will meet at SnG tables soon! @Silver1 Thank you! Keep working on your game and one day we will meet on the higher SnG stakes!
  22. @EL_HEFAZO ha-ha, I remember that a couple of days ago we played 30+ HUs against each other and I pushed any pair or good connectors with 50bb against 50bb just to take a flip and not to waste time. 🤣 Once I had 9 tables and 4 of them was HU games with you. I was mad one time when I hit the flop with mine Ax in preflop all-ins two times, but both of times you sucked me out with a set to your pair on a turn and river. But anyway it made me smile with some thoughts like "ha-ha I hate him, he is running super hot, but next time he will feel my pain". :laugh: @triceraatopp thank you! I want to remind, that you, Kyle @Causality, Tim and ibrul are the people who inspired me a lot and I'm %100 sure that without all of you my challenge would be an impossible dream! When I saw that you won Dublin Ladies Event my only thought was "fck it, that girl used to play €5 MTTs recently". Anyway, your sucsess is deserved, because I don't know anyone who was spent so much time to improve poker skills. @Bing__ thank you, dude. I will try my best, I think I will move to higher SnGs stakes after this challenge, so be ready to battle each other. 🆒 @successlaw Thank you! Now I'm playing 9 tables, but I'm thinking about trying to play 12 ones or about moving the stake. Don't know which one is a better, but I think I will try both. 😃
  23. @GR1ZZL3R that's an ambiguous question and I can talk a lot about it. Anyway, I don't want to grind just for money. I know that some guys like El can adjust their game against me (like I can do it against them), but also it's a lot of fun to play against the people you know. As I recommended Unibet to the all the my friends who I know in real life, it's always fun to battle each other. I even played some tables where I knew all the 4 opponents (in real life or just guys who I talked with about poker here). I mean, that of cause that's a "-EV," but I don't really think that it's costs me too much, because >%90 of players are newbies and don't know me or just don't care about adjusting their game. I think that if player is good, he will recognize me (or mark me like a not a bad one) after a couple of games and if he is a beginner it doesn't matter for him what alias I use to play with. 😃 So, it's better for me to play with %19 ROI and fun than with %20 ROI and boring grinding (not my actual numbers, but I think it's close). 😃 And I want to note once more that my approach is only works on that stake.
  24. @Want2Believe it's hard, but possible with a little bit of rungood. 😃 @FreedoM I hope so, but it's impossible to predict swings. It's a normal thing to lose 10 games in a row and I even had some 300+ games streaks without any profit. It's important to stay cold-blooded no matter what and it's the hardest thing in my challenge. Good luck to you and wish you a great comeback!
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