Esir

Hello, June Challenge Update: Hands Played: 69186 / 85000 Total Hands: 586364 / 1000000 Winrate: 10NL: 7.23bb/10025NL: -4.84bb/100 One of the worst months since I started the challenge, not much to comment on this. This is to be expected in poker. Had some personal stuff to solve, that kinda slowed me down so I wasn't able to put in the hours and focus properly. Let's hope this changes in the coming months. I'm looking forward to the Summer Bash Challenge, this gave me a boost in motivation and I'm aiming for the 1st prize. I'm not sure yet if I'll play 10NL or 4NL for this challenge. So if you're also taking part in it let a comment down, let's see who are the serious contenders. This is all from me for now, good luck at the tables. Esir

Hey Ray, Can you please send me the cash game results on June split by limits. Thank you!

The prize drop promo was amazing, I'm not sure if I was lucky or if I played a lot (probably a bit of both) but I got a lot out of it. I'm sure if you'd send a survey most players would agree. Also +1 on the BB in the cash games.

1. GL GL. EDIT: 2nd Place. I still want you to win it tho. Btw it's friday, just making sure, I also lose track of time when I play poker.

As freedom said, every playthrough is divided in 5. You have 90 days to clear it. If I'm not mistaken for every 5€ raked you clear 1€. So you have to rake 25€ to clear the 5€ playthrough bonus.

Hello, May Challenge Update: Hands Played: 104119 / 85000 Total Hands: 517178 / 1000000 Winrate: 10NL: 15.01bb/10025NL: 2.22bb/10050NL: -14.03bb/100 (Rekt in 8k hands, had to drop down) You can see where my mid May downswing happened mostly. As this was not enough June started the same. Poker is such an interesting game from a mental perspective, it elevates you, gets you to cloud nine when you win and makes you feel hopeless, trashed when you lose. But as a famous quote says "Those who don't fall, never learn to stand." Also 25NL gives me mixed feelings I'm not sure if my results and all the rakeback is more profitable than playing 10NL. I really wish Unibet would hurry up with the rake changes and make 25NL as enjoyable as the lower limits. Anyway, I'll continue mixing 10NL and 25NL this month in order to reach the 600k Challenge Points and figure out next month what is better to do. Good luck and have fun! Esir

This promotion was pretty generous to me. I think I hit 10+ Silvers, 10+ Bronze, and 1 Gold, the 5k bonus points one.

Hello, Yes. I have to get the cash results in order to update the challenge. Don't know why but the longer months of the year feel like they never finish (I guess that's a good thing), I felt this about March, had the same feeling now about May. This month was pretty interesting, the first half was great, steady growth nothing out of ordinary, then I think around 16th of May something happened, I lost around 12 BI in one day, awful experience. Like this was not enough the next day I lost another 16. As you imagine this was not very pleasant. On a positive note the following days went normal. I managed to get back everything in 3 days and since then everything is in acceptable parameters. Got also a few personal achievements this month. Best chop pot ever, Got bored around 5 am in the morning and decided to play a tournament, ended up shipping it (5E Shooting Star) Managed to get more Challenge Points this quarter (so far), than all my previous quarters combined. I'll be back in the following days with an update on the challenge also. Good luck guys! Esir

Awesome update, wish the stacks in BB would be also implemented in cash games (as it is optional) maybe you can reconsider this. Gonna play some tournaments to have a chance to see that misterious background and enjoy this feature.

Can anyone from Unibet confirm that these graphs are accurate in 2019? Thank you! :happy:

Thank you @SDmonkey. The winrates are post rake. I'm looking forward to play on the 50NL tables again but I'm taking a slower approach in order to avoid big swings. While I played it during April it was pretty stressful and forgot to enjoy the game. 25NL is my nemesis to as you can see from the winrates. But I'll keep pushing. It's pretty hard for anyone to be a winner considering the rake. Good luck to you too.

I am not there yet. So no solvers. A lot of volume and off the tables I watch/read videos and articles related to strategy (RIO, Upswing etc).

@Esir you are my CASH-game inspiration! Sooo you are able to got as far as 51bb per 100 flops ??? how, wow ?! :Geek: I do not like tight-as-a-b1tch approach because I'm getting involved by loosing players and getting suck-up afterwards which tilts me a lot ... advice, please ? Thanks for the kind words @MadAdo but I wouldn't call myself an inspiration as I have a lot of things to learn. That winrate is not reliable as it is a small sample size. One piece of advice that I can give you that works for all the cash game limits is the following: Once you sit down at the table try to label each player skill wise and identify which players are weaker than you (Even if this means that you fold some hands that you would otherwise play). Then try to get in pots with them, preferably in position (I lost a lot playing out of position chasing these players) and with a strong range of hands. Beside this strong fundamentals are important and is good to revisit the theoretical side of game from time to time. Bad beats will always come, just reload and play your best.

Hello, April is finally over. A lot of free time, a lot of grinding, shots taking and swings. I need a vacation. April Challenge Update: Hands Played: 118852 / 85000 Total Hands: 413059 / 1000000 Winrate: 4NL: 51bb/100 (Under 5k hands)10NL: 15bb/10025NL: 1.59bb/100 (Bad run + bad play = poor results, had to move up for people to respect my raises)50NL: 8bb/100 (Under 10k hands) Might get into more details later. Until then I wish you good luck at the tables and have fun. Esir

No problem, I was myself curios what were the odds there and decided to add it to the post. 😛 It will for come for sure. I would have wanted to play more with the guy on your right. 😏 Good luck in the future.

Good play imo, I would have done the same with that stack size. Probably even with a full stack.

Hey Ray, Can you send me the cash results from 01.04.2019-30.04.2019 for the following stakes: 4NL, 10NL, 25NL, 50NL. Thank you very much!

I want to have a strong checking range OOP at a low frequency especially on boards that rarely hit my range. I agree that the raise on the turn was bad as it is better for the V range. It was better a check raise on the flop as I get value from all the overpairs. Or maybe a bet/bet/fold line was optimal as well. Tbh I don't think that the hands that I would check raise with on the turn oop would not bet on the flop, gutters, str8 draws, flush draws and sets. So yes a pretty bad move on my part. This is what I was thinking as well when I got to the river. Thanks for the feedback.

I got a little bit of mind peace a few hands later as I got my money back and the rest of his stack. But the question "what if?" keeps lingering in my mind. I'm not sure if this was the ideal way of playing this spot.

Didn't have too much info on him as he sat down a few minutes before and didn't do anything out of line.

Hello, This hand will haunt me for a while. Roast me. Hero (CO) - White Villain (BU) - Red

I would prefer more minimalistic tables with dark accents. Every one is adopting the Dark/Night mode style (Youtube, twitter, soon Facebook) so it must be appealing for people.

After that flop I would have known with absolute 100% certainty there would be another ten or club. :Geek: It always does, according to Murphy's Laws "If anything can go wrong, it will". Then you start to cry away your entire timebank and fold. :(

Tonight I had a bad feeling and decided to fold pre. Always trust your instinct. It was actually a misclick, but a fortunate one. :Smirk:

Hello, The March update is here: Hands Played: 124565 / 85000Total Hands: 294207 / 1000000Winrate: 10bb/100 (4NL) | 8bb/100 (10NL) | -4bb/100 (25NL) Most of the hands were played on the 10NL so the other limits are not so relevant but I'll keep including them as they are part of the journey. My 25NL adventure did not start so well, I took a few shots but I got sent back to my 10NL tables. I ended the month with 2BIs down at 25NL. I'll keep on trying until it becomes part of my regular schedule but I won't be reckless with my bankroll as I was in the past and got sent back to single tabling 4NL. Beside being a volume challenge this is also somehow a bankroll "challenge" as I'm trying to climb the Unibet Cash Ladder, become a regular on the higher limits and improve my game with every limit I play. But I won't get into details on this matter as they are not relevant to the main subject and it may also take more than a few months. This is it for now, thank you for reading and have fun at the tables. Esir