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Even with a 7% ROI you're going to lose 3% of the time over 656 games (heads up) and if your true ROI were say 2% (just for example), you're going to lose 29% of the time. I wouldn't worry too much but if you're battling a lot of regs then it's not surprising to have some big swings.

Woke up today feeling really lethargic; arms still felt heavy from my weights session the other day, I was tired and skipped the gym (not a good start, definitely going tomorrow though!). I wasn't going to play today but decided to get a few games in once the gf went to bed. Games are pretty dead, I made a bit earlier at the 25s with a couple of 50s thrown in and this reg sits the 25s who I've played a bunch before. He's been around forever and I talked about him a fair bit in my previous blog; he's super aggro, has pretty bad sizing and will 4-5 table for hours. There's a reason why he was a 100s reg this time last year in my previous blog and now he won't even play me at the 50s, he's just not very good. On the other hand, I can never, ever seem to get the better of him, so I've decided there's not much point 4 tabling him for a bunch of variance tonight, let's just book a win and get ready for tomorrow. I honestly believe I have an edge but with someone as aggressive as him, card distribution is a big factor because you're getting shoved on a lot, attacked when you limp and check/raised relentlessly on flops. I'm sure we'll battle again, but not at 2am when I'm still a bit groggy from the weekend. Lost a couple of BI to him but no biggy. Graph for the session: I'm sat at the 50s lobby but games are dead so may just call it a night. Tomorrow we are back for business.

Wouldn't it make sense to post a screenshot of the bet here so other people can see?

The health kick is about reducing the sedentary lifestyle and eating better 😉

Just a quick update. The next few days are probably going to be a complete write off, decided to go out for a few drinks/food with the mrs tonight and we're out with friends tomorrow night so will not likely get much volume in tomorrow or Sunday. I guess we start properly on Monday 😃 Had to go back to the vets again today and then went to the gym so only managed 11 games (very poor) but the wonderful thing about the mid-stakes is you can win an average day's salary in not much time at all. I probably earned more than my gf in an hour or less than she did in a whole day! Lovely jubbly. See you all on the other side of this alcohol fuelled weekend.

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Cheers Ray! What games do you normally play? A quick update on that bankroll challenge from before: I withdrew ~€550 for bills but still going strong.

I know what you mean but I'm definitely an all or nothing kind of person. If I have my PS4 on my desk I will play it 6 hours per day, I really struggle with any kind of moderation in that sense but then I could remove it and not play it for a month. I think if I do the gym once or twice a week I won't notice any results and just get bored/give up very quickly. I don't know what the perfect solution is but we have to give everything a go! Thanks though mate.

NEW THREAD. https://www.unibetcommunity.com/t5/Blogs-Stories/Without-the-grind-we-are-nothing/m-p/314581#M13564

Ladies and gentlemen (and those who consider themselves somewhere in the middle), here we are, partly because I'm OCD that the last blog still said 2019. Why are we moving to a new home? The last thread had a lot of ups and a lot of downs, a lot of positivity but also a hell of a lot of negativity and I think it's easy to get into a self-pity mindset over how bad you run and how bad life is. I failed my goals massively in the last thread; volume was shocking, results were good but I also struggled in a bunch of other areas such as health (healthy eating & gym was pretty much non-existant). Well it's time for a change. I'm pretty sure I said similar at the start of the last thread but changes are necessary going forward. What are the poker related goals for this year? - 2,500 HUSNGs per month - More live MTTs! - Lots of studying Short and sweet. Profit and ROI related goals don't maximise motivation imo, too much focus on the wrong things. Providing I am playing well, volume should be the only thing that matters. Non poker related goals? - Hit the gym 5 times per week - Maximum 1 takeaway per week - Low procrastination levels (PS4, browsing the internet) - Branching out into different investments/crypto I'll be doing a weekly recap of this. Will you be streaming? Hopefully, but the games are getting super tough so fingers crossed there's a solution in the pipeline :Wink: What else can we expect from this blog? IRL stuff! Hands and graphs are great but will be looking to bring a more well rounded approach to the blog going forward, trip reports, holidays etc. I'm sure most of you have seen the graphs from the previous thread but here's the motivator we're going to use to start this one off: LFG <3

Thanks for all of the responses guys. Funnily enough after talking about LIEutenant being terrible I made probably one of the worst river bet/calls vs his check/shove I've ever made in my life yesterday. At that point I knew it was time to take a short break from poker. I went to the gym yesterday and I'm going to go again in a few hours. I felt a lot better for it yesterday but I found that I was still in a tilt-easily mood when I tried to play a couple of games. One of my biggest issues is impatience and the guilt feeling of not doing a full grind. For example, I will look at not playing today as a wasted day and I could easily end up just playing 1 x €100 game to get that quick buck, which is what I'm hoping I don't do. A lot of the freedoms of being self employed actually turn into the opposite, whereby you feel obliged not to have 2 days off per week or take holiday. Soljanov, I agree with your assessments of those players. The 25s are very reggy these days, Akiskub, IMFAM0US, Amandaaaa just to name a few. I really need to get back in my ego-challenge mood where I just battle the hell out of these players. I'm too soft these days, give up the lobby too easily because I'm unmotivated or just want easier game selection.

Not really much to update with poker, I've played 52 games in 4 days of March so far and I'm playing the worst poker I've played for about 10 years. I am making stupid bets, stupid calls, I'm getting tilted super quickly and I just cannot focus. I'm heading to the gym for the first time in forever in an effort to try and get some anger/frustration from the past week/recent events out of my system. Any suggestions for what else I can do when feeling like this?

I definitely recognise your aliases but they don’t stand out massively which either means you’re not terrible or you don’t run insanely hot vs me :laugh: You did give me a chuckle when you said LIEutentant is a top reg though! How would you rate my game against those 3 players you mention? Sefero is the best of the 3 but runs ridiculous in card distribution, he just always has it. TheNr23 is not great but wins so many all ins that poker is easy for him. I would give you my spreadsheet but its quite fiddly and I often update it which is just a hassle because I’ve given it to a couple of friends and it’s non-stop questions I could do without. Off the top of my head, make sure you’re copying from the poker section of ‘history’ and pasting as values. That may clear up the issue. You should start your own blog here, I’d follow for sure! Gl

Hey, Care to share any of your recent aliases? Feel free to PM if you'd prefer ;) Nice results too! I'm a bit mixed on the whole changing aliases benefits. I used to just play under one but these days I tend to play under new ones a lot of the time. I completely agree with your reasoning though, I often feel like if a reg doesn't want to play me then I should stick to that alias and play as many recs as I can. I use excel, it's a bit awkward because my currency is GBP but the games are in EUR. I get around this by tracking my cumulative results in GBP, which is why my graphs are in GBP but I do formulas to convert the games into EUR for stats purposes. For example, if A1 is between £20-25 then it'll be marked as a 25 EUR, so just need to play around with formulas.

It’s definitely rigged against you, my 70% hands win 100% of the time.

Thanks @CuteRaven I must admit it's hit me pretty hard. I live a fairly anti-social life these days with my office being in my living room so definitely bonded a lot with my GPs given I spend almost every day with them. I can't emphasise enough how great of a pet they are to anyone that is considering getting them. A lot more affectionate than you would ever imagine and intelligent as CR mentions above. Need to get back on the grind soon though as there's always bills to pay but my sleeping pattern is seriously messed up and I'm missing the good hours to play at the moment.

Is it bad I'm taking some pleasure in the fact it's not me? Sorry to see it though!

A decent session this morning but normally as soon as poker starts going well for me, I hit a massive downswing at the higher stakes and go back to square one. Well instead of that (yet), one of my guinea pigs (the favourite) went for an operation on kidney stones and didn't make it through the other side. I know most people are going to be like "meh it's only a guinea pig" but I thought that before getting them and they're surprisingly affectionate and are great companions. Not only did we lose his brother just before his first birthday (they live to 5-7 on average) but we've now lost this one just a few months later. What pisses me off the most though is the vets. The first one was in 4 times before he got referred to a specialist, 4 lots of appointment fees + antibiotics + painkillers in which the illness was not related to anything they initially thought and now this one was in 4 times, 4 more lots of payment, with them even having the audacity to charge £170 for effectively killing it today. I'm just angry. I've spent hundreds and hundreds on people that are supposedly experts not being able to do their job properly it seems. Maybe I should quit poker and just become a vet by prescribing medication left, right and centre.

Well it's from the original €500 challenge that I was doing but the graph above starts at when the bankroll challenge hit a low point of €200.

Thanks Gr1z. I’ve definitely run good at the 50s+ so no complaints there! I know what you mean though, my biggest issue is keeping this grind going when things aren’t going well and not doing anything stupid.

Thanks guys. I know as humans we look for patterns that aren't there but sometimes it truly feels incomprehensible. I'm not even moaning about running bad for once, just cannot seem to comprehend the streaky nature of seemingly every session. The bankroll challenge I'm doing deserves an update. I took at shot at the 25s when I got to €1k or whatever it was and just ran insane. Lost most of the games, if not all and I ended up tilt playing one or two 100s (cant remember), which I lost. I was down to €200 and just going to give up on the whole thing, especially because I'm solely playing heads up games, which I'm not going to stream for reasons stated a thousand times. It all feels a bit pointless now, but since the 8th Feb I've been working at the challenge and I was grinding a bunch of 10s, moving up to the 25s again at 1k. There have been a few 50s thrown in and the odd tilted 100/200, but it's been profitable. (Results since 08/02/20 below) Results by stake: 10s - 211 games, €509 profit, 24.1% ROI 25s - 370 games, €644 profit, 6.9% ROI 50s - 33 games, €872 profit, 52.8% ROI :Cool: 100s - 8 games, €24 LOSS, -3% ROI 200s - 2 games, €388 profit, 94% ROI Total - 624 games, €2,377 profit, 16.7% ROI. Average buy in €22.77. 1/2 tabling the 50s at the moment, just riding the run good and will move down if I lose a few.

It's funny, I was reading a post on 2p2 earlier from some guy who was talking about a different poker site, he was listing the pros and cons and added that he likes it because there's fewer bad beats than on other sites. I rolled my eyes because it's a stupid thing to say. I therefore give you all permission to roll your eyes at what I'm about to say. I literally cannot comprehend this site. My mate and I have a joke that you can tell within the first game of the session how you're going to run and whether you should just quit there. I know it's stupid but it's purely based on what we see everyday. My last 4 sessions have been something like: Won 13 bi in 15 games Won 20bi in 60 games Won 10bi in 16 games Lose 10 in a row with 60%+ equity in 7/8 of them I am sure variance shouldn't be like this, should it? In the 14 games I won in a row, 13 were against regs and it did not matter what I got my money in with, I couldn't lose. Today I have 3 recs and I lose 10 in a row despite having them behind almost every time. I guess as humans we look for patterns that aren't there but it's really starting to mess with my head because I often feel like I want to stop playing as soon as the negative variance begins, which goes against all logic that we should play if we have an edge. I know how stupid I sound but I don't even care at this point.

Yeh exactly what I was thinking. By the time I get back to the computer I'm pretty sure I'd feel a lot better

That 88 hand made me throw up a bit.

This one is for @GR1ZZL3R given he tagged me in his. I was down €200 after tilting a bit at higher stakes earlier. Restarted the session not long ago and I've won all 12 games at the €25s 🤣 What did I say about Unibet being streaky as hell? Somehow up €84 for the day so far. Edit: 13 now. It seems Stubbe has flicked the switch.