Brocky

Well I've been below average for about 3 hours but still plodding along. 33/42, might fire up the stream if I can get a double.

How are we all getting on?  

I've got 197k, @Dennis_ has 260k from what I can see, anyone else still in?

 

The play in this Magnus open has been borderline ridiculous at times.

I'm high fiving the monitor then calling. If you've run into KK+ then it's just one of those.

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@ganjae wrote:

Finally get 19th place, I don't know who is this BROCKY but he made the way difficult , gg all 20 and GL for the final ;-)

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Congrats, gl if you're still in :) 

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@Nestabear wrote:

Congrats to the winners & Good Luck for tonight.

Way to go dominating the tourney & final tables there @ the end @Brocky... if it was you mate. 🆗

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Thanks mate, you too! (well I saw you were up there near the end and I'm assuming you made it?)

I've heard that when 5 players register for a SNG, @Stubbe-Unibet receives a phone call asking which player he selects to win. He generally chooses based on how funny he finds each of the aliases and the dealer then finds some nice coolers and beats in favour of said player. They're preset though but there are lots of good ones to choose from. My favourite is when you have 43 and you river a flush vs J8.

The problem with the 5 max games on Unibet is the players seem to have no understanding of ICM so you really need to be adjusting to the situation table by table as opposed to just using ICMizer ranges.

 

Dropping down should do wonders for your confidence, gl.

Easy call with the KQ, I’m more concerned if he bets half pot on the turn.

Not a chance any reg has that at the $10s+, I played a few the other day and the games had 5+ regs because of the leaderboards and RB.

What if it's a freeroll for the biggest losing players on the site? I wouldn't want people to know my alias is one of the biggest losers, therefore it makes no sense for Unibet to reveal the criteria. Pretty sure it's not for that but I'm giving you an example as to why it's not always beneficial to share criteria.

 

What I don't get is Unibet have stated it's private and you need to be invited, why can't people leave it at that? There's a massive sense of entitlement from those that rake the least.

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@Superhansi wrote:

@RayLwhat's the criterias then? Could you please share it with us?

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"The criteria is not public and I can't disclose anything regarding this"

Freeroll hunters: "share the criteria!"

🤣

 

 

Seems like a pretty easy fold imo. Calling QQ+ personally.

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.  

More Twitch streamers!

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.

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@FreedoM wrote:

I don't know man, seems kinda crazy to go from chaos to discipline in one strike. It's like going to the gym after 5 years pause and doing the same workouts you did 5 years ago, you will burn out fairly quickly. Don't you think it's better to start slower and add stuff once you feel it's easy? Either way, good luck. May fortune smile upon you.

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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?