Brocky

First game back against above reg. Why do I even bother grinding? I'm done with this thread for a while. All I'm doing is moaning and I'm bored of it but this ❤️♥️❤️ bs is ridiculous.

One day I'm going to log in and not just get the most stupid ❤️♥️❤️ ever. That will be a fabulous day. I've played 5 games today and already taking a small break because it's just so frustrating. I talked about this reg on my stream, literally runs insane. First game vs him, he calls off 3 barrels with no pair into the backdoor flush, nice hand bro. Then I get my last 10bb in with 87s, flop top 2 and get runner runner'd. Cool. Next game vs him, I limp/call a 3x with KT. The result couldn't be more standard. Of course, I never seem to have KQ here? Alright, we move on. A couple of recs up next. He opens pre, I flat. He checks back the flop, I lead 3/4 pot on the turn and he goes for the min raise. Not ideal, the flush gets there but I would imagine he c-bets his flush draws. QJ gets there but not a massive concern, would likely raise the turn bigger with QJ no spade to protect. He must have a pretty strong hand to min-raise the turn though? I have to call the raise and re-assess the river. We're faced with 20% PSB on the river, it's an easy call but he's probably going to show KT or a bigger ace, right? Oh. Brilliantly played, sir. Don't worry, we'll get 'em next time. Rec opens 3x pre and checks back the flop. Great turn for me IMO and I'm not going to get much credit plus this guy isn't really paying attention to bet sizes. I can go super big here and just jam and safe river for value. Yes, of course. The hands themselves aren't super sick of course but when you feel like this is a deja vu of 90% of the times I've logged in over the past 3 months it's really starting to wear thin. Been seriously contemplating buying a punch bag for the flat just to let out some of this pent up anger. I'm one of those that gets angry quickly but calms down fairly quick as well, would probably be a sound investment! Back in October I won €2k at the 25s in one week. It's going to be scary for the player pool when I hit another heater. Until then, enjoy the fact that you seemingly can play hands as badly as you like and just cooler me.

Cheers bro!

I typed a long update but deleted it because I can't be bothered with any more ranting. I am really, really struggling to finish games off when I have >1500 chips, whether I'm ahead or behind it doesn't matter. I think one of the biggest fallacies in poker is that "it'll even itself out". I'm not saying I'm 300bi below EV or whatever but through every terrible day of grinding whether it's the all ins or card distribution, going into the next day with a positive mindset means absolutely nothing as to how you run. The cards have no memory. All we can do is keep working hard and grinding.

Yep I played against him but can't remember how good he was, think we only played twice.

You don't need 100k games for the jackpot, it doesn't work in batches, it's just a 1 in 100k chance each time a game starts. In theory, 2 could hit in a row or none for a million games.

You must be the only player questioning the fairness of having more jackpots. I would imagine it's pretty simple in the sense that all multipliers are the same probability as normal with each game within the 20k having a slightly ever increasing chance of hitting the jackpot until game 20k where it's 100%.

I stopped my session around 5am so potentially. Which aliases were you using and who was the opponent?

Well today might go down as one of the worst of all time in terms of how bad I've got my money in. I don't have anywhere else to rant so just going to do it here. It's hard to explain unless you've been through it playing 100 HUSNGs in a day with the number of all ins and flops seen but the way it completely messes with your mind has to be the worst feeling ever. Since I moved up to the 25s I'm pretty much exactly even which doesn't sound terrible but I must've ran good in all ins today because I seemingly never had the better hand. I made 2 or 3 overbet river bluff shoves today with perfect blockers on straight and flushy boards, got hero called by 2nd pair twice. I made probably 3 shoves with the nuts on similar boards, got 3 folds. I'm ISOing big pairs, getting monotone flops where I have an overpair and flush draw but losing to a flopped flush yet when I limp/call 98s I'm missing or flopping bottom pair, turning a flush draw and bricking the river meaning I've put in half of my stack and having to fold. I folded 2nd/3rd pair a couple of times on the river to 3 barrel shoves where it's starting to feel like they always have it, whether they do or not. It's difficult to quantify how these periods of card distribution affect my overall play but for those of you who've been following Phil Galfond's challenge you'll have probably heard him talk about it. He did a podcast yesterday with Joey Ingram and he talked about how when your opponent is more often than they should be at the top of their range it becomes difficult to comprehend and process the patterns we normally use to adapt our game. I'm feeling exactly the same right now. The games at the 25s haven't been super soft nor super reggy the past few days but even a bad reg has enough fundamental understanding to make them really hard to beat if they're running hot and I think I'm overbluffing as a result. In times like this I question myself very quickly. It's easy to think you're an absolute don one minute in HUSNGs but the next you're wondering if you can even beat the games. When I look at my graphs from PS/FTP and Unibet I have been a consistent big winner in mid-stakes games for 10 years and I just need to remember this going forward. That doesn't mean I shouldn't be doing everything I can to improve but for me to doubt whether I can even beat the 25s, which is how I feel at times like this, is ridiculous. I hate taking breaks from poker but it's much needed right now. Not sure how long for but going to chill on the PS4 for a bit and reassess later/tomorrow/whenever. Luckily I'm only -€31.70 today, could be much worse but I always feel like it could be a lot better.

I give up.

I often wonder that at times, how the f are they checking back here? But then when you have KQ in that spot they jam the river 100%.

It's not the beats per se that bother me, I put loads of beats on people, I receive loads of beats, it's natural. For me it's the way that it happens. I'll sit there playing some idiot that runs hotter than the sun in card distribution while I miss every flop and then when you finally get them to put their money in way behind you get the inevitable. A good example is I've just logged on and played my first game of the day. Guy has folded literally nothing so I'm just waiting, waiting, waiting for a spot. I wouldn't normally lead the flop/turn here but I know he's not going to fold: Another 99.4% loser post-flop. I then raise pre after he limps, c bet flop and by the turn I've got him to put in two-thirds of effective stacks with just a gutshot, he then tank calls the river :rofl: :rofl: Same old :Heart::Hearts::Heart: every time I move up stakes. At the 10s I win those hands no problem. I've logged out, will try again later.

I'm sat here laughing at how pathetic today has been. Literally the most ridiculous card distribution against the worst reggy type players you've ever seen, just insane how they'd ISO 70% but every time I'm limping a strong hand they would check and vice versa, every time I made a c/r bluff it would get called, every time I did it with value I'd get ❤️♥️❤️ed in some other way. Limp/calling ISO's with 87s and the flop is AJJ without fail, do the same with KJ and it's A84. Should easily have been up 5-10bi today. Final hand of the day sums it up nicely, bad reg puts in 18bb with minimal equity and just gets the dream. I played a mixture of really well and really badly in places today, super frustrating as it's probably the worst I've played for ages but whatever, try again later.

Just a mini update on the bankroll challenge - Ran horrid at the 25s when I moved up and lost a bunch more at the Hexas but I've clawed a load back over the past week and a half. I hit the 1k mark after being down to around €200 and decided to shot take the 25s again but I played so so so so badly earlier I cut it short after losing 2.5bi, will have some food and try again. Volume has been fairly low, found myself playing games online, PS4, watching netflix, basically anything but grinding. Must re-focus! Was up around 2-3bi earlier where I 3b QQ, guy snap clicks it back and I mis-click call when I meant to jam. Flop comes AAK and I win the minimum vs 42s. Very next hand at 1500 vs 500 I get coolered and ended up losing the game before losing the next 4-5 running bad but playing worse. If only I'd jammed...

In 26 Hexas today (€10s & 25s) I've won 5, all 1.5x. I'm down for the day after winning 22bi HU, it's actually insane.

Lose 2 Hexas but spin a 5x, what could go wrong? And then he busts me! LMAO so cool.

That was a €10 game @joebanan Decided to go back to HU tonight and stop chasing that Hexa jackpot. Really weird session, played 48 games with maybe 30 vs one guy who was just so so so so bad. He likely would've had more luck just shoving every hand because he was so transparent post-flop it was almost boring to play because it was so easy to just exploit the hell out of him. Ended up winning 36 of the 48 for 21.8bi profit (€218 ) and I would even have the audacity to say I ran pretty bad in the games vs other opponents than him but I'm obviously not complaining. I want to get back streaming tomorrow with the bankroll challenge but my sleeping pattern is all over the place at the moment. The lovely Hexa session where I only win 1.5x and not many at that: The comeback, heads up: You've gotta laugh...

There is something about Unibet where I seem to either win big or can't win a game when I log in, far more often than would seem logical, but what can you do? Had ridiculous beats in the first few games which led to this: 4 hours later I log in to try and start the grind before playing maybe 25-30 Hexas without winning a single game above 1.5x. Dropped a bunch today with my favourite hand being the button opening 2nd hand to 40, me 3b jamming 500 from the SB and him snap calling. Well played sir. I knew I should've just stayed away 🤣

Hey, I will be but mostly taken the week off from proper grind as feeling a bit burned out with the grind.

That 99 hand is butchered but given you play the same games as me it’d be silly of me to tell you how I’d play it

I’ll speak to the Guinness book of world records.

They're literally the worst sessions because you feel so helpless. How many €25 5 mans do you reckon run per evening that have at least 1 rec in? I've played a fair few of them before but I always get bored waiting for 9 tables to fill up so always just move my action elsewhere.

Your reasoning in the K9 hand is pretty solid and you should have no issues playing higher if you're thinking on this level. Quite refreshing to read tbh. GL.

Didn’t realise Wudu played that high.

It's all well and good getting 4 regs sitting the 100s but if you don't have any recs then there's no point playing.