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Had a wee session on Unibet, nothing special, enjoy playing on RIO more nowadays with the rakerace, new one again this week lol. Games seem reg infested on Unibet lately, playing against the same regs on every table and maybe one fish... starting to wonder if Im not better of playing at 50NL. I also wonder how many tables all those reg c**** are playing, like some sit on each and every table, is table cap 12 or something? Can't remember. Pretty mad...

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Think I'll review my 1M bonus points 'goal' as volume has been a bit low lately on Unibet, still plan on playing but we will see next week on my week off. Volume is probably hurting my game too much. Better to play less and win more lol. Hope the xmas period brings some more recs to the tables as well. Especially now we all have to stay in our own homes for xmas dinner :Rofl:

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Here we go again and again and again... cleared a €100 bonus but bankroll is down to €1200. €400 down today even after getting that bonus. And I had €3500 week and half ago... Played more focussed today... but it just aint happening!

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I just don't get it... 

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@FreedoM  So you telling me I'm not even good enough for NL50 either anymore? 🤣 

I'm not that desperate yet to go and play NL25 but you never know, maybe in 2 days lol.

I don't really have a set bankroll management but would probably keep playing NL100 as long as I have 1k in the bank. And then drop to NL50 below that, 20 buy ins sounds good enough for me.

Played 4 tables of NL50 on my iPad in bed here, up €375 in less than an hour and break even for the day lol. Good night 😪

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Probs he meant that as a general advise for noobs who might read this someday 😉
It's not like the funds here are THE bankroll for everyone, and which is meant to be used on playing in overall.
Sucks to see those happenings on pics, sick sh1t, but as you know too, that shiet happens yea.
And it's good to rant about 'em. Would be a sign of total psycho if nothing ever feels either bad or good. Play enough, and it gets more harder and harder to give a damn about anything related to the games happenings eventually :wonder:
Ranting FTW, adore and cherish them feels lol :laugh:

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@Rushbie I know it is good advice for BRM and just having a laugh there 😛 also true it's good to vent some frustration here as it's better than punching the wall lol.

Might play a bit more NL50, felt awful soft and better than sitting with 4 if not 5 same regs at each table like at NL100. Some of them regs need to get a life lol. Anyway, day and half of work to go, be glad to be off for a week :peace:

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Well November was pretty crap lol. Made a €362 loss overall, halfed my Unibet bankroll from €3200 to €1600 but managed to run up the RIO bankroll from €450 to almost €1700, half of that profit probably coming from rakeback / promo's etc but it all counts 😀

The 1M bonus points ' challenge' is out of the window, I'm at 570k atm but pretty low volume so far. Kinda spliting volume between RIO and Unibet atm with the promo's going on at RIO.

Main goal now is just improving my game but still playing a lot though.

Few hands from the past days:

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Requested the stats for November but won't be any surprises there.

Also sick of some regs running super hot on Unibet against me all the time, hitting it hand after hand after hand it's just sick. Always the same C's as well! Calling 4bets OOP and always hitting their crap. Fed up big time with that.

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Also played the super double trouble tournament but went out with about 30 left sadly enough.

And was just checking my messages, I never really check them as you don't get a notification in the poker client to say you have a new message (something they should change imo) but I had 25 free spins on 'Secrets of Christmas' online slot so I played it expecting like €2 win or something, you know how it goes when you play for 1p free spins lol but this happened: managed to get the scatter symbol 3x so had a bonus round and boom 😀 Almost enough for a 100NL buy-in lol.

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Guess they must know I've lost heaps on poker last month :Rofl:

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@laifstaile wrote:

In hand 3....CO thought....lets fish for 4 outer or runnerrunner hearth


And here am I thinking I was the crazy one at the tables 🤣

Few more hands from mostly yesterday:

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Bankroll still around €1500, almost at 600k points and another free €100 and  €150 bonus on top of the 4x €100 yet to get released... soon more bonusses than money in my account lol.

On RIO I'm 3rd in the rakerace so far, 100 points ahead of 4th which is 3-4h play time I'd say. Hope I can keep my spot as 3rd gets €300 and 4-5th €200. 1st one is way ahead on 800 points or something, I don't know how some do it, playing wacky aggro laggy style wonder if they even make a lot of profit at the end of the week, maybe they are ballers who knows. Will be lots of playing again this weekend again I think but hope some below me give up 🤣

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Still alive here 😀 been pretty busy playing but more on RIO than Unibet lol, managed to get 2nd in the rake race last week after the person who was initially 2nd stopped playing halfway through the week for whatever reason so I picked up €500 instead of €300. Nobody was playing on Sunday weirdly enough, prob burnt out lol.

Same for me a wee bit, played a short session on Unibet yesterday but just taking it a bit slower. Crazy to think that since the start of September there were only 2 days in October I didn't play poker lol, pretty mad if you think about it. Results on Unibet are still so so, went down to €1050 at some point and then had a great session going up to €1600, since then had like 2 pretty much card dead sessions and decided to stick it out on NL50 for a while. On about €1200 the now. Games seem very reg infested at the moment at NL100, hope the holidays will change it a bit.

Bankroll on RIO is around €2500 now, having the rake race wins does add a fair bit to the total, had €500 from last week and think I had €200 and €100 the weeks before. Prob aiming for €200 this week but depends on games running and if I can be arsed enough lol. I'm back at work as well so... :puking: 🤣

Still have a double trouble and a super double trouble that I forgot to play but still have a few weeks left on them, I'll try to play em next week if I don't forget, I always forget about all my tickets. At least remembered to register for my free flip tourney last Sunday but didn't score any free money.

Few hands from whenever can't remember lol:

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Still putting time in watching videos to improve my game and also having a think at maybe buying PIO start of next year depending how poker goes rest of the year. It's about £350 / €400 for the pro version, not the worst price and will give me a lot more to do on the learning side. Never really dabbled a lot in solvers but guess I have to start at some point. But that's for next year, see how we do rest of the year, 2 weeks left of work and off again for the Xmas holidays unless they change their mind at work and ask if some want to work in between Xmas and New Year but we will see. I mostly work if I can as I'm not arsed with Xmas but now I got back into poker this year I rather play poker 🤣

ending new year GIF by Looney Tunes

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You're not kidding about the regs thing on 100nl. Lately I've seen a peak on 100nl, at weird hours sometimes. Everytime I play I see 4 to even 5 other regs, who are on every table. Dare I say it's been at an all time worst? Or just bad luck?
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@waffel  yeh it is a bit as you describe, I play 4-6 tables and often sit with the same regs on all tables and even if I try and 'shop around' for better tables by opening more and closing the worst ones they still got the same recs on them lol. Still not sure what the table cap is as some seem to be on so many tables it's mad. Kinda wonder how far they get in the rakeback scheme, some seem to be playing a lot. Wonder if they get to 2M points orso.

Now I'm back on 50NL a bit I still see a lot of recs, even the ones I used to play against, kinda funny. I remember moving up and thinking, damn these guys are tough and now I'm like hmm okay whatever 😀 shows you how my game has changed / improved moving up from 10NL and 25NL.

It does feel like there used to be more weaker players on the tables buy maybe that was a covid thing? And now work etc is maybe picking up again who knows. Let's see what Xmas brings, pots of gold I hope 🤣

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Just a small update, have been working overtime at work a bit so haven't got the most time to play or post. Still playing most days even if it's a small session here or there. Had 2 days off last week, good to have a small break once a quarter 🤣

Again haven't put the most volume in on Unibet but steadily working my bankroll up again at 50NL, and as a bonus, I played the super double trouble today, I just remembered by 1min to go as wasn't long home from work. And I just scraped into the money €400 :cash1:, came 10th and just lucky enough that the 11th stack had just a % of a blind less than me and he eventually went all in having the big blind and had 2 callers, he had AKs! but board ran out low. 

Still on RIO as well, kinda enjoy their promos just bummer there is such a low traffic. Had a stonker of a downswing like 14-16 buyins down on sunday losing most to a fish, often had the best hand but he ran like god. But eventually lost his whole stack to another reg who had AA... have gained some back since then + weekly rakeback I received helped flatten the downswing lol.

About Unibet, 50NL is def way softer than 100NL, just the pool and the ratio reg vs rec is much better at 50NL.

Both bankrolls are now above 2k, going to keep playing 50NL till at least the holidays, then we will see.

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Played the 31 days of Xmas daily task of 5 SNG or HexaPro, played 5 HexaPro Banzai for €1 each. Won 4 and lost 1 lol. €14.5 won so €9.5 profit 😀

I don't know why I keep playing these lol as don't think the rewards are that amazing for myself but it's hard not to play them. So far done 17/19. 

3 days to work next week (Monday-Wednesday) then off till the 4th, time to get some more poker in again, might look to purchase PIO already, prob take me a while to donk around with it before I kinda know how to work it so the holiday might be the best time to do this. Also came accross another GTO type of solver called poker scientist, looks better to start with but price is a bit steep, works with a subscription and its €75 for a month and thats a solver + trainer, of course cheaper when buying longer sub but still pricy. Can get a 20% discount so will have a think about it, might be better as a start instead of PIO.

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And on another note, I just purchased a 12 month sub to Poker Scientist. I thought of buying PioSOLVER first but funny enough I came accross a review of Poker Scientist on RIO which was recently added and it is more simplified than Pio and it has a GTO trainer as well (if purchased) which should benefit me more as a beginner. Bit of a steep price even with a 20% discount. The price shown on the site is exclusive tax 😞 so ended up paying €635 for 12 months or €53 / £48 a month. Better makes itself pay for it over the next year 🤣

Poker wise it's been a so so month again, made an ok profit so far but think most came from bonuses and what not, not too pleased in general with my 2nd half of this year. Had a good start imo, confident enough I can beat NLHE up to NL25 easily, not too sure now about NL50-100. I do feel like I should be able to beat it but maybe I'm not applying the right exploitative changes in my play vs the player pool. I also did not buy a solver/trainer to help me beat the game but just to get a better understanding of interaction of ranges etc and improve my hand reading and how to apply it to the table in the 'real world'.

Work wise, been busy for the last 2.5 weeks and now off till the 4th and seems like we have lot's of work again for the start of next year so I guess that's at least a positive after a year of COVID.

So now I'm on holiday, I'll try to get in some more volume again and atm I have 665k points, def still want to reach the 700k to give me 25k bonus points. If 800k looks achievable I might give it an effort to get the extra €300 but we will see. 30% left to go on my last €100 segment of the €500 I 'bought' in the bonus shop and then I still have €350 left in bonuses.

Thinking of that, I received a €5 bonus from the advent calendar I think, thought it was a playthrough bonus but it does not show up? Must investigate...

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Hope you keep it going @P0kerM0nk good luck.

I think the playthrough bonuses "stack" so you won't see any new ones till the old one is cleared, and as far as I know you won't lose any days off it while one is still active, it should start at 60 days when the other finishes. :wonder:

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