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Hi, Will there be a Belgian Championship this year with satellites like last year? Last year those qualifiers started in May 2022. https://nl.unibet.be/promotions/poker-promotions/belgian-poker-championship-2022

Hey there! I quit playing online poker for a while, but a few weeks ago I decided to try my luck with some €2 Unibet satellites. Guess what? I ended up winning! Of course, I can't deny that a bit of luck was involved, but I still tried to bring my A-game to the table. 🙂

@SkilfulPoker You still playing? 🙂

bump @Stubbe-Unibet

My game plan is more or less ready. I have been constructing my ranges and studying a ton since last week (19/04) when I decided to start a grinding season 🙂 To give you a preview of my ranges: I am sorry that I am blurring my constructed ranges but it took me 10 hours a day to build them Thursday until Sunday with the lab in ICMIZER. Sunday i did start my first babysteps in the sng's. at start 2 tabling then 4 tablings today 6 tabling while trying to play my a game. This combined with some luck at bubble shoves gives as a result that I can start grinding the €2's SNG's tomorrow. the current BRM is €126,86. Stats (low sample) Games played 65 ROI %: 41,32% ITM %: 55,38% 1st: 22 2nd: 14 3rd: 12 4th: 12 5th: 5 Something i noticed: While playing the 1's I did notice the games were not filling up as fast as the years before. This made me force to register immediately when I ended an sng mixing up all the sng phases. Normally I prefer to join 6 games at the start & when I bubble or lose in an sng wait until all my games are over. the reason why, I do prefer that tactic so you can focus more on your heads-up play, which was more difficult now because when I was playing 3 heads-up's I also was playing early games on 2 other tables & a middle game on another. But it was this or wait very long while starting up 6 tables so I had not really a choice to do it this way. Also am I afraid this will be an even bigger issue at the €2's because that player pool is even lower.

After being away from the tables for more than a year (Mainly because of the Rakeback ban in Belgium last year) I did choose to come back and do a reboot of this challenge. The reasons why? I did join a dutch poker community 2 weeks ago and I would like to show them the Unibet STT turbos because, in my opinion, this is one of the fastest, low variance ways to get out of the micros. When will I reboot this challenge? 1st May will be my goal date. What am I doing to get back in the game? Reading my books again: - Sit 'n Go Strategy from Collin Moshman - Secrets of Sit'n'gos from Phil Shaw Watching my SNG video course from bencb789 You could say that some of the material is outdated (books are +-15 years old & the video course +-5 years) but I still do believe this material is more than good enough to get back in the games. Lastly, I did install the ICMIZER software again where I am mainly focussing on <20BB 3 handed bubble play in 6 man turbo STT's as this is the closest structure to the one we have on Unibet. Bankroll approach: This will be more dynamic than last time where I forced myself into playing at least 1k games before moving up the ladder. This time we will start with €100 and follow the BRM bellow: Move Down Move Up € 1 € 125 € 2 € 75 € 250 € 4 125 € 400 Where will my stats & ROI% be updated? https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f2i34qHhRb7lUbCrgEd1ZGDDHp_6FmQb/view?usp=sharing What's the goal of this challenge? Well it's not to become an online poker grinder 🙂 If you upscale to low/mid stakes the rakeback profit you lose because of our law (rakeback ban) is immense. But i will grind only untill the €4's where the rakeback losses won't impact the bankroll to much. Mainly the goal is to proof my point that those game are still profitable & advisable to grind to get out of the micro's as they were in 2015 & 2019. What will I do after I completed this challenge? The main goal is to grind it up to €500 once I have completed this I don't know what the next challenge will be.I might start grinding the €10's (at max!), quit and come back in 2023-2024, start another challenge in NL4 or 10, .., give live poker a shot after corona (because Rakeback isn't really part of your grind in live poker), .. all those options are open and jet to decide. Twitch / Youtube After running this challenge for a couple of weeks and scaling up my tables, getting back in the games, ... i might stream my games or record them to upload on youtube, more info will follow in a later blogpost.

I think that's to much effort just, if this law would be for whole Europe, a workaround would have been created but as long it's just for us we can forget it I am afraid :p It's very sad because if you are a recreational grinder with a slight positive roi you don't move out of the country which is the only viable solution. Tbh I do hope there will be a law for whole Europe so this issue get's solved :p

BUMP Any update yet? (haven't done any sng session for 10 months now because of this issue..)

ah lol.. i tought they where looking for a permanent solution. Since we don't get the rakeback anymore here in belgium i did quit poker so i only check the forum once in a while to see where the topic ends (so i can start playing again) guess i still need to have some more patience, hopefully they find a solution in a few months..

any updates yet about the less rake sng's ?

xD i was designing a website on my main screen and clicking buttons on my second screen.. i guess i have to do this more.. btw just wondering.. the uk event in sept is a €250 buyin event but the other uk tour event (dec?) is this also a €250 or what do i have to do with this second one? (+ maybe more will follow.. )

Hey, ye i made my own excel, here is it :) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zCAUw1D88mQmwEUhkA5yovUJzI-Clj8w1k9zE2k_Tgo/edit?usp=sharing and to rate the games it's just soft in 1 € and in €4 the bubble times gets significantly longer this is the major change in moving stakes i think here. and nope i am not playing.. ( Because the Belgian gouvernment created a law that we are not getting any promos or rakeback but have to pay the same rake as you :) so i often just check the community to see if their is a solution for Belgian players but untill then it's no grinding :) )

any update yet about a solution? i would like to start playing again .. :-) a tip, a belgian site called ladbrokes has promos with payesafecards.

:'(

wish me some luck tonight .. becaaaause... i will be playing the €250 to €1.1k unibet open online final aswell!!! :d