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@FreedoM wrote: @Esir Well done, NL400 and Beyond is right around the corner.  Your truly an inspiration, hopefully someday i will follow in your footsteps if i manage to get my s**t together. Thank you! I'm sure you'll progress, just be consistent and take steps forward no matter how small they are. Poker and life is a marathon. Also I don't have all my s**t sorted out either.  ... View more

@FreedoM wrote: @Esir Hey there, hope your doing great. Just wanted to say that whenever i feel low this blog always brings me up again. Poker wise how was 2020 for you? What stakes do you play now and do you have any plan of starting a blog again? Hey @FreedoM ! Thanks for the nice words! To be honest I also come back to it sometimes to remind myself from where I started. I'm glad this blog helps you.  Poker wise it's going great. I'm focusing 100% on it. These days I'm playing 50NL/100NL. 2020 was also good, the highlight of it is that for the first time I managed to reach 1250000 points and get an UO Package. I was thinking about starting a new blog but I don't have any idea what it should be about. Hope you're doing great both in poker and outside of poker! ... View more

Yo @Beksters  Try this: https://www.unibetcommunity.com/t5/Unibet-how-to-s/Live-chat-How-to-get-in-touch/m-p/167367#M166 ... View more

Good luck! I really like how well organised you are. Keep it up! ... View more

I agree that 2FA would be a great addition. If my mail has it I think a place that involves money should have it too. @Livertool I think it's better to have the option than not have it at all. It shouldn't be mandatory if you don't want it. In some countries you can't deposit and withdraw as you wish as there are fees and taxes involved. Even if people can't withdraw the money there can be some bad actors that can punt off all your money that would be pretty bad too. ... View more

If you click on the hand it will give you a text description of the actions. And in case you don't close your client (atleast as far as I know) you'll be able to replay the hands in the replayer. ... View more

@OliD You should consider making a blog with all abnormal situations you encounter. I'd read it during my morning coffee. On a serious note consider taking a break or work on your mental game, the earlier the better, poker can drive you nuts sometimes.   ... View more

Play responsible and only with the money you're comfortable losing. Take regular breaks. Don't get distracted and pay attention to the tables. These are the first things that came into my mind but I'm sure others can add more important things. ... View more

Good luck man! Stay patient and with a solid bankroll management you'll climb the stakes. Looking forward to your updates. ... View more

Yes crazy boards did not happen before in live poker. Maybe you're a bit biased by the recent bad beats that you've taken. It happens to all of us, in the end things will even out. ... View more

@Stubbe-Unibet I'm interested.  ... View more

Great changes @Stubbe-Unibet  Many thanks to you and the poker team behind for keeping the dream alive and ecouraging the players (myself included) to climb the cash games ladder. As Freedom said, the 6 minimum cap table is the sweet spot so please don't reduce it below as others have done it, mostly not to improve the ecosistem but to push players towards other game formats. Keep it up and I'm looking forward to changes coming in the future.     ... View more

Hello, As promised I am back with an overall summary regarding the challenge.  2019 Challenge: Total Hands: 1151413 Winrates: 4NL: 16.36 bb/100 10NL: 7.96 bb/100 25NL: 0.90 bb/100 Making this blog helped me a lot to push the volume when I felt demotivated and I encourage you to do the same if you feel you lack the determination. I have nothing planned yet for 2020, my only wish is to push through the limits, especially 25NL. This is all from me for now. Hope you enjoyed following this challenge as much as I did doing it. Wish you all the best and good luck at the tables. ESIR ... View more

@Westie wrote: I've noticed that quite often when I try and join a cash table it puts me into a queue. There are times when this is perfectly fine and working as normal as all tables might be full. What I find strange is when there are say 30 25PL tables running, you would think there would be a seat to join as it is so rare and unlikely that all tables would be maxed and none at all running 3/4/5 handed. player turnover at these tables is very quick at times yet you wait in a queue for ages. Another reason I think something is wrong with the queue waiting system is that say there are 8 25PL tables running and it puts you in a queue. It states you are number 1 in the queue and you sit and wait patiently. Time goes by and you check the lobby and now instead of 8 tables there are 11 running yet you have not been notified to join any new tables.... How is that possible? Yet another reason I think this is sometimes site traffic is extremely low for the time of day/ evening and when it is I seem to have this queue issue and I wonder if other people also get queued for no reason, sit and wait and then think screw this and leave since it never puts them into a game... Interested to see if anyone has noticed similar or has a valid reason for the above. The lobby displays the total number of players on a each limit. So if the number you see can be divided by six they are most likely full (but there can be multiple short handed tables running so it's not always the case). Also keep in mind that the update on the number of players is not instant, it might take a couple seconds. I never had extremely long queue times, at most a few minutes. But I only play two card PLO. ... View more

@Merenitsu wrote: @Esir  you winner in every token promo/ "santa"  love you    Thanks. I think he is making up for all the times he forgot about me in the past. I'm sure he won't forget you, just be patient. ... View more

@successlaw wrote: Lets see guys who beat the santa for the biggest prize. If you did it, let us know 1st silver token. I feel like this will be my best prize going forward.   ... View more

@Stubbe-Unibet wrote: @Esir, the alias will be completely disregarded in terms of this, which is don't see as an issue. I get what you're trying to say; if someone reaches the limit, leaves the table, changes the alias and returns to the table within the defined timeframe, you'd be able to tell who it is by the stack size. I see. I guess also the tables will be disregarded. So we'll see people with 5+ stacks popping randomly. An interesting change and probably a good one. Hopefully we get news more often about future plans and changes. (maybe stacks in BBs ?  ) ... View more

@Stubbe-Unibet I'm really curious how this will work with the Alias change feature that Unibet offers and keeping the anonimity of players. ... View more

Hello, October is finally over and with great pleasure I announce that also the challenge is over. Thanks to the flop race I managed to put enough volume in order to finish the challenge 2 months earlier. And what a month this was, by far my best month of the year, I'm sure I ran well but also my game improved a lot since I first started the challenge. October Challenge Update: Hands Played: 151747 / 85000 Total Hands: 1020098 / 1000000 Winrate: 10NL: 13.18bb/100 25NL: 9.54bb/100 I also had some 50NL sessions with positive winrate but the volume is not big enough so I did not include that. I'll add below a graph representation of how it all went since I had 4 € left in my account from last month. I excluded the numbers but you'll get the idea. 4NL to 50NL This is all from me guys. I hope this blog helps some of you to get the motivation and determination to get on the tables because it surely helped me. I'll be back next year with a bonus update on how my entire year went and compile all the results. Thanks a lot for following and good luck at the tables! ESIR ... View more

@RayL  Just wanted to say that the issues are persisting. ... View more

@Kamon wrote: I can't believe it...  57 attempt without multiplier x10 @Kamon You are really unlucky . I got it the first try as a comparison.   ... View more

Hello, September Challenge Update: Hands Played:   88002   / 85000 Total Hands: 868351 / 1000000 Winrate: 4NL: 3.70bb/100 10NL: 5.45bb/100 The bad results continued in September as you can see. The month was a total rollercoaster, this was the first time I almost busted my roll multiple times playing 25NL. I did not add the winrates for this stake as I have under 5k hands but it was around -15bb/100. At the lowest point my roll was 4.68 € and 800 Bonus Points. I could have added more funds and have a roll for 10NL but I decided to make a personal challenge and see if I can come back from this. So I decided to buy a 4NL ticket with the bonus points and started grinding 6 tables with 50bbs. I managed to clear the ticket at 26€. Now I was sitting on 30€ and decided to apply the same strategy playing 10NL but a bit more cautious. So I was 4 tabling 10NL with 50bbs. After around 14 hours of grind my bankroll was back in a spot where I could play my normal game. So to all the micro grinders that are reading this you can build a roll from almost nothing if you are motivated and focused (and have a little bit of luck of course  ). PS: Don't play 10NL with 30€, respect bankroll management. I was prepared to add more funds in case I busted. BR On a positive note, October started very good so I expect better winrates compared to the previous months.  Short story from today: I decided to take another shot at 25NL using a ticket bought with Bonus Points. So again I split it into 2 buyins (BRM is very important  ), I busted pretty fast the first 50bbs and I was left with the other 50. At one point I am in the big blind with 69ss  , MP min raises, everyone folds to SB which calls and I decide to complete. Flop: JdTs7s, so a pretty good flop for us and our ~50bbs, everyone checks and the turn is the As, the dream came true. SB checks, I decide to bet pretty big so I can shove on the river; MP folds and SB hits us with the good old min raise, at this point I was a bit worried that we might be beat but there's no way I'm folding a flush with 50bbs so decided to shove. Surely the SB snap calls and delivers the bad news, he turns over J4ss. I was already thinking my 25NL adventure was done but RNGJesus  had something else planned for us and decided to give us another chance at this shot. River takes, river gives Surely after this miracle, things went pretty good and I managed to clear the ticket. This is all from me for now, I hope you enjoyed these stories and maybe some of you will find a little bit of inspiration in them. I wish you good luck and don't forget to have fun at the tables. Esir ... View more