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Football as usual, unlike other sports, tries it's best to get things wrong and absolutely succeeds. All other sports use the systems to help the referee or umpire make the best decision when requested, but football insists that slowing down or stopping a game to make decisions that can't be determined by the naked eye is a good  thing.  Give the boys their toys and they will insist on using them above and beyond the call of duty ( or the referee .)  How long before there will be more match officials than players?  ... View more

I totally agree with you @Brocky  people are just wanting their quick fix here and now and not prepared to wait or, heaven forbid, actually work for their rewards. It's the entitlement and throw away culture that has been seeping into every walk of life at an ever growing pace, no-one these days( a few exceptions ) seem to be prepared to knuckle down and reap the long term benefits.  "I want it all and I want it now" appears to be the dominant attitude, and working steadily and methodically towards a goal isn't on the agenda. I did write a thread last year about tourneys getting quicker and quicker, and even though we have flip tourneys now for smaller prizes it's only a matter of time before I can see Shove or Fold soon becoming the main option, pretty much what Hexanonos and Spins etc are now. Poker sites can't really be blamed for this, they want the customers (money) that need a quick fix as much as any other leisure activity, and provide what the market wants, but I'm sticking with the long run for now. I could go on for hours about this but I have to play 762 tournaments in the next 2 hours to release 15c of bonus.  As for the streaming, I enjoyed both versions but with such a small player pool I think you are right to be wary about giving too much info away. Keep looking for a solution and good luck with the (long term) grind.      ... View more

It's a struggle! As mentioned before, life gets in the way, and as City were playing live on Saturday night t.v. it was family time and not poker time, so no UK €50 final for me this week.  (City won, Liverpool drew,  ) One chance left on the 26th, with two tickets just in case, but I'm actually not feeling any pressure. Failure to get the ticket won't be a failure, it will just be a failed attempt on the road. Plans are already in place for the next stage of the mission, the Paris UO event and continuing on the satellite trail. A totally revamped schedule will swing into place should I falter, and probably a new blog, meanwhile I'm boosting my UK €1 tickets and concentrating on getting the spins in the cash promo, 1 x UO €25 and 1 X UO €10 tickets won in the weekly freeroll so far.    Run Good:        ... View more

I played the UK €50 final qualifier on Saturday night but no joy, 13th of 22 and never really in it. Only 2 shots left but I'm still in there with a chance.     ... View more

@MetalWolf I've just come off the cash tables after what's definitely been an up and down session. Twenty minutes in and I was about €40 down, (I won't go into details ) 4 tabling 5-10c. In the past I would have screamed and thrown a hissy fit but the "New Improved GR1ZZL3R" stuck at it and finished "only" €20 down, but still just up on the week.  I really think I'm coming to terms with the mental battle, slowly but surely, there is so much positive info out there these days. I've seen the good and bad today as usual, and it really is worth pursuing the mental battle if you have faith in yourself. I think the biggest mistake I see over and over and over again is that players are willing to go all in with top pair, especially Ax, and in PLO you see players overvalue under straights and non nut flushes day after day.  From what I can see you should be aiming to roughly double your win rate at PLO compared with NLHE but that's only a couple of opinions. Are you going public with your results? If so, don't do it too soon. Best of luck.    ... View more

Literally in the last 5 minutes.   It's not always what you've got that counts, it's what they've got that has a large bearing on profitability or otherwise.  ... View more

Hi @MetalWolf  The general opinion on NLHE seems to be don't even consider looking at your results until you've played 10,000 hands and 100,000 hands is still only a snapshot of variance in reality, (despite one "rigged" thread claiming 11 losses as impossible.) Matt Berkey reckons even a million hands might not give a true picture. Because the variance in PLO is so much higher, you're only ever a 65% favourite at best preflop, and each street can bring huge swings, I would guess you need an even larger sample to be confident of claiming to be a winner, but don't let me put a downer on your enthusiasm. Your bankroll will tell you if you're winning here and now but I wouldn't worry about putting a figure on it for quite a long time, just go for it and show yourself, and us, what you can do.  Just Run Good.  ... View more

Hi @Ryder101  just make the request in this thread with the relevant dates and stakes.  ... View more

@johnnnnnny  If you read the terms on page 1 of this thread you will see that unfortunately you are not allowed to exchange a €250 ticket to anything lower, as this is the last step to winning a package and the idea is to keep these games going. This means you'll have to play a Sunday night final with your ticket, so best of luck in grabbing the goodies.  Let us know how you do.  ... View more

It's usually quite easy for me @MadAdo Just wait to be dealt AA or KK in the bb then everyone will fold.  ... View more

A great effort @Brocky but it seems the majority opinion was correct in that it was going to be extremely tough. I certainly couldn't handle the swings, 4-5 buy ins down on relatively sedate cash tables and I'm creeping towards panic mode.  It was nice to watch the streaming again for a while and good luck with the HU. ... View more

@Stubbe-Unibet  Just finished the €2000 spins freeroll 18:30 B.S.T.  (35/640 €25 ticket  ) and saw the messed up lobby again. Everything looked normal till just after 19:00. The numbers on the table and total in the lobby matched but against the players names it was seemingly stuck for some time.   My position in players names kept up though. Just one rogue player screen captured but I think there were a couple more.   Everything went back to normal with about 102 left, not sure what time. ... View more

@Nestabear  We can all be idiots at times, I lost my last few King of Flips because I was sure the last day of the promo was the Monday, didn't check the calendar and when logging in, no flips.  Always read the t&c's, more importantly, remember them.  ... View more

Just missed the biggie when I tuned in but watched the replay.    ... View more

@Nestabear @psrquack @Merenitsu  Last month on the King of Flips promo all the info was in the icon on the table,   and when you had seen enough flops the number of flips available went up by one each time. Also by clicking the icon it opened up a small box with the count of flops seen so you knew how many were left to go till the next flip clocked up. "Life was oh so simple then." I presume there's no box this time because the promo is over all game formats, and other formats don't support this icon, but I agree it's so much easier when all the info is available on the table rather than the lobby.  Don't forget if you make three spins the free bonus one which appears the next day has to be used that day and cannot be saved.  ... View more

  @Brocky  wakes up Saturday morning and remembers what he did the night before.  Seriously, if you streamed these I'd be the first in every day, but omg, that is one heck of a challenge. I've played around with some numbers and personally would never go near it, but I'm a totally different beast from you and would love to see if Hexanono could be beaten, and you're definitely the one that could try. The rider to that is I wouldn't want to be watching if you lose two big multipliers in a row. As far as I can see the profit has to come from the big ones as you have to win 2/3 at the 1.5 multiplier just to stay level, a huge ask, each time a big one hits it's a must win situation or you'll just keep losing too much ground on the lower ones.  Maybe the time line is a bit severe, what's the rush if you're going to beat them, but I want you to do it, want you to stream it and want and demand that you beat them. The very best of luck if you go ahead. We're all with you.  ... View more

@Stubbe-Unibet wrote: @GR1ZZL3R, which tournament is the 2nd picture from? @Stubbe-Unibet  From the third tourney 15:30 BST ... View more

Checked out the freerolls today, crashed early in the first one but wanted to see if playing more than one table caused more issues, so was determined to play steady till the third one started. However......................................   ...................................grit your teeth and go for it.   First time winning a 4 way all in that I can recall.  ... View more

 @Stubbe-Unibet The minor issue is with a lot of players the info on numbers doesn't quite match all the time, usually only a few seconds and as the numbers decrease they seem to all stick together in unison. Not a big issue and is probably near normal anyway.   Only two rogue players spotted.   This is on desktop. ... View more

No problems at all so far.  ... View more

Nice work showing the thought process @HonorTheGame but I tend to agree, 26 is way too low for something so unusual. I'm not trying to bait you @Livertool but do you honestly think they could do it and what would you really consider good odds (anyone?)  ... View more

Three Saturday night UK €50 left before Manchester and things just might be coming together. A very poor effort on Monday was followed by two tough ones last night and tonight, both squeezed in through the back door with less than 8 bb's left.  ... View more

@Kamon wrote: I can't believe it...  57 attempt without multiplier x10  0lucky but unfortunately I can believe it, someone , somewhere is going to get the long run without the multiplier (probably a few.) One of the reasons I no longer do the missions, it's usually me.  ... View more

I lost an all in with KJs (hearts) yesterday so folded to some preflop aggression today.   ... View more

@MadAdo  Happy to see you running good. At that stage I wouldn't mind the call preflop with what could be a good board, nice as it turned out. Happy to call the small bet on the turn as well, you could easily fold if someone had shoved, and the potential was excellent. Keep it going.  ... View more

"IT'S NOW OR NEVER" The planned weekend of sattie play did not come to pass and it's now only three weekends from Manchester. There are 20 nightly UK €5 tourneys left and three weekly UK €50, so it's flat out to the line instead of sitting around and admiring my stack of tickets. As I've said before they are basically of no value at all unless used and converted to something useful, so it's time to do something about it. I have 42 x €5, enough for 2 tickets in each €5 sattie, and 1 x €50, so here goes.   The last quarter ended with the br up €40 and bonus points worth about €62, culled from various promos and with the new Paris spins promo it's time to go for the cash tables again in a more serious effort. A €30 cash ticket needs 900 flops to be converted, and needing 30 flops a spin or 90 per day for 3 spins seems to be lined up the way I like things. I'm not saying 10 days is the target, with my record on cash tickets It could be ended in one session  but it's a starter to see what happens. That's it, now I'm commited (or should be  ) Time to hit the tables, run good all.    ... View more

That is as I suspected @Patric-Unibet so apart from winning the first table you are no longer in a flip tourney but just a random draw. To me that's not really a flip tourney,  the players on the table with only 4 already have much better odds to win a ticket. To begin with 40, surely 5 tables of 8 would be a better starting point. I know it's a random draw but not really ideal. If there were 37 starters would you have 4 tables of 9 and a single table with 1 which would be an automatic winner?    ... View more

@MadAdo  I'm just wondering if 2nd place on your table means nothing, as with 2 pairs I would have expected to be much higher than I was, even winning a ticket, but I'm guessing only the table winners actually get a ticket automatically and the rest are distributed randomly. If that is the case then it's not really fair imo, that's why I'm wondering!  Still puzzled.  ... View more

Could anyone answer my question please, @Ray-Unibet @Jeppe-Unibet @Patric-Unibet ? There were 5 tables, 4 of 9 players and 1 of 4, obviously each winner at the table getting a ticket. I'm just wondering how are the other 17 winning tickets distributed? STILL PUZZLED.  ... View more