Good luck, you will get there eventually!

I'm thinking about buying MSS when I move up to 10NL soon (hopefully), so I was curious about your experience with it.

Thanks, I know I just have to focus more, stick to bankroll management, study and I'll be fine. But too often I get carried away.

Have your read Blackrain's first book?

Yes I have, there is good stuff in it for 2NL/5NL basics

I have two news, a good one and a bad one. Personally, of course.
The good one, is that last week was pretty good. I don't put massive volume on Ongame, but both as a combo Ongame+RB and Unibet rewards are perfect for me.

The bad news is that I can's seem to find a way to win anymore.. housevQuads, set vs set, trips v trips, hand after hand.. Two days on Ongame -5BI, -2BI at Unibet. When I evaluate what I did, I how I did it, I just don't know.

These two days I've been beat pretty hard but what can you do, right?

Ok, so last week:


Overall, this month:


Hands? I'm not too keen on posting coolers but these were the most significant, biggest losing hands.

AJ vs passive fish (40/6/ 0 3b, Fold to cbet 60):

Coolerish but MAYBE a fold vs pfish? He may have some Jx, maybe QQ or KK. Yeah, probably thinking too much. Stacks, etc, probably a call.





So bad. I really need to call this. But after calling twice, is one pair really good here? Yeah, so bad..





Well, I'm probably off to bed. Let's hope for some run-better tomorrow.

Hand #1: I think this is fine. I don't have pokerstove on this machine but he almost certainly has enough weaker jacks that you can't fold.

Hand #2: Not sure I'd bet the turn. Two players called the flop, you're not going to be ahead of both of them. The turn also hit the only likely draw.

Also, the NL10 rake at OnGame is way higher than at Unibet - 6.67% to €3 compared to 3% to €2. You'd need to be getting 70%+ rb to be equivalent. Hint hint.

1.This is imo not a good reason to play. Bonus=less rake. Is 'less rake' a reason to play poker? Play because you like to play.

2.Don't play because you want to build stats over villains. I.e. on stars you will never get accjrate stats. Go play on FTP, PP or other smaller sites where you build stats in no time.

I know that you didn't make an overview of why you play poker, but the 2 examples you give are imo incorrect.
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On: GL op! Subbed

Thanks for hands reviews. I did not know how high ongame rake was, tbh. And there is no chance I'm ever leaving Unibet. It's my favorite poker room since 2011 when I first started working and playing in online poker.

But I still want to keep at least one poker site with HUD for different reasons like not losing HUD skills I have, having hands to analyze and learn from, etc. So, my best option was to find the best deal I could and use it. But Unibet is still my main poker room, for sure.

TY for the sub. Enjoy your stay. (though, I'm not very good at this lol).

What I meant was by that message, was even though I was on a downswing, I had to continue because I wouldn't make the bonus on time (it's given away in one chunk) and that playing 600 hands/week on this site prevents me from having analysis on my own game, that I can't see whether it's variance or lack of skill.

But that's over. At least the bonus. I won't make it. So, I play now NL10 and try to analyze my game, improve and go back to nl20. At least I have no pressure to sacrifice quality vs quantity.

Hey,

I'm going through the same swings myself..

Maybe LTU means Lithuania? that's where I'm from

It does, I live in Kaunas.
Do you play NL10?

I'm from Klaipeda.

Nope, currently I play 5NL zoom, but used to play 25NL and take shots to 50NL zoom about 7 months ago... but one day had to choose between fast credit or cash out.

So I had to start all over again, deposited $80 and started grinding from 2NL zoom about a month ago. But at the moment it seems that I can't beat 5NL zoom though my wish is to play 50NL zoom regularly.

you can add me on skype if you wish to talk hands, etc
darius.translit

Hey Westham,

How is it going with your poker journey? Any new updates?

Hey, didn't know this thread existed. GL and keep me posted.

Hey, TDA.

Nice to see you. Although, I have to say, there's not much to be advertised. Thread is slow, just as my poker.

At the moment, Unibet is having their 1m'th hand promo and I'm ahead of my Ongame bonus, so I mostly play on Unibet now. Also, I have to pay for my and my wife's yearly health insurance in December/January so my bankrolls are bound to shrink.

I'm actually playing under-rolled for the moment. and losing 4BI's yesterday doesn't help either.

These are the updates. Although in a couple of days I'll post my November results.

Make it 7 BI in 2 days. A few mistakes, several big hands vs bigger ones, suckouts. And I broke my fkn mouse on a verge of 96 millionth hand milestone. Not to mention going out of tournaments being over 2:1 favorite. Twice.

Yeah, playing on Unibet sucks these two days. At least for me. I'll have to go down to NL10, build back my roll. Hope for the best next Tuesday at Double Trouble freeroll and 10k Freeroll on December 7.

Tomorrow is a brand new day. See you then.

Was out for the weekend. After a horrific Sunday where my AA's (AIPF) and sets couldn't hold on, it seems the site loves me again. Did well in Double Trouble (if you lose €20 in a week, there is a tourney where top 50 get €40). Got AA's in late stages, was disconnected, luckily managed to still double up twice and held on.

Also, even was dealt in a milestone hand in the process, I lost €10, won €20.. meh.. It was fun.

Another thing I tried is cascading tables. 9 tables. I understand I miss action but I feel I'm more focused this way. I have to experiment with this for longer.

Overall, I'm back on track and normally I may start mixing in NL25 tables but not this time. Let's see how this run continues. I've got 28 BI's for NL10 (from 8 BI's on Monday). Maybe I'll start mixing NL25 with 15-17 BI's.

GL to all.

Hi.

As November is over, here's my graph:


Overall, I just played 10k hands on Ongame with a steady loserate of -4.24bb/100.

In November I played 3485 hands at 29/21/ 5.33bet. In December I've already played 1400 hands, 25/19. so, a bit narrower, but should call less, yeah?

My WTSD went from 34% to 29% while W$SD% from 44% to 52%.
Seems reasonable, no?

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And just had a session on Ongame. It's not good. Seems the session was decided by two hands, other than that could get much going for me.


Two hands - one is a flip JJ vs AK AIPF (he has 22% 3bet), the other:

VIL 60/20 (10 hands), possibly a spew but I guess he should have quite a few hands that he folds, as well, right? And unless I'm really unlucky, I have outs straight outs.



That's all folks. Till next time.

I think you're reading too much into small sample sizes. 10 hands is useful, and someone who is 60/20 over that sample is more likely than the population to be a fish, but not a huge amount. I'd also assume that where people use very large or small sizes they have sizing tells. As a result, I'd just call the turn (close to folding), I really dislike jamming, especially without a diamond.