It's not only that, but rake is so much lower it's not even comparable. With his playstyle of getting it in very often, the amount of extra rake he's paying due to the cap being 200bb on 888 is absurd. It's literally thousands in rake at this point just pissed away to a site that doesn't care about him whatsoever.

Another added bonus is the Stars pool is so huge, he won't get as relentlessly bumhunted, especially if he uses a new SN which he doesn't share and hides himself from search feature. Furthermore, the ZOOM pool is always 500+ players at 2NL. He wouldn't get bumhunted there at all, and could get away with super aggressive 3b shoving forever until people started to catch on.

Will you people please stop bringing up Pokerstars? Things like rake and cash out are meaningless - it was determined 10 years ago by Blackrain that the players there are too skilled, and things like that aren't subjective and never change.

This is what has me more convinced its just a top tier troll.

The bro even makes a comment about adding things to this thread partly implying that maybe he has read everything, seems like bait... This thread is full, couldn't get more help and advice at this point no matter what. There is literally nothing to add at this point. Nothing. OP if real wants people to say, "BY GOD, THEY ARE SCAMMING YOU PAISTINGS, RUN, CALL HELP, YOU ARE THE BEST BUT THEY SCAM YOU" and that alone, for every post.

Its just become an occasionally HH dump from an impressively delusional degenerate, his blog shouting into the void essentially. Same format, OP posts insanely horribly played HH, sometimes picks out posts that say he played like ****, but NEVER EVER picks out the informative ones and ones that show hands he hasn't shown where he either gets very lucky or does something beyond words. Like the jam with A4 off for 2000bbs, you know, like 100k hands worth of profit for some players. He doesn't realize that he could have won all those hands he posted 3 times over and that single a4 hands would wipe out his profit for weeks. This thread is perplexing psychologically

Online poker is rigged. You know this.The worst hand always wins. What the people in this thread arent telling you, is that the only way to beat it is to game the RNG. You want to get in there with the types of hands that the fish win with.
I find the key number is 30. You want to have around 30% equity when you get the money in. This is the sweet spot... I've found the best results with playing lots of middling aces vs UTG raises, and with naked flush draws vs obvious over cards and big pairs. This is what all the online pro's are doing.

You know what's odd? Last year he was losing ~500-600 a month, then in October went radio silent, November had a super close to breakeven graph until the last day or two, and then December didn't post a graph. Then in January he's back to posting a lot and his monthly loss jumps up to 1.5-2k a month.

I wonder what happened, and what caused him to have a lot more disposable income after that?

Even though the self proclaimed professional hobby psychologists from here come around the corner and might tell me i have no clue about human psychology but i think too Paisting is just a rich endlevel troll Its always the same, we advise, he ignores, he posts bad beast storys and "month was really desaster graphs" and the loop starts again. Thats the thread in a nutshell since page 1

Paisting were you banned on Pokerstars?

Last week talked about differences between 888 and stars on other forum and there was guy who has played on both sites. He said that stars has way harder pool than 888. People are not calling on flop with total crap like these whales do on 888.

Todays session couple of rounds played and whale who hasn't fold to anything suckout. When cards turn around I knew I'm losing that hand.

888Poker, Hold'em No Limit - $0.01/$0.02 - 5 players

Angrypig (UTG): $2.12 (106 bb)
CookinACES23 (CO): $2.51 (126 bb)
Paisting (BU): $2.42 (121 bb)
Stack2524 (SB): $0.57 (29 bb)
Boulann (BB): $2.03 (102 bb)

Pre-Flop: ($0.03) Hero (Paisting) is BTN with K♠ A♥
Angrypig (UTG) raises to $0.04, CookinACES23 (CO) calls $0.04, Paisting (BU) 3-bets to $0.24, 2 players fold, Angrypig (UTG) calls $0.20, CookinACES23 (CO) calls $0.20

Flop: ($0.75) K♣ T♣ 3♠ (3 players)
Angrypig (UTG) checks, CookinACES23 (CO) checks, Paisting (BU) bets $0.56, Angrypig (UTG) folds, CookinACES23 (CO) raises to $2.27 (all-in), Paisting (BU) calls $1.62 (all-in)

Turn: ($5.11) Q♠ (2 players, 2 all-in)

River: ($5.11) K♦ (2 players, 2 all-in)

Total pot: $5.11 (Rake: $0.31)

Showdown:
CookinACES23 (CO) shows J♦ A♣ (a straight, Ten to Ace)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 26%, Flop: 21%, Turn: 97%, River: 100%)

Paisting (BU) shows K♠ A♥ (three of a kind, Kings)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 74%, Flop: 79%, Turn: 3%, River: 0%)

CookinACES23 (CO) wins $4.80

the magic number is 30%

see what i mean? the dominated ace is the *better* ace. you should fold your good aces preflop and only play AT or lower...

Wow so unlucky. What are you going to do about all these suckouts? What is your solution?

Why are people bothering to push Paistings to Stars?
I mean, this legend is gonna chipdump no matter what.

You just want some piece of the action huh

Kinda curious on this as well though we'd never get an honest answer since OP's a liar.

Covid, probably applied for a lot of different benefits. he seems to be that kind of guy.

Fold pre

Activity of this thread fuels him to show more impressive graphs each time.
A -$500 graph per month would get boring...

Money was never an issue to him

This isn't true, there's plenty of whales floating flop with absolute garbage at 2NL Stars. I don't think you can find a softer pool than 2NL on Pokerstars honestly. Even if the pool was tough, which it isn't, you'd still have a much higher winrate there since you wouldn't tilt due to getting sucked out on. Doesn't matter how many fish you have at your table when you start shoving all-in pre every hand. Even a whale can adjust and just start calling top 50% of hands.

That doesn't make sense because if that were true why would he not play in October and play super nitty for a majority of November? Something happened at the end of last year that caused him to stop playing/stop playing so spewy and then something else happened right after that that allowed him to reach a new level of money burning.

We can only speculate because he completely ignores those questions. I don't know whether he intentionally ignores them or doesn't understand the English.

I think he secretly enjoys the attention he gets from losing though. He might even start losing bigger sums in the future. $5k or $10k a month perhaps, because he enjoys the attention from this thread.

I think I disagree. If he enjoyed the negative attention that much, he'd be in here every day fake arguing, pretending he plays gto, posting bad beats, yelling at that guy whose up 1k on him, things like that. As it is he's only doing that once or twice a month.

Also his monthly losses are odd. For example here are the last 5 months:

March -1935
April -543
May -702
June -1864
July -2134

If he just wanted to put up "high score" numbers, why would April and May be three figures and not around 2k like March and June/July? If he had the means to go -5k in a month, and the desire, why not do it now? Makes no sense. I think he's just mentally ill and has some sort of allowance that got increased at the end of last year.

Imagine paying $1500+ a month for "attention" that's almost universally negative. lmao

Lies.. NL2 is soft everywhere. Only thing that makes 888 softer is that one guy from Finland who's been shoving ATC for 10+ years straight.

Just ask a Pokimane simp or OnlyFans tipper. People pay way more money just for some semblance of attention. At least in that case, they're getting some attention from females even if it's only because they're a walking ATM. Here, Paisting is just getting attention from a bunch of old sweaty dudes.

so this guy has lost 100k+ over the last decade grinding 2nl? 50k BI ?
obv he is not a rich guy who trolls, wealthy guys who play poker would not invest so much time in something as stupid like this.
maybe he is a AI created for chip dumping

Get this poor guy help once and for all

Would be pretty easy to create a Paisting bot tbh. Just have it play normal poker for a while then transition to open shoving every hand after it loses a pot bigger than some threshold of big blinds. Then have it come to 2p2 and auto-generate posts using keywords such as "equity", "desaster", "suckout", "whale", "minraise", "steal", and "Blackrain".