August update

It is Saturday morning and I am wasted. Playing poker, playing guitar. I am starting to sound like broken record when I write here but this is all I do and I like it. Turning 40 next week and when I look my past I have never really done anything else than poker and guitar and tele - sales. Have to be grateful, life has treated me good. After couple of hours I will hop in to the car and we will go to Helsinki to play some ****. There is no business like show business, but who is the Pertti Ström?
What comes to poker, I have been just showing up in to the games as many times that is possible. Played also a little bit nl 2k and punted my stack off right away. You dont want to be scared money when you try higher stakes dont you? Did not win anything this month but had some fun sessions and tried some new things. Problem with new strategies are that I dont know how to play those. Maybe I will try to use random generator? Hah just kidding


Party : +1066$
Finnish site -221$

Total: +845$

Month


Year (+50 241$)

Where abouts are you shotting 2knl at? Party is capped at 1knl right?

Nice to see someone living life on their own terms and without regret. Kudos!

Thanks! In Finnish - site we have nl2k tables but they are running very rarely.

Yep there is definitely some bots operating in fin site like every other Ipoker room as well. I just keep it my side-hustle site because if you select carefully you are able to get in pretty nice line-ups and rake is very low.

And yeah! GG-poker is a shithole and I don`t understand why so many streamers and big names wants to promote that greediness. The site is just bad for online poker in long run, because If nobody are able to win in the games how that will encourage new people to chase the dream of being professional. If they would drop the rake in normal levels they would still make shitloads of money and same time show that they care about the future of online cash-games. Also their rakeback is a joke. "you get 60% of rb", and after month they give you 10%.

Stars is just battle of seating scripts and if you don`t have one all you concentration goes to the scrolling the lobby.

Party is not perfect but at least they do actively try to detect bots, rake is beatable and the promotions are what they are promising. It is shame that action has dropped last years and they removed bigger tables though. Still going to stay loyal to them as long as it is possible.

You really reckon stars have seating scripters? I thought they would have the best security. You have to check the party lobby constantly as well no?

GG gets better only on 5k+, but even 5k requires good game selection since rake is still 4-4.5bb

Answered some guys post, but appereantly he was banned and the original post disappeared. What I write here are just my opinions based on past experiences, but yes I reckon that there are seating scripters in Stars.
GG has all the biggest action and if you get in that level it is propably your place to be, but it is sad that they have removed this possibility to someone to grind himself through the stakes.
Happy to see that Coin Poker is challenging GG and part of the high stakes action has now moved there. Also smart way of marketing is to get all the streamers and youtubers to play there.

How do you play online poker without a mouse?

Tell me! I have mouse in my house.

Subbed! That is some sick redline and VPIP, very jealous fo your mass data analysis skills. I don't think any other reg has 11+bb/100 over large sample anywhere in the regulated market, impressive work!

Thank you for the kind words! I will keep grinding!

Money now is much better than possible money later and they need to rake big to pay all the streamers and big names that promote them. They don't promote for free.

What are your thoughts on the NL200 exploits Yolando Cohen showcases on his YouTube channel?


Seems like you and him have very similar playstyle (high aggression and redline heavy)

I like his content. He is probably half man half solver, but He still treats poker as poker, not some sort of theory-puzzle.

September

This month started pretty well but ended up ruining it after all. There was one big fish who kept coming to the nl1k tables, played one hour, then left, then appeared again, so I thought it would be good idea to hold the lobby for myself. This was just bad idea because I don`t know how to play heads up. First it went pretty good and got little bit confidence but then there came reg who clearly knew what he was doing and ended up losing all my profits in one session. After that I tilted pretty hard and was so mad to myself that I had to take a week break just to get my motivation back. I have to just learn from my mistakes and be more humble for now on. No more reg - battles and no more heads up.


Month (+1879$)



Year (+52 120$)

October

This month I have broke every rule I set myself at January and the amount of stacks I have punted is quite large. Playing tired, and too long sessions, without preparation, peeking results, watching YouTube videos at same time, hopping site to site, playing omaha and slots and heads up while waiting. Action has been really bad and many sessions I have sat there for hours just to wait something to happen, and finally when some bigger games has started I have been clicking buttons totally without focus. It feels like I have lost all my interest to the game and this is usually a starting point of bad downswing. Good old boredom - tilt.
But I have been here before. These things goes in cycles and usually when I have grinded myself comfortable bankroll I stop caring about playing my best. Then I start to lose and after my bankroll have gone so low that I have actually step up if I don`t want to go broke I will start to focus again. The good thing is that there is just not enough action in bigger games in Party, Stars or Finnish site to make big hole even if my tilt goes bad to worse. Only reasonable thing to do now is to have brake and to forget online - poker for week or two.
Played also some gigs and there will be much more coming up before the year ends. Also that feels meaningless atm. Probably should eat more vitamins or drink less but I am too tired.



Party -356
Finnish site - 800
Stars +2022



Month +866$





Year +52 986$



The graph isnt that horrible in big blinds. Just keep losing in the big games and winning in smaller ones.

November

Nothing really going on. I was in Malta at the first week of the month. Sat week in the casino playing cash games drinking beer and gin tonics. Had fun and won some money. After that I have been pretty tired all the time. Just sleeping and waking up and going to swim and then back to sleep waking up again and trying to play some online poker, getting wasted, sleeping again.... Did some music stuff also but everything feels a bit misty and meaningless atm. Next update will be the last one and after that I will wrap up this blog.


Party: +4710$
Stars and Finnish site: few hundred bucks up





Year: +57 696

Hi

Congrats on solid results!

Have been enjoying your monthly updates for some times now, shame to hear you stopping!

Planing a trip to Malta early January, could you give an advise on which casino(cash preferably) to go to and what would be something I must see while in Malta?

By coincidence I'm also playing on Party as main site (50nl/100nl) any advise on moving up?

Thanks! I was only in Casino Malta. I think it was fine place, good action and nice dealers, but I was there during the Battle of Malta so I dont know how is the action during a normal week. Had to pay for drinks though but you get two beers for six euros so it isnt too bad.
Did not do much except grinding. One day we took taxi to the old town and other day to the beach located other side of the Island. Liked both places.

About Party. There is planty of fish in nl200. I havent really played lower stakes since 2016 so cannot compare the action but fish are same in every stake and all money come from them. Just select your tables carefully and you will be fine.

Appreciate it!

And best of luck in your future endeavors!

Up tha punx