Like ****ing clockwork! Stacked off a ton of ****ing money on the turn! VS the same whale!

Down like 3k today I can't ****ing win anything it's so unreal. This game just ****ing hates me... Time to find backing. After losing 10k on Playnow getting cheated, now getting bottom 1% run on Global... This really ****ing sucks man. Down 17k in the last month.

Deviate so much that you become the fish is not how to stack the fish.

a -0.11 ev preflop defend isn't the same as a -5bb flop blunder. VS guys like this we're printing defending this hand. This guy is vpipping 90% trying to light money on fire every time he sees a flop.

Cashed out my Global roll. Will focus on transitioning to live at this point. Have played around 500k hands in the last two years, and have been cheated too often. Cliffs of me getting cheated over the years just in case ppl want to call me paranoid again.

Party - received cheating refund for ~$300 iirc, after getting slaughtered all of a sudden in the zoom pool

Ignition - Was clear to me I was getting cheated but nobody believed it, people telling me I'm paranoid. In the next couple months, information spreads about rampant collusion and botting going on. No cheating refund.

GGpoker - Playing absurd HHs vs fish and getting slaughtered, getting min raised when I don't have **** in weird spots like I'm playing vs a superuser, call out cheating. Couple months later Moneytaker69 scandal happens.

ACR - Never was able to win there, didn't suspect cheating but the games seemed extremely hard for 200 PLO. Turns out massive bot farm was winning 15bb/100 on there. Makes a bit more sense.

Playnow - Honestly, expected this one to be legit. Until a couple months ago when I saw a bunch of new accounts playing, and went on a 50bi downswing in an extremely short timeframe. Called out cheating, got clowned for it. Found some indisputably suspicious evidence suggesting botting or collusion. Another Playnow reg reached out to me, saying that he suspected some of the same accounts I suspected.

Global - no cheating here as far as I know, have had some abrupt and catastrophic downswings on there from time to time though. Overall 10/10 site.

Unibet - highly suspicious on the 2/4 game quality, facing unusual backraises and getting slaughtered. No refund, no scandal. So for now we can say no cheating.

iPoker, Pokerstars, Betonline - nothing suspicious here that I've seen, but have put in extremely limited volume on these sites.

Lets say this is 10 sites that I play on. Out of the 10, 5 sites have had confirmed cheating issues extremely recently. Additionally, I have been suspicious of another 1. 6 out of 10 sites that I've played on I've either been suspicious of or confirmed cheating suspicions.

Given that PLO100-200 is THE most cheated stake in PLO, which has been shown time and time again by the stakes caught cheaters tend to play. I will continue to study and improve my technical and mental game. However, I'm not going to play this stake online on my own roll anymore. Going to play a ton of live pokerz, stack my bankroll back up, and jump back in at PLO500. Will potentially find online backing to aid the transition to live.

Obviously this is going to seem weird. Why try to play PLO500 if you can't beat PLO200 for a good amount? The reality is I do have a track record at 2.5/5 with my most recent backer. We believed me to be beating the games for a good clip, and my experience of the games has me believing this as well. I can't say the same for PLO200. Despite games sometimes looking amazing, I am getting obliterated over and over. In the meantime to make sure I stay sharp will continue to study a fk ton.

I wanted to grind up through the levels online while sharpening my game, but it just doesn't seem feasible at the moment sadly.

Actually, have a better idea. Will play PLO50+100s max on Global until I have enough to start playing live comfortably. Will then play live until we have ~50k USD, and transition back to online.

Or maybe I’m just overreacting, no idea. Down 17k usd that’s like 23k cad just so demoralizing to lose that much that quickly.

If I’m considering that about 8k of this downswing came from getting cheated on Playnow, and during this I had BRM issues, tilt issues, and MTT variance, I guess my downswing isn’t unreasonable or all that concerning even. No idea where im really losing the most because Playnow, Unibet and Global all untracked ugh.

To be fair, this is kind of ignorant/in bad faith. Let's say GTO folds 60% to BTN raise in the BB, if villain RFI's 80% on the BTN you are burning money but folding 60% of range to him, and that's before you take into account him making postflop mistakes. In reality you should only be folding 40% of range to combat his wide opening range. Taking into account postflop edge you can probably fold even less.

500s is maybe 5-10x the variance than 200s..

it is 2.5x bigger, players are more aggro, and your edge is smaller.

being used the swings of 200s and below.. 500s and up can swing your roll past your breaking point real quick. especially if you push your edges.

you need at least 100-200 buy ins to safely push all of your edges to the max, especially vs whales on a heater.

if you are not embracing variance as if it is your best friend, (the only reason bad players will play you for real money) than the variance will **** you up.

there is a wisdom in not taking every opportunity.

your mental health is an extremely valuable resource - like tires on a race car. you need to fully stop and make sure everything is fresh and tip top (while worse racers zoom by).

you are just a simple human with many needs and weaknesses, like all of us.

treat yourself right, from the inside out, and the world will eventually follow.

or maybe nothing is connected to anything and its all meaningless who cares

Delivery guy delivering that wisdom... damn!

Meditating today - best solution moving forward is fill screen with tables of 50-100, and dig myself out of this hole. Have paid so much money through backing over the years, really don’t want to go down that path again.

https://gg.gl/npuba

It really just doesn’t end lol, could lose to the j866 guy and be in a really good spot in this thing. Hopefully this luck reverses and we just ship everything for a month.

Edit https://gg.gl/bq17t

Thought we sucked out on em, but nope get ****ed

Back to 25 plo!!!! Also if you’re gonna own something you can’t randomly just use it when it’s in your favor. Spork was part of the stable too. You condone his behavior because he didn’t get banned??? It’s honestly hilarious. And the reason you’re losing isn’t variance or cheating you’re genuinely just dog ****. The plays you post speak for themselves

If he got banned, and made new accounts to get back on I’d consider that slimy as ****. You aren’t qualified to call me good or bad, or make speculation on why I’m winning or losing. You’re only qualified to plug a node into vision and press the button it tells you to.

I genuinely believe anybody can change. But you have been caught cheating twice, and turn around and go back onto the site again??? It’s honestly so gross.

why am i not qualified im 10x the player you are not even an opinion just a fact because im actually beating the games over a sample of 600k hands. and your claims are baseless and hurtful to the game. you have 0 evidence of anything and are throwing random **** like a sheep. and i didn't get banned for cheating i was returned all of the money i was banned for staking or whatever because they found 0 conclusive evidence of cheating. oh and btw your best friends panda and spork were in the same stable so why do you think theyre not cheating? because theyre youre friends? the hypocrisy is hilarious. and to reitterate im not even on global so idk wtf ur talking ab. like genuinely where are you getting your info i didnt get banned twice you imbecile show me some evidence

Like why even deny it honestly?

Anyways gonna take a week long break from 2p2 I really do enjoy updating this blog overall, but have non poker related stuff that’s really affecting my mental health rn and don’t need the additional stress. See y’all in a week.

How come you dont go to Ontario for a bit? It's kinda outrageous to live a few hours from having access to the softest games in the world and be struggling at midstakes. You are quite young iirc right? I think a lot of people in poker end up regretting that they didn't take huge +ev spots early in their career. There is a lot of low hanging fruit in PLO, and especially in north america.

You obviously need to take some time off and not think about poker.

Sometimes when we run bad we also get more paranoid, sure there is some cheating sometimes, but its not like it affects your results like it has.
It seems like everytime you lose, you find an excuse that its either bad run or cheating.
I guarantee, with a mindset like you have right now, no way you play your A-game.

Just my 2 cents about sites.

Party - Couple guys i know crush 400-1k games, before that crushed 200 too.
There is even a guy who posted his last years party 200 zoom graph in PB&G, was up 100k EV pre rb.

ipoker - Have 2 friends who have 15bb wr at 200 over 200k+ hands.

Unibet - Played myself, very soft games, its fine, never felt like was cheated.

GG - Yes we know there is cheating, in my games thankfully did not feel anything shady.
Just the games are really bad and high rake, i tried for a week and did not see a single big fish like i see in other smaller sites.

Grass always seems greener elsewhere when you are in downswing, glgl.

You are plain cancer. Why do you even post?
We'd all prefer to see you disappear forever, you unsatisfied mentally challenged clown.

I lol’d irl

Yeah I think this is going to be the play soon! Talking to gf we are just trying to figure out some things with her work stuff and our school stuff.

Yeah, a break felt so rejuvenating. Wish I could have had this foresight a little earlier, but it is what it is.