Friend Of Poker
Friend Of Poker
Hello! I am an ordinary friend of poker from Finland and this is my blog. I just came home from the New Y
How do you play online poker without a mouse?
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!
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 dr
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)
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?
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.
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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 lowe
Appreciate it!
And best of luck in your future endeavors!
Up tha punx
too bad to see next update will be the last update, good luck OP!
yeah i never interacted here because i didn't want to disturb the natural awesomeness of it all
you felt like a real person without trying to prove anything but rather just document it - was a great thread and i wish you'd reconsider and keep it rolling
Thank you for the kind words guys!
Going to drop December update now because I have really no time to grind anymore in this year. I had so many gigs in December that I really did not have too much time to play poker. The idea was to grind a lot during the Christmas but got sick and have just been in the bed last three days so volume was pretty pathetic as usual. I will make one more update after this where I will put final report about the whole blog. Played one session in Stars and also one a couple in 888 which are not included in the graph.
Stars: + 500$
888: + 1239$
Party: +7163$
+8902$
Year +66 598
