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Tag: losing

I've dropped about 16 buyins in the last two days playing hu. brutal.

Hands: 7,465

Profit: -8,396.40

Days remaining: 51

this is not what i expected. if i keep losing at this rate, i'll be completely broke in about 2 weeks.

 

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I am honestly scared of what is going to happen when my downswong hits.  I feel like I am playing great, but definitely still running great.  To continue getting the ironman points, I've been playing for about an hour a day.  Sometimes more on the weekends.  I'm going back home to St. Louis tomorrow, so took off work early and played for about 45 minutes.

 

The same thing that has been happening for the past 2 weeks continued to happen.  I don't even remember the last losing day I had.  That scares the shit out of me moving forward, because if I can run this good, I know I can and will run equally bad.

Just checked through PT.  I've only had 3 losing days since November 6th, when I moved back to playing on my laptop.  Pretty sick run.  I haven't had any back-to-back losing days at all.

 

GL

-Mac

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Quick update as I'm heading out to dinner with my girlfriend in Harvard Square at one of the restaurants we used to go to when we were in college (ah...the glories of reminiscing...): The last three party poker 5/10 sessions I've played I've taken 16k out of the game. That's including losing a 2.5kish pot with AA vs. KdQd all in on the flop of Axx two diamonds. It always comes for them.

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Still can not win a hand. Went from down about 400 to up about 800, to down 1800 on the day. Some of the hands are plain ridiculous. I think I need to start folding AK pf tbh. I'm grinding a shit ton of hands and just losing. I think I might just 4 table tomorrow or something and see how it goes. Blah. I'll leave you with a few SWEEEEEET hands:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2718940

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2718941

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As I scroll down to see what I mumbled this morning, I can't help but notice, "...how badly I manage bankrolls." I stayed in tonight because I have a busy non-poker filled weekend ahead of me. Me and a roommate are driving north to San Francisco, Saturday morning, to see some family as well as college friends.

Simply put, I need to adhere strictly to loss stoppage rules. Actually, I need to have loss stoppage rules first. I hear 3 buy ins is good. I have a problem when it comes to any type of gambling, I want to win it back, and I want to win it back immediately. So when I stumbled into a 8 buy in loss to start the night, it was a little late to implement the loss stoppage rules. Guess that month long heater (refer to Lou's post) is gone. From flopping a straight and losing to a better flopped straight, to getting in with top 2 and losing to a flush draw, I saw it all. The river was filthy tonight. I wasn't getting paid when I hit and I was paying off when they did. This, my friends, is a receipe for disaster. I managed to get back 2 of those buy ins playing cash 6handed and a few $20 Hu sngs. So tonight I get to sleep on a 6 buy in loss and wonder if I'll ever truly just walk away from a common losing session with the intent to play another day. Hope so.

-Spuddy

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5-4 today.

I don't get this hand. Did I take a good line? Input always appreciated. I pretty much wanted to peel off a heart or make the straight and see if I could get it all in then. Which is what happened. Didn't know I'd get that fuckin light of a call. I'm sure the majority of you CRers push the flop.

Hand In Question

15-2 prior last few days. Overall, pretty good. I notice a trend that needs to change, even with this small sample. I went 15-2 over the course of 3 days, so about 4-5 sngs a day. I've already played 8 today. I need to stop playing when im losing, and play more when im winning. I think im fearful of losing, not the money, but the act of. I need to get over this asap.

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Poker has been awful the past two days. I've dropped over $100, mostly with the sngs, but $20 on a satellite rebuy. I'm very frustrated as the majority of the time I've gotten it in as a favorite. Losing these over and over ends up making me play bad eventually. I have to continue the grind and chalk it up to variance.

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I still have no understanding of how people cannot fold hands yet they are rewarded time and time again.  Over the past 1000 hands kk, aa, and ak are losing hands for me.  I am not losing to sets mind you, I am losing to absolute donkeys who seem to hit there hands time and again...

 

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1679512

 

 

I shove to protect my hand against a flush draw, but he already hit his miracle turn.

 

KK has run into AA four times.  I finally am smart enough to lay down sets to straights, over pairs to sets, I just cannot figure out how these situations keep coming up and I cannot get the best of them.  Oh well.  I need a few marathon sessions over the next few days to get the hands in.  I should be at 50nl the week after Thanksgiving, maybe, just maybe, luck boxes will go away.

On a lighter note, I finally got back to my high school weight of 185.  I had balloned up to 265 and it took two long years, but I am there.  Now Thanksgiving I can eat like a fat kid and not feel too bad!!

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Two out of the last three days I've had horrid results playing poker.  For the volume I play 1-2 tabling, it's been pretty remarkable.  In pots involving stacks, the tally is presently 7 set over sets that I've lost, not one in my favor.  Nut flush losing to straight flush.  A's losing to Q,5 off calling 6X raise pre and calling all in with board of 9, 5, 3 rainbow.  And then the usual assortment of J's losing to Q's, Q's to K's and A's losing to A,K.  Thankfully, I've resisted the urge to move up and chase, but I've probably played too loose and lost a buy in or two with 10's or with A,Q when I could have folded on better days, but kept running into better.  While I can feel the temperature rise in the room, I've been pretty calm and just kept playing and being patient for the most part.  Eventually it will turn but it makes me very glad that I play over rolled.

I had some good meetings today that I hope will begin to get the ball rolling on the job front.  While I'm patient about the process, it's family and friends asking and reminding me of my status that can make it feel more urgent.  I talked to an old friend this weekend who does some website design.  I asked if he could recommend a coder/programmer, but when I described that it was an informational site about poker he said the person he had in mind wouldn't touch it because it was gambling.  The world still has rigid moralistic understandings of games of skill and chance.  Oh well.

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only 1 losing session in last 6 days.  not bad. 

 

 

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