February 20, 2010
What better place to start...
I play 9man STT Turbo’s on Full Tilt. I was frequenting the $6.50’s until a few days ago when I FINALLY made the jump up to the $12’s.
I’ve been playing these for a living for about six months now. The first few months were awesome, it seemed like easy money. Well I must have been running hotter than fire because I haven’t won like that since. About November i started not making money. About mid January I was fed up with losing and I buckled down and studied and played every day. I got out of my slump and got my bankroll up to where it used to be. I felt like I was actually good at poker for once. Just a few days ago I made the jump up to the $12’s. It wasn’t bad, I was running awful but I still wasn’t doing to bad. The players still sucked, there were just a few more regs and they didn’t even seem that good. The next day came, ran like shit. Ran like shit the next day and the next. The last 264 games I’m sporting a -8% roi at the 12’s. It is sickening. Every possible thing that has gone wrong is going wrong. I think I’ve pin pointed where my game is lacking. I’m not shoving wide enough when I get low stacked. (Wow this blog is getting boring, even for me)
Anyways it’s just frustrating as hell not being able to make money at the lowest stakes of SNG’s. The players are so bad. I wouldn’t be so depressed about this if I thought I was playing good, but I’ve been reading around 2p2 and people are shoving super light when they have 5bbs utg. It’s just super weird. I feel like I know nothing of how to play these anymore.
Another reason for me being so depressed today is the fact that I have a freaking cold and my head feels like it’s going to explode at any minute.
I need to start making money at poker because I’m dead ass broke and I have a wedding in August and credit card debts and rent debts that need to be paid off. I have a lot on my plate and I’ve been working my ass off at poker and it seems like I just go in the same circle over and over again. Poker is the only thing I know and there is no turning back for me.
I’ll keep track of my progress on here, it’s nice having somewhere to vent.
1 Comments:
G586 posted on February 20, 2010 at 10:31 AM
Hello, sorry to hear about the run bad. It sounds like you are getting a bit depressed with it and so maybe a change would help, drop back down or change sites or games, maybe.
Unless it's your wedding, I would make sure you pay your rent debts 1st. Credit card debt can be restructured and isn't a priority debt. Losing where you live is way more important.
If you are in the UK, there are a load of places to go to get help with rescheduling debt.
Sorry if this sounds a bit interfering but I did debt counselling for a while and people tend to see debt as all one thing. It's important to distinguish between types and also best to get it sorted sooner than later. The fees tend to increased the amount owed exponentially if it's left to run up.
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