February 25, 2010
I feel like quitting poker (yeah right)
I play two sessions at 1pm and 2pm today, I make about 12 buy-ins. Looking good right? I come back and start playing at 5pm and play four sessions with the crazy maniacs and the bad regulars and run awful. I’ve ran worse but that’s when I sucked. I lost the 12 buy-ins and about 9 more. I thought I actually had a handle on these things for once in my life and this happens. It makes me want to never play this roller coaster of a game again. I hate losing at this level ($12s) cause when I lose it is so much money. It makes me sick. I can’t take another day like today or I MUST move down in limits. If I was actually confident with my play I wouldn’t be so down in the dumps about losing. But I really haven’t been confident in my play ever.
After a very questionable hand that I played verses one of the regs. I got into a conversation with him and I’ll be honest, I told him that I thought his play was terrible. It was my last two games of the night and I had been running very rough and I was steaming big time. I have no more searches left on Sharkscope and I told him that if he has winning stats that I’m quitting poker. He then told me that I don’t even have good stats so why am I critiquing his play. I took a step back and realized he is right. Why do I have reason to think I am any good. I don’t even know if [i}I[/i] am playing correctly. I’ve been literally playing online poker for probably four years and I am still playing the lowest stakes. Only over the past year have I actually been working on improving my game and trying to learn more, but still. Most everyone that has been playing online poker as serious as I have been for this long are playing high stakes and are making a good living off of poker. I can’t even make money!! I feel that the only money I have ever cashed out is from when I have gone on hot streaks.
I guess I’ll just go back to studing hard on Wiz, even tho I think it makes me play not as aggressive.
Here’s the hand that set me off. I don’t expect this from a reg, but like I said, most of them have such huge leaks, it’s amazing that they make money at all.
Full Tilt Poker $11 + $1 No Limit Hold’em Tournament – t100/t200 Blinds – 3 players
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter
Hero (SB): t2650 M = 8.83
BB: t7220 M = 24.07
BTN: t3630 M = 12.10
Pre Flop: (t300) Hero is SB with Q 
A
BTN raises to t600, Hero raises to t2650 all in, 1 fold, BTN requests TIME, BTN calls t2050
Flop: (t5500) 9 T 
6 
Turn: (t5500) 4
River: (t5500) A
Final Pot: t5500
Hero shows Q A (a pair of Aces)
BTN shows 4 4 
(three of a kind, Fours)
BTN wins t5500
2 Comments:
browndog1986 posted on February 25, 2010 at 11:19 AM
wouldnt lose any sleep over that hand mate stupid call by him.
reading the rest of ya blog i wouldnt lose heart mate keep on going move down if ya have to loads of pro's have bad runs. look at chris ferguson and his tiny bankroll challenge he had to move down in the stakes when he was on a big losing streak if you are losing focus move down and take a break.
RIGGED! posted on February 25, 2010 at 18:55 PM
Well I looked up his stats and he has a 7.5% roi over 2000 games at the 12s. I can't get close to this roi and I don't make plays that are this bad. People just run well forever...it's sickening
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