February 15, 2010
I Hate Weekends...Stop Loss Fail
I really really hate weekends right now. Not only do I fail to beat up on the super loose and bad players that come out, but I just lose a boat load. Then, the players are so bad I can’t find a good enough reason to quit because there is so much value in the games.
So, in the interest of playing more hands in good games I decide to grind a ton on Sunday. Long story short…I lost some sick amount of buy-ins.
I had my normal game going, was up a couple buy-ins. Thinking of quitting as per my usual routine, but I had only played like 200 hands and had plenty of free time. Since I’ve been wanting to grind more hands I decide to stick to it. I make one bad read on an aggressive player and I’m back to even. Okay, let’s grind out some more hands and book a win.
NO! I made the second best hand over and over and just couldn’t find the fold button. I grind back up to maybe a 2bi loss, I’m feeling good, playing good.
Same aggro reg. I make a move and I misplay a hand, but end up with like 66% on the turn in an ~800bb pot but he gets there.
I lose one more big pot with the nuts on the turn where I guy fills up on river and soon after I quit.
Going over the whole session in my mind I played bad and gave away about 6-8 buy-ins in spots I could/should have folded. This makes me oddly more confident. It tells me I know the right and wrong plays to make and that when I play well I can beat the game pretty handily. If I’m the only thing in my way then at least I know where the problem lies.
So I’m at spot where I usually stop playing for a few days. I take a break for a few hours, get some food, watch a movie (American Psycho, man that movie is fucked up).
Then I think y’know I can beat these games, if I let this change my perception or play it will be bad for long time. I log back in and sit in a few good spots. I crush. I’m getting all the moneys in left and right with 60-70-80+ % on the turn. Then it’s like 4 outs on the river, BOOM, 7 outs BOOM, Quads to top boat, BOOM! Drop a few more buy-ins just can’t win, make a quit.
But I feel good, or as good as you can about it. Like I played through the bad found my head again and am back at it.
Seriously though, I hate weekends. All my big losses come on weekends. I need some help playing against the 92/10/1 guys, limp calling their whole range.
2 Comments:
ron0914 posted on February 15, 2010 at 22:12 PM
Oh I feel you. I feel like I can't win on weekends either. Stealing pots from nits during the week is easy, but those fish are just insane sometimes!
But make sure you put the hours in when you are having winning weekends too - It's so easy at weekends to just pat yourself on the back and go for a beer when you are on your A game...
rvtsteve posted on February 16, 2010 at 10:01 AM
Yeah I hear ya. That's kind of what I had been doing all month. Playing good, imo, feeling good and running hotter than the sun. Seems like a pretty great spot to grind a ton of hands...apparently not to me. I tend to play a lot less when I'm on a heater, guess I don't want it to end so I get in and get out. But when I'm losing I grind a ton of hands to get through the darknesss and back into the light.
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