April 1st is over, but it still feels like the joke is on me, as I am running absolutely horrible.
So far this month, I am about even online but still feel like I should be up a bundle more, if I didn't have Aces cracked or QQ getting called AIPF vs Jh5h (for his whole $5 stack!) and the dude hitting a backdoor flush.
But tonight really tops it all because I have a really sick feeling to my stomach.
In a live SNG with $10 BI, I was the clear chip leader with 7 left and kept doubling up the short stacks with gems like these.
AA vs K8, board reads 64523
99 vs 22, he rivers a 2
KQ vs K8, he turns a flush
AK vs KQ vs 99, the board is rags
What can I do seriously? Even with that last double up, I think I was even or ahead in all of them, so there is not much I can do anymore.
After all this, the shorter stack (which I doubled 3 times) was the runaway chip leader as I left shortly after busting, a meaningless A3 vs AT which fizzled...against that same guy obviously.
Even through all this, I think I got respect from everybody at the table since they all acknowled I was just running bad.
It just sucks to lose.
ronee
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Friday, April 3, 2009
Volume is the *key*
I've been running bad the past month.
After a great start to the year, I am barely even in live games (I don't keep track but whatever, this is about right).
I then proceeded to lose most of my winnings playing on Full Tilt and some more at PLO.
Obviously I still suck at Omaha and take full responsability for playing when I don't even have any sort of edge.
One thing I realized though in poker is, volume is the key to everything.
You might be 2% better than your opponent, still, you won't be making money after one night of play.
I have seen so much shit the past few weeks, like K6 pushing on the river of a KK6-T-rag board only to get called by KT. What about last night with JT committing all his money on the turn when the board read KQ9-Q-K and his opponent calling with Q-rag.
So for a change, I decided to 6-table tonight. Although my connection barely held up and I got disconnected temporarily twice, I was able to put in 250 hands in about an hour.
Guess what, I had AA twice in the first 10 mins, and they got cracked twice, preflop by JJ and on the flop by a straight draw.
I lost $12 very very quickly and I was starting to feel depressed and thinking 'this is just not my day', but still I stuck with it and I am glad I did.
Luckily when you play multiple tables, you just don't have time to feel sorry for yourself and think about your mistakes (which is what hand histories are for, but I don't bother to be honest). So I just kept my head in the game and kept grinding, grinding, kept reloading, busting and being busted.
At that time, I didn't even know what my bankroll was exactly and probably didn't want to know the result from this disastrous session.
I loaded Poker Tracker anyways, imported the 259 hands,... the sessions read this:
-$9.35
-$0.05
-$2.95
+$5.90
+$4.70
+$2.10
In the end, I came out a +$0.35 winner, ridicoulous. But still a lot better than if I were just 2-tabling, don't you think?
If you don't multi-table, you're just losing money.
ronee
After a great start to the year, I am barely even in live games (I don't keep track but whatever, this is about right).
I then proceeded to lose most of my winnings playing on Full Tilt and some more at PLO.
Obviously I still suck at Omaha and take full responsability for playing when I don't even have any sort of edge.
One thing I realized though in poker is, volume is the key to everything.
You might be 2% better than your opponent, still, you won't be making money after one night of play.
I have seen so much shit the past few weeks, like K6 pushing on the river of a KK6-T-rag board only to get called by KT. What about last night with JT committing all his money on the turn when the board read KQ9-Q-K and his opponent calling with Q-rag.
So for a change, I decided to 6-table tonight. Although my connection barely held up and I got disconnected temporarily twice, I was able to put in 250 hands in about an hour.
Guess what, I had AA twice in the first 10 mins, and they got cracked twice, preflop by JJ and on the flop by a straight draw.
I lost $12 very very quickly and I was starting to feel depressed and thinking 'this is just not my day', but still I stuck with it and I am glad I did.
Luckily when you play multiple tables, you just don't have time to feel sorry for yourself and think about your mistakes (which is what hand histories are for, but I don't bother to be honest). So I just kept my head in the game and kept grinding, grinding, kept reloading, busting and being busted.
At that time, I didn't even know what my bankroll was exactly and probably didn't want to know the result from this disastrous session.
I loaded Poker Tracker anyways, imported the 259 hands,... the sessions read this:
-$9.35
-$0.05
-$2.95
+$5.90
+$4.70
+$2.10
In the end, I came out a +$0.35 winner, ridicoulous. But still a lot better than if I were just 2-tabling, don't you think?
If you don't multi-table, you're just losing money.
ronee
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