Thus far I have recovered about 2/3 of what I lost in the 100NL fiasco. It's amazing but as soon as I moved down I instantly ran normal again. This crap can really mess with your head.
All-in-all I know I am a better player for having gone through such ridiculous swings. Due to analysis of my play during the last nosedive, I made a couple major tweaks in my game that has really cut down on the variance.
I am looking forward to getting back to 100NL instead of having the normal feeling of dread.
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Monday, January 16, 2012
Back to 50NL
I am $900 under AIEV over my first 3k hands at 100NL. This is like a repeat performance of early 2011 where I ran 4k under ev over like 2 months.
I have now lost to a gut shot when all-in 5 straight times... two of those times was on the turn.
Is that even possible? Seriously.. what are the mathematical odds of that happening? I better buy a lottery ticket.
The whales keep trying to hand me their money but the poker Gods won't let them.
Oh well, that's poker.
With 1/3 of my bankroll gone, I am moving down. I am not going to give up. When I hit 3k I will give 100NL another shot. I can't get F@#$@ forever.
I have now lost to a gut shot when all-in 5 straight times... two of those times was on the turn.
Is that even possible? Seriously.. what are the mathematical odds of that happening? I better buy a lottery ticket.
The whales keep trying to hand me their money but the poker Gods won't let them.
Oh well, that's poker.
With 1/3 of my bankroll gone, I am moving down. I am not going to give up. When I hit 3k I will give 100NL another shot. I can't get F@#$@ forever.
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Just to cheer myself up...
...here is my 50NL graph from the past few weeks.
I'm going to try and channel that run good mojo going forward. :)
I'm going to try and channel that run good mojo going forward. :)
Moving up= you can't win at showdown
After smashing through 50NL with a 12bb/100 win-rate over 30k hands, I finally made it to 100NL.
Excitedly I fired up some tables. There is probably some sub-optimal play here and there as I adjust to the regulars, but overall I feel I played very well.
I wasn't really paying attention to how I was doing, although I did notice that I was losing some races.
After the session I checked the graph and almost threw up.
In 3 short hours I blew a weeks work at 50NL. Good times.
I know that this kinda stuff happens, but it's odd that it seems to always happen as soon as I move up. It happened multiple times at 50NL before I got a foothold, now it here we go again at 100NL.
This is the kinda thing that woulda really bothered me a year ago. Now I know I just need to grind enough hands to turn it around. If I have to move down, oh well.. no biggie. I'll be back at 100NL in a week or two. :)
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(Continued- 2 hrs later)
It's been one of those days where my opponents mystically hit whatever combination of runner runner if all-in on the flop or 1 or 2 outer if all-in on the turn.
This may seem like a small sample, and it is.. but since I only play 2-4 tables at a time, it's like 8 hrs of play today. What a strange game this is.
Well, I'm $200 from having to move down. Almost 1/3 of my BR gone since yesterday :(
I wish somehow this graph showed the 9 times that I flopped the nuts and got all-in on the turn or river only to find out they had turned a gutshot or some other wierd suckout. 9 times. That's a lot of dough.
It's funny though, I haven't run this bad since my first move to 50NL in February. I am not going to get frustrated, tomorrow is a new day.. I'll be back strong then. This is why we practice BR management, no?
Excitedly I fired up some tables. There is probably some sub-optimal play here and there as I adjust to the regulars, but overall I feel I played very well.
I wasn't really paying attention to how I was doing, although I did notice that I was losing some races.
After the session I checked the graph and almost threw up.
In 3 short hours I blew a weeks work at 50NL. Good times.
I know that this kinda stuff happens, but it's odd that it seems to always happen as soon as I move up. It happened multiple times at 50NL before I got a foothold, now it here we go again at 100NL.
This is the kinda thing that woulda really bothered me a year ago. Now I know I just need to grind enough hands to turn it around. If I have to move down, oh well.. no biggie. I'll be back at 100NL in a week or two. :)
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(Continued- 2 hrs later)
It's been one of those days where my opponents mystically hit whatever combination of runner runner if all-in on the flop or 1 or 2 outer if all-in on the turn.
This may seem like a small sample, and it is.. but since I only play 2-4 tables at a time, it's like 8 hrs of play today. What a strange game this is.
Well, I'm $200 from having to move down. Almost 1/3 of my BR gone since yesterday :(
I wish somehow this graph showed the 9 times that I flopped the nuts and got all-in on the turn or river only to find out they had turned a gutshot or some other wierd suckout. 9 times. That's a lot of dough.
It's funny though, I haven't run this bad since my first move to 50NL in February. I am not going to get frustrated, tomorrow is a new day.. I'll be back strong then. This is why we practice BR management, no?
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