40 to 4kPosted Feb 22, 2012 at 4:53 AM |
Haven't been blogging much as of late because I haven't had much to talk about positively. It gets repetetive talking about bad beats but outside of 2 or 3 good runs the past 6 months I have been running cold. And when I say cold I mean dead cold. Fortunately I am still winning overall but to put in the past 2 months work and barely have anything to show for it can be quite depressing.
And when I say depressing it can get pretty bad. Most of you have played live poker and know what that is like when you run card dead. You get stuck and the game is so slow and you just can't seem to win a hand at all for 8 or 10 hours. For me I would rather rake my hands on a chock board for hours than sit through that and I have many times. But that is also how online has been so picture that at light speed.
I raise utg with jacks they flat call with ace 4 on the button. They bink an ace and call down and then bink the 4 for good measure. I hit top pair they call down with 8 high and a five high flush draw on a 3 flush flop and nail it. Even heads up which is my bread and butter I can't seem to make a pair. Guys have been reeling off 30 bet wins like it is nothing and these are the guys I should be crushing the majority of the time no matter how good they run. I just can't make hands. I can flop open end straight flush draws but I can't get them completed. Guys call me down with deuces on wet boards and they are always good. It has been pretty sickening to say the least but I keep grinding it out every day.
When most people start running bad they start compounding their mistakes and I am no exception to the rule. I have played in some bad games and I can count right now of at least 6k that has cost me over the past month. It didn't cost me cause I am not good enough it is just the variance of the games and some of these games normally I would stay out of because they just aren't good spots. I have made other mistakes like tonight for instance where a donk quits and I am not paying attention and I get stuck with 2 all stars so I have to play another orbit cause I didn't uncheck autopost blinds. Not that I am not good enough to battle with these guys it is just that you lose that huge edge of the donk in the game and then the variance kicks in. That mistake cost me about 300 tonight. 20-40 hand I held AQ vs 44 on 43q flop. Sure I could have won but I don't want to be playing 2 all stars when I can just wait for a super donk to join.
Playing tired has killed me at times as well. Long sessions usually equal bad decisions. And then sometimes those bad decisions carry over and then you are spewing bets. Add it all together and it def can fuck up your win rate or lack of win rate. Fortunately for me I have been putting in tremendous volume @ 6 max and I have been rewarded with some decent rakeback. Now I need to just plug ALL of my leaks from posting buttons to making sloppy reads and bad call downs at times and I will be good to go.
Another thing that doesn't help is guys running white hot against me. Examples as follow. 15-30 3 handed the other day in a 20-30 hand span I catch aces 3 times and lose all of them to the same guy as he creamed me with 2 pair and 2 sets. I flopped top pair vs him 3 or 4 times and lost all of those as well. He flopped 4 sets in that time span. Tonight against a guy HU I held top pair or top two 4 times in 8 hands where he held kj or k10 and he just flopped the nuts both times.
As I am writing this a guy joins me hu 15-30. First 20 hands he made kk , jj 2 times and made a straight and 3 flushes and I had showdown hands every time. One of those hands I held j7 on button and flop was j79 turn 7 and he had JJ. It is just unreal. And then to add insult to injury when games goes 3 handed evry time I raise the BB from SB I whiff and they make a pair some how or when it is opposite I never make a pair. When I 3 bet from SB against button raise I dont make hands either. When stuff like this happens I almost get scared to make a move even though it is correct. I don't let it deter me but in the back of my mind I am saying here we go before anything happens.
So anyways on to the 40 to 4k which happened when that guy cracked those 3 aces and flopped those sets against me. Oh and before I go on that day I had 18 sets flopped against me vs making 1.
So it was riday I hit an all time low on one of my accounts. I was down to $40 maybe even 20 I can't remember exactly but I know it was AT LEAST as low as $40 and I was all in and I won. I doubled up again and then I doubled again. This was in 10-20 limit BTW. Ironically as this was happening I was talking to a potential backer about getting a stake going for a certain site and he told me how I should just use my own money as that would be the smart thing to do but reloading more money onto this site was making me sick just thinking about it .
So I ran it up to 1k or so and then dipped back to 500. Then I saw a great 20-40 and I was $80 short to buyin. So I said fuck it and I jumped on some guy who I didn't recognize 10-20 HU table and hit and ran him for $160. My read to play him was probably right because his play was rather sloppy in 4 hands and I will prob join him when I am bored again. So I popped into the 20-40 and ran it up to like 1600. Then I dipped back to $550 by the next night and saw another juicy 20-40 but was 50 short. My buddy shipped me the 50 and I ran well and shot up to 3k. Then by the time the weekend ended I was at about 4k and I have been sitting on that amount ever since. The game I was presently getting crushed in has turned around a bit and am only stuck a few hundred now.
Anyhow that is how poker has been going. Sooner or later I will burst through though. 50k sample and I am ahead but just not as far ahead as I would like to be or as far as my #s over the years show me I should be. I just need to start being more professional in all aspects of my play and trusting my reads more because they are usually spot on even when I make a losing play etc.
Other than that I have a big project going @ a site I will be heavily involved in called fantasydraft.net. Fantasy sports are exploding and the gambling side of it is about to take off as well and this should be a fun ride. I will be updating more on that project in the coming days weeks and months. I have been heavily neglecting my diet and my exercise and I need to get that going. I have been obsessing over poker and locking myself down to try and get out of this slump but the correct thing to do would probably be get that going strong because the exercise kills stress and eating good while it isn't fun is good for health. I haven't been eating terrible or anything but I have not been exactly dieting the way I should be. Also the forums are back open @ Venompoker.com. Come and check us out.
www.venompoker.com
And when I say depressing it can get pretty bad. Most of you have played live poker and know what that is like when you run card dead. You get stuck and the game is so slow and you just can't seem to win a hand at all for 8 or 10 hours. For me I would rather rake my hands on a chock board for hours than sit through that and I have many times. But that is also how online has been so picture that at light speed.
I raise utg with jacks they flat call with ace 4 on the button. They bink an ace and call down and then bink the 4 for good measure. I hit top pair they call down with 8 high and a five high flush draw on a 3 flush flop and nail it. Even heads up which is my bread and butter I can't seem to make a pair. Guys have been reeling off 30 bet wins like it is nothing and these are the guys I should be crushing the majority of the time no matter how good they run. I just can't make hands. I can flop open end straight flush draws but I can't get them completed. Guys call me down with deuces on wet boards and they are always good. It has been pretty sickening to say the least but I keep grinding it out every day.
When most people start running bad they start compounding their mistakes and I am no exception to the rule. I have played in some bad games and I can count right now of at least 6k that has cost me over the past month. It didn't cost me cause I am not good enough it is just the variance of the games and some of these games normally I would stay out of because they just aren't good spots. I have made other mistakes like tonight for instance where a donk quits and I am not paying attention and I get stuck with 2 all stars so I have to play another orbit cause I didn't uncheck autopost blinds. Not that I am not good enough to battle with these guys it is just that you lose that huge edge of the donk in the game and then the variance kicks in. That mistake cost me about 300 tonight. 20-40 hand I held AQ vs 44 on 43q flop. Sure I could have won but I don't want to be playing 2 all stars when I can just wait for a super donk to join.
Playing tired has killed me at times as well. Long sessions usually equal bad decisions. And then sometimes those bad decisions carry over and then you are spewing bets. Add it all together and it def can fuck up your win rate or lack of win rate. Fortunately for me I have been putting in tremendous volume @ 6 max and I have been rewarded with some decent rakeback. Now I need to just plug ALL of my leaks from posting buttons to making sloppy reads and bad call downs at times and I will be good to go.
Another thing that doesn't help is guys running white hot against me. Examples as follow. 15-30 3 handed the other day in a 20-30 hand span I catch aces 3 times and lose all of them to the same guy as he creamed me with 2 pair and 2 sets. I flopped top pair vs him 3 or 4 times and lost all of those as well. He flopped 4 sets in that time span. Tonight against a guy HU I held top pair or top two 4 times in 8 hands where he held kj or k10 and he just flopped the nuts both times.
As I am writing this a guy joins me hu 15-30. First 20 hands he made kk , jj 2 times and made a straight and 3 flushes and I had showdown hands every time. One of those hands I held j7 on button and flop was j79 turn 7 and he had JJ. It is just unreal. And then to add insult to injury when games goes 3 handed evry time I raise the BB from SB I whiff and they make a pair some how or when it is opposite I never make a pair. When I 3 bet from SB against button raise I dont make hands either. When stuff like this happens I almost get scared to make a move even though it is correct. I don't let it deter me but in the back of my mind I am saying here we go before anything happens.
So anyways on to the 40 to 4k which happened when that guy cracked those 3 aces and flopped those sets against me. Oh and before I go on that day I had 18 sets flopped against me vs making 1.
So it was riday I hit an all time low on one of my accounts. I was down to $40 maybe even 20 I can't remember exactly but I know it was AT LEAST as low as $40 and I was all in and I won. I doubled up again and then I doubled again. This was in 10-20 limit BTW. Ironically as this was happening I was talking to a potential backer about getting a stake going for a certain site and he told me how I should just use my own money as that would be the smart thing to do but reloading more money onto this site was making me sick just thinking about it .
So I ran it up to 1k or so and then dipped back to 500. Then I saw a great 20-40 and I was $80 short to buyin. So I said fuck it and I jumped on some guy who I didn't recognize 10-20 HU table and hit and ran him for $160. My read to play him was probably right because his play was rather sloppy in 4 hands and I will prob join him when I am bored again. So I popped into the 20-40 and ran it up to like 1600. Then I dipped back to $550 by the next night and saw another juicy 20-40 but was 50 short. My buddy shipped me the 50 and I ran well and shot up to 3k. Then by the time the weekend ended I was at about 4k and I have been sitting on that amount ever since. The game I was presently getting crushed in has turned around a bit and am only stuck a few hundred now.
Anyhow that is how poker has been going. Sooner or later I will burst through though. 50k sample and I am ahead but just not as far ahead as I would like to be or as far as my #s over the years show me I should be. I just need to start being more professional in all aspects of my play and trusting my reads more because they are usually spot on even when I make a losing play etc.
Other than that I have a big project going @ a site I will be heavily involved in called fantasydraft.net. Fantasy sports are exploding and the gambling side of it is about to take off as well and this should be a fun ride. I will be updating more on that project in the coming days weeks and months. I have been heavily neglecting my diet and my exercise and I need to get that going. I have been obsessing over poker and locking myself down to try and get out of this slump but the correct thing to do would probably be get that going strong because the exercise kills stress and eating good while it isn't fun is good for health. I haven't been eating terrible or anything but I have not been exactly dieting the way I should be. Also the forums are back open @ Venompoker.com. Come and check us out.
www.venompoker.com
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