running like "god"

Cliffs: Earlier this week full tilt gave me a 100$ bonus to clear. That plus procrastination and noticing that they have 5nl rush led me to playing a decent amount this past week. I brought ye old roll from a low of ~70 to a high of roughly 115 before i landed at 105. Then i started a 900 hand session tonight.

In that 961 hands I got:

AA 8 times

KK 7 times

QQ 7 times

JJ 4 times

AK 8 times

AQ 7 times

It felt like I was getting these hands all the time because i was. I was running the best i have in a long time in terms of simply getting starting hands. Unfortunately my totals won didnt really help the situation. Heres what I won with each hand:

AA +89 bbs

KK -200 bbs

QQ +3 bbs

JJ -80 bbs

AK +23.4 bbs

AQ +20 bbs

Adding these numbers together shows that I lost roughly 143 bbs or $7 with my best hands over this session. I will say that I think i played well this session. I will post a graph and I was trying to work on my "green line" non-showdown winnings. I did a good job of that. I wasnt putting in tons of money and folding and my bluffs were working well. Really the only reason that I lost in the end was a simple section of hands back to back to back. First I ranKK into AA AIP for a large(above 200bbs) pot and then QQ into AA AIP and then very soonafter KK into AA AIp all for large pots all back to back. It was brutal. Dbtoots89 has recently posted about a similar session in which he felt that he ran well but barely won any money. Unfortunately I wasnt able to post a result even that good.

Meh. It felt good to be back at the tables. It felt really good to be picking off bluffs, and stealing some pots. Im going down to florida this week (break) to chill with Dbtoots89 and Jeff , our friend, and it is going to be fantastic. A great week of poker/excitement/debauchery. Im glad that i have a trippple didget online roll again and Im very very pumped to go play some cards and chill with these folks.

Ill leave you all with a graph

Have a good weekend!

rambling

Ive played a lot of poker over the past few years. As far as i know ive improved as a player as time goes by. Ive watched videos, read forums and talked about hands. Hell, one of the kids i played with every single night is now one of the best mtt players in the world and Ive definitely picked his brain and watched him play long enough to pick up some tidbits of information.

This previous summer saw me do pretty well online. After stringing together a couple wins i built my bankroll to the highest its ever been. Then and i went to london and stopped playing very often until i started the propbet with dbtoots which would take a chunk out of my roll. When i returned to the US i really couldnt get anything going. I put in a ton of volume over this past break and i ran deep in my fare share mtts but i couldnt close the deal on anything.

Then i cashed out half my roll to buy and xbox and i was happy to have something tangible with my poker winnings. I can tell my friend who dont play poker that i bought it with winnings and their attitude toward the game changes. They go from, wow you gamble.....to damn you can buy cool things for basically free.

But back to the story, since i bought the xbox my bankroll has simply plummeted. Absolutely nothing has gone well. I lost a survivor football pool in week 17 which would have been an awesome booster. Most recently i managed to give away close to $130 over the course of a few days at rush. the same rush which i had won about $80 just beforehand. All in all over the course of a week i sent my roll from 230, all the way back to the number it was at when i bought the xbox, to a paltry 50 bucks.

A timely victory in superbowl betting put me back up to 90 and i won some money at rush the same weekend. Since then, ive started losing again. The rolls not quite in danger land again, but its surely not in a spot im comfortable with.

Over time, if ive improved one thing about my game is my tilt control. Playing today and getting 2 outed on the river twice and having numerous big hands just run down really wasnt getting to me. Towards the end i was getting pretty upset so i simply quite the game.

The thing ive been trying to get to...is something that has been on my mind today. Maybe i just suck at poker.

My entire "career" has always felt like a continuous downswing. Of course ive had my runs, where ive strung together some mtt wins or cash success but i think the vast majority of my playing has been breaking even or losing Or ill have weeks where i win small win small and then lose huge.

Ive always felt as though Im terribly unlucky. I run really fucking bad. Ask any of the people who have grinded with me....Its not uncommon for me to get 2 or 3 outed in a huge spot of an mtt. But the nagging feeling is that i dont know if its reasonable to blame luck any more. Its gotten to the point where every time i open full tilt im probably going to lose. So whats the fucking point. Clearly i have missed the boat on how to succeed.

Ive won a number of mtts. Ive had final table scores too. But is it more reasonable to assume that those occasions were me getting ridiculously lucky and running well? Am i the donk that people curse from behind their monitor?

I dont know anymore. Id like to think im good at this game. Id LOVE to get to the point where i could win a couple hundred bucks a month playing and create some spare income. But i dont know.

bloggings no fun when youre losing.

and im losing. bad.

Long TIme

So Poker has been plain awful. I cashed out 2/3 of the roll to buy an xbox which has been pretty fun but since then full tilt has decided that i don't deserve to have any fun after withdrawing. I have constantly been running deep in tournies which is great but once the end gets near i run like death in huge spots. Here is one hand that happened today, in the beginning of a 2r. Villain had been openshoving his huge stack on many hands and i was itching for a spot to pick him off. The action ran out He openshoved, i reshoved, and the shortstack called forming a large sidepot.

This pot was for the chip leader position with 400 to go, early in the tourny.

On a different note, I am very excited for the WBCOOP. Im really grateful to stars for putting this event on and hopefully i can turn some of my luck around and win a decent prize.

Im off to grind this 2r....

I raise pre get 3 callers,

bet 555 into 888 on flop, and 750 on the turn putting him all in. brilliant river.

Im going to try to update pretty regularly now that school is back in session and i can get onto a somewhat a consistent schedule

freerollaments

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short update

poker had been going good, then i lost about 10% of the roll in 24 hours in various sngs and mtts. cashed out $250 to buy an xbox leaving myself with about $230. Had an absolutely atrocious night at the sngs today but found myself running deep in a 3 dollar ko which started with 1100 ppl, sound familiar? Anyways, i finished 9th for 45 bucks. So dissapointing. Doesnt even pay for tonights losses across the board. First place was 640. I lost on a standard hand:

I am 8th in chips w/ 11bbs. Cutoff who has 25bbs open minraises and i jam over the top with AJo. He tanks and eventually flips AQo which holds.

An epic seven hands

As Im sure you all know, the more you play the more variance catches up with you and the more bizarre and crazy things you see. Sometimes, that variance is phenomenally helpful. This sng started innocently enough. I got to the final 3 in good chip position. I had ~5k vs ~5k vs ~3k. Heads up this hand occured:

Now, this hand deserves some explanation. First the line we took.

Preflop: Villain minraises, I call

Flop: I check villain bets 2.4k into 3.2k I jam for about 3k more villain tanks and eventually calls

Heads up i had been abusing this guy. Some hands ago I limp 3bet him from the button and scared the shit out of him. Ever since then he was respecting my limps and folding to minbets on the flop. Basically he was giving me a ton of respect. I decide to come along here thinking i can take this pot away easily on the flop. When the flop falls i actually make the decision to c/r this guy. He had been playing so scared I thought i could definitely rep the ace, and if he does call the jam i have a gutter and potentially one overcard, unless of course he has an ace....but i dont really think thats the case. Well...he ends up tanking forever and i think im going to take it down but then he makes a great call and im left with one small blind....

The next six hands shown were the next six hands dealt.

All in blind:

All in blind (for me) again:

All in pre (essentially blind):

He folds:

All in and he folds:

He limp/calls my jam pre and i fade 1.2million outs:

I folded once, then he folded then this (All in pre):

Talk about snatching victory out of the jaws of defeat.