An End to a Miserable Live Week (11/15/2010)

I finished down -$185 in about 34 hours live this week.  I busted my ass and tortured my schedule, I really did, but it just wasn't happening this week for me.  The slump just went to first losing weekend in a long time.  It was just absolutely brutal this weekend.  I hit some variance and EXTREME card dead most of those 34 hours, I wish I could say I was kidding.

When you run like shit it's pretty frusterating.  You see people sit down and stack up to +$1,000 NO PROBLEM, it's just so easy.  They run like God, hit 5 sets, get dealt JJ+ 5 times in an hour, you know the usual.  Meanwhile, there you are in seat 5 folding out your standard 59o preflop.

I chased a really profitable game Saturday night until 8:50 a.m in the morning.  I thought I could turn a solid profit the entire time.  To bad I was literally card-dead from 1:50 a.m to 8:50 a.m.  In a game where people were betting $20 blind pref-flop I literally did not get dealt JJ+ ONCE, not one time.  Nor did I flop a set once (though that was standard this weekend as well).  I got dealt AK 4 times during that span, but missed the flop every time.  Every time the pot was three or more players, and contained at least one queen and or one jack.  Absolute shit. 

Eventually at 8:50 a.m I made a mistake and shoved all in pre-flop with AK to try to go after a player I'd been watching for 4 hours.  Well it wasn't really a mistake, but it was over-aggressive.  Any other time I would have folded the hand, but against the 3-betting villian it was correct.  The 3-better was a really bad player, and I wanted to single him out and/or steal the pot.  I thought I could easily have him dominated or use my tight image to fold him out.  He had AK as well, but a nit who had just sat down pre limped, then ended up blindly calling my 4bet with QQ and held.  Oh sweet some dude who was sandwhiched between us got dealt QQ within 5 minutes!!!  I hadn't seen a hand that strong dealt to me in the last 5 hours.  But anyways that knocked me down on that session.  That was the biggest mistake I made all weekend, very uncharacteristic of me.  But it serves me right for fucking up my schedule and staying up at such a crazy hour.  I should have ended at 5:00 a.m on Sunday morning and logged up +$280 on the night and accepted it WASN"T MY NIGHT.  I was incredibly disapointed in myself for really messing up my schedule and losing discipline there.  It's almost NEVER worth it to stay that extra few hours when things are going horrifically live, you just have to keep your schedule in mind. 

This Sunday sealed the weekly loss as I lost -$230 in 6 hours.  Most of it gone on an all in overpair on a flop.  There was $60 in the pot, and the guy calls my $110 all in on a flush draw.  What do I have to raise to get these idiots off a flush draw?  My House?  He binks the river, so there goes that session.  I was also dealt AKo 4 times I believe.  Not once did I flop anything worthwhile.  I stole at least two of the pots that went heads up, but the other three I could not.  Same deal with any AQ or AJ I was dealt.  Was dealt AA once, took down a small pot.  Was also dealt QQ once, which could not hold up on an all in pre against a short-stack who held with AK.  Oh sweet must be nice to hit a KING on the flop in that situation.  I think my last 10 AK's dealt live have whiffed the flop.  Also not one set flopped like usual tonight.  Tonight was bad, but I didn't make any mistakes.  If it wasn't for that suck-out on the river I would have still been up on the session.

So a really bad week and I'm not in a great mood right now because of it.  So exhausted, should get to sleep by 3:00 a.m tonight which is really early for me.  Man do I need sleep.

Bad week, but I guess most people have those occasionally.  I had won the last 8 weekends live played, so it had to come to an end sometime.  Meh, what can you do. 

So my schedule during the upcoming few weeks should be something like:

Mon 15th - Wed 17th (All online)

Thurs 18th-  Forcing myself to take off a day from playing poker.  Going to dinner with my roommate and then probably going out later.

Friday 19th- Sunday 21st  (All live.  Doing everything I can to break out of the live slump and log another solid win)

 Monday 22nd (online)

 11/23- 11/26  (No poker.  Home for Thanksgiving.  I might play some online while home, but probably not.  Friends + Family!)

11/27- 12/1  (Most likely taking a needed vaction and visiting Manhattan)

12/2- 12/3 (Grind)

12/4 (party)

12/5- 12/22 (Grind)

-bag