Tides Turn Fast (What A Nightmare)
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 at 11:38AM Last night I had an absolute nightmare session. I began 4 tabling short stack and took around 4 beats in a 20 minute span (for my entire stack each time). I ended up down -$400. Absolutely devastating. I'm angry with myself because my discipline was pathetic. I targeted a bad player and re-bought $80 to go after him. I lost that entire stack as he rivered a 2 outer against my overpair. At this point I buy in around $180 to go after him.
The clue-less clown ends up rivering me two more times during the session to absolutely fuck my session. So much for everything I built up over the weekend. I guess overall I'm still up $400 in this format, but wow. It's scary how bad my discipline really was last night. The gambler came out in me; the logic being; "my goal is to get the most money in with the best situation". I knew this guy represented an extremely good situation that I could exploit (in theory, about 90% of the time). But I got sucked out three times so that's poker. I don't ever remember being so angry and disgusted with poker.
I'm not going to run on and post 8 suck-out hands, I will spare you that. And I knew I was risking it by buying in more than a short-stack to go after a certain situation. It's pointless going "I would have, should have, or could have". Going forward it's either stick to a strictly low-stack strategy, or deposit a few thousand online so I can go after idiots like this and be able to take getting rivered 3 times in the span of an hour for enormous pots. Oh right that's why I'm planning to move to Vegas so I have everything LIVE. Burn in hell Poker Stars. Or I could keep buying in to much money and go broke with my online bankroll; that's fun as well.
Obviously not playing tonight. Decided I deserve the torture of working out even know I only got 4 hours of sleep. Serves me right. Hope everyone else is having a better week.
-bag
Reader Comments (2)
Bags, tough night. Shake it off. Resilience is something every player needs (if you are serious about your game) to be able to shake off bad sessions. You deviated from your strategy and pursued an opportunity. Nothing wrong with that. Then, the "live one" got lucky on you. That's gambling. It could happen in Live B&M poker, too. Let it go. Resolve to return to your strategy and execute it repeatedly. If you see an opportunity, it is OK to go for it but don't risk too much.
Your bankroll is too important to risk foolishly. Suck outs and bad beats happen to all of us. One of the things that sets serious players apart from less serious ones is how we handle the adversity of the game we have chosen. Good Luck.
Lucy,
Thanks for the comment. Yes it could happen B&M, but I would have the bankroll to take a few losses like that. Online I really want to exploit opportunities, but I guess I have to face the fact that I really don't have the BR right now to do much. It's either nit-up or deposit more. With my BR, I can't risk more then $40 on each table unless I double the original deposit and have a juicy situation.
He was to my immediate right as well. Pained me to leave that table..... When it's said and done I still can't feel bad about risking some extra cash in that situation.
-bag