Tides Turn Fast (What A Nightmare)
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 at 11:38AM
Baglife

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

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