Saturday 3/6/2010 Nightmare (Down -$1000 total)

Saturday Commentary

Let’s try this again…

4:50 p.m

The BS ALREADY STARTS.  Table one flopped 2 pair on the blind.  The opponent  flops the set.  Amazing.  Buy in bye.  YEAH LET ME FOLD THAT?  Sticking to around 6 tables right now because I can’t avoid shit like that obviously, as shown the last 9 fucking hours of play.  Oh he was also fundamentally the worst player on the table, absolutely un-foldable.

5:30 p.m

Just doubled to $140 with table 3.  The table is so bad I decided to stay around until the worst player goes bust.  Shouldn’t be long .  I’m sure a super-user will stack will get dealt their standard AA and stack him in the next 2 hands. 

Table 4 dealt KK on the button.  Entire table folds to me and I win the blinds.  Did I mention I hate this site?  The table also had 2 very loose players on my right amazing.  I guess it’s better than losing to the standard ace flop.

5:45 p.m

Just lost a $70 pot vs a short-stacking regular on table 3 (table where I chipped up and stayed).  OF COURSE HE HAS AA> AK.   WHAT THE ELSE WOULD HE Have?  Down to $100 there.   That’s my signature move baby, get all in with AK against a regular that’s somehow dealt AA at the same time.  I won’t say “gotta love it”.  I hate this shit.  Balance out the unbelievable screw you have put on me the last 10 hours you piece of shit Troll Stars.

6:00 p.m

Coolered again table 5.  JJ< KK all in pre.   That’s what I do; get in with 1010+ and get slammed by the KK.  So if you want to know who has KK+ in the hand just deal me a QQ or JJ every hand. Again, I’d love to know how these people constantly pick up these insane hands against my premiums, but when I get KK or AA the entire table folds around.

6:20 p.m

Full buy in gone QQ < KK all in pre.  IT NEVER ENDS.  I should really be used to it

6:30 p.m

Taking a quick break when the blinds hit.  Terrible session.  I don’t even want to check the bankroll it certainly can’t be good.  Add in the 3 coolers that’s insurmountable right there.  I could play 10 years and not have the better end of coolering 3 opponents in 2 hours.   Or if I did they would slam every 2 outer in the book.  My attitude is shit right now so the break would be good.  I’m obviously not mature enough to handle 10 hours of straight up abuse.  Down only -$40 in those 2 hours, but I feel like a horse kicked me in the face.

7:00 p.m

I’m back.  Going to phase in tables and strive for profitable ones.  The tables really suck right now, so there’s going to be a lot of stealing and trying to get in people’s heads until I can find decent ones.  There’s also hordes of short-stackers for some reason.  Terrible time to play poker.

7:10 p.m

Table 3.  JJ< KK all in pre lost.  THAT TOOK LONG LOL.  THANKS!! ANYTHING ELSE?  Just for the record today in 2 hours opponents coolering me with better hands FOUR TIMES.  Me coolering them ZERO.  Something seems a little unbalanced.   12 tables, 8 tables, 4 tables, you name it; nothing can go right.

7:25 p.m

Table 4 $100 POT GONE KK< AA PREFLOP.  What do I do fold the KK because poker-stars decided to rig me.  IT’s the worst player on the table.  PLEASE STOP THE HORSESHIT OR I AM LEAVING THIS SITE.  I’m dead fucking serious I am DONE WEITH THIS SHIT.   THAT’S THE FIFTH COOLER IN 2.5 HOURS against my 0.  I don’t understand what to do here.   This is a huge reason why my ultimate goal is to move and play live.  I can’t stand getting FUCKED OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN by an un-named BULLSHIT site.  The shit I have gone through is the most unjust disgusting shit I have ever seen.

7:45 p.m (20 minutes after I lost my mind)

Doubled on two tables and lost a buy-in on one.  The lost buy-in happened when I pushed all in with the nut flush draw.  The tool-shed had turned 2 pair with 56 off , after calling a pre raise.  I have no idea, must be nice.  It’s going to be a long night so I might as well get the emotions under control a while or quit and go out like normal 24-year old who has the ability to pick up girls.  Well I was never a quitter.

Just picked up a $100 pot on table 4.  Opponent calls my huge re-raise pre with A5 off.   He ended up shoving me all in re-raising on the flop on a 10 10 5 board.  I somehow avoided the suck-out with over pair QQ.  I’ve decided to leave the $100 stack on that table.  The mentioned opponent is to my immediate right and there are not many good tables right now.

8:35 p.m

Just doubled up to $180 on table 3.  Hybrid strategy pays off for once.  Same guy playing A5 before pays me again.  This time calling A9, mid pair 9, all the way to the river.  He rebuys $100; I’m staying.  Meanwhile on table 2 CLOWN-BOX CALLS 40 ALL IN PRE WITH A5 OFF.  RIVER 5.  A5> AK.  How does this idiot sleep at night?  I swear he sucks me out ever session like this.  Here’s what I will do idiot.  I will add you to my buddy list and look you up ever time I log in for the rest of my fucking life, so I hope it was worth the $40 call with A5 pre.  He left the table lol.  Maybe he can buy a poker book with the +40.

Table 2 all in pre with JJ > 10 10.  That’s one cooler in my favor against the 5 against me tonight.  IT’S ONE TO FIVE BABY.  So 4 more of those in a row and I’ll call it even.  That’s some perspective on how massively I have been screwed so far.

9:15 p.m

Terrible suck-out on table 1 to lose an $80 pot.  I flop a set, he calls all in with ace pair and the FD.  RIVER FLUSH.  THANKS STARS!!!  A++++ EXCELLENT SOFTWARE WOULD CERTAINLY RECOMMEND GETTING FUCKED OUT OF A POT HERE AGAIN!!!!!   THE OPPONENT WAS ALSO VERY SOCIABLE!!!!!

9:40 p.m

AA sucked out on two different tables to lose enormous pots.  Table 6 idiot calls $30 all in pre with JK off.  RIVERS THE FLUSH.  Table 2 calls my raise pre with JK OFF and flops the nut straight against my top set of aces.  I should be used to it but ARE WE SERIOUS?????  Are these idiots working for pokerstars or are they really this bad?  How can you be that bad and get rewarded again and again.

I’m not sure if any sane person would sit here and keep playing after losing AA like that on simultaneously different tables.  I obviously need to see a psychologist.  Playing some music, maybe it can calm me down some.  I’m really fed up.

10:15  p.m

COOLERED AGAIN TABLE 3  JJ < QQ ALL IN PRE .  FUCK THIS SIX TO ONE ON THE COOLERS.   At this rate ill be making another deposit by the end of the friggin session.  Everything that could be taken has been robbed from me tongith by this bs site.  Taking a break around 11:00 p.m; late dinner.

Table 6 full buy in gone AA < JJ all in pre. hits the straight.   I might as well fold AA pre-flop, lost 3 of them tonight all ready, WON 0. 

Table 6 THE 4^TH AA LOST TONIGHT.  THIS TIME HE FLOPS SET OF 10S WTF.  How come I can’t hit a 2-outer one of the SIX FUCKING TIMES I’m coolereD?    This is a nightmare, I could never turn this shit around.   I’m going to say worst Saturday of my life.   I’m going to throw up if I lose one more fucking AA all in pre.   Down about 200 in this session alone.   Just accept you will lose every SINGLE AA dealt, fail to dodge every 2-outer,  get coolered a thousand times; until my bankroll hits zero.  FUCK IT whats the point Troll-stars has already decided my fate.  Just playing it out for “fun” at this point.  I don’t think I’ve doubled up in over an hour.  Just lost AA 4 times or whatever, not sure how that is humanly possible.

Lost a $75 stack on table 1 before I could leave.  Somehow this has gotten worse.  AN asshole plays A8 suited against my raise pre and HITS THE NUT FLUSH AGAINST MY TOP PARI TOP KICK AK.  All the clown had to do was check and call for the $130 pot.  HAHAHAHAHAH.  Didn’t think I could get one.   There is fire inside me right now; I’m going to end up breaking something really soon.  By the way what are the odds of flopping the nut flush?   It’s already happened twice against me today .  Must be very common.  Troll stars strikes again.  10 Minutes until break.  I’m so disgusted I’m not even hungry, but I should really break an hour anyways.  This type of bull-shit is a lot to wrap your head around.

If I play later I’m just going to have to treat as a clean-slate.  The way I have run the past few sessions is not going to balance out in a session.  It could take weeks, it may NEVER balance out for that matter.  To get dealt AA and lose 4 times in a row, much less even get dealt them for example.  The coolers, the suck-outs, the bullshit, it just all has to be wiped clean in my mind. 

Table 4 DEALT AA, HE HITS THE MOTHER FUCKING SET.  That’s what 5 times AA slain?  I Can’t even keep count. 

11:00 p.m

Logged.  -$237 in 3.5 hours.  That was fun.  That’s -$650 in the past 8.  Well I’m going to go eat something.  Maybe I’ll get all my decks of cards in the house take all the aces out, light them on fire, and throw them out the window.  I can’t feel like anything above was my fault.  I somehow feel like I played fine, I just feel completely screwed over.  At least manger is recording all this so I can turn Stars in for being rigged one day.  What else can I say……..

NEW CHAPTER???

12:45 a.m

That was a nice break.  I almost forgot about the brutality I suffered.   I want to put in at least 3 more hours.  Then I would only need 3 more Sunday to hit 20 this weekend.  I really don’t see how things could get any worse.  Striving to treat this as a clean slate and forget about the past 14 hours; not really much else I can do.

Let’s try this again………….

1:30 a.m

Table 1 Idiot calls raise pre with 22.  Flops the set against my top pair ace, king kicker.  Don’t waste any time in fucking me over or anything right troll-stars?  That’s the beginning of it lol .  HERE WE GO AGAIN.

2:30 a.m

I’m sticking to around 8-10 tables currently.  Strangely not a whole lot going on to report.   Calm before the storm or something….

2:31 a.m

Just doubled to $90 on table 6.  KK holds against 99, not sure how I dodged the two out.  I must have fallen into the twilight zone or something.  I’m sure it will be short-lived and inconsequential.  Thought I was toast with the ace on the river. 

2:35 a.m

Buy in gone on table 3 AK < JJ all in pre.  Standard.

2:45 a.m

LOST A $100 pot on table 3.  I am steaming.  Just had a minor flip out in my basement.   All in pre-flop $50 with AK.  FLOP KING KING QUEEN.  The guy has QQ  BOAT BABABAHAABABAH.  Burn in hell poker stars seriously.  BURN IN HELL.  How’d I know he was holding QQ there lmao.   So the one possible hand combo in the deck that could beat me on that flop he’s holding.   I can’t get over that I’m fucking done.  WHAT DO I NEED TO FLOP ?   FOUR OF A KIND?   A GOD DAMN Straight flush????

TABLE 1 ALL IN ON THE FLOP OVERPAIR 10 10.. he Turns the flush to win  WOW.  Another full buy in stolen from me my rig stars.   I have completely lost my mind.   People don’t run like this playing 10 tables for 20 hours.  IT’s not fucking possible.

3:10 a.m

Full buy in gone table 1 against super-user AK< JJ all in pre.  It pisses me off as much as the first race I lost today.   But now I have this anger infused into me that probably won’t go away for a long time.

Just checked my bankroll  I’m Down THREE HUNDRED FUCKING DOLLARS In this 2.5 hour session already.  That’s what happens when you’re rigged.  Lost almost a thousand this weekend, by the far the most I’ve ever lost in my life playing poker.  That’s about 25 buy-ins playing solid poker, unthinkable.  This has to be a record somewhere.    I don’t know if I can come back from this ever.  Might as well enjoy being a corporate slave the rest of my life.

3:25 a.m

Another fully buy in gone on table 3.  All in on the flop with the nut flush draw A9 < A7.  He flopped the 7.  Rivered the ace with no help obviously.  Love to know what I did to deserve this.  I wish from the bottom of my soul that I never logged on this weekend.

3:50 a.m

Not much going on.  Capping it at 6 tables right now.  Things seem to move so slow with 6 haha.  BR is in ruined and not sure what im going to do, but I think I have kind of accepted it; if that’s possible. 

4:25 a.m

Table 4 lost a full buy-in.  over pair KK get’s suck-out on the river amazing.  6 tables are moving slower, but that doesn’t mean ill suddenly be able to dodge ANYTHING.   TABLE 5 ANOTHER SUCK-OUT  all in on the flop with over-pair 10 10.. he calls with bottom pair pocket 33, but hits a str8 draw on the flop.  Of course he rivered it.   I never does end does it?  I could make a horror movie out of this night.   Poker players would piss their pants.

4:40 a.m

SAME GUY on table 5 another full buy in gone.  This time he flops a set against the top pair + nut flush draw.  No flush came shocker.  I just threw a chair across the room and 2 of the screws came out as it nearly exploded.   Like I give a shit.  Logging in 10 minutes.  Not because I’m tired or playing bad, but because this is absolutely hopeless.    THIS CAN’T BE RIGHT.  -$500 IN 4 HOURS OMFG.  I’m so screwed.  Logged.  I just screamed at the top of lungs into a pillow.  I can’t fucking believe this.   I obviously won’t be sleeping tonight or probably the entire week.

Time: 4 hours

Net Loss: -$512 

-$1,169 in 18 hours.  That is a record.

Comments

[Lucypher]

Bags, what a terrible run. Maybe you want to consider dropping down a level until the bad run ends? Be careful not to destroy your roll during a downturn like this. Some people fall into a downward spiral and only stop at the bottom.
That is counter productive. What made you decide to play full buy ins when you had been short stacking effectively? Obviously, you lost some big pots in coolers but what else did you do differently? Have you reviewed the session to see? Sorry to hear about your bad luck. It sounds like you have a solid plan for improving your life situation. Try to stay on track. If you are to become a professional poker player, this will not be the last bad run you will have to endure. Good luck.

[snyder321]

Great blog !!!
Hope it turn around for you.

[baglife]

Luc,

I've been regrouping and have an adjustment plan going forward (will cover in an upcoming post). This was insane, I WAS SHORT-STACKING. Yes that was all lost short-stacking. I was playing about 12 tables at once some of the time though. I've reviewed everything. 90%+ of the buy ins I lost were from:

A) coolered all in pre with AK or JJ+,

B) Opponent hits a two outer when I'm all with a dominating higher pair.

C) Opponent hits 4 outs (ex AK < A5 all in pre)

D) Opponent hits a flush or straight draw suck-out after the all in.

E) Opponent flops two pair or better against top pair top-kicker or better.

Apparently I was severely under-rolled to be playing these stakes even with a SS, I'm lucky I sustained myself for even a month. From what I learned researching and asking around 80 full SS buy-ins should be a minimum when short-stacking this many tables (100 considered safe). I started with around 55 buy-ins. I built my way up to around 65, but at the conclusion of the bull-shit run I dropped to around 40.

Snyder,

Thanks I've linked you up ;p

[Lucypher]

That is brutal. One thought, consider mixing up your play by just flatting pre flop rather than 3 or 4-betting all in. Then, shove the flop. This gives your opponent a chance to fold on the flop that he doesn't have if it is all in pre. Anyway, Don't self destruct and don't give up. Bad runs happen to all of us. Good luck.