The Worst Day I’ve Ever Had at Poker and I feel HORRIBLE.

Posted by icemonkey9 on Jan 26, 2009 in beats | 5 comments

I just had the worst day I've ever had in over a year of playing poker. In fact I've lost more money today than I ever have. It's "only 4.5 buys" or actually in "money" terms -$450. I kinda feel like I am sick to my stomach and it feels like my heart got crushed and I can barely lift my arms. Just bleh. This is the first real "HORRIBLE!" day I've had at 100nl. I've had the bullshit hands happen it seems but this is the first time where absolutely nothing went my way and cards hit my opponents and every draw for them hit. I think I was something like $275 below EV ... but for the basic end-of-the-day shit I just ran right into a brick wall at 80 mph.

Now I feel like a total idiot "for the talk with the wife" since I just blew my buffer zone and am now well under my $5k line where I withdraw 50-50 profits. I also am deflated since it means that I will most likely have to wait longer to see my first poker paycheck.

Anyways I am not sure how to recover because I just finished the last of the 4 sessions and I am still in shell-shock. I probably shouldn't be posting right now ... who knows, who cares right? So anyways that's today. I kinda feel like someone hit me in the head now too. This feels terrible. How about I share some hands.

I Run Horrible.

No Really, I run HORRIBLE.

Cooler ... just ugh.

Why oh why?

Those are 4 hands I have a few more I can share but at this point I doubt anyone wants to see anymore if they even make it this far. Sorry for the rant post and yeah I know "it's only 4.5 buyins" but fuckall I mean that's a shit load of money to a guy like me.

I had planned to play until 11pm tonight but I am witting 2 hours early for obvious reasons. After I get work done tomorrow around 4pm I was planning on basically playing straight through until 8:30 but now I have no clue what i will do with myself. Talk about blowing my plans to holy heck!

5 Comments

  1. cAPSLOCK
    January 26, 2009

    Holy crap? Your worst day ever at poker is -4.5 buyins? Whee. Snap out of it. You’ll come back soon enough. You know this right?

    That said: I am a complete hypocrite. When I have a day like this I am the same way as you…

    Still its coming back. Hang in.

  2. Icemonkey9
    January 26, 2009

    -4.5 buyins is close to my worst day but 8.5 straight buyins is my worst losing streak.

    -$450 is BY FAR my worst day in terms of dollars.

    And yeah it sucks but i’ll get over it. Ranting is part of the healing process :)

  3. Brandon Mark
    January 26, 2009

    Hang in there I have done worse also. I had a tough weekend. Eventually I broke even but when on my worse 2 day streak ever. I had similar hands to your. I will be following your blog more…

    By the way, when I get really down I usually take a break for a day or two just so when I sit down i’m not thinking about the lost I had. I just focus on where my bank roll currently is.

  4. vizer02
    January 26, 2009

    Hey, I just found your blog so I have some catching up to do, but it seems you are just now experiencing how much of a pain in the ass poker can be. If a loss like this still affects you psychologically, I would suggest setting a stop-loss of 3 buyins, so after you lose 3 buyins during a session you’ll quit and try again another day. Keep your head up though, this only a minor bump in the road.

    As far as the the hands go, I would raise pre with hands 2 and 3. Both of the hands are strong enough to raise, along with the fact that the villains will be folding pre a lot of the time, or folding on the flop. On hand 3 I think it’s a little too thin to shove over his minraise on the river, so I would just call.

    Want to exchange blog links?

  5. Icemonkey9
    January 26, 2009

    To vizer02:

    No, I know all about the pain in the ass that poker can be, I’m just learning to deal with a $450 one day loss since I just moved up to 100nl. It’s more about dealing with that than anything. I think a 3 buyin stoploss for a day is probably where I should set that.

    I think I could make a case for folding, calling, and raising in hand 2.

    Hand 3 I don’t think raising folds him out ever, but isolating a 53/18/3 player … well there is merit in that. Short of open-folding I think I was kinda doomed but stacking there was just so horrible on my part, I’m never ahead of anyone there after I looked at the hand in pokerazor so calling his min-raise to my valuebet was the right move, so yeah I kinda blew it on that one.

    I added your blog to the blogroll and would love a reciprocal link!

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