Happy About Another Losing Day? I am! [2,625 Hands]

Posted by icemonkey9 on Nov 11, 2008 in General | 0 comments

So I put in a record amount of poker yesterday, and came away a -$30 loser. And I couldn't be happier! Why? Well the usual "variance" aka bullshit kept happening. I just couldn't shake it. Huge hands running into bigger hands. Getting sucked out on 6 outers, 4 outers, etc. I was really down and literally wrote at one point "If he has this hand I quit poker forever" and fortunately enough he didn't have 25 for the boat (again).

What has me happy is that I turned a -120 day into -30 with a banner final session. I felt good and finally hit some hands and took down some stacks instead of shipping them off. It has me back at breakeven at 50nl for the month and I feel like it's a new start and I can get back to playing "A Game" poker. I plan to play a lot tonight, tomorrow, and definitely a ton on Thursday and Friday. After that I'll assess my situation day by day but I am definitely aiming for that 18.5k hand goal for the month.

I was looking at the stats when I was -120 before my last super session, and I saw that I was hitting approximately 19% of flops (it should have been 33%) and 4.8% of sets (it should be 11.8%). So I was seeing some cold cards yesterday but bounced back with the hopes that I have some good positive momentum for the rest of the month.

For those of you that love wild and crazy hands ...

The Bad & Ugly...

How Many Times Will AA Get Cracked This Month?

Yes I know I made a horrible play with the min-raise at the flop. But a raise there ... he's still calling, I was doomed.

Apparently KK is no Better

Raise your hand if you saw that coming ... come on, for real. I thought so.

Another Set of Queens Lose

Boy I just had to hit that Q on the river didn't I ... wow.

AK suited

Good grief.

NOW FOR THE GOOD

KK AIPF vs JJ, We Both Hit Sets

If I had lost this one I might have melted down and become nuclear.

99 Set Paid Off

KK Holds Up