Poker Menstrual Cycle?

Posted by icemonkey9 on May 25, 2008 in General | 0 comments

Of course, as soon as my wife leaves town ... I come down with a horrible cold. Just brutal, sneezing, coughing, congested, and a 99.9 degree fever. I still wanted to play some poker, which in retrospect was stupid ... but I got plenty of rest and am feeling a lot better today, and I figure by tomorrow I will be feeling good.

So yesterday at the cash tables wasn't a lot of fun. My KK gets cracked for a stack against A9 when we both hit our flushes ... and hands like QQ and AK were just getting me killed. I fought back a bit but ended the day down -$19.60 which is definitely out of the norm.

I regularly read a few blogs around the net - ChuckTs, ZachVac, and KingCurtis being the main ones. Everyone posted similar Saturday results of "variance" meaning a bad day when sets were getting nailed by bigger sets, etc etc. If it happened to me, and to those four guys all at the same time, maybe this "variance" thing works like a woman's menstrual cycle. It's documented that women who live together eventually have the same "cycle" ... and trust me we knew when that was when I lived in the dorms (it was co-ed). Maybe it's the same thing for poker and us guys.

The good news is that I played my first five-table session after "graduating" from four. I handled it just fine and had absolutely no problems. I want to work my way to 6-tabling, especially when the bonuses for "refer a friend" kick in at FullTilt (I have 3 friends signing up so $300 to unlock). I ended the one hour 5-table session +$17.60 so I was pleased. There's much more to come today so stay tuned ...