Another Horrible January

Posted by icemonkey9 on Feb 1, 2011 in month | 1 comment

Well, I wanted to play smart and set the tone right coming off my worst session ever.  I played a couple of very short sessions and combined I won 1.5 buy-ins which felt great. So today I put the time aside to have a "real" session ... and of course, I went slightly over my stop-loss again. I'm looking at these hands where I lose a stack and think "wow there is just no way to get away from this" ... while not hugely down in EV it's just been nutville for opponents.  Anyways, all the month's profits are totally gone and my slide is around 12 buy-ins now, pretty much directly downward.

One bit of advice a lot of people give is to play lower stakes for a session or two to have some fun and dominate. Well, I decided to go down 2 levels and ... of course ... I ran just as bad. This tends to happen with me, if I run bad at one level, I run bad no matter what I do.  Today at all levels I couldn't believe the amount of times I had 4bets flatted (by better pocket pairs obv) or had TPTK against a set or against an overpair. It had to be at least 15 times out of the 2500 hands today.  I also got it in good several times only to see the villain hit 4-6 outers with one card to come. Standard I guess.

Anyways ... so the opportunity to play lower stakes backfired to the tune of 3 buy-ins there and I'm officially feeling sorry for myself.  It's a pretty tough blow to take and such a sour way to end what looked like a really promising month after a very nice comeback from the red.

I'll probably take tomorrow off. I love playing poker and obviously I want to play through this, but I gotta wait until I can handle more adversity. Right now I don't think I'm in prime mental shape to handle much right now.

I remember last January was the worst month I ever had. It was one of my few losing months, although I can't say I'm a huge winner lifetime. But it was B-A-D and it really was a brutal stretch.  I'm hoping instead of basically quitting poker for 5 months, I can turn it around next month and recover.