been running bad.....had worked my way to a small profit last night until i flopped a set....there were 3 diamonds on the board, so i played it careful, opponent called me down all the way and a 4th diamond hit on the river....he was holding the ace. a few hands later i flop top 2 pair against a short stack, he shoved and showed a flush draw, and he made it on the river. earlier today i called 2 short stack all ins with pocket queens, one of them had A/K, the other had A/A....i caught a 3rd queen on the turn, but the one ace left in the deck hit on the river. hard to call it a bad beat considering that i was trailing at the start, but it still felt like a bad beat. so i'm roughly -$30 since last night, and the bitch of it is i'm losing it to the short stackers. i don't think i would have played the same way against a deeper stack -- even with a set, i would be hard pressed to shove all in with 3 suited cards and a straight possible on the flop unless i was confident my opponent was on a bluff.
i switched up somewhat and started playing rags from late position, but the flops keep missing me by a mile. can't get paid even when i do catch a hand. had J/10 suited, flopped the nut straight against three preflop limpers, everybody checked, went to the turn, i bet a dollar thinking someone had to at least have a piece of it (i don't like giving one free card, let alone 2, unless i have the absolute nuts), but all 3 folded.
now i'm battling the frustration factor. feel like i'm wasting my time. being slowly bled to death -- gain $8 here, lose $15 there -- and keep repeating the process until i've lost 25% of my roll in less than a week.
now i'm just gonna batton down the hatches. hunker down and wait it out. fold, fold, fold until i get a good hand. play the percentages on my drawing hands. no bluffing. no calling short stacks with marginal hands -- that right there is what's killing me. it doesn't seem like much at first, but after the first 500 FUCKING TIMES it starts adding up.
i switched up somewhat and started playing rags from late position, but the flops keep missing me by a mile. can't get paid even when i do catch a hand. had J/10 suited, flopped the nut straight against three preflop limpers, everybody checked, went to the turn, i bet a dollar thinking someone had to at least have a piece of it (i don't like giving one free card, let alone 2, unless i have the absolute nuts), but all 3 folded.
now i'm battling the frustration factor. feel like i'm wasting my time. being slowly bled to death -- gain $8 here, lose $15 there -- and keep repeating the process until i've lost 25% of my roll in less than a week.
now i'm just gonna batton down the hatches. hunker down and wait it out. fold, fold, fold until i get a good hand. play the percentages on my drawing hands. no bluffing. no calling short stacks with marginal hands -- that right there is what's killing me. it doesn't seem like much at first, but after the first 500 FUCKING TIMES it starts adding up.
that sucks.....
i just busted out, was short stacked.....picked up A/9 and found myself all in against A/J.... should have been a little more aggressive when i had a decent stack in relation to the blinds.....
it's why i hate tourneys, spend 2 1/2 hours and 20 bucks on add ons for fucking nothing
i just busted out, was short stacked.....picked up A/9 and found myself all in against A/J.... should have been a little more aggressive when i had a decent stack in relation to the blinds.....
it's why i hate tourneys, spend 2 1/2 hours and 20 bucks on add ons for fucking nothing
Well they turned the rigger on me last night....I knew something was up when i started getting premium hands every hand.
I was at a 1/2NL table $200 buy-in. Been playing about 45 mins when i started getting big hands every hand. At 1st nobody played back at me but after i raised for the 5th or 6th hand in a row a couple decided to see the flop....Naturally i flopped an even bigger hand and in both hands they got runner cards to make a straight outa nowhere....After the 1st 1 i reloaded, then it happened again on the very next hand...
So i was robbed of $400 and i do plan to get it back...unfortunatly it will take more than 2 hands to do it im sure....to put it lightly im a lil pissed off this morning...
I was at a 1/2NL table $200 buy-in. Been playing about 45 mins when i started getting big hands every hand. At 1st nobody played back at me but after i raised for the 5th or 6th hand in a row a couple decided to see the flop....Naturally i flopped an even bigger hand and in both hands they got runner cards to make a straight outa nowhere....After the 1st 1 i reloaded, then it happened again on the very next hand...
So i was robbed of $400 and i do plan to get it back...unfortunatly it will take more than 2 hands to do it im sure....to put it lightly im a lil pissed off this morning...
that sucks to hear. i played briefly last night, actually caught a hand that held up against a short stack, made a quick 17 bucks and called it a night. i know what you're saying though, i haven't caught monster hands like that in a while, but i have caught several hands in a row -- the kinds of hands you want to see a flop with, even against a raise (guess maybe you could say they track the pattern of hands that i like to see a flop with?), and at the end of it you realize you've gone through a chunk of your buy in to see flops with 6/6 and 10/J and the like and never once turned a decent hand.
kid, i can't speak for ppp, but i only have money in UB. i'm on a limited bankroll right now, hopefully in a few weeks i might be able to reload my broke ass stars account, but right now it's UB, which IMO is one of the easiest sites to get money into. by the way, poker room bonuses are a joke. i've accumulated over 190 in my UB bonus account, but only $5 of it has been released in over 2500 hands (i'm mainly playing at the $50 tables).....all sites are like that though, i really thought a day would come when they'd make it easier to get the bonus, but i guess not
