I think I just need to vent, may as well do it in my own forum.

I haven't played poker for while because I work 10-13 hour days every day lately. I decided to just sit down at $100NL tables the last few days and play some hands, and wow ... Either I totally suck at poker, I'm running really bad, or both. Probably more the former.

I've only played 900 hands the last three nights, but I'm down 7 buyins which is kinda shitty. I've been playing on Stars where I've had a hard time winning for some reason. Actually, when I first started playing there, I did terrible for the first few thousand hands. Then I did pretty well for the next few thousand and started feeling a lot more comfortable. And then it went not so good again, so I have no idea what my problem is.

Ah well, I don't play enough as it is, so I think I need to start making time to play some hands on a regular basis. In my lifetime I've only played 12k hands at 100NL, so suffice to say that my sample size for any sort of analysis is shitty, and I have no way to tell whether I totally fucking suck at this game, or whether I just suck. Hopefully the latter, yes? Coming back after a couple months and donking away 7 stacks isn't really the way I wanted to go, but oh well.

I should probably tighten up a bit. My stats are usually 26/16/2. Should I just play less hands for now? Or maybe tighten up in EP and keep my range the same for LP. I tend to play a lot of connectors in a lot of positions, so maybe I should limit these hands to LP for now until I re-figure out (if I ever knew) how to play post flop poker. I dunno ...

What I really need to do is NOT look at it in terms of $, which is hard for me (and most other people I would say). So yeah, $700 is a lot to me right now. Shit, that's a month of rent! But oh well, it was 15% of my bankroll which isn't that much in the grand scheme of things ... so yeah ... it wasn't $700 ... it was 15% of the roll. Better? I guess

I know, blah blah blah, 7 buyins isn't that much. And if I can't handle it, I shouldn't be playing this game. First time I've swung this low though, so that's why it sucks. Like I said, I really haven't played THAT much poker. Meh.

It's been a long shitty day, so time to shut up and go to sleep. I'll probably take a look at the last three days and post all the hands that had big pots so that I can learn from the donkery.

(I almost didn't post this since it really just is venting and there isn't really much anyone can say in response, but oh well it's posted!)

I guess it would have made a decent blog post? If anyone read the blogs ...