Graveyard for Fun Hands

Just played a little 1-2 to try out a new setup and got into a match vs a nitty, straightforward and pretty bad reg while the tables were filling up.

I somehow lost 7.2k in about 1100 hands.

Not sure what to say? To say it was mindblowing is an understatement. I don t have any tracking software on this computer but I had never known what it feels like to lose over 20 buyins in 1k hands. We were both playing very aggro and he just destroyed my 4 betting range in pos by calling with unsuited unconnected cards and flopping 2 pair.

It s probably just as well that I don t have the hands to look over. I d just waste time posting them here to rant and whine.

Gonna hit the tables hard tomorrow.

hit the tables hard indeed.

just finished an epic 5 hour straight marathon 13-tabling session. i think i came closer to playing perfect poker during this session than i ever have before. my control, patience and thinking were just spot on for the entire session.

somehow, i won 8 of 34 flips and lost another 4k playing nothing higher than 2-4 but jeezus did things ever feel easy.

Originally Posted by Genitruc

hit the tables hard indeed.

just finished an epic 5 hour straight marathon 13-tabling session. i think i came closer to playing perfect poker during this session than i ever have before. my control, patience and thinking were just spot on for the entire session.

somehow, i won 8 of 34 flips and lost another 4k playing nothing higher than 2-4 but jeezus did things ever feel easy.

lol 34 flips in one session.. oh man thats craziness! I'm jealous of how many hands you're getting in though, awesome. Keep up the perfect play!

did something similar to last night this afternoon after 4 hours sleep and made some maniez. game feels great, games are good and i just hope i can work with this momentum for some time to come.

Big session late last night then played 3 separate winning sessions today. things just seem easy.

oh ya tomorrow (wednesday) i m gunning for 5 ours of 9 tabling. i know this is standard for some, but it s still a big grind my standards. letmegogogogo

Just played a pretty amazing 5k hand session. mixed in everything from 1-2 to 5-10 and played v v v v solid. bad news is i had my biggest loss ever (8k ish) and it s a downer to end a pretty great month, but not much you can do.

strangest hand was getting it AI for 300bb's at 5-10 euro table w KJ vs 69dd on T97hh board in a 3-bet pot. villain 3-bet shoved flop over my raise. he s a reg at higher stakes and i still don t know what he was thinking?

somehow i blanked and lost the biggest pot of my life. i also ran like death all over the place and ran QQ into KK and AA vs the biggest fish at the table at 5-10 euro...

back at it tomorrow.

Originally Posted by Genitruc

strangest hand was getting it AI for 300bb's at 5-10 euro table w KJ vs 69dd on T97hh board in a 3-bet pot. villain 3-bet shoved flop over my raise. he s a reg at higher stakes and i still don t know what he was thinking?

hh please?

He's probably thinking you're mega polarized and only stacking off with like 68 or TTT on this flop so deep, so you're FOS. Even if you have a set, he's got equity I guess.

Did you have KJhh?

i had straight up KJ no heart but there was a fish on the button 400bb s deep so I really really don t understand his squeeze since he s ALWAYS getting called 2 ways; i assumed he d be only doing it for straight up value vs the fish and expecting me to not get out of line so i figured i had tonnes of fold equity vs his overpair on such a terribly scary board. also i checked back the HH and we weren t as deep as i thought. my flop raise absolutely commited me to the hand and it was like a 410bb pot after we were both all in.

also just kind of vomited when i realized that my rakeback was paid during my session so i can tack another 5.6k onto my biggest loss ever (i think that brings last night s loss to 13.5k blehhhhh). i can t be angry at myself for anything really; i feel like I played great and i didn t tilt for 1 second of the 5 hour session. just annoying to lose so much in the last session of the month, even though that doesn t mean anything. this shit will happen sometimes as i move up to bigger games vs wild fish.

A bit of self-indulgent goal setting for October :

-grind 90 hours of good poker
-keep taking shots up to 10-20 when the games are good
-continue to play tilt-free
-win the rake race #3
-get HEM and HEM Omaha installed and start tracking things
-do some sweats w ppl like griffey

update for october imo

and post some fun hands, u never dissapoint

wtf i ve contacted HEM like 6 times about getting tracking software for new desktop and adding omaha tracker... so no fking HH.

i ve put in maybe 15 hours so far, up about 10k after some huge swongs in plo and some pretty meh 5-10 sessions. mainly been grinding 2-4 and winning buyins there.

i ve been trying to get in touch with a good tax lawyer to figure out a plan for this year but god is it ever tough.

alex we should def play some HU plo sometime.

can't you just purchase/upgrade > link

Or download it and get D. to give you his authorization number. It can be authorized for up to 3 pc's i think. I imagine he doesn't have the Omaha extension though so you'd still need to purchase that.

+ the Boss hh convertor in case you forgot the link.

thx for linky

i ve aleady purchased it... just annoying to never get a reply from support

suddenly VERY sick of the monotony of the grind. eterday i played a little bit higher up but even that didn t really get me going. i found mysel not really caring during tough spots and kind of going into auto-pilot bunch.
Gonna take a few days off and recharge the poker batteries, hopefully come back strong later next week.

i m in baden right now

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sounds like you're having a swell time.

I require updates on the Interpoker staff's awesomeness plz.

geni ur such a baller i fkin love it

keep on dominating, i love reading ur hands since your playing style is seemingly the polar opposite of nit lol

just about to pack and leave Baden. didn t play the donkament i was registered for today because i woke up too late. no regrets though, since it was a women-related incident and pretty much no donkament can compare to a fuckament.

alexos : the interpoker staff not only met but exceeded expectations for this promo. i don t need to go into details; use your imagination. we didn t even have Jesper with us and it blew my mind : mini-golf in the snow, clubbing at 5 am, gay bars where we least expected them... completely epic. Interpoker is easily the best small site in terms of support and promos in the world.

Back to the grind in about 30 hours after some epically boring and long and hungover travelling.

Can t complain.

p.s. V zero: as soon as I get HEM installed again I ll post some hands that hopefully won t disappoint. 2 days ago there was a pretty fun Q hi call for a 2.2k pot that I think you would have enjoyed.

Originally Posted by Genitruc

just about to pack and leave Baden. didn t play the donkament i was registered for today because i woke up too late. no regrets though, since it was a women-related incident and pretty much no donkament can compare to a fuckament.

haha gg

Originally Posted by Genitruc

alexos : the interpoker staff not only met but exceeded expectations for this promo. i don t need to go into details; use your imagination. we didn t even have Jesper with us and it blew my mind : mini-golf in the snow, clubbing at 5 am, gay bars where we least expected them... completely epic. Interpoker is easily the best small site in terms of support and promos in the world.

awesome man, glad they are still treating you guys damn good!

yikes just played some good 5 10 euro games and ran worse than possible

lost 6 of 7 flips and had aces cracked in a 4 bet pot...

bleh feel like i played goot

wtv

Right now I'm kind of disappointed with myself. I just really, really don't feel like playing. I guess this comes down to a lack of discipline... The very idea of firing up some tables seems like pulling teeth.

There's always the thinking that if you take a break, you'll feel fresher and more focused when you come back but I really don't think it has much to do with that. I think it'll be just as hard later today, tomorrow, a week from now...

So what do I do? There are so many people who would love to be in my shoes, grinding good midstakes games for a nice winrate. This isn't much consolation. I think I just need to do some soul searching. Or maybe just sit my ass down and grind this shit.

Mustered up the discipline to play a session. Was just planning on playing low but the games were pretty good so I sat at a few 5-10 and 3-6 euro tables.

Ran like pure death (AK to AQ on Axx flop rr pot, AQ to KQ on Qxx in rr pot, 2 flopped sets vs draws... blahblahblah) but somehow made money on the sesh.

I felt like my edge was maaasssssive so I really hope I can find my nutsack, find my discipline and grind a decent amount over the next while. This kind of opportunity won't be around forever.

also found myself in a couple interesting spots so I posted a couple hands in the hihstakes forum.

Ran like pure death again yet made a little bit. Encouraging.

Very encouraging. I always think the days the cards hate you that just not losing too much is a victory, to actually come out ahead is a fantastic result.

Stick with it.

I think I played my best session ever tonight.

Lost my biggest pot ever (6.2k) getting it in w nut flush vs 888 on A872ccc board w KJcc and despite that made some. It's one of the first times ever where I feel like I combined my hyper aggro game with just the right big folds and nittiness in a few select spots.

Just finishing up a late-night session where I played awesome.

I was about to quit after owning some regs at 10-20 but I saw a fish at plo 2-4

He s now sitting with 1000bb s

Highlight was him calling off 240bb's pre w A429 single suited vs my dbl suited aces and flopping the nuts w 100bb s behind.

Another beauty was getting it in for 600bb s w KQJ9 on AT8 rainbow vs his 6792...

and just to pour salt in the wound, I just accidentally drank my own piss.

again.

Originally Posted by Genitruc

and just to pour salt in the wound, I just accidentally drank my own piss.

again.

Note to self: never get to the point where I have to pee in a bottle to keep playing...

That's harsh man.

Originally Posted by Genitruc

and just to pour salt in the wound, I just accidentally drank my own piss.

again.

lol oooooooh man awesome

I think you should start containing it in a clear jar/bottle... so you can see it at least (ie: see it and then not consume it). Or are you?...

I never understood why a cash gem player would need to resort to the bottle trick. I get that maybe Toruney donks could get to that need. Personally, accidentally drinking my own piss is enough of a reason to let myself time out for one or two tables.

How far is the bathroom anyway?

Imagine everything you wanted, came.. in.. a.. URINE CAN!!!

I'm just waiting for the day that someone else becomes the accidental victim of this. Actually that one girl came close, who knocked your full cup over and offered to clean it up thinking it was juice.

FYAlias: Degenitruc.

It didn't help that my piss was in a big plastic bottle that said "100% organic" on it

organic... imo

Al let's just keep the story about the girl kncking over the piss jar to ourselves

Originally Posted by Genitruc

p.s. V zero: as soon as I get HEM installed again I ll post some hands that hopefully won t disappoint. 2 days ago there was a pretty fun Q hi call for a 2.2k pot that I think you would have enjoyed.

yes i would enjoy that plz

i ll post the hand from memory tomorrow when i m not hammered.

eff stacks 1.1k at nl1k (USD)

villain is a megafish who bets small for value and large for bluffs. he donks a wide range, so far weak made hands and draws, but in over an hour a the table he s played a tonne of pots, reloaded twice and hasn't gotten it in without a made hand yet.

I open from btn, fish flats from SB

Flop (85$ish) is (not sure about suits but it was rainbow board where I had BD FD and nut gutter)

Fish leads out for pot, I raise to 265, he instaflats.

Turn (600$ish) is (or low diamond, just a blank that gave me FD). Vs most ppl I d shove, but I didn't know if he'd fold 8x so I checked back.

River pairs the bottom card and he instashoves 800ish int 600.

I call,7To no good.

nut high straight draw on the flop, imo!

haha sick, very nice call!

is there anything more tilting than sitting down at 2 late night high stakes tables vs fish and having them both stack you with top pair vs your overpairs in 10 mins and immediately hit n run you?

fuck

Originally Posted by Genitruc

is there anything more tilting than sitting down at 2 late night high stakes tables vs fish and having them both stack you with top pair vs your overpairs in 10 mins and immediately hit n run you?

fuck

id say drinking your own piss is more tilting :P

just lost 14k playing great on 4 tables for bout 3 hours tonight.

fun.

did I mention only about 20% of hands were 5-10?

also

UN

FUCKING
BELIEVABLE



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I was a fool to almost ask you to teach me lol

Originally Posted by Genitruc

just lost 14k playing great on 4 tables for bout 3 hours tonight.

fun.

ugh goddd.. gotta love the start of a new month

hope things turn around dude. We still gotta do our boomswitch sweat seshhh.

they ll turn around, it s just boring and frustrating building back after a day like this when JJ can never hold vs AJo in 5 bet-shoved pre hands HU vs regs.

i have a sort of primal rage bent up after last night, as if I had been struck by a truck and I want to go find the truck and beat it up.

the variance truck. i m fucking coming for you baby.

why is it so fucking hard to install a fucking tracking program that i ve now bought 3 times and has never worked

Originally Posted by Genitruc

why is it so fucking hard to install a fucking tracking program that i ve now bought 3 times and has never worked

um, u suck w/computers? Srsly though, the process isn't as intuitive as it could be. Now let's see some hh mayHEM.

just FINALLY got hem working (TY AL) and wasn t surprised at the damage from last :

down 300bb s w AA at 4-8 and higher, down 200bb s w KK at 5-10, overall lost 8 hands OVER 100bbs (of my stack) at 4-8 and 5-10 while winning 1 (a flip, AK beating TT somehw).

I also lost mountains of money at plo... just playing plo w sets losing, 2nd nut flushes in rr pots losing to flopped nuts, etc...

nothing really interesting, at least 3 spews (cpl of questionable plays), a few beautiful nl coolers and just random shit like c betting w AK on 862 w BD flushdaw, getting called by a whale, turn 9 giving my overs and FD, i pot he calls, riv A I pot shove he snaps w A9o...

oh well at least I can track shit now

Just need to rant.

Playing for past few days and it looks like variance really just doesn t wanna let me win any monires.

Today was going well until I dropped 5 buyins in the last 10 minutes of my session. AA gg vs QQ pre, KQ vs TT on JT9 on squeezed pot, K hi rape call vs A hi that was bluffin ga board where most bluffs are T or J hi...

Fk me. Playing really well though so wtv.

Just played some more.

Poker right now is nothing but a series of coolers and 2 outers.

Originally Posted by Genitruc

Just played some more.

Poker right now is nothing but a series of coolers and 2 outers.

Blaah sadly I feel the sam way right now! Playing better than I have in a long while, but laame results every session!

Sweat this weekk... maybe it'll turn both of our luck.

def sweat

just played again... more of the same.

for the first time in a long time, i m dealing with some huge huge physical tilt. For every 2 outer I feel like damaging something. I actually shut down my cpu twice today in the middle of several pots while 8 tabling cuz of huge huge fk my life type frustration.

I have officially lost half my roll in my past 17 sessions.

Over this period, I've had 1 winning session. This has coincided with some amazing 5-10 and 10-20 games running, so right now I feel like vomiting whenever I think about poker.

It sucks that this is a period where I have some projects that depend on big withdrawals. Since yesterday, the power of the subtle, long-term tilt has kind of scared me. At random moments I've had to fight the urge to just shut down my computer (which I actually did a few times), I've been getting so frustrated.

Please, please, please make it stop. I should probably move down, but my god how do you say no to a good winrate at high stakes asdhfkasjd hfasjkd hadsfkljadsfahsdkjjfasd;kjfa;sdlj fsda;lk jsa;df ja;sdffj ;sdafj;kasd;

Move down.

Don't let your ego cost you any more money.

+1 for move down, momentarily at least..

also +1 for WTF fuck pokers

id suggest coming to BC to untilt imo

I third the move down notion... if even just to book a couple small wins in a row and get the confidence back!

confidence is keeeey

yup thx for the advice guys

what i ll prob do is get my grind on at some 1-2 and 2-4 tables and then just add anywhere from 1 to 4 tables at 3-6 and higher if I see big whales playing.

hope you guys are running better than me

now gogogogogo gadget roll-rebuilder

the losing session streak is now at 21 for 23.

the past few sessions have been particularly mind-blowing since I feel like I've been playing my A game plus I've moved down in stakes.

today's session at 2-4 featured no fewer than 5 backdoor flush over backdoor flush hands for full buyins.

My roll is decimated and my frustration is at an all-time high. I'm gonna spend a few hours studying some people's games before getting back to the tables.

played another long session.

I dunno what it is, but i m just a magnet for 2 outers AI preflop. I lost AA to TT 4 times in my 2nd session today. It went on as griffey sweated me, then as soon as he left, I immediately lost KK to JJ and AA to TT at the highest stakes I was playing (3-6 euro) for a total of 300bb s

it just continues to defy statistical possibility.

countown to bustoville continues...

according to hem I lost 5k today with AA and KK ai pre vs underpairs, 3k w flushes and... wait for it.... lost 2.5k w my boats.

wow.

May I suggest playing shorter/fewer sessions? Since this sick variance just seems to be compounding itself it must be alot to take in all at once and may end up leaving your confidence damaged for longer than you could possibly prevent through means of changing something about your playing habits. I think your idea of spending some time studying your opponents will definately be a huge help in turning things around once all the coolers have leveled out.

Another thing, don't use the word busto when speaking about yourself, you won't go busto if you stick with bankroll management, you're a winning player. It's just a negative way to think and is unecessary/unproductive. You're way better than that, you've proven yourself to be a successul player.

I'm just a small stakes player so I can't relate to the swings of higher stakes, nor the pressure. If you didn't get anything from my post I still wish you the best of luck man and I hope things turn around for you.

thx for the words of widsom.

despite my extremely negative blogging i m nowhere near busto, and don t plan on ever being there. just kind of laughing at it. it s fun to vent here rather than with ppl in my "real" life.

the "craziest" stuff I do regarding BR management right now involves playing 1 or 2 tables with between 20 and 30 buyins (online roll) when I can get position on a whale or two. I have between 50 and 100 bi's for most of the games I m playing right now and I know through huge sample sizes that I have a massive edge in them.

in more upbeat news, I have 10% of both Ravageur and Alexos in the BC poker championships (approx 2 mill prize pool). After day 1, Rav is chip avg and Alexos is huuuuuuuuge.

SHIP IT BOYS 1 TIME FOR ME PLZ.

Originally Posted by Genitruc

despite my extremely negative blogging i m nowhere near busto, and don t plan on ever being there. just kind of laughing at it. it s fun to vent here rather than with ppl in my "real" life.

way to be man, a blog is a great way to make the stress of poker manageable and not affect you negatively around others irl.

was in the process of booking a nice win this morning, then lost AA to 44 ai on flop of rr pot 200bb s deep on A23r board, then managed to get it in with 87% and 92% equity for 600bb's worth of maniez at plo (not easy to do) and lose both right at the end of my session

i m numb

don't worry, just keep losing until sunday when me and alex are final table and robusto you. 1st pirze is 360k~, 2nd place 200kish so what's that, 56k for you?

11% of alex, not 10... so almost 60k can t wait

2 outered 4 out of 7 times getting it in for stacks pre vs undrpairs so far in the afternoon session

how is this possible

down another 4 buyins on 3 coolers and a mindblowing hand


s fjsd ja ja; k;dfa

I CAN T WIN AT POKER

AA PRE AI FK ME

SET OVER SET FK ME

OVERS AND FD VS WORSE FD FK ME

AK ON AK2 BOARD IN RR POT GG FK ME

AA ON A23 BOARD IN RR POT 200 BB S FK ME

TOP SET AND NFD IN PLO VS GUTTER FK ME

why does it have to happen all at once

it s killing my soul

i m doomed.

was just booking a nice late-night win when i lost 800 bb s across 5 tables in my last 20 mins of play. 3 set over sets, a flush that lost to a rivered boat when we were AI on turn and AA losing to KK pre 200bb s deep.

fun

this is what I m talking about (my most successful session so far this week lol)

well.. you're up though, so thats a good start!