I was pretty damn harsh in my previous reply. I didn't explain myself very well, so I deleted it, and moved on. I'll try to explain myself in a more constructive way...

This hand stinks. Big time. Other people have already given reasons why it stinks, what you should have done differently, etc, so I'm not going to rehash that stuff. Hopefully you've learned from this mistake.

But this isn't the only hand you've posted lately where I've sat here after reading and thought, "wtf are you thinking?" Now don't get me wrong, we all make mistakes, we all have bad hands here and there. I know I've had plenty of those. Maybe you're just a bit more forthcoming about the mistakes you've made, and you're trying to learn from them...

But then I read your most recent blog post.....and your words, along with some of the posts you've made recently, don't see eye to eye.

Another breakeven month. I would have made meaningful posts in here these past two months, but they would be contrived and largely untrue. When a seemingly winning poker player loses money at poker for 80,000 hands, theres nothing really all that interesting about it. You just suck it up and continue. Whenever, if ever, that I start to run decently again, I'll make more posts in here hopefully.
Running bad and playing bad are two totally different things. We all have downswings, we all have break-even stretches...but 80k hands? With the hands you've posted recently, combined with your most recent blog post (especially the part in bold).....it just makes me wonder if over the last 80k hands you've not just been running bad, but possibly playing bad instead. In a nutshell, that's what I wrote earlier.

Just something to think about.



P.S. Maybe cut down on the number of tables you play. Maybe tighten up. Maybe look at hand histories after every session, looking at the hands you lost the most on.....and try to figure out why. Bad play, bad call, bad beat, etc. What was it that made you lose money on each particular hand. Figure out why and then try to not let it happen again in the future.