Easy come, easy go!

[SteveO]

Well, I've been on a heck of a run for a month was messing with a little 2/4 NL. Damn, if I didn't loose 500 bucks in 10 minutes.

First hand, AA in MP. One early raise, I flat call. Heads up to the flop of 10J8. Well needless to say the money went in on the flop and of course he had Q9o. I played it a bit too aggressive on flop but talk about a sweet flop for bad guy. I almost beat him when board paired and I had a gutshot for the broadway, but say bye bye to 200 bucks.

A few hands later KK up front. Early raise from UTG+1, I reraise having just got my AA busted up, and get a scary call from CO. Flop comes 9h5hblank. Early bet. I push. Had only a small fear of AA at the CO. Ruuut Rooo Shaggy! CO calles AI. EP folds. Damit if he didn't have AhQh and turns the heart. Oops there goes another buy-in.

Different table, I take a cheap flyer with suited connectors and flop the flush. The money goes in and damn if jack ass didn't play Q8s for a better flush. Ooops there goes another buy-in.

Went to bed after that one and woke up with a sick feeling.

Big bet poker is a bitch!

That had to be the worst short run I've had made worse by the fact that it was at significant stakes. Easy come, easy go.

What makes it better, or worse depending on how you look at, is the fact that I had been playing a few hours and was up $600 and all that work and profit was gone in the blink of an eye.

[spino1i]

Just some advice.. I would not be messing around with 400 NL when its outside your bankroll. The game is incredibly rough to begin with (well the 400 NL partypoker game is anyhow), and has insane swings. Your gonna need a 'roll of at least 5k$ to tackle it.

I know I know you start winning and then you wanna try out those higher stakes games... but trust me, youll just lose all your money there, its happened to me too lol

sorry to hear this happened to you man tho :/

[journey075]

Just some advice.. I would not be messing around with 400 NL when its outside your bankroll. The game is incredibly rough to begin with (well the 400 NL PartyPoker game is anyhow), and has insane swings. Your gonna need a 'roll of at least 5k$ to tackle it.

I know I know you start winning and then you wanna try out those higher stakes games... but trust me, youll just lose all your money there, its happened to me too lol

sorry to hear this happened to you man tho :/

nothing wrong with playing outside yr roll if you know when to quit.

[spino1i]

Just some advice.. I would not be messing around with 400 NL when its outside your bankroll. The game is incredibly rough to begin with (well the 400 NL PartyPoker game is anyhow), and has insane swings. Your gonna need a 'roll of at least 5k$ to tackle it.

I know I know you start winning and then you wanna try out those higher stakes games... but trust me, youll just lose all your money there, its happened to me too lol

sorry to hear this happened to you man tho :/

nothing wrong with playing outside yr roll if you know when to quit.

I agree, but I havent seen one person yet quit successfully.. they lose some and they want to try to make it back. They start winning and they keep playing to see if they can win more, until they lose it all in one hand.

[bair]

This is what happens to almost everyone when they start out playing online. They win, they think hey this is easy, i bet the higher stakes tables are just as easy and they play the same style. wrong. higher stakes have totally different styles of play, and if you are going to step up to that level you need to prepare to possibly lose 5 buyins before you get used to the new table dynamics and swings of higher stakes. if your BR cant handle it, DONT PLAY IT

[journey075]

Just some advice.. I would not be messing around with 400 NL when its outside your bankroll. The game is incredibly rough to begin with (well the 400 NL PartyPoker game is anyhow), and has insane swings. Your gonna need a 'roll of at least 5k$ to tackle it.

I know I know you start winning and then you wanna try out those higher stakes games... but trust me, youll just lose all your money there, its happened to me too lol

sorry to hear this happened to you man tho :/

nothing wrong with playing outside yr roll if you know when to quit.

I agree, but I havent seen one person yet quit successfully.. they lose some and they want to try to make it back. They start winning and they keep playing to see if they can win more, until they lose it all in one hand.

haha, watch rounders much?

i play some live games out of my bankroll (10-12 buyins) that are fairly high stakes (5/5 500NL) and its easy to go on a bad swing.

if anything ever happened that hurt my bankroll severely id just go back to 100nl though.

[spino1i]

I 5-table 200 NL right now and am pretty comfortable with it, but 400 NL is still very intimidating for me, I watch the games and they are intense! Gonna try 400 NL shortstacked in the next couple days, but might go back down to 200 NL real quickly if I get bad results lol

[journey075]

I 5-table 200 NL right now and am pretty comfortable with it, but 400 NL is still very intimidating for me, I watch the games and they are intense! Gonna try 400 NL shortstacked in the next couple days, but might go back down to 200 NL real quickly if I get bad results lol

best of luck .

ps. dont buy in shortstacked.

[SteveO]

400 NL is well within my BR. I just avoid those stakes and play MTT's and usually 100-200 rings. Guess I just posted this as a warning to others. And it felt good to complain openly about it b/c it pissed me off.

Also, this not posted as a bad beat type thing. Just a funny/sad story of huge swing in a matter of minutes.