solid play still producing frusterating results

I took turkey day off and spent the majority of it in Henderson with my buddy Zach and his wife. They had some other friends over too and it was overall a pretty good time. The highlight of my day was definately watching my Packers beat up on the lowly Lions... Next week is going to be our true test when we play in Dallas. Besides the playoffs this is the game i've been waiting for all year.

Favre has yet to win in the big D and of all the big losses i've had to endure over my lifetime the stinging sensation from the playoff losses to Dallas in the 90's is still there... All I know is if we can win thursday all the naysayers who think we're not as good as our record are going to have to take a seat and shut up. We'll see in a week I guess...



Today was a disturbing day in my poker life... nothing totally abnormal just disturbing. I've been playing very well yet I continually have been finding myself in trap scenarios where it's extremely difficult if not impossible not to go broke. I only say this because today I was on the bottom side of two set over set situations on the flop in my fist 30 minutes of play.

A third time I raised 1/3 of my stack (a big overraise) with 55 on the 3 5 9 board and was called. The J on the turn resulted in us both getting all our money in and he turned over JJ.

I apologize to you if i'm starting to sound like a broken record on here.. Things are looking pretty grim but I feel good about where they can go. I know how it can be to run good and once all these statistical f*ck you's sort themselves out it shouldn't take me long to bounce back and be playing in the games I know I belong in.

Until next time...


*** update: I actually *gasp* ran pretty good after I posted this.. After close to an 8 hour day of 5 tabling 2/4 NL and after taking my annual ass kicking to start my session I finished about +1000 for the day. Maybe this trend will continue in the days to come? All I can do is play well... ****

great poker doesn't warrant great results

First off let me say that I appreciated your comments Chris... These last couple days have been extremely frusterating for me and sometimes this is going to bleed off into my post's here... This is the reality that is my life and i'm certainly not going to sugarcoat what happens.

Personally, I don't like listening to bad beat stories and as a result I don't try and force mine on other people. but again... this is the reality of my current situation.

There is good news and bad news in all this.

Good News: I've been playing almost perfect poker. My reads have been excellent and i've been getting my money all-in with a huge advantage a large majority of the time. Not only that, i've been making excellent laydowns

Bad News: Plain and simple.. If I flop the nuts i'm probably going to finish second.

This sounds dark and depressing I know yet I can still pull more positive from it all. Yes, it really sucks at the moment... but I know how bad i'm running and it has to end eventually. 20% is only going to win 20% of the time. This is a fact. The big underlying problem here is that I don't know if my bankroll can survive until things finally start going the way they should.

I've been going over my play to make sure i'm not missing anything but the cold reality is i've been getting pretty cold decked and sucked out on. The big pots from today were my 222 vs 101010 on the 2 10 Q flop. My AA vs JJ after getting 180 each in preflop we saw a J 6 6 flop and he led into me with an all-in bet. my QQ vs 1010 all-in preflop and my 88 vs 56 on the 5 8 2 flop. the board went 7 9 to give him a straight after he put in almost 400 on the flop with a huge donkey reraise.

There is one big thing that helps me keep my head on straight.. It's something I vividly remember Howard Lederer saying the first and only time I met him. "There is no justice or correct result in this game"

Reader Beware! excessive bitching and whining ahead

Most of you who have known me for awhile can attest to how much I hate bad beat stories. Unfortunantly that's all I have for you right now...

I felt really good today so I figured a healthy day of work is just what I needed... little did i realize that today I probably sealed my fate of having to change my definition of work to that one in the dictionary that has to do with being employed.

What could I do? My has involved me getting f*cked by math an average of about 3 times an hour in big pots. To clarify... I've lost 8 big pots in the last 2 hours and 6 of them I was a minimum of an 80% favorite. Of the other two I was 55% in one and 20% in the other when my KK ran into AA.

AA three times all-in preflop.. twice against KK once against JJ.. lost all three.

QQ vs JJ on the 8 high flop.. J on the turn.

Pair and flush draw vs lower flush draw with no overcards... lose to runner runner 3 of a kind.

Since I started counting about 2 hours ago I havn't hit a set in 31 pairs...

I could go on... but I won't... My bankroll has reached an an all time low of around 4k and I honestly don't know my next move.

That's all i've got... sorry if I depressed anyone. lol

From now on if I don't have anything positive to post I won't post at all...

ok... seriously... this isn't funny anymore

Nothing too major to report.... which is the whole problem to begin with. I've been extremely annoyed with poker in general lately so my solution has been to not play poker... somehow this is going to help me get out of my slump?

I'm happy to say i'm back at it again... my session yesterday and the beginning of todays were the same story as before... the best hand losing. Yesterday I gave up early after deciding i couldn't take it anymore. Today I sat with a good positive mindset and doubled up early.. After about an hour I was involved in a 3 way all-in. A pair vs my set of tens vs a flush draw.. the flush draw stacked us both and I was left wondering why I even bother.

I was able to keep my head on straight and I just finished the session + about 500. I need to forget what I was doing before and just focus on grinding out winning sessions at the smaller stakes. I've also been reading what I consider the best poker book period Ace on the River. It's simple and is very good at screwing your head back on straight as far as poker is concerned. Aight i'm out.... catch you later