Hi,
just writing this to let off some steam. Toady I am down over 8BI (I play NL5 + NL10), nearly £90, mostly lost by getting all the cash in on the turn when I am way ahead and then losing to some donkey hitting his 2, 3 or 4 outer on the river.
With over 300K hands in PT3 I know all about variance so don't bother telling me about that. I have been through plenty of downswings before but today I could not have done worse if I covered my cards and played blind,
I have read all the strategy articles I can (including many Platinum ones when I achieved that status last year) and they all say in effect that everytime our opponents make a mistake we gain! Well they LIE. Today when my opponents made mistakes I LOST.
When I 3bet a pre flop raiser to 4x his raise and he calls with K3os that is (I feel) a mistake by him. When we get it all in on the turn on a 5c8h2c10d board and my JJ is good I feel I did well and he made huge errors (in my opinion, you may feel differently) - but of course he hits his K on the river and gets rewarded for his terrible play and I get punished for getting my cash in when I was way ahead.
I played some good poker this week, making some excellent calls based on my opponents play and my reads. I built by roll little by little and today I am back down where I started and am now considering not bothering with poker at the weekends. I can and have beaten some good players and numerous bad players both live and online but even I can't beat the stupid, lucky, idiotic, plonkers who seem very happy to get all their money in with <10% chance of winning and hit every time.
In a 90 minute session on one NL10 table today I witnessed one player (for player read donkey) go from £3 to over £46, and in the 80 or so hands he was dealt he folded 3 pre flop. He would frequently call to the river with bottom pair and naturally he would hit a second pair or trips on the river toi win the hand. I have rarely seen anyone run so hot. I know that he will run badly eventually and lose but that dosen't help how I feel now. I searched for him after he left the table and saw he had joined a NL50 table with his winnings. Over the next 25 mins he more than tripled that. I only checked tha table now and then as I was really looking to see if he was coming back down to my level so I could get on a table with position on him but no such luck for me. The few hands I saw him play on that table he was still geting lucky and hitting 3-4 outers on the river.
I don't feel I tilted off any cash as I kept focussed on my game and generally kept getting it in good (only to lose of course), but I did decide after one final BI was pushed the wrong way across the table when my opponent hit a 4 outer on the river to beat my flopped str8 with a boat that it was time to quit for the day.
Sorry if this seems a bit of a long rant but I am hoping that letting off some steam like this will help when I play again tomorrow.
I hope this don't happen to you.
Thanks for reading and thanks to PS for providing me with what I hope will be a useful outlet.
just writing this to let off some steam. Toady I am down over 8BI (I play NL5 + NL10), nearly £90, mostly lost by getting all the cash in on the turn when I am way ahead and then losing to some donkey hitting his 2, 3 or 4 outer on the river.
With over 300K hands in PT3 I know all about variance so don't bother telling me about that. I have been through plenty of downswings before but today I could not have done worse if I covered my cards and played blind,
I have read all the strategy articles I can (including many Platinum ones when I achieved that status last year) and they all say in effect that everytime our opponents make a mistake we gain! Well they LIE. Today when my opponents made mistakes I LOST.
When I 3bet a pre flop raiser to 4x his raise and he calls with K3os that is (I feel) a mistake by him. When we get it all in on the turn on a 5c8h2c10d board and my JJ is good I feel I did well and he made huge errors (in my opinion, you may feel differently) - but of course he hits his K on the river and gets rewarded for his terrible play and I get punished for getting my cash in when I was way ahead.
I played some good poker this week, making some excellent calls based on my opponents play and my reads. I built by roll little by little and today I am back down where I started and am now considering not bothering with poker at the weekends. I can and have beaten some good players and numerous bad players both live and online but even I can't beat the stupid, lucky, idiotic, plonkers who seem very happy to get all their money in with <10% chance of winning and hit every time.
In a 90 minute session on one NL10 table today I witnessed one player (for player read donkey) go from £3 to over £46, and in the 80 or so hands he was dealt he folded 3 pre flop. He would frequently call to the river with bottom pair and naturally he would hit a second pair or trips on the river toi win the hand. I have rarely seen anyone run so hot. I know that he will run badly eventually and lose but that dosen't help how I feel now. I searched for him after he left the table and saw he had joined a NL50 table with his winnings. Over the next 25 mins he more than tripled that. I only checked tha table now and then as I was really looking to see if he was coming back down to my level so I could get on a table with position on him but no such luck for me. The few hands I saw him play on that table he was still geting lucky and hitting 3-4 outers on the river.
I don't feel I tilted off any cash as I kept focussed on my game and generally kept getting it in good (only to lose of course), but I did decide after one final BI was pushed the wrong way across the table when my opponent hit a 4 outer on the river to beat my flopped str8 with a boat that it was time to quit for the day.
Sorry if this seems a bit of a long rant but I am hoping that letting off some steam like this will help when I play again tomorrow.
I hope this don't happen to you.
Thanks for reading and thanks to PS for providing me with what I hope will be a useful outlet.
