I started playing about 2 months ago and for the first 5 weeks or so I was doing quite well. I turned the $50 I recieved through here into about $190 playing in small SnG's and MTT's. I certainly didn't win everything but I was slowly building my BR and doing quite well including a few ITM's in larger MTT's.
One of the SnG's I used to make a killing on were the double ups which I was winning about 85%of. They really are easy as most people playing don't understand that it isn't about winning but placing. Even these I managed to lose the last 15 I have played.
The last 3 weeks have been brutal, I understand up and downswings but this has gotten so bad it is killing any desire to play as I now just expect to lose. I started to keep some stats as I know when losing sometimes your view on what actually happned can be a little skewd.
Races
Hero holds pair W-18 L-56
Hero holds overcards W-11 L-61
Hands Won on turn/river-8
Hands Lost on turn/river-57 (37 on river)
As I had a day off yesterday I played in about 25 SnG's and recorded all situations where either I pushed or my opponents pushed and I called. There were 42 cases and I managed to win a pathetic 4 of them.
These are the last 3 hands I played last night all pushes in different games and all within about 5 minutes of one another. Sorry as I am having issues with importing the actual hands.
I hold KQs and hit 2 pair, push and get called by AQ, other player hits runner runner 10,J to make a straight.
Hold Q10o hit 2 pair on the flop push and get called by someone with nothing, not even a pair, just 3 clubs, of course runner runner club comes.
And the last one that caused me to actually smash my monitor, was in a 900 player MTT. There are 106 players left and top 100 pay. I held 8's, flop is 8 8 Q, quads on the flop so I push. My opponent who must have been in some form of crack haze calls with Q6o, yes just a pair of Q's with a lousy kicker. This hand would have put me into the chip lead for the tourney and well you guessed it he managed to hit both of the 2 outs in the deck and make quad Q's beating my quad 8's.
There are 2 people I play with pretty regularly who have watched some of my games lately to see if A) I am playing differently and B) if things are as bad as I seem to think they are and they both agree I am not playing different cards or more tentatively, but that the cards are just killing me.
Any advice from any more experienced players who have gone through particularly bad downswings? At this point as i stated it has pretty much killed all desire to play.
Thanks for any advice and sorry for the long rant. P.S this is not a " online poker is fixed rant".
Cheers
Jonaton
