Still running cold since the last post, and no sign of recovery. I realize it WILL turn around ANY TIME now. Could be next session, and I’m making sure I’m not letting this cold streak turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy, but it sucks.
Have had two winning sessions since last post. Others were down, some bad [...]
I’m running cold. In the last 3 days I’ve had a guy pull a ONE-OUTER on me to make a STRAIGHT FLUSH against my nut flush. I’ve lost flush over flush big pots twice with a jack high flush and a queen high flush, twice with only 3 flushcards on the board. Lost set over [...]
… at pokertables.
I’ll give you the rundown of a hand I almost cried about.
I have AK suited under the gun and I raise 4BB. I flop the nuts with QJT with two of my suit too so I’m on the royal draw on a jellyroll. I bet out knowing one guy behind me is a [...]
Twice a month I sit down in the restaurant of the casino I usually play at with a friend I met at the blackjack tables and now plays in the same poker room on a regular basis to talk poker. We discuss our results and talk about key losing and winning hands and about how [...]
Like every poker player, I dread the days on which I know I play bad, or on which I realize afterwards I was tilting without actually realizing it, thus losing way too much money due to donkeyplay.
Anyway, last night was such a night. Playing $2/$5, luckily, so only losing about $200 in the process. A [...]
I ate a steak at the poker table today, and I wish I hadn’t. Let me tell you a painful story:
Walked in with about $2000 in my pocket, went straight for the 5/10 game, my favorite at the casino here. Started off playing aggressive, making button-raises, following through on the flop most of the time. [...]