TP = -$300 TSP = 5 Hrs
I dunno what's going on. Variance hell perhaps? I went with my partner (4/8 SD) again, and things just started off terrible and went terrible from there.
I've said this before and I'll say it again, I don't post about beats. Maybe it's superstition, maybe it's having to read/hear about every bad beat story known to man when people want to talk about poker...whatever it is, I hate telling those stories. Maybe a quick exerpt here about how it was a big pot and it would have been nice to hold...but that's about it.
I asked my friend if he could see me doing anything particularly bad as of late, and he had no answers for me. "You're playing fine...you're just not running good." I guess I have to take his word for it. I mean, can I seriously trick myself into thinking I'm playing well when I'm actually not? I don't think I can...
One thing about my game that I really like is my ability to be honest with myself. I know when I'm playing less than optimal, and I can usually straighten it out from there. I read, study, critique, and discuss poker ideas everyday...I should be able to beat a 4/8 game! But there are days when a guy is going to call your 3-Bet cold with T6os and river a gutterball on you...those days happen...it's why the game is profitable. It just seems so unfair when it happens to me.
Anyway, I'll stop moping around now and try to pull something positive from it all. I've been killing Cache's 4/8 game for almost five months now. It may not seem like a lot to some people, but I think I'm still up close to 3-4K from that game averaging somewhere between 2-3BBs/Hr (I honestly don't know the numbers now because I've been on such a terrible skid...but it was 3BBs/Hr). Even after dropping about $800 this month, I've only felt like I was tilting in a couple bursts of hands. Overplaying, calling down when it's painfully obvious I'm beat...but that's maybe a hanful of mistakes. Considering the bad run, I think that's understandable...
Not sure where to go from here. I haven't had a losing month in probably over a year, but that's alright, I need to face some adversity. Will the 4/8 Superstar fight his way back to the top of the 4/8 Poker World? Or will the donk-masses send him into an early retirement and force him to take up competitive scrabble? Find out on the next exciting blog entry of the 4/8 Superstar!
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