I was running hot. Super hot. Then it all crumbled. Like a house of cards. Well specifically it was the cards that did me in. Perhaps it was a bit of my play but it’s out of my hands when the opponent seems to find those 2 – 3 outers on the river against me.
I’ve read somewhere that it’s a lot easier (and faster) to lose what you’ve built up than to grind your BR up. It’s so true. I had been winning and up about $80 only to lose it all and then some.
Then I cracked down and played some strong poker and I’m back up again. So it’s two steps up and one step down. At this rate I’ll never go up the ladder. But maybe that’s a good thing because going up the ladder only means more misery or it could be the way tothe penthouse. Either way I’m willing to try.
The problem is that it took one session to destroy what I built up. So a few hundred hands of poor play/luck evaporated 5k+ hands of solid play. That’s the nature of poker, you win some and lose some. Now if I could only limit the “lose some part” then I’m a happy camper…easy to say but hard to do.
In the end I’m still up and that’s all that matters. I hate it when people say “I should’ve/could’ve been up if it weren’t for so and so hand”….on and on yammering about the bad beat they took. But the truth is that it didn’t happen, that’s poker and all poker players live with that fact.
Even with the setback I’m still at about 4x BB at 25NL. I’m still building BR bit by bit, although I haven’t spent nearly as much time at the tables as I should be in order to make this happen.
July 21, 2009 at 9:12 am |
Sorry to hear that. Its true though, it is so easy to loose at poker, a moments loss of concentration can so easily defeat a whole nights or even a whole weeks hard work.
This is hard lol, best of luck.