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...because the runbad is so horrendous. Far and away the worst few days of poker I've ever had. Not even close. I am doomswitched like a f*ck. Here's the sharkscope graph.



Speaks for itself. I literally cannot figure out what the hell is going on, if I'm doing anything differently. I don't get how I magically go from a nice slow steady profit to dropping off the face of the earth. It makes no sense. I can't get my head around these past few days, but literally I don't win pots when I push. Regardless of hands, stacks, whatever, I'm just losing. A lot.

I have 40 buyins for the 15s now, and 1/4 the bankroll I started the week with. I played 55 yesterday and won while I was dominating a total of 5 times. I continue to get reamed with those stupid little in between hands, like pushing K high and some genius instafistpumpsnapcalls with QT or JT because it's pretty, only to flop the f*cking nuts or whatever stupid hand he's going to beat me with. If there's a way for them to beat me, they're going to find it. Absolutely unfathomable that luck can turn this sour this fast, but I've even gone back over yesterday's stuff and found very little I could have done differently. I know full well these are HUGELY based on luck, but does luck really go this bad? The graph is absolutely retarded looking now, I don't get how that just happens. I tilted like a f*ck yesterday too, but the other days were fine, so that's still not a huge issue thankfully. I just keep losing though, I don't get it. I run so horrible in the middle stages. Like this morning, played 26 so far, and I have six 4ths and six 5ths. Those crucial middle stages where the blinds really start counting are where I lose the flips, lose the dominatings, lose those f*cking AT vs KQ or KJ battles that never seem to go right. Flip me in stage 1 of the tournament and I'll take it town a hell of a lot, but put me on the bubble and that percentage dwindles down to nothing real fast.

I still feel like I'm playing fine, keeping my head for the most part, taking my time with decisions, it's just not panning out "normally." I mean...I guess I'll take the rest of the week off even though I just had two days off this past weekend to move, clear my head, but I really don't feel like I need it. I feel like I need to play through it more as long as I'm still playing sound. Maybe I'm just kidding myself, since I did just lose about $2500 in three days, but I'm strangely comfortable with it. Not happy, but not sweating it in the least. I have to keep it in perspective and remember that I also withdrew close to $2000. At least that's one part of my game I've completely gotten a hold of. Generally when I would have a successful poker day, I would feel better and be more cheerful that day, and when I would lose, I would spit fire at anything and everything and have a terribly short fuse. These days I'm the same regardless, which is definitely healthy considering the current state of things. I'm not about to go punch a hole in my wall. Nice even keel, cracking jokes on IRC about how horrible things are, totally not sweating it. It's pretty solid. Maybe it's the yoga, who knows. Yeah I do yoga, shutup, it's part of a workout program I've been doing for a month+ and is absolutely kickass, P90X check it out if you've got an extra hour a day to kill. Yoga is the balls too.

So that's the state of the Ham at the moment; confused but clear headed. Perhaps it's time to get reacquainted with some N64 games. I'm still enjoying the poker though, which is probably the sickest part, so it's tough to keep myself away. I think for at least the rest of today and tomorrow I will try, but who knows, it's fun! God I'm sick.

*Edit* SCOOP starts today! Sweetness. Take a few days off the superturbos, donk around with my Stars money and maybe finagle a few cashes. Still playing poker, AND not losing my shirt. Ya hurd?

Title suggestion - The Ham is past it's sell by date?



I'm not suggesting you are. I just think it's a catchy title!



I don't want to rub it in by saying what I'm about to say but may be you are just reading too much into it. May be you should be playing ABC poker until you get slightly deeper??? I kinda went through a phase where i had read too many poker books and just had too much stuff going around in my head. In the end I went back to basic's and my game improved.



I dunno, I don't play tourneys just cash games, but it's an idea.

Heh, I'm about as ABC as they come, and there's really not much wiggle room in superturbos to be anything but that. It's push/fold from hand 1. I'm not reading into it much since these are enormously based on luck, I just find it wild that luck turns so bad so fast and stays that way for a little while. As for poker books, well I haven't even cracked one open in 2+ years, so I don't think I'm overanalyzing stuff at the tables and psyching myself out. :)



I do like the title though.