Ok - I haven't been posting lately. In fact, I haven't been doing a lot of what I said I would do last April.
And this always seems to happen to me every year.
I win a buttload of money (this April I was up over $20k).
I then proceed to run really bad, tilt more than I should, and bam I am back to dreaming of what I would be doing if I had that money back.
This time, I took my 20k all the way down to less than $5k. Yes, I have lost over 15k in the past 4 months.
Why? Mostly because I have just been really really really unlucky. I am making it deep in many tourneys still, but until this week I was not making any Final Tables. I also was taking some horrendous beats in Limit and then staying at the table and trying to win it back where I would end up being super aggressive with hands that were clearly best preflop, but forgettting that I could/should fold post-flop.
It got so bad, that I have lately been in "screw it" mode. I was/am still playing with profits, so I just decided to screw it. I will take a stab at a game WAY over my $5k BR right now and play some 20/40 Limit and keep playing $30 rebuys. I'll play my game, and if I lose, I lose.
Well, lo and behold, I have had my first real good win streak. I came in 3rd on the Party rebuy and have won over $2k in the past two days playing 20/40 limit.
So I have gotten my roll back to about $8k. And I have also settled down a bit and looked at the big picture again. My goal at the beginning of this year was to win $10k for the year. When I won over $20k so quick, I really thought I was going to be making $100k this year and would be turning pro next year. Instead I knocked myself down purty well (once again). But even though I have screwed the pooch recently, I am still up $8k for the year - and although it is not great, that still is a good chunk of change and is an accomplishment considering that most players are losing money or are break even over the long term.
So... I am going to go back to playing 10/20 Limit and will continue to play my MTTs but might add some more FOs rather than rebuys.
I am also going to go back to recording my wins and losses, which I got away from doing since April because I was losing so much.
And this always seems to happen to me every year.
I win a buttload of money (this April I was up over $20k).
I then proceed to run really bad, tilt more than I should, and bam I am back to dreaming of what I would be doing if I had that money back.
This time, I took my 20k all the way down to less than $5k. Yes, I have lost over 15k in the past 4 months.
Why? Mostly because I have just been really really really unlucky. I am making it deep in many tourneys still, but until this week I was not making any Final Tables. I also was taking some horrendous beats in Limit and then staying at the table and trying to win it back where I would end up being super aggressive with hands that were clearly best preflop, but forgettting that I could/should fold post-flop.
It got so bad, that I have lately been in "screw it" mode. I was/am still playing with profits, so I just decided to screw it. I will take a stab at a game WAY over my $5k BR right now and play some 20/40 Limit and keep playing $30 rebuys. I'll play my game, and if I lose, I lose.
Well, lo and behold, I have had my first real good win streak. I came in 3rd on the Party rebuy and have won over $2k in the past two days playing 20/40 limit.
So I have gotten my roll back to about $8k. And I have also settled down a bit and looked at the big picture again. My goal at the beginning of this year was to win $10k for the year. When I won over $20k so quick, I really thought I was going to be making $100k this year and would be turning pro next year. Instead I knocked myself down purty well (once again). But even though I have screwed the pooch recently, I am still up $8k for the year - and although it is not great, that still is a good chunk of change and is an accomplishment considering that most players are losing money or are break even over the long term.
So... I am going to go back to playing 10/20 Limit and will continue to play my MTTs but might add some more FOs rather than rebuys.
I am also going to go back to recording my wins and losses, which I got away from doing since April because I was losing so much.
on August 26, 2006, 2:37 pm
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