So, how do I start to describe today? Well let me start with saying that I have never had a run like this in my online career yet, good or bad you ask? BAD!!! I have never had sooo many hands get beat when I go in with the better hands, AK getting beat by A2 hitting a set. JJ beat by AK, AK beat by Q10, 88 beat by J5, yes J5! Anyways, I am not going to go into depth about how bad I have been running today, instead focus on the opposite of that.
I have played extremely well today and can actually walk away from the computer for a short break happy with how I played! Happy with getting beat? Happy with not making any money? NO! Happy knowing that I have played solid, and each time I have lost, I got all my chips in the pot at the right time when I needed to, when I was ahead, and someone just happened to outdraw me. That's poker folks, however if you can continue to play solid poker like I have been, statistics dictate that you will come out ahead more than you lose. So that being sad, how do I handle losing soo much?
Well, the urge is there to go on tilt and just say F**k it, I'm playing any 2 cards if everyone else can win with them. But that never got anybody anywhere, except poorer faster. Its also very easy to start chasing losses and move up a level thinking that it won't happen to you there, you can't really run that bad the whole day can you? The answer is "YES." So what do I do now? I take a break, clear my head, know that I have been playing well up to this point and move on again after.
If I do what I have set out to do, and play within proper bankroll management, then I will never put my whole stack at risk, thus the importance of not tilting, not moving up in levels when you run bad and just ride it out until it gets better. A solid winning player is just that, and over the long run will win more than lose. The second day of my challenge and I'm already up against the fence but I will get through this, it is a year long challenge and I will treat it as such, not a race to get it done as fast as possible.
I have no doubt that if I keep going I will reach the target and reach it in a pretty reasonable amount of time.
So, for today's re-cap so far to this point! I have played a total of 33 games, and cashed in only 8 of those. That is a cashing rate of 24%, now that isn't the worst cashing rate ever, it could obviously be better but the part that needs improving on right now is in what position I cash. My cashes were as follows:
1st - 1
2nd - 1
3rd - 6
If I took even 3 of those 3rd place finishes and turned them into even a second let alone a win, my losses would not be nearly as bad. So it's break time now, I will be back grinding after and will post back my results at the end of the day again, or if I feel the need to vent my feelings again.
Okay it is now 7 pm, the end of my day of playing. I have the results for today as well as some analyzing of how I did. So I am down, I continued to have a disastrous day of bad bad bad beats everywhere. It was almost like if I shoved all in, it didn't matter what two cards called me, they were destined to win. So here is my final tally for the day. I played in a total of 55 games and only cashed in 17 of those games! It breaks down as follows:
1st - 3
2nd - 2
3rd - 12
Now the interesting thing about this is, if I were to take all those 3rd place finishes of mine, and just add a few first places and a cpl second I would actually be seeing profit even at 17-55 cashes. However the number that really bothers me that will require an adjustment of my bubble strategy at this lower level stakes is the fact that I bubbled a lot.
4th - 6
5th - 8
Taking this into consideration, just making a few of those into third place finishes again moves me back into the profits again, however that wasn't the case today and will require a strategy change for the next day of gaming. How can it be that I play soo solid for soo many games, mind you sure there were some times I got my money in behind, and even more rare I came from behind to take a pot, but come out sooo far behind and run so bad? Like I said above that is poker, and that is another BIG reason i made this blog. To show the rest of these online players the ups and downs associated with playing these sit n go's online.
You have to be able to keep a level head, plan your strategy to take down these games, and evaluate it base on your results. So for my next days of playing I will be tweaking my strategy. I will have to make sure that when tangling with players who have larger stacks than me, that my chips are protected and do not take any more necessary risks than I have to. Also I will have to slow down my game once I am in the money as to not get knocked out in 3rd place and increase my profit margin and ROI.
So this being said, I am now down in my Bankroll from my original starting stack to a total of $271.66, so I am only down $28.34 which is not too bad after running soo bad, but it gives me a chance to work on the holes in my game.
Hopefully in the upcoming days, the better hand holds up and I can continue on to the next level of sit n gos within the week.
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