By AHMWM on October 13th, 2007 (more posts by author)

Wow...the past few days have been the roughest in my poker life. It just seems that I can't stop getting coolered and outdrawn. Of course I might have been able to get away from a few but its just so tough at the time...Others though are purely unexplainable......which leads me to these two hand histories....

WTF???

and...

You Gotta Be Joking

.....After those two hands I still managed to be ahead....This guy dumped 13 buyins in an hour and a half....

The next day I hoped my luck would turn around. I went to a friends house and was convinced to buy-in to a NL50 home game with the 13 dollars I had in my wallet. The table was VERY fishy and I ran it up to 30+ very quickly. Then came the hand that would put my on life tilt. 4 players limped to me on the button and I made a slightly sketchy play. I smoothed called with 99 deciding to go set mining rather than juicing up a big pot and having a tough time figuring out where I stand. I hit a magical flop as the board read 10 9 2. First position (major donk) lead out with a 1.50 bet. 1 caller. I raise 8 dollars more.... The donk moves all in...Fold...I call.... He triumphantly says I got trips.. Oh great major cooler I thought....But Wait!!! He shows 22....
A 60 dollar pot is about to be shoved my way......
Turn: 8
River: 2

Wow..... I didn't say a word.....Sat there quietly..cashed out two hands later with exactly 13 dollars...
When I thought things couldn't get worse they did. This is a tough slump to break out of....

Today was the first tournament of a 16 tournament series held every Saturday known as K-Mart. The tournies are held in a basement with a very mixed crowd normally attracting 40+ players. The buyin is $12 with unlimited rebuys for the first hour and an optional add-on at the end of the hour. 4 of the 12 dollars is put in a pool for the points leaders to play for at a final table after the 16 weeks. I feel I played fairly well despite never going on a real nice run of cards. I was eventually busted 11th out of 43 when my A10 ran into KK.

Tonight I was up a half a buyin on FullTilt. That makes me ahead one buyin in the month of October.....Embarrassing to admit really. Well after some of the hands I've went through I'm just happy to be ahead. Well that's all for now...any words of encouragement would be greatly appreciated (lol).....Back To The Grind