My luck’s so bad, I go to sign up for a 2-Max SNG table that I see someone waiting at; the moment I click register, they apparently gave up waiting and left.
Every single thing I try to do does not work. Literally. I could hit the Reply button, and it would error. Watch my prediction not come true, in fulfillment of my prediction.
2BB raise on TT UTG, and it triggers a re-raise shoving match that I get out of the way of, but would have won because the shovers are all holding junk. Thanks, early position.
Final BS hand of the night. Out 20th in the Bankroll [Destroyer, for me] MTT:
AJ vs. QJ, river Q sinks top pair, top kicker AGAIN. Because why would a trap shove EVER go my way on a hand like top pair, top kick?
Once again, every time I play for a big pot, the cards twist around and screw me.
Screenshot of my bank, look at all the red.
55 in early position. Limp. Hit a set of 5s. Two in the hand. I lay out a half-pot bet to a tiny pot, and the two other players instantly fold.
Even when I have a reasonably strong hand, I can’t get a pot going.
So OF COURSE the MOMENT I could POSSIBLY be drawing to a ROYAL FLUSH, THAT’S when someone decides they HAVE to SHOVE. Call. Miss. Out 5th. FML.
Now down 2.5M chips since two weeks ago, and haven’t taken any chips in a game since July 13, 5 days ago. 5 days without one win is my longest streak ever since I started playing a year ago. Granted, I didn’t play much on two of those days, and didn’t play at all in two more of them, but that’s still 0-18 in the money.
Got out 6th in a SNG where I get killed on my second hand entered, after winning a hand with a broadway straight, get taken when I played AQs into KK, flopped another broadway draw, but the KK is of course blocking 2 of my outs, and I can’t find an Ace. I drop down to cripple-stack and donk-shove and double up twice, then play tight and hang out until I play AJo into the same player, who has KK again and knocks me out.
Start a new table, my first hand I get KK, in early position, so I just raise 3BB, get 3 callers, one of whom has AQs, rivers a flush, and knocks me out in one hand. Flop is 456, so I’m already certain that I’m facing 78, and so I bet pot, to give the flopped straight good value to call. I don’t want them to fold out of boredom. The AQ calls with 4 to the flush, rivers the flush, and goes all-in. At which point I’m absolutely certain I’m beat, and just want to leave the table because I won’t play a table where I get handed KK in the first hand and lose 3/4 of my stack with it.
It’s just extra, extra tasty when you get killed twice on KK and can’t win with it.
20th loss in a row. Bankroll down to 10.478M chips, down from a peak 12.2M two weeks ago.
Calling a pot-size bet with “4 to a flush” is “good decision making”. I should have just #@@#ing shoved it pre. Anytime I feel like I’m likely ahead from now on, I’m #@@#ing shoving. Get rid of the chips that much quicker.
Another 1 and done. AJs, raise 10BB in early position, 3 callers. Flop is suited against me but I have top pair, I resolve to shove no matter what. 2nd player to act bets big, the next player shoves, I call. Shover has 22 and flopped bottom set. I lose.
Basically, no matter what, I can’t win no matter what I do. I don’t expect to win here; I expect 9-3 spades to have called the 10BB raise here for shiggles and lose to KJs. I know folding here is the right move, but I figure shoving may just fold the table, probably not, certainly not if someone flopped a flush, but I’m only playing a preflop strategy, and if I have any hand on the flop, I’m shoving it, that’s the new strategy, regardless of what else could beat it.
21 out of the money in a row now, slide continues down to 10.378M, down from 12.2M.
“good fold”
Skid stopped at 21. I had very hot cards for most of the game, slowing down a bit when it got to 4-up, sliding down from 18K to 14K. One bad hand, playing KQ when the small stack shoved A8 and the board missed both of us. I had such a stack advantage I could’t not call, but it doubled them up and cost me about 3k of my stack.
The cards were on my side for the first time in two weeks, making this an easy game to win.
Early on I got AA, flopped dry, wasn’t taking any chances tho and shoved, got the worst call in the world for doing so, and knocked out the 9th place finisher, taking a huge pot, from which I never really looked back.
Almost immediately my building rage that has been festering for the past 21 games seemed to calm down, and I played much better. My big lesson is to not throw away big chunks of chips when I get tilty due to an extended streak of horrible outcomes, but yeah, good luck with that.
The very next hand, I end up with a nut flush, flopping it, for another easy big pot win where I had no concerns about calling any bet. The betting was cautious though and the pot stayed modest, but still a nice size, and I kept my opponents in, betting me or calling, the whole way, so I think I got good value for the hand.
A short time later, I get dealt KQs, raise with it, and hit top pair + a flush draw with it, bet half-pot, my one opponent mucks on the flop. That’s fine. Another 1000 chips com to me.
My second AA of the game came a bit later, after a brief cool period where I didn’t have a playable hand for a few orbits. Just as I was saying that I was about due for a good hand, I get dealt this monster, and flop quads with it, good for nearly 3000 chips.
Played 99, flopped a set, got all-in against a player who nearly got me with a straight, when I sucked out a river full house. Finally the luck breaks my way on a big pot, tight hand against a legit threat. Knocking out @the_JHB here, who seems like a nice player. This was my big lucky hand, and it put me in a dominant position at the table with over half the chips in front of me.
My third AA of the game came immediately after. I don’t think anyone expected me to get two great hands back to back, so it was a little less necessary to disguise my hand strength here. I did not flop well, though, and was very scared of a King when two showed up on the flop, and then the Turn put a pair of 4s on the board. I almost gave up and laid the hand down, but stuck it out and won the hand, AAKK4 over KK664, my opponent holding the pair of pocket 6s. I got most of his chips here, maybe could have got the rest of them as he was pot committed, but the pot was already 6000 and I feared that I was going to see a K or a 4 break my Aces. Having the big stack helped me to rationalize that I could survive getting beaten here, but I still didn’t want to throw away more chips than I had to to see the showdown.
@Rosebuddd got lucky on a hand, shoving A8o when I held KQs, and with about a 8:1 stack advantage, I couldn’t not call here. We both missed the board completely, and they outkicked my painted couple, doubling up and getting enough chips to be dangerous again, leading them to an eventual #2 finish.
KO’d the #3 finisher on this hand, KJo over A8o. This player had shoved on me multiple times, sometimes when I would bet on a pair that wasn’t top pair. Once he got a taste of the power of this move, he started over-relying on it, and it got him chips until it lost them all. First, a big hand to the eventual #2 finisher, to flip their stack positions, then to me. This time, he led into me with the shove, and didn’t know the strength of my hand. I had flopped top pair, Jacks, King Kicker, and felt OK to call here; he had air, I Turn Top Two Pair, and he exits missing the board completely.
Took a big pot heads-up with KK over a QJ9 board. I did not want to miss a straight here and see my opponent hit one, so bet it hard (weak to look strong) on the pair’s strength and fortunately didn’t need to go any further. Blinds were already big enough that the game could reverse quickly on a single bad hand.
At this stage, aggression and bluffing was key, as well as betting any made hand, bottom pair or anything, and hoping your opponent had missed. Much easier to do with the big stack, but easy to lose the big stack if you over-play a hand.
After the 1-hr break, I made a Wheel straight on this hand, luckily, taking a big chunk out of my opponent’s dwindling stack.
Another hand, a lucky board hit both of my hole cards for two pair 9966:
Finished out with these two hands:
Is this the same time you decided to move up to 100k SnGs?
Go play some cash games… Why not try it out ? Just don’t play your whole bankroll and it will be okay…
You’re complaining, we’re trying to help, but you’re not listening… I mean, come on Pug.
Yes, the first week I went 50% in the money and won over a million chips, the next week I went 30% in the money and I think lost maybe 40K chips overall. This third week has been terrible. It’s not the stakes, it’s not the quality of the play, it’s the terrible cards and terrible improbable outcomes putting me on tilt and then I go on an extended losing streak. When the luck abandons me, I lose a hand I feel I shouldn’t have, and just throw away the rest of my chips. The stakes magnify the losses, but I can absolutely play at this level, provided I can actually catch a hand once an orbit or two.
“The first and best victory is to conquer self.” - Plato.
Why don’t you work on that? Concentrate on the process and don’t let outcomes get to you. One bad beat and you throw the rest of your chips away? Does that seem reasonable to you? Bad beats are part of the game, master them or they will master you!
“Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.” - Lao Tzu
@puggywug - it happens man. Everyone goes through streaks of bad cards and bad beats. I’m fighting through a spell of it myself. Its no fun. You just can’t beat yourself on top of it. Forget about the chips for a while and just focus on making the best decisions you can with the cards you have in the positions you’re in. That’s it and that’s all. Don’t worry about the donkey who can’t find the fold button with a Sherpa. The worm always turns and the practice you get controlling your emotions is every bit as important as the practice you get with your cards.
I was playing with someone ranked in the low 100’s earlier. Dude couldn’t play cards to save his grandma from a shark. If you focused on the number of chips he had, you’d say “hey that guy can play”. If you focused on how he actually played, you’d say, “hey, I can get me all those chips he has”.
Find me and beat up on me for a while. That always makes you feel better 
Just because its been so bad, I decided to play some 5K MTT’s and stuff like that. Let out all my aggression and took my inner donkey out for a long stroll. Felt good. Maybe try it sometime?
I’d stay away from the ring games if you are getting tilted easily. They are great for making chips but can be soul-killers. Boring, simple poker. Lather, rinse repeat. Life is too short IMO.
The common theme of all these hands is that you are in a pot with a larger stack, you get all-in when you are ahead, and opponent sucks out on the turn or river.
This is just a fact of the game of poker. This is why it is impossible to pick which nine players will make the final table in the WSOP main event. There will always be world class players who are eliminated on day one due to suck outs.
The only solution is to get the large stack at the beginning and keep your head above the clouds all the way. That way you will never get into it with a larger stack.
Yesterday I was in a tournament, and the small stack, who was seated on my right, kept shoving when it was folded to him in the small blind. Eventually I called him with A5 and he turned over A4. I think you can guess who won the hand. Anyway, I eventually tricked him and crippled his stack, then another player finished him off.
Yes, it does. I can handle losing, typically, but when it happens many times over, and the beats are all improbable, I don’t handle it so well. Especially when after ten games of it, I finally catch a set but can only win the blinds with it because it’s the first time in 90 orbits that someone didn’t decide to raise 10BB.