So deflated, feel like cashing out BR...

[Daniel Magix]

I believe I am a TAG, or at least, that is my goal.
I have a small BR and I play primarily in .50/1 Limit games, short-handed.
My initial BR was only $200, but I built it up pretty quickly to $550 within a month and a half. I was feeling confident and proud.
Now, I also play some $5.50 (and lately $11) SNGs, usually with good success.

So for the last two night, I really feel that I have been playing fine, but I just CAN'T get anything going. I found a potentially HUGELY profitable table last night, where I saw guys raising OOP PF with K5os, and calling down to the river with bottom pairs...and winning!

A couple of guys like this, in a shorthanded Limit game, should be a dream situation, right? Make a hand, and get paid off, right?

I got absolutely nothing all night. Absolute trash, and when I did flop top two pair, runner suited cards on the turn and river would give my opponent a flush. I hold QT, flop TT8, bet into the PF raiser, and get called. a 2 hits the Turn, and we cap. A K on the river, we cap. He flips over pocket deuces. All FN night with this crap. Either the flop misses me COMPLETELY with no draw of pair, or I get second best hands.

So at this potentially profitable table, I can't make ONE hand and I am down about 70BB in a couple hours. Absolutely awful, IMO, for a normally TAG player.

Then I finish on the bubble in an $11 SNG, and lose two other $5.50 SNGs.

I know it's not the end of the world. I know my stakes are small and my BR is not destroyed. I decided to cash out $50, for no real reason othe than to not feel like I was giving all my money back.

Right now, I think I have about $420 left in my account, but part of me wants to just cash it all out, and be happy with more than doubling my deposit. It just feels awful when you feel you are patient, and don't donk off your chips with bad plays, but you still can't hit a damn hand and cash in off the loose idiots at your table.

Why do I feel so defeated and frustrated? I KNOW that bad nights will happen, and that in the long run, these jackasses pay me off, but I can't help but feeling like giving up on this game.