session from hell

jetsg4 · #1 08-05-2007, 03:42 PM

what do you do?

this isn't intended as sympathy or rant post, just curious what other players do.

i go to my local casino this past friday, and for the second weekend in a row, it's the session from hell. cold deck after cold deck. going 3 and 4 hours without getting a hand, and when i did finally get something to play, i'd raise and it'd be bet and raised in front of me after the flop. what do you do to deal with these horrible sessions.

just leave when you're down a chunk but the game is juicy and beatable?

*TT* · #2 08-05-2007, 03:44 PM

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what do you do?

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I post the question in the right forum for starters, knowing that a stop loss question wont go over well there. Hello Psychology forum!

vhawk01 · #3 08-05-2007, 03:45 PM

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what do you do?

this isn't intended as sympathy or rant post, just curious what other players do.

i go to my local casino this past friday, and for the second weekend in a row, it's the session from hell. cold deck after cold deck. going 3 and 4 hours without getting a hand, and when i did finally get something to play, i'd raise and it'd be bet and raised in front of me after the flop. what do you do to deal with these horrible sessions.

just leave when you're down a chunk but the game is juicy and beatable?

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This was my weekend, I lost almost 4 buyins. It was brutal. I just kept rebuying though, the game was ridiculously good. No reason to get all tilted, no one deserves to win every day.

bav · #4 08-05-2007, 04:51 PM

Gee... two rough sessions in a row? Better change out the 4-leaf clover and replace the horseshoe!

No, a couple such sessions ain't nuthin'. Do whatever you need to do to get through it. Everybody has their own mechanisms. I don't play for a living, so when I'm having a string of bad sessions I just play less frequently, or switch to a different casino, or go to a new game (O8 instead of NLHE or LHE instead). Whatever works to soothe your psyche.

jetsg4 · #5 08-05-2007, 05:26 PM

i had already planned to take a month or so away from poker. i think my leak is not leaving, but the game was so good, as long as i could dodge 3-5 outers every hand i played. just couldn't bring myself to leave, seems like an easy decision now that i've splept on it.

oddsock · #6 08-05-2007, 09:57 PM

nothing you can do except count the sklansky bucks, have a coke and smile.

Burdzthewurd · #7 08-06-2007, 02:16 AM

Ha, I had a session like that at Foxwoods last week.

Played mostly 8-handed to 5-handed 4/8 O8, and I made exactly one flush, no straights, and no full houses in 8 hours. I flopped sets twice and lost both to baby flushes/lows HU. Went to limit HE, lost TPTK 3 times to rivered gutshots or trips, and pretty much won 3 hands over the course of 7 hours between the O8 and short-handed 2/4 HE.

I should have gotten up and just quit for a few hours at one point, instead of trying to grind out losses despite getting zero cards. I say just take a break next time, get something to eat, walk around. If you come back and still get cold-decked, just quit for the day. It's one thing to play through a bad run when opponents are throwing chips around with garbage hands, but when you can't even get good cards, it's time to bounce.

govman6767 · #8 08-06-2007, 03:16 AM

I dont' understand Cold deck stories.

Look I'm very tight at the table. But I know for a fact that after 4 hours of being cold decked I'd still at least half my buy in left.

Being cold decked is not bad if you DON'T play the garbage your dealt.

Sure the boredom sucks but that's what mr Ipod is for.

All it takes is one good pot to make up for 4 hours of folding.

Now it's the session from hell when you fold for 4 hours get AA and lose then it's govman tilt time [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Now in WA after 4 hours of pure folding when i finally get AA and raise I'll still get 4 callers [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

I'm sure in some places everyone would be like OMG he's playing a hand I have to fold my KK [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

jetsg4 · #9 08-06-2007, 08:41 AM

after hours of folding, things like this happen, get AK & raise, get 3 callers. it's bet and raised on the flop before it gets to me, this happened 3 times, the only 3 times i had AK. get AA, all in preflop against AK, flop AQ10, turn J. play QcJc all in on a flop of Kc10c6c, caller has Ac4c.

that is almost all the hands i had for the entire session which was 20 hours long. session from hell.

e_phemeral · #10 08-06-2007, 01:58 PM

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after hours of folding, things like this happen, get AK & raise, get 3 callers. it's bet and raised on the flop before it gets to me, this happened 3 times, the only 3 times i had AK. get AA, all in preflop against AK, flop AQ10, turn J. play QcJc all in on a flop of Kc10c6c, caller has Ac4c.

that is almost all the hands i had for the entire session which was 20 hours long. session from hell.

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You are playing too tight if this is the extent of your "hands" over 20 hours. Play some more hands.

PS: I suck at poker, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.