What do you do when you are running bad

skip8118 · #1 09-09-2007, 12:09 AM

Ive been playing a bit on .10/.25 and its been a pretty awful week where last sunday LAGs tore me apart taking me down 8 buyins. My fault and I shouldnt have been playing tired, so I took a break the entire week. Finally played last night and within an hr im down close to 4 buyins where my flushes are just being outkicked and my set was cracked by a guy i thought was on tilt flopping a flush. Stopped playing for the night and tried again today where I lost 2 buyins within 3 hands on bad beats + missing out on a 1st or 2nd place finish from another bad beat to take 6th.

I usually am getting my money in way ahead to be rivered. Its at the point where I dont even want to play AA/KK. So just looking for advice on what you guys do after these variance streaks in cash games...which books do you read again to try and cover some leaks or do you just take a break from poker completely

ahsfl · #2 09-09-2007, 12:15 AM

Great book for you, "Your own worst enemey" by Alan Schoomaker, gives you a much better mind set during these times.

phydaux · #3 09-09-2007, 12:15 AM

Going through the same thing right now. September is looking to be the worst month I've ever hand.

The only thing you can do is to keep playing. Provided you have a skill advantage, then the cards will eventually come around.

But keep and eye on your roll. Earlier this week I had to drop down from 25NL to 10NL after losing 8 buy-ins in just 500 hands.

I know that what I lost at 25NL will take me months to win back at 10NL, but that's just the nature of the game.

skip8118 · #4 09-09-2007, 12:35 AM

Might have to take a look at that book, becoming pretty discouraged with poker. Losing AA vs AK in one sng and in a SNG satellite to the sunday mil with 4 remaining, losing half my stack from A 8 vs A 7 and didnt have the chips for 2 orbits so i placed 3rd. ;\

caropelpoker · #5 09-09-2007, 12:38 AM

Please read this
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showfl...=1#Post12006390

DeuceSeven · #6 09-09-2007, 03:34 AM

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Might have to take a look at that book, becoming pretty discouraged with poker. Losing AA vs AK in one sng and in a SNG satellite to the sunday mil with 4 remaining, losing half my stack from A 8 vs A 7 and didnt have the chips for 2 orbits so i placed 3rd. ;\

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OL, this happens all the time. If this gets you down the don't play poker. I play sngs and mtts, I get these beats on a daily basis. My guess is you aren't good at poker or you're running extremely bad. I'd pick up the book, "Your own worst poker enemy." I see you don't have many posts, post trouble hands, go through you hhs and see what you did wrong.

skip8118 · #7 09-09-2007, 04:39 AM

eh im more of a lurker then a poster. Im not going to claim im good, I play the .10/.25 level, but if im having trouble with hands I do have someone to go to with questions.

Is there ever a time that you would fold bullets knowing that guy you are against has top pair, unless theres an easy draw/flush out there? Alright so it didnt happen this time bad beat move on, ok next time, yadda yadda yadda and I keep taking them with AA and KK. Like I said its at the point where I dont want to play AA all in preflop

Its just a vent more or less asking to see what people do when they are getting railed by a lot of bs. How long are their breaks before coming back and what books do they go to looking for advice with these downward hits.

mocky · #8 09-09-2007, 12:28 PM

You should be praying for action with your AA and KK preflop.

poker_bill · #9 09-09-2007, 04:10 PM

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Finally played last night and within an hr im down close to 4 buyins where my flushes are just being outkicked and my set was cracked by a guy i thought was on tilt flopping a flush.

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Sounds like you're still on tilt.

warrantofice · #10 09-09-2007, 04:26 PM

When i'm running really bad, first is obv take time off, but being a degenerate its usually hard to do that, so self exclusion may be an option.
If you playing cash games, switch over the single table sng's probably at the 2/5 dollar level are best for your roll, first you'll loose a lot less money, and second, cause your still playing poker, when you start running really hot in these it'll kinda "show you" that you should move back into cash games