Hi, all.

[Yepitis]

Hello everybody.

I am pretty new here, be lurking awhile and made a couple of comments so now it's time for my first post.

A little bit about myself- No poker in my state so I drive an hour to the nearest card room and due to work, family and other such nonsense can only make the trip once a week. Mostly they have 3-6 limit and NL. I play the 3-6.

I'm not as good as I think I am, but realize this and still believe it am.

Over the past six sessions I averaged about ten beg bets won per session. Last week I gave it all back. My question is, Can you play good and still lose really bad?

And any advice for this week?

[HoneyBadger]

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My question is, Can you play good and still lose really bad?


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Sure. Look at my graphs. [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

[Bob T.]

Welcome to the forum.

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I'm not as good as I think I am,

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Neither are the rest of us [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]?

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My question is, Can you play good and still lose really bad?



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In one session, unfortunately, hell yes.

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And any advice for this week?

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Play, have fun, bring back ONE hand, that you had a hard time with, and post it. Good luck.

[dedenburn]

Welcome.
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My question is, Can you play good and still lose really bad?


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I'd assume so, because sometimes I play bad and win really good [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

[mikeca]

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Over the past six sessions I averaged about ten beg bets won per session. Last week I gave it all back. My question is, Can you play good and still lose really bad?

And any advice for this week?

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So you had 5 sessions that averages +10 BB and then one session at -50 BB?

A 50 BB losing session is certainly possible. The questions to ask yourself are:

Did you have a long stretch of dead cards and start playing too loose?

Did you start playing badly because you were losing?

Where you in a loose, aggressive game with lots of pots getting capped preflop by people with junk hands?

Was the loosing session too long?

Especially in loose, aggressive game a -50 BB session is certainly possible. Some days it seems the maniacs always have whatever two cards it takes to beat you. One day I remember a maniac that seemed he just couldn’t miss. When I had second pair, he had top pair. When I had top pair, he had 2 pair. When I had two pair, he had a set.

The important thing is to keep playing well when you are losing, and to leave if you cannot keep playing your A game.

[Yepitis]

Yes, I did have a very long stretch of bad cards and I did keep playing to long. I made some dumb calls but not really more then normal.

I have Alan Schoonmaker's "Your Worst Poker Enemy", so I continually ask myself how I'm playing. But that book also pounds into your head that if you are losing it is because you are playing bad. I just had a hard time finding the spots I played bad last session.

Bob, I'll bring a hand back to post.

Badger, I try to figure out how to look at your graphs...

Thanks guys.