Yesterday was certainly one of the more amazing runs of poker I've had. I started out doing horribly, dropping a ton of money quick. I then had a nice little run where I won all of it back and then some. But, I finally just piledrived right into the ground, having my worst run of cards I can remember to aptly end the day after my best day of poker ever with my worst day of poker ever--and worst by a factor of about three.
I've been stuck in Party's "Thou Shalt Not Win" mode before, but this was a new one, "For 3000 Hands, Thou Shalt Put Tons of Money Into the Pot As a 95%+ Favorite, But Still Thou Shalt Not Win."
I won't recap them all here, but I certainly had amazing hands that literally made my jaw drop all night long. Hands that I might see one or two a night in just the astounding way they develop ("Wait, he capped my AA on a AK8 board the whole way with his 24 to catch a 3 and a 5?") I think I can remember at least 20 hands like that just off the top of my head from last night alone--heck from those last three fateful hours. Ugh.
Oh yeah, didn't I say I shouldn't play between the 17th and 20th of each month? Quote:
I returned to have my monthly 130BB downswing (which always seems to come around the 17th-20th of each month--maybe I should just plan on taking those days off)
Yes, the trend continues.
Oh well, what can I do besides go right back out there and play again tonight?
More Bad News
I recently bought Half-Life 2. Okay, a few months ago I bought it, but between poker and work and something resembling a social life, I just got around to playing it yeseterday. Or, I should say, trying to play it.
I was able to play it for about five minutes before getting motion sick so bad I had to turn it off.
Me! Motion sick! I'm someone who literally grew up on first person shooters! I played the original Wolfenstein 3D from its initial release, downloaded Doom the day it came out and went on to play it 8 hours a day for more than a year (and for quite a bit after that, as well), and I continued to play them all up until a year ago--Doom II, Duke Nukem, Quake, Half-life, Quake II, Return to Castle Wolfenstein etc. But here I go and take a year or so off from playing them and boom, I can't even go five minutes without getting sick.
This is more distressing than was dropping a month's salary at my old job last night.
Yes, June 18 really was the day of bad beat after bad beat.
That's funny, I ran good yesterday for the first time in a long time.
Posted by: Evan | June 20, 2005 at 16:21
Then start running badly again, dammit!
Posted by: pokerwannabe | June 21, 2005 at 03:37
done. my brief moment of running good is over. i hope you're running well again, at least.
Posted by: Evan | June 28, 2005 at 05:07