Playing better but running TERRIBLY!

Two gems from tonight that turned a very good night into a very mediocre one:



and



So instead of being up two buy-ins I ended down 1/4 a buy-in. oh joy.

Live Blogging: My Chat Privelages on PS has Been Revoked

Here's why:



Less than 30 seconds later on another table...



I played both hands perfectly based on my reads of the individual players at question. On the top hand, the player's range was incredibly tight. I knew exactly what he had and abused him for it. Pokerstars RNG then abused me.

Bottom hand. 70/30 player. His range is incredibly wide making my push PRE profitable. Pokerstars RNG abuses me again...after teasing me first of course.

So instead of being 4 buy-ins UP. I'm 2 buy-ins down.

And for kicks and giggles KK < 99. All in on turn on a J-Q-6-3 rainbow board. 9 river for another 3/4 buy-in loss.

Sucks to consistently be making the right reads and getting bent over and ass-f$cked.

BTW - I did not yell at anyone directly but apparently the string of profanities was too much for someone at my table.... oh well.

UPDATE:

I can't win. Pokerstars won't let me:



and your standard cooler:




Amazing I'm only down 5 buy-ins at this point.

UPDATE 5:57pm AZ time:

Took a short break, took the puppy outside, and turned on some jazz to calm my nerves a bit. Loaded up 6 tables.

Stacked two people almost immediately. Back to just a 3 BI loss for the evening.

Tilt Control by Playing Multiple Tables

Interesting development. I have had better tilt control over the past couple days by playing 6-8 tables at a time rather than playing my standard 2-4 tables.

The reason?

2 reasons actually.

-First, I don't have time to think about the bad beat or try to berate my opponent in the girly (a terrible habit in the first place). I have too many tables popping up needing my attention.

-Second, I'm seeing more hands. At the microlimits, my profit will come from letting my opponents make mistakes and gifting me money. I don't need to outplay my opponents, just need to play my good hands the standard way and they will pay me off. The more hands I see equals more good hands equals more opportunities for donkeys to give me money.

As a result, I've made back my losses from my 4 BI downswing in very short order despite having two coolers where I pushed QQ and KK into AA.

Good luck at the felt.

DubsPoke

Down 4 BIs in 100 hands

All-in postflop, 2 runner-runner bad beats, one cooler and one missed draw later on 3 different tables in less than 10 minutes, I have been effectively tilted and left the tables.

TPTK < KJo (runner runner 4 card flush, he called full buy-in after flop with 2nd pair)

Flopped set of 7s < Jh4h. Villian called 5x BB raise from SB with that hand. I raise from BB, get reraised by CO, villian pushes all in with his pair of Js. Runner Runner flush.

KK < AJ. 3bet preflop. I raise post-flop, he pushes. I call. Turn Ace.

Flop top pair and flush draw against maniac playing 70/65. He pushes on flop. Shows AA. I can't catch one of my billion outs after I improve to a OESD on turn.

I'm more pissed that I can't continue to play than the loss of the money as I feel I played excellent poker over the weekend to push my feeble balance on FT to its high water mark since switching to cash of $233. Back down to $191.

UPDATE: Took a nice break. Walked the puppy and came back off tilt (I can phsyically feel when I'm on tilt, this pressure that is on the bridge of my nose and pushes up through my forehead and eyes). Decided to see how I could do 8-tabling playing ABC poker. Won back a buy-in in about a half-hour. Fiance on the way home so taking another break to make supper and whatnot. Ahhhh it feels good to know that I made a good move by taking my break.

Can ya say UPSWING?

Wow. Just ran like a god for an hour session while six tabling (experimenting with a dual-monitor setup with my laptop and and old monitor). Unbelievable. Check out the two snapshots for details.




and the hand list:



EDIT: LOL - Just noticed I got dealt 72o TWELVE TIMES! I run so BAD! ohhhh... AA 9 times and only got them cracked once. Maybe not so bad...