Now, when I run bad/hit a downswing/get results in line with my shitty play - it tends to snowball very quickly. Usually, I'll hit a vicious 3-4 day
freefall, and then slowly recover over a couple of weeks. This latest one is a 25 buy-in dump at
SnGs/
MTTs, which got accomplished by
-running and cashing OK in single table
SnGs, but not enough firsts, too many thirds.
-going 0-9 in all my 18-man
SnGs-losing every 90-10 I jam all my chips for in some
MTTs, running headfirst into painfully obvious pair over pair spots
preflop in others, and then playing
tilty uber-bad in the rest.
The nutty
PokerSlut rebuy Sunday night was a perfect microcosm of
WTF it's like lately.
It was a $1+1 tourney with unlimited $1
rebuys.
I was in for $20, in a 17-person tournament.
94 rebuys, and I take 18 of them, plus the add-on.
Dubya-tee-eff.
KsJs vs. A8o on
AxQs4s flop, board blanks out
KTo vs. A7 and 44
AIPF - board runs out T96J... 4.
KQ vs.
QJ, I call a
Pinkystinky open jam, J on river
22 vs. AA,
UTG jams very next hand, I call hoping to flip, yeah right.
ATs vs. AK, I call another
openjam way too light, don't get there.
87s vs. everyone, auto-rebuy throws me off, I punt the last 300 chips from
ATs hand into three other players, don't hit.
TT vs. 53o, I call another
Pinkystinky jam, two pair on the turn
A7 vs. A4, I actually make a thin call that's good, but the board runs out a chop.
88 vs. T6, I jam and get called, four card Broadway on river.
Then I forget that I'm not
busto and the auto
rebuy doesn't engage - so naturally I pick up AK and
KK the next two hands, jam, and only make 700 chips until I can hit the actual manual
rebuy button. Freaking dodo
Heff.
22 vs. QT
actually holds when I flop a set vs.
PinkyStinky.
JJ vs. AA - when
Pinky jams a billion blinds again, I know by now he's actually doing it with a hand, but I can't fold here.
A9 vs. 66 - I jam, get called, can't win flip.
By now, I'm wondering if I should even keep
rebuying. After all, I buy back in just to be in last place with 20BB. But I'm not a master of sunk costs, so I keep feeding coins into the slot machine, $2 at a time, hoping it'll finally hit.
Last hand of
rebuy period, I jam that 20BB stack with
JJ over a raise, get
reshoved on with
QQ - but I turn a J and only go 4-10-1 (jeez) when I'm all in for the first hour. - so at least that saved me two more bucks.
After the break, nothing happens for a while.
I
resteal with 88 for 20BB over a 3x open and cold caller and don't get looked up, strangely enough.
I finally
reshove for 6K over a 1K
EP raise from a 22K stack at 120/240/25, with
QQ, get called with
AJo, and hold to finally get an average size stack.
Reverse
rebuy luck starts coming.
I call a
shortstack reshove with A7 vs
JJ and board runs T94J8 for the four-card straight.
I raise
QQ,
Pinky jams on me, I hold vs.
JJ.
VERY next hand, I have
JJ in the blinds, SB raises, I jam, he
snapscalls with
QQ, but there's a Jack on the flop
Just like that, over 60BB at the final table and second in chips.
Of course, I need to finish third just to break even now.
I win one more pot with
KK before ELM22 and I get heads up - he's got me
outchipped 2-1, but there's like over 140BB in play and $10 at stake, and I really don't want to be playing for another 15-20 minutes
HU (although I really need the trigger time) - so we just chip chop it and call it a night.
What a ridiculous roller coaster. I get reamed in the
rebuy period, make some stupidly thin calls, then turtle up, pick up some hands, spike sets when I need to and manage to actually profit from the experience.
I really need to find a way to make this a little less hard on myself, smooth out the variance, and keep the graph heading up, not down.