After a uber successful tear through the micro-limits on Full Tilt and PokerStars, I've started to cool down.
I had run my FT bankroll up from $10 to about $140 in a matter of weeks, and was feeling damn good about myself.
I also had a monster run at some live poker, running the table (with
BadgerBucco) at a home game in Minneapolis, and then taking my bi-monthly game here in Wisconsin for almost every penny on the table.
So. Yes. I was running hot. Extremely hot. Full-of-myself hot. I-can-do-no-wrong hot. I-will-push-preflop-with-the-hammer-and-win hot.
Now? Not so much.
I've dropped over $20 tonight on FT, for example. Big money in my micro playing world. My coin flips are flipping the other way, my rivered straights are getting beat by rivered flushes, top two pair getting beat by a set, etc.
I'm not bitching, whining, or letting my gash go unstitched. I owe no one a dollar.
It's just interesting to watch how things can swing back and forth. You think that you're bullet-proof on the felt one day, then the next, someone slips some kryptonite in your back pocket and suddenly you're looking at your own blood.
Granted, I'm still way up from when I withdrew all of my mad cash when the "douchebag" law passed, but it doesn't make this anti-run any more fun.
Here's my question for anyone that still reads this here pitiful excuse for a blog:
What do you do when you start running bad?
I've thought of three things I can do:
1. Play through it without tilting off my bankroll.
2. Switch from cash games to SnGs for awhile and see if there is any sort of turnaround.
3. Stop playing altogether for awhile to get some perspective.
I'd love to hear what anyone else is doing/has done when these bad streaks occur.
Labels: Losing Poker
