Disaster
Well I started this blog having had a bad time of it recently but in 18 months of playing on-line poker I have NEVER experienced an evening like Tuesday 20th of December.
N.B : I know what I said in my introduction about bad beats but fuck it, it's good therapy.
My record this evening was...
Played 19 £10/$20 STTs, Won 1, 3rd 1, Unplaced 17.
Now if I was drunk or playing terrible or on tilt then I could handle this BUT during 90% of these games I got my chips into the middle in front and was beaten. And of course these beats happened at Level 4/5 which are critical times in STTs.
AK being beaten by KQ, AJ being beaten by A7, 55 being beaten by J5, KJ being beaten J2, AQ being beaten by Q8, AA being beaten by TT and my personal favourite KK being beaten by Q9 when I went all in after a flop of KQT (he made runner, runner flush).
Apologies about listing bad beats, I'd promised I'd never do it but it was just astonishing.
So what did I do? I withdrew £100 out of Betfair (I only lost profits on Tuesday), uninstalled the software and e-mailed Betfair asking to be banned from the forums.
I know I'm good enough to play the £10 STTs, the level is only slightly better than £1 IMO and I know I will be back but for the next few months I will avoid Betfair and try and get some confidence back on Blue Square. If I had been playing cash and above my bankroll it would have been awful, I think after this experience I will NEVER EVER play for more than a tenner unless it is live, no point!
But also I have been playing far too often recently and neglecting other parts of my life. Poker is a great game but I just felt it was taking my life over to much. Maybe the bad beats were a sign or omen to stop playing so much.
I am now poker free for the rest of 2005 and will be back on Blue Square in the New Year, look out for DoobDude being chimped as per usual on the $10 STTs.
Happy Christmas
N.B : I know what I said in my introduction about bad beats but fuck it, it's good therapy.
My record this evening was...
Played 19 £10/$20 STTs, Won 1, 3rd 1, Unplaced 17.
Now if I was drunk or playing terrible or on tilt then I could handle this BUT during 90% of these games I got my chips into the middle in front and was beaten. And of course these beats happened at Level 4/5 which are critical times in STTs.
AK being beaten by KQ, AJ being beaten by A7, 55 being beaten by J5, KJ being beaten J2, AQ being beaten by Q8, AA being beaten by TT and my personal favourite KK being beaten by Q9 when I went all in after a flop of KQT (he made runner, runner flush).
Apologies about listing bad beats, I'd promised I'd never do it but it was just astonishing.
So what did I do? I withdrew £100 out of Betfair (I only lost profits on Tuesday), uninstalled the software and e-mailed Betfair asking to be banned from the forums.
I know I'm good enough to play the £10 STTs, the level is only slightly better than £1 IMO and I know I will be back but for the next few months I will avoid Betfair and try and get some confidence back on Blue Square. If I had been playing cash and above my bankroll it would have been awful, I think after this experience I will NEVER EVER play for more than a tenner unless it is live, no point!
But also I have been playing far too often recently and neglecting other parts of my life. Poker is a great game but I just felt it was taking my life over to much. Maybe the bad beats were a sign or omen to stop playing so much.
I am now poker free for the rest of 2005 and will be back on Blue Square in the New Year, look out for DoobDude being chimped as per usual on the $10 STTs.
Happy Christmas
posted by Doob at 9:48 am
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