Bloody Variance

Account now stands at £101.

So I started my £500 challenge with £105, dipped to £26 and am now on £101. £75 profit in a week of playing £3/$5 STTs!

I'm not playing any better than I was a week ago, although maybe there are more dipsticks at the 20% rake level. But this is where I stay for the rest of the month.

And Suddenly I'm Winning Again

Played 6 £3+0.60p STTs today...... Won 2 of them, 2nd in 3 of them and 3rd in the other!

And quite a few suck outs by me as well but I played them similar to the previous 3 days. Glad I didn't go all the way down to the £1 games after all but still paying 20% rake which is a bit silly. Although I shall stay on the £3 level until I lose a few.

So DTD account stands at £67 now. Why can't I just lose a few STTs and then win a few. Why the long losing/winning streaks. There is something in the back of my mind that says Crypto is dodgy but I don't know what it is.

Constantly Losing

Well I'm playing just about the best STT poker I've ever played. Good positional play, aggressive when I need to be, some great folds and excellent calls.

And in 3 days playing £5/$10 STTs on DTD poker I have gone from £105 to £26.
In that time I have had so many 4th places that I cannot remember the actual number. And this isn't 4th places where I fold for England and get to 4 left with 500 chips. Almost always all 4 of us have a similar amount and I will lose a race/ meet a monster or get a dreadful call and be raped.

Strangely I was more angry a couple of hours ago but since losing the last 5 games, 3 4th places a 4th in a sixpak QQ vs AK (No hope with these) and a Omaha H/L game where I push with AAK5 (double suited) and am called by QT94 who hits a straight on the flop!

Over the past 3 days I have won 1 STT and to win that game I had to be incredibly lucky, twice got my money in behind and won both times. It's so weird. And it's Crypto, I only get these terrible run of cards on Crypto!

I have 4 other Crypto accounts and every single one of them has a positive ROI, in fact I think they are all at least 20% ROI because I'm a very good Crypto STT player. But I've lost 16 buy-ins by playing non-tilt, excellent poker and I'm too amazed about it all to get angry.

I doubt it to be honest but why would it be fixed against me? It doesn't make any sense!

There is some cashback to be returned from DTD which will come to approx £175 so for now it's down to the £1 games to try and get some confidence back. I've never been someone to tilt all their money away. I've got approx 20 buy-ins at the £1 games and we will hopefully not go broke playing these and try again when the cashback arrives in February.

I'm going to get this account back to a positive ROI, which is a bold statement as we are £474 down and I'm moving down to £1 STTs. But I'm a good poker player who is being utterly raped at the moment but why get angry about it. The £75 I've lost is meaningless and financially is irrelevant.

But I've got pride in my poker and I'm proud that inspite of being generally very unlucky at this game I have made an excellent profit from it.

And I've now got my challenge for 2007. My DTD asccount will be showing a profit by the end of the year for STTs. It will because I'm a good enough player to do it.

(Apologies for always mentioning how good I am but I've played some really good poker over the past 3 days and lost so it's mainly just to remind myself lol).

By the way I don't play Betfair Poker anymore due to a mistake they made on a football bet of mine so no more Flashmob games for me. Of course I could go on about how dreadfully unlucky I have been in these ........ ZZZZZZZZZZZZ ............. :)

All the best.

I Don't Play Much Anymore

I have a slave to play poker for me, work harder slave!
Although when I do play I'm playing well, until heads-up when I immediately get utterly bored and usually call raises/re-raises with all sorts of junk. Which is nice.