Biggest Downswing So Far
Wow. I’m now on my biggest downswing of my poker career, after losing $1200 in PLO over the last 2 evenings.
I’ve decided to blog now to put a line under it and hopefully start afresh tomorrow.
Tuesday night brought outdraw misery. 3 times I got it in with the nut straight only for the other guy to put it on the line with a bare flush draw or 2 pair and hit. That was $400 in the hole for that. Each time he helpfully typed “that’s Omaha” which I thought was a nice variation on the usual “that’s poker”.
Tonight, I played badly. I was too passive, although I got no help whatsoever when all the chips went in. They were not outdraws as such, just situations where I flop the nut straight and opponent has 2 pair and the nut flush draw. All the money goes in and I lose. And rinse. And repeat. I am down $800 at the time of writing - it was worse but I’ve had a small $300 fightback. I’m going to quit for the night though soon, so I imagine this will be close to the final number.
To cap it all, 3 marvellous incidents to finish:
- I flat call top house on the turn and let some guy in for a straight flush 2) The Baron raises when I have KKxx and he is re-raised so I pass pre-flop in a pot which ended up being $400 between the pair them. Flop was of course KKx. 3) Myself and the Baron were accused of collusion by one of the other players. Considering we were both down, I can’t imagine the evidence would show collusion!
So including Saturday’s debacle, I’m over $3,500 down for the week online, which is far greater than I have experienced before.
I guess I’ll take an online break now, as I need to refocus. I’ll keep playing live which is going well, and take it from here. These runs are bound to happen, but I can feel a tilty edginess creeping into my online play, and I need to put a stop to it.
Tomorrow brings the welcome distraction of live play at Loose Cannon. Not a moment too soon…