More Jack-mania

Vegas...

I'll make it short. It started off very bad with me losing just about every session I played. Very demoralizing. About halfway through my trip, I did a complete 180 and started doing nothing but winning. Things definitely started going my way. Turning point: played with a bunch of locals at the Suncoast one morning around 1:00 AM and got dealt AA. I got all in before the flop with another player who turned over KK. Flop came K-x-x and I ended up hitting a 6 outer on the river to make broadway and won about a $400 pot. From then on I just went on a tear and won practically every session I played. Overall I think I broke even or finished a little ahead.

One bad part... I played 5 or 6 tournaments but failed to cash in any of them. My very first one at Paris I definitely would have cashed and possibly won but near the end when we were very close to the money I suffered a bad beat against the chip leader and was sent home. I hope to play more tournaments when I get out there and hopefully start doing better.

Floppin' Quads

I've been bitching a lot lately about how I can't hit any flops in Omaha. Well I guess I should shut up for a while because tonight, during two concurrent tournaments, I flopped quads twice. Alas, it did me no good overall as I failed to cash in either one. It was pretty though.

Jack-mania on Full Tilt!

Return of the meltdown...

Well my insanely hot streak finally came to and end today, and a very abrupt one at that. Last night I was sitting on top of my most profitable month ever, but on this final day of August that record is now far out of sight. I started off by dropping about $120 before even getting out of bed thanks to a quick exit in a $20 HORSE sng and then five straight PLO8 heads up losses. That was just the beginning though. Later I would continue to get brutalized heads up including another streak of 6 straight losses, 4 or 5 of which were to the same guy which puts me on tilt perhaps more than anything else. For some reason when you play heads up and get owned by the same person game after game it really eats at me. Must be the ego part of my brain. Anyway, the final tally is I've lost 18 of my last 30, which may not sound like a major meltdown but given how I had been doing prior to that it seems pretty catastrophic. When you win and win and win you get accustomed to it and anything that departs from that pattern gets very hard to accept.

I've played a lot of games today on tilt which I know I absolutely should not do, but alas, I am human. Another thing, the players have been absolutely murder today. In my 30 games I can remember one player who was a total fish. Everybody else has been very tight/agressive/patient/nitty which really sucks. It's so bizarre how there are these days where just about everyone I play has a lot of skill. Other days, most days in fact, it's just the opposite.

One bright spot, I have won 3 in a row which is my longest streak of the day. Despite this setback August will still finish as a very good month for me.