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.

Hot again

This game is so streaky! I've now won 9 in a row and 13 of last 14. Let's see how long it lasts.

Downswing...

The heads up games have been pretty brutal lately. I just won one, but before that I had lost 7 straight. As it stands now I have lost 9 of my last 12. I think I've been playing pretty well but the competition for some reason has been a lot tougher the last couple of days. I make no bones about the fact that a huge reason why I've won so much playing heads up PLO8 sng's is because there are so many players who are so very bad. If more people actually knew what they were doing there's no way I'd be as successful as I have been. It seems like everyone I've been sitting down with lately is solid as hell and knows what the hell they are doing, even though I haven't recognized any of these players. They've just seemed to come out of nowhere and are really good. The frustrating thing is I had a bunch of games where I had my opponents really low on chips (one guy even as low as 140), but they still came back to win.

Anyway, I'm trying not to put myself in a position where I keep losing and I refuse to stop playing, like what happened during my serious meltdown in San Diego. Right now I haven't lost more than 2 in a row without stopping and doing something else.

Speaking of doing something else, right now I'm going to the laundromat.

Dealt quads

Don't see this very often.

By the way, I folded.

That was quick...

I pride myself in that I usually last pretty long in tournaments. I may not cash as often as I'd like to but I feel that I have the ability to put myself in the position to go deep and at least make the money. Tonight I played a 90 person sng for $20 and I lasted about 3 hands. I get dealt AK in early position and raise 3x BB. I get 4 callers total, including the blinds. Flop comes down A-K-7 with two clubs (I have ace of clubs). I am first to act and bet slightly more than the pot. Player to my left goes all in and player to his left calls. I call. The original raiser shows 77 for a set and the other guy shows AK for two pair like me. I actually pick up a flush draw on the turn but the river is a blank and I'm gone.

I don't think I played it bad, as there are a bunch of hands both guys could have had. I know they didn't have AA or KK because they would have re-raised pre flop, so basically 77 was all I was afraid of. And that's what he had... oh well.

Reached my goal...

I finally reached my goal of hitting $4000, and then some. My hot run has continued and I'm now at $4500 which is an all time high. I'm still winning almost every $20 plo8 heads up game that I play. I've also mixed it up with some sit n go's (HORSE, plo8, even hold em) and I've been doing well at those as well. I guess my next goal should be $5000?

Close again...

Ok, I've recovered from my mini meltdown and I'm now just $22 away from $4000, having won 7 of my last 8. Past experience would say it's now time for me to lose like 6 in a row. Will I buck the trend this time and finally make it?? Will anybody besides me care?? Stay tuned!

So close...

I haven't played much in the last week because the family was here, but on Tuesday after they left I played two games with the goal of trying to win enough to actually have a winning month. The first game was a $20 heads up plo8 match that I won. Now I was only like $6 away, so I played a $10 match and won that, thus giving me a net profit of a whopping $2.73 for July! Of course it's not the amount of money that matters, just the fact that I didn't have a third straight losing month. It's good from a psychological standpoint.

This morning I played 4 heads up matches and won them all, which put me just $30 away from the goal of $4000 on FTP that I've been chasing for a while now. Of course, right on cue, I then had a meltdown and lost 5 straight in under an hour, and now I'm back under $3900. It's uncanny how often this happens. Please, just let me hit the $4000 mark and then have the meltdown so I can at least say I reached my goal.

Grrr.