ive been running and playing like complete shit this last week. ive only put in about 3000 hands or so, and in that time i have lost over 10 buyins. 2 of them at $25nl and 8 at $10nl. thats $130 and a big hit to my BR. So after a great start to the month of January ive pissed away all of my winnings, and lost about 1/2 of the $200ish of bonus money ive earned. I dont know what my fucking problem is, but i am just playing like a complete idiot calling station.

Ive all but finished reading NLHT&P, and feel like i have learned some new concepts but havent really applied them. One of my major leaks is builing huge pots with weaker holdings, especially OOP. After reading through all of the book club discussions yesterday, I really wanted to concentrate on pot control last night when i played. I did a great job of this, checking behind turns, and just overall controlling the pot size and played well for 500 hands. I got no cards to speak of so i was really just breaking even, and then i get a hand that ruins the night.

I raise AQs 4xBB from UTG. the CO, who had 3 bet me 3 times, all w/ AK, 3 bet me and I flat call. Flop comes Qxx w/ only 1 of my suit. Villain overbets the pot($8 into $5) and i call. This is where i should let go and give up. Oh, and were both 250bb deep, more on that later. The turn is a blank and he pushes and of course i ignore everything i know and call only to be shown KK. gg me, gg session, gg another 2.5 buyins.

when i started playing on stars, i ran about 5/6 ptbb/100 over 13k hands and was really playing solid poker. ever since switching to Absolute, i have played, and ran, like shit. for those that dont know, AP allows you to buy in for 200 bb's. I think this has been the downfall of my play since ive been on that site. Ive never really been comfortable playing deep in cash games. Mistakes while playing this deep are obv. magnified 2x or more, and i seem to always make 1 or 2 big mistakes when i have a deep stack. I know the obvious thing to do would be to only buyin for 100 bb's. Thats so easy, but i goes against another principal of buying in full to cover everyone at the table. There are alot of shorty donks on AP, but there are an equal amount who buy in for 200bbs and seem to hand their stack away. I just havent been one of those lucky recipiants lately.

Im going to put in what is hopefully my last session saturday night on AP. This is assuming that my epassport account gets confirmed and i can withdraw my money though. Im going to move to Full Tilt, where ive had some sucess in the past and clear as much of the $300 bonus i have left there before it runs out on March 8th. If anyone wants to swap some monies on AP for Full Tilt, holla at me.

Sorry of the rant, but i needed to get it off my chest.