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    Default Motivation to Play or Lecture on Variance or Something IDK

    After 26.5k hands of 200nl this month, I'm running pretty bad. I'm down almost $2600. My net run on all-ins is -$775. I'm up $42.80 with AA, which I've been dealt 126 times. To give you an idea, last month I had AA 300 times at the same stakes and was up over $5800 with it. I don't remember off hand my last winning day of poker.

    Now, if you're unaware of my latest misadventure, check this thread first (don't worry, it's short): http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...nk-t67064.html

    So I got up this morning at 6:30 am, like I usually do. I did a bit of reading, got some food, got my girl up for work and took a big semi-bloody shit. Then we took a shower, watched a little bit of TV. She left for work, and I got to the computer, read a few posts, made a few posts, and started playing.

    Feeling as bad as I do, and running as bad as I have, why in the living fuck would I play this morning? The answer is here obv:

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    Default Re: Motivation to Play or Lecture on Variance or Something I

    Quote Originally Posted by spoonitnow
    ...got my girl up for work and took a big semi-bloody shit... Then we took a shower
    i am deeply disturbed that you took a bloody shit and the first thing you were able to do was get your girl in the shower to clean your bloody ass off...

    all things considered, i still am having a hard time this month finding an FTR reg having an abnormally GOOD month. we all seem downish.

    online poker is rigged against FTR? lol.
    LHE is a game where your skill keeps you breakeven until you hit your rush of random BS.

    Nothing beats flopping quads while dropping a duece!
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    Despite having quads THREE TIMES (I swear stars is quad-happy) I ran breakeven over 2k hands of 0.5/1 LHE today. That sucks way more than losing at 200NL.

    So what am I going to do? Play 3k hands tomorrow of course!

    P.S
    What makes this really suck is that I was playing 1/2 yesterday but made a withdrawal which took me $10 below my new ultra-strict bankroll limits for 1/2. I mean... shit..... I only wanted 10bb for fuck's sake!!


    Edit: And just to add to my ramblings in this thread - I like to think of running bad as "saving up" for a shit hot run.
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    Default Re: Motivation to Play or Lecture on Variance or Something I

    Quote Originally Posted by Chopper
    all things considered, i still am having a hard time this month finding an FTR reg having an abnormally GOOD month. we all seem downish.



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    oh, of course not. just funny that FTR'rs, this month, are all getting their periods at the same time. running in sync? lol.
    LHE is a game where your skill keeps you breakeven until you hit your rush of random BS.

    Nothing beats flopping quads while dropping a duece!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chopper
    oh, of course not. just funny that FTR'rs, this month, are all getting their periods at the same time. running in sync? lol.
    I've noticed this too, and it makes me lol, although it's obviously just coincidence.

    And I don't think of it as running bad or running good. I'm too busy running hard. Ya dig?
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    Yeah I'd definitely rather be losing because of random bullshit than because I suck.
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    dont you know that AA is the best blind stealing hand out there? i can steal blinds from UTG like nobody's bidness with da rockets.
    LHE is a game where your skill keeps you breakeven until you hit your rush of random BS.

    Nothing beats flopping quads while dropping a duece!
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    Default Re: Motivation to Play or Lecture on Variance or Something I

    Quote Originally Posted by Chopper
    i still am having a hard time this month finding an FTR reg having an abnormally GOOD month.
    Not getting many hands in, but running ok - even with shit like this going on...
    Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, $0.50 BB (9 handed) Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)

    MP1 ($50)
    Hero ($48.45)
    MP3 ($23)
    CO ($42.65)
    Button ($68.65)
    SB ($49.05)
    BB ($71.90)
    UTG ($54.75)
    UTG+1 ($23.50)

    Preflop: Hero is MP2 with A, 8.
    UTG calls $0.50, 2 folds, Hero calls $0.50, MP3 calls $0.50, 2 folds, SB completes, BB checks.

    Flop: ($2.50) Q, 9, 6 (5 players)
    SB checks, BB checks, UTG checks, Hero checks, MP3 checks.

    Turn: ($2.50) 4 (5 players)
    SB bets $1.75, BB calls $1.75, UTG folds, Hero calls $1.75, MP3 folds.

    River: ($7.75) 3 (3 players)
    SB checks, BB bets $7, Hero raises to $25, SB folds, BB raises to $76.65 (All-In), Hero calls $21.20 (All-In).

    Final Pot: $100.15


    Results
    BB has 5h 2h (straight flush, six high).
    Hero has Ah 8h (flush, ace high).
    Outcome: BB wins $130.60.

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