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Sucking my thumb!

Pud's Poker Progress RSS / Matthew Pitt / 10 March 2010 / 1

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I tell you, if I fell in a barrel of tits at the minute I'd come out sucking my thumb!

For once I have actually played some poker, 3,612 hands of it since my last update to be exact and my God has it been a frustrating time at the tables.

I've been playing some full ring no-limit Hold'em and have been attempting to play a much looser style than I usually do. Over the 3.6k hands I've logged I've been playing a 20/15/3 style which has increased my variance somewhat I can tell you.

Things didn't get off to the greatest of starts mainly down to my Aces being cracked by sevens all-in preflop and someone playing Queen really passively when I had Jacks on a ten-high board. It took me close to 1,000 hands just to get back to even.

Yesterday I played a lot of hands, 2,550 to be exact and at one point I was eight buy-ins to the good but the last 500 hands were an absolute nightmare and I shipped it all back except 1.5 buy-ins. Really frustrating I can tell you. I had a number of beats during my session including having aces cracked yet again in a three-way all-in preflop and then managing to get someone to commit their stack with TPTK against my two pair, only for the board to pair to give them a higher two pair.

I really misplayed some hands too including getting my money in with 0.0% equity but I was also on the receiving end of a few coolers like this one here and this one here. Complete pain in the arse this game sometimes! It seems to have continued into today too with me again managing to get someone to commit their stack with top pair against my two pair only for them to go runner-runner four flush to stack me! I tell you, if I fell in a barrel of tits at the minute I'd come out sucking my thumb!

So after the 3.6k hands, I find myself 1.3 buy-ins down although I am slightly in profit thanks to rakeback and a bonus I am currently clearing. If I can avoid the coolers, bad beats and stop playing like a moron at the end of my sessions I should be able to log a decent profit this month as I seem to have found my grinding head for a change.

As always, thanks for reading and best of luck at the tables!

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  1. Rossi | 14 March 2010

    nice one mate.
    hope you stick to the grinding.
    Full Ring is the way forward....lol