Matt Vaughan
King of Moody Rants
Bronze Level
Today was a pretty frustrating poker day. I felt I played some of the best poker of my life over my 2 sessions tonight, and yet my first session I was pretty much breakeven, and the second session I dropped 4 BI's over 3 tables in a matter of half an hour. The epitome of the second session was when I raised AA UTG, the BTN 3b me to a large size, I 4b to 2.5x his size, and he flatted. I bet the Q94 two tone flop and he snap-jammed. I of course snap-called, and he turned over TT. The turn brought a third heart, adding a flush draw to his "outs," but the A of hearts was in my hand. The river brought the ugly Ts, and sent the villain the 250 bb pot - POST-rake.
I actually took that beat well, but it all went downhill from there, as gutshot after gutshot got there against me. Often it was in spots where not only did players probably overestimate their implied odds, but even if they DID get me to stack off 100% of the time when they hit, they would be making -EV plays by chasing.
I don't really care that much about swings in theory, but I've been making 8 BI swings around the breakeven line on my 25nl graph for the past month. I'm playing a high-variance style, yes, because EVERYONE at my table always sucks. It's frustrating but I know I'll get fully rolled eventually. Just sucks when it really felt like I was finally making a breakthrough and playing really consistently solid, and suddenly I'm back down to only being mildly rolled for 25nl.
I actually took that beat well, but it all went downhill from there, as gutshot after gutshot got there against me. Often it was in spots where not only did players probably overestimate their implied odds, but even if they DID get me to stack off 100% of the time when they hit, they would be making -EV plays by chasing.
I don't really care that much about swings in theory, but I've been making 8 BI swings around the breakeven line on my 25nl graph for the past month. I'm playing a high-variance style, yes, because EVERYONE at my table always sucks. It's frustrating but I know I'll get fully rolled eventually. Just sucks when it really felt like I was finally making a breakthrough and playing really consistently solid, and suddenly I'm back down to only being mildly rolled for 25nl.
