in the midst of another nasty downswing
Fyi: the following bullets are just for me to reflect on later when I look back at this blog. I know no one cares for other people’s bad beat stories(I know I don’t).
You know you’re running bad when:
- you have JJ vs QA and get it all in on a Q J 9 Q board and the river comes A.
- you have 77 vs QQ and get it all in on a 5 7 J board and the turn and river comes running jacks to counterfeit your full house.
- your pair vs lower pair all in preflops which have an 80% advantage lose more often than they usually do.
- getting set over setted in the SCOOP events multiple times.
- your 75% advantages continually lose at critical stages in the tournament.
Been pretty amusing for me for the past couple of days, but just trying to trudge through it =) For the first time since January, I have decided to move down in terms of my average tournament buy in — I’m moving down from $60 to $27 sit n gos for the time being. I’ve always read about how it’s a necessity for poker players to move down — because everyone encounters a wild downswing once in awhile. I just didn’t expect to move down so soon…oh well =)
In other news:
- I started promoting for Visionshock SD — pretty nice + fun group of people.
- May is gonna be a pretty fun month imo:
- May 2nd – our next VS event. come down! It’ll be fun I promise
- May 9th – audiotistic. above and beyond YES. I’m looking at the lineup right now and it looks like Talib Kweli + The Cool Kids, etc. are gonna have a hip hop room — cool.
- May 15th – sungod. NERD headlining with Cool Kids, Motion City Soundtrack, etc. blah blah
- May 22nd – vegas
Anyway, going back to poker. Things will turn around soon I’m sure, downswings have nothing on me =)
