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In 5000 hands, I’m down about 80k. It’s somewhat frustrating because when you’re playing poker all the time, you’re used to the swings and it doesn’t really bother you too much, but when you’ve been out of the game it’s a bit easier to let the swings affect your mood. I’ve been playing a fair amount of 40/80 deep NL and 25/50 HU, so 80k isn’t too much considering how aggressive and big these games play. While I’ve sucked out on people and they’ve sucked out on me so it’s not particularly illuminating to just select random hands and show them, this last hand was particularly tilting: my opponent had been running god mode on me, and had just 2 minutes prior apologized for running so hot. So naturally, this would happen:

Full Tilt Poker $40/$80 No Limit Hold’em - 2 players - View hand 510259
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

Hero (BB): $18953.00
BTN/SB: $23274.00

Pre Flop: ($120.00) Hero is BB with A A
BTN/SB raises to $200, Hero raises to $880, BTN/SB calls $680

Flop: ($1760.00) 9 2 3 (2 players)
Hero bets $1180, BTN/SB raises to $2560, Hero raises to $4840, BTN/SB calls $2280

Turn: ($11440.00) 5 (2 players)
Hero bets $13233 all in, BTN/SB calls $13233

River: ($37906.00) J (2 players - 1 is all in)

River: ($37906.00) 6 (2 players - 1 is all in)

Final Pot: $37906.00
Hero shows A A (a pair of Aces)
BTN/SB shows A 4 (a straight, Six high)
BTN/SB wins $18952.50
BTN/SB wins $18952.50
(Rake: $1.00)

And with that hand, I decided that losing 60k in half an hour was probably as good a stopping point as any and picked up. I’m really low online right now so I’m going to start getting more money on. In the meantime, I’m going to stick to coaching and playing 10/20, so it’s looking like I won’t be having much new poker content for the next week or so. Just coaching, working on Rap Genius, and maybe getting lunch with friends from time to time.

Oh yeah, and standard “I’m venting about a downswing caveat”: I’m still insanely lucky to be as well off as I am and complaining about a downswing in the middle of a huge recession without being mindful of that would be insane, this happens all the time and I always bounce back it’s just all in the game, I’m just in a bad mood, and I believe in blogging my losses as well as my wins and my bad moods as well as my good ones, etc. etc. yada yada