It’s a Fish Eat Shark World
Ouch, stop it. Please, the fish are eating me raw and kicking. This felt like my worst weekend ever of poker. I couldn’t win a thing. I ran at about -30% ROI in the STT’s (finishing 2/1/0/13 !!! ) and played a ton of MTT’s failing to cash in a single game, despite bubbling in a 20/180 when I was in the top 3 stacks (don’t ask!), and finishing 20 spots within the money in two 700+ player fields. Puke. I couldn’t win a coinflip if my life depended on it. I was also taking beat after beat after beat, literally. In the same minute I lost with QQ v JJ after we got it all in on an 8 high flop, turn J, and with AA v KK after we got it all in on a Q high flop, turn K. A few minutes later I went out of an MTT on the 4th hand, with KK v 99, all in pre-flop. Yikes, gimme a break! My notes from Sunday are hilarious, they gradually get more and more obscene finally saying "TILT!!! ALL THESE GAY COCK MONKEYS CAN FOAD!" Ahem, I’m not normally so foul mouthed. Anyways, I’m at work now, so don’t have the exact figures, however it was approx… Out $900 / In $400 In reality it’s genuinely not much of a loss, I made a similar defecit last weekend, however it didn’t really affect me as it was all so quick and in NL Cash, where I was half expecting it. However this weekend, I was playing MY game, I was playing it well, and I was playing a LOT. I just don’t expect to lose so badly. Oh well, variance happens, bite me. I feel like saying to the fish, Teddy KGB stylee *dodgy russian accent* "It was all your money anyway, from last time I stick it in you" */dodgy russian accent* So where to from here? Well I need to get back into winning ways this week, so basically play the same as before and let the maths do the rest. People (family/friends) still seem to struggle with the skill concept and the basic maths of poker. I’m not flipping coins for cash, you never hear of pro-coin flippers! If someone offered to flip coins, yet one side of the coin had an 80% advantage… well now you’re talking, I’ll have that side please. Which is all well and good, but obviously the other side of the coin wins sometimes, and rarer still it will win consecutively, now if you’re being particularly unlucky, you could have a succession of losing scenarios, especially when you have to win maybe 2 or 3 of these "coinflips" per game to make the money. So, there you are, that’s why I lost this weekend. Touch wood ( fnirk!), the maths and my hands will hold up for the rest of this week.
Hi Andi,
good to see you playing on Stars earlier. Just set up my own blog which I’ll try to keep updated but looks like you are doing much better than me! Anyway keep in touch and good luck.
Comment by Fidemaster — 30 August, 2006 @ 10:43 am
Sensible approach mate; good to see you can “happily” absorb losses without doing something stupid like getting drunk and punching doors!
PS. Why is your font so small now?
PPS. Where’s my link!!
Comment by Wayne — 30 August, 2006 @ 12:22 pm
FIDEY!!!!!!!!
how’re you keeping?
Anyway, Andi, three 8020 coinflips works out to be roughly 5050.
So this suggests you make the money half the time. Since the min payout is usually - what - around double the entrance fee - and you’ll pick up more than that on occasion - you end up quids in.
See, it’s all in the maths.
Comment by hoose — 30 August, 2006 @ 2:09 pm
Wayne,
I’ve linked to your ranting blog on the right, cunningly hidden at the very top of the “links” section. I even sneaked in a link to fnirk.com in this post!
What do you mean about the text? All seems same as before to me.
Comment by Administrator — 30 August, 2006 @ 3:29 pm