It is freezing cold!

I can't win anymore! i just can't win. The last two days has been hell I am down over 1900 dollars!! This week I lost 1150 on sunday, won 1350 back on monday, lost 950 on tuesday, won 200 on monday, and lost 1500 yesterday and down 400 today. Like it is a joke. I have ran into as many coolers i could possibly see. Yesterday I had 2 set over sets. Straights against higher straights and lost with trips to better kicker plenty of times. Today I thought it was going to be better. I was running well first 1 hour or so. Then of course the set over set came. Follow by KK losing to Ak when AK just pushed 200 flat on the flop and catching a flush. Then I got AA vs KK to come back and grinded my way back through even. I took an hour break and came back. My god, i flopped top set of 6s on 6 2 3 flop. Only to lose to 99 who caught a 9 on the turn! Then i tried to gamble on a flush draw two over but lost obviously. I just couldnt win these days. It looks like poker break is going to have to come. To think positive I am up 1500 in 10 days. O well. Last 2 months, i am up about 1500 dollars. Although it might not be much, at least i am still in the positive.

--Omniheart

Joke Poke

What an unreal day. I was ready and eager to play a long session. I was missing a lot of flops and being rereaised the whole day. I dont mind it. Then i get 99 from the sb. Flop came down 67 T two daimonds. I check raised the raiser. He called. Turned was a blank K. I check. He checks. River 8. It made a straight for me. I bet the pot of about 150 acting like I was trying to take the pot away from me. He goes all in on me for 150 more. I called. He flipped over J9. GG me. 400 gone. He did have a diamond draw but the only card that made me go broke came. O well. I was still playing great. I laid down AA on KJ 2 board against a single raise. He showed me KJ. So it was a great laydown. Then I get 44 from the cutoff. I limped. The button limped. Flop came 422. I flopped the top boat. I wanted the blinds to have a 2. Check around. Turn was a T. I bet out 10. The button called. The river was a 7. I bet 30 on the river. He raised me to 80. I go all in to put him all in for 100 more. He called and showed me TT for a higher FH. GG me! Another 250. O next hand at the same table, I get dealt 22. Flop came 9 5 2. I check raised a guy. He called Turn was a 6. i wasnt really worried. So I value bet 40 on the turn and 60 on the river. He called me down and showed me 55. Bye Another 150 dollars. O it gets even better at the same table. Someone raised 16 early. I reraised with KK to 48. SB goes all in for 80 more. Original raiser folds. I really want to lay it down but I just couldnt do it for 80 more. So i called. OF course he has AA. Thats another 150. Unreal. Day was so bad that I couldnt get 99 to fold on 855TJ board in an unraised pot! That was 200. And I missed a straight draw flush draw for 150 too somewhere in the middle of the day. I am damn thankful i am only down 1000 for the day but it looks like i am going to have to break from poker for a couple of days.

--Omniheart

A Home Run Hitter

I have never been much of a home run hitter. I always played what i can handle with my money. I never played things too high for me. I never try to super aggressive trying to hit home runs. Jealousy and egos have a lot to do with home run hitting. You can even relate home run hitting in poker to home run hitting in baseball. Barry Bonds was once a small guy with super fast speed and decent power. He was going to be in the hall of fame if he retired then. But he couldnt stand players like Mcgwire and Sosa hitting more home runs than him. He wants to become the greater than them. So he bulked about 40 lbs at the age of 38. That is not possible for a human unless the use of steriods was involved. Barry Bonds is now chasing history trying to break Henry Aaron's record. But he is now on the verge of being caught of using sterioids. Everything he did will become nothing if he was caught using sterioids. He will probably be made fun forever and will prbably never be inducted to the hall of fames. Poker is exactly like that. Some people get very jealous over somethings. They believe they are better than everyone They want to be recongize. So they do the home run hitting at poker. When things are running good, everything is fine and you will probably win a lot of money. But when people start to catch you and trap you with the nuts everytime, it will be a downfall since most of the home run hitters have the bankroll necessary to play their style and their stakes. I am thankful that I am never jealous and does not have an ego to play higher stakes. I know I still have a lot to learn about the games and I have many years to do it. All I know is you dont have to be a home run hitter to become great.

-- Omniheart

Keeping my cool while Full Tilt tries to put me on FULL TILT

If you think its only going to be this night for the bad beats and coolers, let me open your eyes a bit. Last night was, I thought, one of the worst nights of luck in my poker career. I was getting pushed around all night with RE-reraises. I think, they can't all have hands can they? I limp UTG with 44 and an aggressive player makes a standard raise behind me. I call and the flop comes 236 giving me 2nd to top pair and a gutshot straight draw. I check to the known aggressor putting him on two high cards and a plan for a check raise to take down the pot right there. The plan backfires when he reraises me all in. Sticking with my read of him having two high cards and being a little fed up about being pushed around all night I go into the think-tank for about 15 seconds and finally end up making the call. He flips over A8, but ends up pairing his A on the river. Eureka! People are bullshitting me. Though this was a night of constant destruction to my bankroll, it did contain one of the best calls I have ever made which I will post as soon as I get my poker tracker up. Anyways FTP put me through a real test, but I still ended up losing 900. No offense to you Mr. Ermer, but you would have gone broke 3 times over if you were in my shoes. I was left with 1K bankroll to recover the next day.
Today started off shitty as usual, dropping 300 on a bad bluff and a bad beat right off the bat which I recovered up to 1270 after 2 hours. Went to the gym and came back to continue the session. Was doing pretty well in the beginning until all hell broke loose. Can we say bad beat? Loose player limps in UTG, player behind him raises standard. I call out of the BB with AK UTG limper calls. Flop is K23 with 2 spades. I check to the raiser who bets out 15 into a 20 and I check raise him for 25 more. He moves all in and I immediately call and shows AJ spades. Boom, turn is a spade leaving me in the cooler. Okay not that bad of a beat just a standard flush draw. Then it was AK in the blinds again. Loose maniac limps in on the button and I make a standard raise from the SB. Button calls for a flop of A72 rainbow not straightening cards. I bet out with a normal continuation bet and he min raises me. I know not to mess around with this donkey and I move him in for about another 70 more. He thinks about it for all of 5 seconds before making a call. I am hit with running twos to make a split pot of 2s full of Aces for both of us. Tough break.
The bad beats continued but weren't neccesarily as severe. Then, however came the coolers. It was a 5 way limped pot i had A7 in the SB and BB checked for a flop of 552. A somewhat solid player bet out and was it heads up going into the turn which brought an A. I was pretty sure that his overpair was now quashed by my A, but he put out a feeler bet which I raised and he called. Now the alarms were sort of the sounding but it was difficult to put him on a 5 the way he was playing and the way he limped in. However, the river brought another A which sealed the deal for me as the 2nd nuts only to the very unlikely 55. I checked to him hoping that he would try to bluff the ace. He put out a good sized which I immediately raised. He moved all in and without hesitation I called figuring a split or he had the 5 and couldn't put me on backdoor aces. Well, he ended up flipping the two remaining fives for the only hand that beat mine. COOLER NUMBER 1.
The next one sucked even more. I was on the button with 66 and UTG made it 7 to go. CO called and I called behind him. The blinds also called for a 5 way raised pot. The flop came down 764 with two spades. The first three players checked around to the CO who bet out 10 into a 30 and I raised it to 30. The initial raiser called and the CO moved all in. I moved in right behind him confidant my 2nd set was good. Nope CO flips 77 and UTG flips TT. 77 holds up to take down a monster pot and puts me in a sweet cooler.

Anyways. FUCK YOU FULL TILT. I still made money on the buy-in, but I am going to give UB another shot. LATE.

-Victum

It's My Party

So last night, I didnt listen to myself of playing fast and trying to make myself. Finally after getting check raise over and over again, I ran my aces into a set. I was down 1000 for the day after being up 900 earlier. So I decided I need a change of scenery. I decided to buy in to party poker. It is really a party. People are so bad that they lose hundred of dollars with top pair. They would call raises preflop and fold on the flop and will never put in a raise. It is wonderful. I almost made my money back that i lost last night back. I am probably going to stick around here for a while.

--Omniheart

A Long Tired Session Turns Disastrous

One thing everyone needs to watch out for in a long session is how tired you are actually getting. Its hard to assess this because of the adrenaline that just keeps you awake and keeps you going. However this can have grave consequences. Last night I started playing online at midnight, but was only going to play for about 30 minutes. Well as luck has it, I dropped 1.5 buy ins at 1/2 NL in the first 15 minutes to some bad beats followed by a bad play. Great, now it was going to be a long night. Swinging about 3.5 buy ins I finally finished at 6AM down about 1 buy in. Only problem now was that it was time for the tourament at the casino. I arrived at the casino 3 hours early for registration and needed some time to kill before it started. So I hopped into a friendly 2/4 limit game that turned into a 3/6 game per everyones request. This was a huge mistake. I dropped 120 dollars in 2 hours, getting no cards and picking up zero pots. This didn't leave me in a good emotional state for the tourney, but I was determined to play well. In the first few hands I was dealt 22 in late positoin and raised it up, getting a caller that limped in from early positoin. The flop was A54 and he check raised me and I had to fold. I watched this player carefully for several hands after this and he seemed to check raise with big hands. A few hands later I was dealt QQ in late position and someone raised it up to 200 (blinds 25-50 with 5K average stack). I reraised making it 800 to go. To my dislike, I had two callers out of the blinds and the original raiser called. The flop came 952 two diamonds and it was checked to me. I bet out 1500 into a 3275 pot confidant that my hand was best. Sure enough the guy who I had been watching closely check raised me to 3000. I figured that he would have reraised with AA or KK. The possible hands that I could put him on were AK (which was unlikely because he didn't check raise with garbage), JJ or maybe TT. There was now 7775 and there was no way I was folding for my last 1900, afterall I should have the hand won right? Wrong. The guy flips over 99 for a set of nines, and I was drawing to a case Q after the original raiser told me he had AQ. What a shitty way to bust in the tourney. I wonder if I have had more sleep that I would have done better. Its hard to say, but it couldn't have hurt. Anyways, more stories later from the Untouchables team.

-Victum

The Game of Variance

Poker is the most inconsistent game on earth. I was up about 800-900 in the morning today but of course, I did not expect to keep that up. As expected, I lost it back in the afternoon. I am not mad that I lost. I have no desire to make it back by playing my hands super fast. When you play super fast and try to outplay everyone, you increase your variance and can lead to bigger wins and bigger losses. Although big wins can be fun while playing super agressive, big losses are not. And some big losses can lead to being broke. Since I have started playing poker, I see my friends making a lot of money and losing it all back and being broke. I learn from their mistakes. I know poker is a game of variance and swings and how one can handle those. If I know I am playing well and losing, I know I will make back the money eventually. Poker is not always about making money. It is about managing your money so that you can win in a long run. It is an investment. Just like in an investment, you dont want to invest everything on one item. You don't want to bring your whole bankroll to a table for sure. If I have to, I will go down stakes and grind it back up so i can have enough money to handle the swings. Going down stakes is not fun. Pots seem so much smaller and you don't win as much money but the swings are less harsh. I don't ever want to go broke. I dont want to make poker a game of gamble. I want to control poker, not poker controlling me. So be smart, check your ego and manage your money so that you can be a winning player.

--Omniheart

Donkey Slaying

I was invited today to play in a high school poker game. I didnt really want to play at first because I was running decent online but then when I realized that they were playing 100 dollar sng, i realized it was going to be very donkilicious. Since 100 dollars is a lot to them, they were scared to lose it. I played agressively and did very well. I flopped a couple of sets and busted a lot of donkeys. I ended up getting second because I could not beat luck. I ended up being sucked out on to finish second. O well. I ended up making 200 dollars. Not bad for a high school game. I can only hope we do this more often.

-Omniheart

Red Hot

Bad runs are finally over. Thank god. It has been weeks. Finally on fire. Especially the last 4 days. I am defining the true meaning of the $$Untouchables$$ again. About three weeks ago, I was at my lowest point. I basically lost half my bankroll. But it has been tough. But this week was very pleasing I must say. Since my party poker cash out directly went to the bank, I only had 520 dollars in the firepay. So i decided to give Full Tilt Poker cash games a try. It has been 4 days since. But now instead of having 520, it is 4300 dollars. How sweet is that? I have finally recovered all my losses from a month ago. Probably up a couple of thosand in the process. The $$UNTOUCHABLES$$ will not be stopped!

--Omniheart

Finally.....

Last 2 weeks have been a disaster. I lost about 4000 dollars playing poker. If i were to go get a job right now, that would be about 4 months of work!!!! Just one of the strech where I just couldnt win a hand. Well today, the losing streak is over. I came in 2nd in a tourney and won 1000 back. Not so bad although I probably should have won the whole thing. I am happy again in weeks. Hopefully, I will be able to keep it up.

--Omniheart