I'm on a bit of a down swing myself at the moment.
I hate it when every game you can't hit a single flop, your bluffs get rumbled and your good cards get sucked out! What can you do?

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Well - the worst thing you could do is become chip leader (by a healthy amount on a 10 seater STT) and then fall asleep to finish 4th...

(oops)

(I was really tired - must improve my game play but I need someone to keep poking me awake!!!)

That's very funny.
I guess u didn't enter Nation's 24 hour tournie then?

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Wow, this threads still active

I'm back at PKR

Basically, leaving here was probably one of the worst decisions i've made in poker. I felt I had too after being chat banned, forum banned, etc, and to start with I didn't regret it once.
I played so many more hands, on 6 tables at Hollywood Poker, and my bankroll graph was steadily rising up and up. I'd clear $100 bonuses every 3 days. It seemed too good to be true. I peaked at around $5800 (Started with $25 here). And that was after buying a 32" HDTV, 22" and a 20" TFT monitor among tons of other things out of it!

Then it began. An absolutely unreal downswing that started at the end of December 07 and ended mid April 08. My BR went from $5800 to $1000. It wasn't a nice feeling!
And I by no means tilted or got outplayed either, but almost everytime i'd get my stack in whilst ahead, i'd be almost guaranteed to lose. Hell, one DAY (two sessions) I had the higher full house on the turn and lost to river quads...THREE TIMES. I ended that day $1300 down @ $200NL
It became natural for me to get reraised when I held KK, and even if they held a lower PP and not the rockets...they'd hit their set. My last straw was hitting the nutflush on the turn, and then losing to a straight flush (1 out) on the river when all in

So I came back here in the 3rd quarter of April. In that time not only am I almost $800 up, but I hit my first royal flush!
I actually forgot how weak the play here is, people calling pot bets on backdoor flush/straight draws, calling huge bets 2-4 outs on the turn - the games are so much slower and it takes alot of getting used too, but oddly enough, there's more potential to finish 3+ buyins up. I used to think losing 2-3 buyins in a session here was bad enough, but i'd usually pull it back the next day. But losing 2-3 buyins p/session for 3-4 months is another story!

I still find it funny though when you're big blind and everyone behind you limps in, you raise to x8 and every single player calls. I've played on so many networks and it only happens here!

i'm lucky if i can make 2.4 hours on some occasions - let alone the 24hour tournies!! I'll be ok in the pkrn one as long as it does start early enough and I stay sufficiently far away from the wine!!

LOl - nice to hear from you Mambo.

It's funny - I've not played on PKR for donkeys years, mainly because I got a taste for the speed of "regular" 2D rooms, that and their particularly lame/mean "added prize" pool games and penny freerolls.

When you mentioned the raising 8x and EVERYONE calling it down, it made me smile - reminded me of only one place - PKR. lol

I've played at a good few sites now (prob about 7 or 8) and it only happens on PKR. I'm tempted to put 50 bucks back in and sit and wait for aces on ring games, but maybe not...

OH, btw Nation - don't knwo if others disagree but maybe it's time to remove this forum sub-section? I think everyone has worked out it's the players and the nature of online poker. Well I hope so at least

Nah, this debate will run and run

I agree with Trueform and at least by leaving the postings up then it'll save the same old arguments being rehashed by every aggrieved donk that's pushed all in on two cards of the same colour, got beaten by small pockets and therefore decided that it's a fix!!

Obviously - it is all a fix, otherwise I'd be winning soooo many more games!!

its a great thread for players to actually read
if the best of us lose money, but those are just sessions

if your a good player, and u play long term
...losing sessions are just that, a section of a long timeline of wining