Broke

*Warning: This post contains hand histories that may not be appropriate for all viewers. If you hate bad beat stories, stop reading here.

First of all, no I'm not broke (yet). I've been shotting some of the higher stakes games lately with less than stellar results. In a perfect world I should be breakeven, but the tally looks more like this:

It's a tiny sample size and short term results are meaningless anyway, but it sucks that I hit my downswing inevitably after starting to play some higher games. November is rigged and if you don't believe me, I have evidence.

I've been known to hit a one-outer every once in a while, so I guess what goes around comes around? I don't even want to know what my flop equity was.

He must know that he can't be in too great of shape for 130bb on that flop, maybe he felt it coming.

Swapshop aka Hei K O goes for the classy hit n run. Hit the ace and sit out.

Setup I guess, got it in bad. This is when things were getting relatively frustrating.

In hindsight this is probably a river fold vs this particular villain.

I don't always run bad. When he ships the flop it's obvious he has a ton of outs, but every once in a while dodging works out.

LOLovich is all you can say to this one.

Here's me sucking out just for good measure. I'll call this a half-Heiko, hitting the ace vs KK but stay sitting.

He was crushed, I was doing the crushing. And then along came Mary.

I popped my €200/400nl cherry by shortstacking. I built up a little, then busted with 88 vs KK preflop, but I did manage to stick in one tiny gem. If you don't play at Boss, you won't understand:

So now it's time to lick my wounds and hopefully get this turned around. It goes without saying that this downswing is the biggest of my life numbers wise, which is fairly obvious considering the size of the games being played. Still I'm proud of myself for not letting it affect my real life mood, this is something I am getting better at with every downswing.

I go to Hamburg midweek for the DPM, I'll probably blog again when I get back on the weekend.