9/23/06 — Session After Session Loss After Loss
October 10th, 2006 by StarlightCoast
And that’s the way it has been going for me over the last few days. Since I deposited the $500 on PokerRoom I am down $225. Bonus chasing has never worked for me. I just don’t understand why. It doesn’t matter what site I am playing, when I go after bonuses it is always a disaster. However, when my benefactor gave me the gift of $1000 one of the conditions he requested was that I bonus chase and I am a man of my word so I will continue onward. PokerRoom seems to have more outdraws and bad beats than Stars and that’s saying something. I have lost tract of how many times my opponents are hitting their 2nd pair on the turn or river. I raise preflop , they call andon the flop they are calling with a single overcard to the board or worse. There was one guy who called my preflop raise then he called the flop bet with a gutshot draw. He had A7o. Bad enuf he called a preflop raise with that garbage. Flop was 234 or something of this nature. turn was a 7 river was a 7. I had KK or QQ I believe. Mouse nearly got smashed on that one. I do have a spare in a bedside table drawer should my temper overcome me.
Total bankroll is $955.23. I don’t care about the $83 I had. As far as I’m concerned that was lost in my forray to NL cash games, but being down from the $1k hurts. I was not given this money to lose and I want to show that I was worthy of it. Right now I am feeling less than worthy. I have loaded some of the hands to PT, the ones PokerRoom actually loads for me and everything looks good. I am not too tight, not too loose, PFR are good and postflop AF is reasonable, but I am minus $60+ with AKo. Excuse me?????? That’s impossible, but it is a fact. I have never been down money with that hand and that is not based on a few times having big slick, mind you. That is based on having it over 40 times!!!
Could it be the multitabling aspect of it all? It is a question I need to really ask myself. As I play I realize that most times I have no clue about my opponents. I am playing ABC poker, but maybe at $1/$2 you need more than that. Over the last 3 days I have gotten notes on only 2 or 3 players at most. It is obvious I am missing out on a lot of info, info that could be utilized to maximizing the profits. Only one way to find out for sure. For the next few days I need to single table. If I come up with a profit I am going to know once and for all that multitabling is a serious detriment to my game as a whole, and is something I am not meant to be doing. I certainly am not going to be stubborn about this and have the attitude I can do it because others can do it. We all have our strengths and weak points and it is quite possible I am destined to be one of those people who need to focus on one thing at a time. I certainly am not going to wait til I am down another $225 and then say “oh geez, maybe this isn’t for me afterall.” Time to find answers and nip this in the bud real quick.
486 points to clear the $250 bonus at PokerRoom. Assuming I signgle table it it may take as long as 9 days more to clear it. I have a feeling in my gut that single tabling is going to show a profit and thus tell me this is what I need to be doing for the duration. Certainly will take longer to achieve my goal, but then again I won’t do it multitabling if multitabling keeps bringing out losses.
Going to try to play 200 hands/day single tabling, but I have come down with a head cold and may be sleeping a bit more than usual. This will be my last blog entry for about a week I think. Going to try to shake this cold and single table the next 8 days. I will report back with my results on 9/30/06. Until then play well all and I’ll do my best to do the same.
Bankroll $955.23