Winrates and idiots

Sometime I wonder how a good winrate can be "only" 1BB per 100 hands. I wonder this, particularly when a bonafide idiot comes along and hands you about five of them in a single hand.



The only downside is that he left the table before I could tag him..

Back in the saddle

Rumours of my demise have been somewhat exaggerated.

After doing my best to annihilate my online bankroll, I took another hiatus from poker of several weeks. Having dropped significantly more than half of my bankroll, and probably 80% of the online roll I was basically on the felt as far as online poker was concerned. I did actually manage to zero all of my poker site accounts, but still had a bit sitting in Neteller.

A couple of weeks ago then, I decided to deposit $100 to play a $10 rebuy on Red Star. I went deep in the tourney, but not deep enough, basically just recovering my buyin. That left me with $78 after losing some in a cash game. Since then, I have run like God, starting with single tables of 1/2 and working up. In two weeks, I would estimate that I have probably won around 300BB at all stakes.

In the context of the cooler of the last few months it's still a pretty tiny dent, but gee it feels like such a long time since I've run this good.

Sorry, can't help it..

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Limit Holdem $2(BB) Prima Game#3435842680

ShotintheDark ($98.20)
Hero ($35.52)
zappa12 ($215)
LuigiVampa ($129)

ShotintheDark posts (SB) $1
Hero posts (BB) $2

Dealt to Hero Ad Ah
fold,
LuigiVampa raises to $4
ShotintheDark raises to $6
Hero raises to $8
LuigiVampa calls $4
ShotintheDark calls $2
FLOP ($24) 9d 5h Ks
ShotintheDark checks
Hero bets $2
LuigiVampa calls $2
ShotintheDark calls $2
TURN ($30) 9d 5h Ks 5d
ShotintheDark checks
Hero bets $4
LuigiVampa folds
ShotintheDark calls $4
RIVER ($38) 9d 5h Ks 5d 6s
ShotintheDark checks
Hero bets $4
ShotintheDark raises to $8
Hero calls $4
Hero shows Ad Ah
(Pre 81%, Flop 90.0%, Turn 95.5%)

ShotintheDark shows 6d 6h
(Pre 19%, Flop 10.0%, Turn 4.5%)

ShotintheDark wins $51.30

We resume our normal programming

Ok, so a few days of running good have been well and truly reversed.

Exhibit A: the one outer

Fun times

It's a very long time since I've felt really good about a hand.



The irony is that I had only just won two big pots by calling down bluff raises on the river from the same player.

Good beat!!

This makes for a nice change:



and this:



especially coming after this:



and this:

Still here, nothing new to report

It's been a while. I'm still here, still playing occasionally, still running like a warmed up turd.

It's been a remarkable run. I've played 29 months of online poker now, and the last three months have each been worse than any month prior to those three. And two of those three were three times as bad as any previous. The net result is I have lost almost exactly 50% of my bankroll in three months. The total losses in BB terms are probably in the vicinity of 1000, and bonuses and rakeback are not remotely close to covering it.

I took good advice, taking a break and slowing down my play only to come back to this sort of shit:

My graph now looks like this:



As you can see, there's really been no let up. The situation now is that I cannot afford to play the stakes that would recover the losses in anything resembling a reasonable time. As a result, I am now essentially a casual player only. I'll still try to get to the casino occasionally, as the 10/20 there is juicy and I can but hope my turd ball does not extend to the actual felt.