Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Downswing and Stephen Hawking

I've never encountered a huge downswing before but think i'm on one now! Am down 20 buy ins at 3euro 5 seater SNG from about 22 games!. Played only 6 today and stopped after I had 1 second and thats it. Everything seems to be missing, outdrawn etc and i know everyone has these but below are a few of the hands from todays pounding i took, 2 were all in against the player i finished 2nd to in the end when he was shortstacked for the win. I'm actually worried about my bankroll at the moment even though i have nearly 160 buy ins left as taking a 60euro hit from a 540 bankroll hurts!!

I had some interesting comments for my post yesterday regarding different sites. On reflection I think there are many factors that affect my game that will make me suit different sites with the same games. For example on pokerstars the blind structure on HUSNG are different and you have different starting blind to boss (boss 15/30 stars 10/20) so after 10 minutes on boss with their short blinds you're probably playing 100/200 blinds when on stars you'd be playing 15/30, so there is a lot more "play" in the games and i think this helps the better players to win. So at $20 HUSNG i think thats the reason i do better on stars. I think the blind structure is something that affects my play. I'm more of a patient player waiting for hands to then make moves with. Tight aggressive probably, playing the hands i get strongly. Knowing this i'm not sure why i seem to always find myself playing short handed SNG and HUSNG which don't suit my type of play in my opinion. The MTTSNG on stars with a 15 minute blind structure are interesting though. That really suits my play of being patient and waiting for spots to make my move.

I'm reading "A Briefer History of Time" at the moment by Stephen Hawking. I don't know if you will find it interesting or not but i've always liked physics and the universe has always fascinated me. It's actually a really good read and i recommend it. Some of the things that scientists know about the universe is amazing. In another book i read they talk about a spaceship leaving earth at half the speed of light. If it travelled for 50 years and returned, when it returned to earth 57 and a half years would have passed so seven and a half years less would have passed for the people on the spaceship. It said it matter of fact in the book and i thought "that's time travel!! how do we not know about this?!" Also if your TV isn't tuned and you have the snowscreen, some of the interference on there is backgroung radiation from the creation of the universe... and i thought it was just Poltergeist...

Anyway here are those hand from earlier, standard beats but hurt when you're running as bad as i am at the moment! The bottom two are the ones HU for the win that i ended up losing....





3 comments:

Anonymous said...

The second hand you have posted - How is that not a split pot? or am I going mad.

United113 said...

sorry just checked it was a split pot. that AA killed me was always going to be a split after that. just sick to hit a K and a 9 with K9 against K3 and still split

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