After yesterdays debacle I was going to type this really long post detailing most of the last couple weeks. Instead I am too stoned and have 4 games going right now so I'm going to run through everything really fast.
As it stands, I have now hit my worst gambling downswing ever. I busted my sportsbook account and in total lost $700. I am taking a break from all that and will come back when I find a game that is a sure thing. Football has been way to unpredictable all season to play the games regularly.
My stars account is taking some wild swings. I hit my high of $2760 on 9/24 and a couple weeks later, I was all the way down to $600. I then went on an upswing that lasted a whole four days. I had a turnaround of $1600 on my sharkscope and took my account all the way up to $1800. Then in only two and a half days of playing, I was right back to $600. Over that time I went about 50 tournaments straight without a single cash. 30 straight SNG's to be exact and approxiamately 20 MTT's.
The very next day I was down to $400.
The next day which was yeterday I bought into a bunch of MTT's and had my account drop to $200 after not cashing in all but the last one.
The last tournament was pretty interesting. It had everything.
The tournament was an $11 buyin with 1086 players.
Early on I picked up a nice stack and then got my greatest fuck you hand ever. All in one hand I took the sickest cooler and simulataneously took the worst bad beat you can take.
Blinds 125/250
UTG raises to 500. Call. I call. Two other callers.
I have 7 7.
Flop A 7 5
Three of us including myself get all in on the flop.
UTG has A A and the other guy has 5 5.
Turn 5
Fuck me. I cannot believe what I just saw.
My stack was all the way down to 1200.
I played shortstack for the next 4 hours.
In that time these two sweet pieces of justices go down.
I get all in short with 6 6. Get called by J J.
Flop 6 x x.
The second hand was the same situation. I get all in short with A J.
Villain shows 10 10.
Flop A J x
As we got down to the last 70 players I was looking at the money breakdown. There was a big prize jump at 27th place. 27-19 was $60 or so. I only had $200-$250 in my account so a $60 cash is substantial. Also prior to my play that day I was considering what to do in the event of going bust. I was debating whether or not I was going to redeposit so I had that mindset when I was playing.
I actually got down to the last 27 and was about 22nd in the tournament so I was stil rocking the short stack. I don't remember many of the hands played at this point but I kept advancing through the tournament as one of the shortest stacks. I badly wanted to make the final table as I hadn't made a FT in almost a month.
Sure enough I actually get there shortstack and all. I came in 6th in chips.
When we got to 8 handed I was 7th in chips and we were on break. Someone suggested that we chop the tounrament 8 ways with each player getting $900. Several players actually agreed. The chipleader wasn't going for it and I sided with chipleader saying that I wasn't going to chop either. The fact that I was refusing to chop is completely assinine on my part since I would be getting 4th place money. I thought I could win and I needed the 2 grand that was on the line.
The first hand back I pick up 4 4 and flop a set in a raised pot with the chipleader. He almost doubles me up and I move into 4th or 5th in chips.
We get down to the last 5 and I am 4th in chips and the player 3rd in chips offers a 5 way chop where we all get $1500. The first two agreed and the chipleader said he was thinking about it but I said no deal and we kept playing. We get down to 4 handed and I double up by actually winning a coinflip. At three handed the sickest hand ever happened.
I have J J in the BB.
Chipleader 2M
Me 700K
Shortstack 600K
Blinds 10K/25K
Chipleader raises my BB from the button like he always does and the SB shoves. I overshove with my Jacks and the CL actually calls!
CL A 10
Me J J
SS 6 6
Lately, I have been in this spot a lot and I have been really good at losing so one time please.
The board blanks off and I win a 2 million chip pot and am heads up. This is also the first time the entire tournament that I hold the chiplead. We play for about 20 minutes or so and I outplay the guy nasty and win when I call his shove with Q 8. He showed 4's and I hit the 8 to win the tournament. 1st was $1,985 and some change and makes for my second biggest tourney score ever. I finally got a good win on stars but am pretty indifferent to it. My bankroll was at $2100 or so and today I have been running like shit. I hope at this point I start making some money because I am in no mood right now to watch my account go all the way back down to almost nothing because everyone hits there 3 outers against me.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Sunday, October 12, 2008
No one runs worse at poker then I do.
Oh my God where do I start? I think this might be the worst run I have ever had gambling in my entire life. On 9/24, I final tabled a tournament and made about $900. My Stars bankroll at that point was at $2760. Since then I have run like the stock market. It's not official since I am still playing but right now my bankroll sits at $732 and thats before I buy in to a couple more tournies. Things could not be going worse in the land of football.
I took Tennessee yesterday +11.5 against Georgia which means they couldn't lose the game by more then 12 points. I got in early and the line ended up moving to about 13 or so. Tennessee lost the game by 12 and had I waited a couple days to place the bet I would have won but instead I got in early and lost by a half point. I also took 5-0 Vanderbilt against 1-4 MSU yesterday and not only did Vanderbilt not win the game by 3 points, they didn't even win the game. Right now, Dallas just had a punt blocked in OT and Arizona scored a TD on the same play and I just lost that game as well. I don't even want to look at my account by I am now down about $500 overall since I started betting on sports. That puts my gambling downswing at $2500. My worst downswing ever was $3000 playing live poker but I was risking thousands of dollars on a daily basis so that is to be expected. This is much worse because it is over a longer time period and it is happening much slower so it's a lot more painful.
Fuck poker. I just needed to say that.
If you want to know what its like to be me as a poker player then do the following. Go to www.sharkscope.com and search CUgold61 under PokerStars.
I started playing again recently on Stars at around game 400 right where it flatlines. In the last 3 days I have played about 90 games or so at the last "peak" in the graph. In that time, I haven't won a single SNG and have only gotten 2 seconds. The games that I'm playing are 18 man and 45 man turbos.
I could not be running worse in these stupid ass things. These stupid ass things are the main reason for the most recent part of my slide on Stars.
In those 3 days I have gotten into this situation all in preflop and have lost about 70 times. That is AK vs AQ or worse. I obviously don't have AK every time that I have lost but I have lost in that situation about 70 times in the last 3 days. On the flip side when I have been behind I have won about 12 of them. Remember the numbers do not add up in poker. That, or my account has a Pokerstars inflicted curse. I really wouldn't be surprised if my account was cursed because this is all the same crap I use to go through way back when I played on Stars.
I also had KK vs. AA 15 consecutive times before I had AA vs KK a little while ago today. I have never had a run like that with AA vs KK but of course I can be on the bad end of it. Never once in those 15 did I suck out.
I also am getting really fucking frustrated with the big field MTT's. No one goes farther in these things more often then I do without ever getting a payday. I have only played 42 MTT's this month and have the following results.
28/1962
57/3204
54/3483
30/4995
For the players who win a lot online, I want to know: How do you do it? I always run out of cards, take a bad beat, or get it in with an inferior hand because I am shortstacked and never suck out. It happens every time. I am never big stack when there are 30 players left. I am always one of the shortstacks. The 30/4995 happened earlier today and I ran really well throughout the tournament and really thought I was going to make the final table.
Of course I ran out of cards and shoved 10 8 on the button with 10 big blinds when it was folded to me. It was the first time the entire tournament that I did this and of course the small blind has AQ. He calls and the flop comes J 10 x. I knew not to celebrate because I know who I am and know that I am the king of the suckout followed by the re-suckout. Of course he hit the king on the turn giving him the nuts and I was drawing dead. Hey pokerstars, why don't you let me win one those just once or actually give me a couple of good hands when the blinds get enoromous. Why do my cards alwasy die when the blinds get really big? Please, you have no idea how frustrating it is to go that far so often and too never get a cash. It's fucking bullshit.
Also, I would like to tell everyone how smart I am. Today I played in the Top 1000 TLB tournament. It was awesome, only 600 players showed up so 1st place was a lot bigger then it should have been. This was easily the hardest tournament I have ever played in. It's very boring to play in a tourney when there are no donks. There was no action and no one was giving away any chips. Every time I raised, they folded and if they called or 3 bet I knew I was in trouble. Early in the tournament I folded QQ preflop because some guy who was a supernova shoved all in over my 3 bet. I knew that he had AA KK or AK and I wasn't going to call and find out if I was flipping a coin that I know I am going to lose so I just pitched it.
Anyway, I totally called the way I was going to get knocked out. We were about 1 hour and 45 minutes in and I had about 15 BB and I overshoved with JJ. I got called by QQ and of course theres the cooler that I predicted.
At this point, I am probably not going to go to Las Vegas next summer. What the hell for? I am probably going to run like shit anyway. I can see it now. I'll be in some WSOP event and I'll go all in with AA and get called by some stupid farmer from Nebraska or some idiot from Arkansas who's a plumber and he'll have A 7 off and hit two sevens on the flop. So unless my luck turns around which I don't expect it too then the WSOP can kiss my ass.
Also, I am never paying off my debts ever again with poker money. This is the 3rd time that I have paid off most of my debts and followed that by a vicious downswing. I had about 18K to my name and thought it would be a good idea to erase 5K worth of credit debt/court fines. But of course like every other time I pay debts, I end up losing everything else and go back into debt. So never again am I paying that shit off with poker money. I still have well over 10K to my name and if it weren't for having a job I would probably be close to busto.
If I lose another couple grand, I will probably quit for good and invest the rest of my bankroll in the stock/commodities market after things bottom out. I keep hearing that if Obama wins the presidency that he will spend us into oblivion and the market will tank really hard. People made millions after the last depression so go Obama if I have the chance to make more money.
UPDATE: Unfucking believable. I typed the original message at around 4:00 in the afternoon. Was watching the Sunday Million final table to see how these guys play with monster money on the line. Decided to play in a couple $11 180 man turbo tournaments. This is seriously the story of my life. Got knocked out of the first one right away. Did something stupid. Can't remember what. Ended up taking first in the second one and won $594. Ran sick hot the entire tournament and didn't take a single bad beat. I'm obviously relieved as I have made back a big chunk of my weekend poker losses. But why do I always win in small events? Just one time, I want to win one of the bigger ones like one of the rebuys. Oh well, this only adds more fuel to my fire. Maybe things will turn around. Also, for the last 2 days I'm like 19 for 20 in this situation. 7 7 vs. AK. I have never run that well in those kind of coinflips. However, I am losing most of my coinflips on the other side but thats ok because I am tired of losing 80% of the time when I have the pocket pair. My bankroll now sits at $1288.
I took Tennessee yesterday +11.5 against Georgia which means they couldn't lose the game by more then 12 points. I got in early and the line ended up moving to about 13 or so. Tennessee lost the game by 12 and had I waited a couple days to place the bet I would have won but instead I got in early and lost by a half point. I also took 5-0 Vanderbilt against 1-4 MSU yesterday and not only did Vanderbilt not win the game by 3 points, they didn't even win the game. Right now, Dallas just had a punt blocked in OT and Arizona scored a TD on the same play and I just lost that game as well. I don't even want to look at my account by I am now down about $500 overall since I started betting on sports. That puts my gambling downswing at $2500. My worst downswing ever was $3000 playing live poker but I was risking thousands of dollars on a daily basis so that is to be expected. This is much worse because it is over a longer time period and it is happening much slower so it's a lot more painful.
Fuck poker. I just needed to say that.
If you want to know what its like to be me as a poker player then do the following. Go to www.sharkscope.com and search CUgold61 under PokerStars.
I started playing again recently on Stars at around game 400 right where it flatlines. In the last 3 days I have played about 90 games or so at the last "peak" in the graph. In that time, I haven't won a single SNG and have only gotten 2 seconds. The games that I'm playing are 18 man and 45 man turbos.
I could not be running worse in these stupid ass things. These stupid ass things are the main reason for the most recent part of my slide on Stars.
In those 3 days I have gotten into this situation all in preflop and have lost about 70 times. That is AK vs AQ or worse. I obviously don't have AK every time that I have lost but I have lost in that situation about 70 times in the last 3 days. On the flip side when I have been behind I have won about 12 of them. Remember the numbers do not add up in poker. That, or my account has a Pokerstars inflicted curse. I really wouldn't be surprised if my account was cursed because this is all the same crap I use to go through way back when I played on Stars.
I also had KK vs. AA 15 consecutive times before I had AA vs KK a little while ago today. I have never had a run like that with AA vs KK but of course I can be on the bad end of it. Never once in those 15 did I suck out.
I also am getting really fucking frustrated with the big field MTT's. No one goes farther in these things more often then I do without ever getting a payday. I have only played 42 MTT's this month and have the following results.
28/1962
57/3204
54/3483
30/4995
For the players who win a lot online, I want to know: How do you do it? I always run out of cards, take a bad beat, or get it in with an inferior hand because I am shortstacked and never suck out. It happens every time. I am never big stack when there are 30 players left. I am always one of the shortstacks. The 30/4995 happened earlier today and I ran really well throughout the tournament and really thought I was going to make the final table.
Of course I ran out of cards and shoved 10 8 on the button with 10 big blinds when it was folded to me. It was the first time the entire tournament that I did this and of course the small blind has AQ. He calls and the flop comes J 10 x. I knew not to celebrate because I know who I am and know that I am the king of the suckout followed by the re-suckout. Of course he hit the king on the turn giving him the nuts and I was drawing dead. Hey pokerstars, why don't you let me win one those just once or actually give me a couple of good hands when the blinds get enoromous. Why do my cards alwasy die when the blinds get really big? Please, you have no idea how frustrating it is to go that far so often and too never get a cash. It's fucking bullshit.
Also, I would like to tell everyone how smart I am. Today I played in the Top 1000 TLB tournament. It was awesome, only 600 players showed up so 1st place was a lot bigger then it should have been. This was easily the hardest tournament I have ever played in. It's very boring to play in a tourney when there are no donks. There was no action and no one was giving away any chips. Every time I raised, they folded and if they called or 3 bet I knew I was in trouble. Early in the tournament I folded QQ preflop because some guy who was a supernova shoved all in over my 3 bet. I knew that he had AA KK or AK and I wasn't going to call and find out if I was flipping a coin that I know I am going to lose so I just pitched it.
Anyway, I totally called the way I was going to get knocked out. We were about 1 hour and 45 minutes in and I had about 15 BB and I overshoved with JJ. I got called by QQ and of course theres the cooler that I predicted.
At this point, I am probably not going to go to Las Vegas next summer. What the hell for? I am probably going to run like shit anyway. I can see it now. I'll be in some WSOP event and I'll go all in with AA and get called by some stupid farmer from Nebraska or some idiot from Arkansas who's a plumber and he'll have A 7 off and hit two sevens on the flop. So unless my luck turns around which I don't expect it too then the WSOP can kiss my ass.
Also, I am never paying off my debts ever again with poker money. This is the 3rd time that I have paid off most of my debts and followed that by a vicious downswing. I had about 18K to my name and thought it would be a good idea to erase 5K worth of credit debt/court fines. But of course like every other time I pay debts, I end up losing everything else and go back into debt. So never again am I paying that shit off with poker money. I still have well over 10K to my name and if it weren't for having a job I would probably be close to busto.
If I lose another couple grand, I will probably quit for good and invest the rest of my bankroll in the stock/commodities market after things bottom out. I keep hearing that if Obama wins the presidency that he will spend us into oblivion and the market will tank really hard. People made millions after the last depression so go Obama if I have the chance to make more money.
UPDATE: Unfucking believable. I typed the original message at around 4:00 in the afternoon. Was watching the Sunday Million final table to see how these guys play with monster money on the line. Decided to play in a couple $11 180 man turbo tournaments. This is seriously the story of my life. Got knocked out of the first one right away. Did something stupid. Can't remember what. Ended up taking first in the second one and won $594. Ran sick hot the entire tournament and didn't take a single bad beat. I'm obviously relieved as I have made back a big chunk of my weekend poker losses. But why do I always win in small events? Just one time, I want to win one of the bigger ones like one of the rebuys. Oh well, this only adds more fuel to my fire. Maybe things will turn around. Also, for the last 2 days I'm like 19 for 20 in this situation. 7 7 vs. AK. I have never run that well in those kind of coinflips. However, I am losing most of my coinflips on the other side but thats ok because I am tired of losing 80% of the time when I have the pocket pair. My bankroll now sits at $1288.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Poker can kiss my ass: Thank you for the nice ego-stroke pokerstars.
I have not played any poker since I made my last blog post. That alone should tell you how frustrated I am. This is the longest I have willingly not played since I started playing again in April. The only other time I didn't play in consecutive days sine April was when I went to Las Vegas in June.
Not only that, but I have absolutely no desire to play and that is actually depressing the hell out of me.
I haven't blazed since Saturday as I am attempting to regenerate my black lungs and since I haven't blazed I haven't had the urge to play. I might have to pop some adderrall the next time I play but I do not know when that will happen. It is also pretty sad that I have to take drugs just to play. Thats one of the reasons why I look forward to the days when I don't play anymore.
Since I haven't been playing, that has left with me with a lot of free time so I have had the time to take care of some personal affairs and it is allowing me to be social again. I have been extremely anti-social lately and I decided it would be best if I started seeing the people I care about.
I will need to get back soon as I am on a set time schedule and only have so much time to make a certain amount of money.
Anyway, my reason for writing is follows. I checked my email at work today and I got this email. This definitely put a huge smile on face.
"Hello CUgold61,
Congratulations on your performance in the MTT TLB for September. For finishing in the top 1000, you have earned a ticket for the Monthly TLB Top 1000 $20,000 Freeroll. The event is scheduled for October 12th at 15:00 ET. The tournament will be deployed in the next few days under the Tourney > Special tab.
If you have any questions regarding your prize or the MTT TLB, please let us know."
I defintitely look forward to this as I will be playing for a free shot at $4K. Also I will get to play with all of the best internet players in the world in one tournament. This will defintitely be a measuring stick for me as most the players I usually play with are terrible and constantly get downright lucky against me. Since I am playing against a bunch of good players, I'll probably get knocked out in the first 30 minutes with a giant cooler.
I will probably make my next update after this tournament.
I also decided to crunch some numbers since I haven't done it in a really long time.
Since April 08 I am up $16,097. That's all online with one live session and a little sportsbetting.
Since I turned 21 I am up $15,786 playing live in LA card clubs and Vegas.
Prior to being 21, I made about $12,000 playing online before I really took it seriously.
Prior to that I made another $3,000-$5,000 but none of that was kept track of since I was just dicking around with friends back then.
Since I quit school I have made $31,883. That play is from October 06-present. During that time there are about 7-8 months where I didn't play at all.
Not only that, but I have absolutely no desire to play and that is actually depressing the hell out of me.
I haven't blazed since Saturday as I am attempting to regenerate my black lungs and since I haven't blazed I haven't had the urge to play. I might have to pop some adderrall the next time I play but I do not know when that will happen. It is also pretty sad that I have to take drugs just to play. Thats one of the reasons why I look forward to the days when I don't play anymore.
Since I haven't been playing, that has left with me with a lot of free time so I have had the time to take care of some personal affairs and it is allowing me to be social again. I have been extremely anti-social lately and I decided it would be best if I started seeing the people I care about.
I will need to get back soon as I am on a set time schedule and only have so much time to make a certain amount of money.
Anyway, my reason for writing is follows. I checked my email at work today and I got this email. This definitely put a huge smile on face.
"Hello CUgold61,
Congratulations on your performance in the MTT TLB for September. For finishing in the top 1000, you have earned a ticket for the Monthly TLB Top 1000 $20,000 Freeroll. The event is scheduled for October 12th at 15:00 ET. The tournament will be deployed in the next few days under the Tourney > Special tab.
If you have any questions regarding your prize or the MTT TLB, please let us know."
I defintitely look forward to this as I will be playing for a free shot at $4K. Also I will get to play with all of the best internet players in the world in one tournament. This will defintitely be a measuring stick for me as most the players I usually play with are terrible and constantly get downright lucky against me. Since I am playing against a bunch of good players, I'll probably get knocked out in the first 30 minutes with a giant cooler.
I will probably make my next update after this tournament.
I also decided to crunch some numbers since I haven't done it in a really long time.
Since April 08 I am up $16,097. That's all online with one live session and a little sportsbetting.
Since I turned 21 I am up $15,786 playing live in LA card clubs and Vegas.
Prior to being 21, I made about $12,000 playing online before I really took it seriously.
Prior to that I made another $3,000-$5,000 but none of that was kept track of since I was just dicking around with friends back then.
Since I quit school I have made $31,883. That play is from October 06-present. During that time there are about 7-8 months where I didn't play at all.
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