Nuts!

After taking Monday night off of playing poker completely, I ventured back for some more 6-max limit hold'em last night. Due to my recent losing streak, I dropped down to $0.50/$1.00 and sat down at two tables with people who were playing anything pre-flop and going way too far with their hands. Perfect! Not only were the tables good, but I was catching great cards too. Great! Not only was I catching great starting hands, but I was hitting flops super hard. Awesome! While all this was happening, my opponents were catching the mortal nuts at the same time however. Bummer!

At risk of exagerating, I have never in my life been shown the mortal nuts on so many hands where I thought I was way way ahead. I was flopping top two pair, sets, turning or flopping fullhouses all night and in all but one case I rammed and jammed straight into bigger hands. Going broke against quads is probably not a bad thing and by the end of my relatively short-lived night of poker I had to chuckle at the way things turned out. Wow! No bad beats to whine about either. I just ran monster hands into bigger monster hands. C'est la vie.

In trying to identify leaks lately, it appears as though I have been calling down too much with hands that are beat and I have been folding too many winners. How the hell do you fix that!? I'd like to buy some better hand reading skills please.

Monsters under the bed syndrome has plagued me over my short poker career and last night I was proud to have shook it off somewhat and really forced people to pay me off when I caught huge hands. Hahaha, I am sooo going to have a complex for the rest of my life now. Damn you poker!

As for the total damage on this skid, I must be approaching $400 or so now based on the dwindling balance in my poker stars account. Ugh. This will pass eventually though and I can get back to my massive $1/hour poker earnings rate.