I built up a bankroll of about $2000. I'm playing $0.60-$1.20 NLH (I'm in South America, those are the US dollar equivalents).

Friday night, I run as bad as it gets. 99, flop comes A9x, all-in, dude has AA.

44, flop comes T4x. Turn J. River J. All-in. Dude has JT.

KJ. Board is T987x. I have a jack high straight. All-in. Dude has QJ for a queen high straight.

I buy in one more time and lose, because by that point I was on tilt.

Saturday night. I raise big with AK pre-flop, dude re-raises real big, I shove, dude calls with AA.

AK again, flop comes AKx. Dude shoves, I call. Dude has AA.

I was down about 450 bucks on saturday, but I made it all back and had about 600 on the table. I was up 150 bucks or so. It was 4:30 AM, and I was half asleep, and getting ready to cash out. I knew I should have cashed out.

I have JTo. Flop comes T76. I bet, dude raises kind of big. I suspected he might have 98 for the straight. I call anyway. There's about 100 bucks in the pot now. Turn is a T. I made trips. I bet 100 bucks, dude shoves for about 600, and I call like an idiot. Dude flips over 98.

Went back today, more bad luck. AK, king comes on the flop, other dude flopped trip deuces.

KK, go all-in pre-flop. Dude has AA.

Sh*t like that keeps happening all night.

I had KJ or KT. flop is Kxx, 2 hearts. Turn is a blank. River is the K of hearts. All-in, dude had the flush. I ****ed up, because I knew he was drawing. I should have folded my set of kings.

55, flop comes 589, all hearts. I didn't think anyone made their straight or flush, but I thought they might be drawing. I shove for about 250, dude calls with AQ of hearts.

33, ****ty maniac player raises big, I shove and he calls and flips over A4 (who the f*ck calls an all-in bet for over 100 bucks with A4???).
Flop comes a 4. Busto.

I'm now down to my last 400 or 500. I'm pissed as hell. What the f*ck.

Should I go back tomorrow? I know I'm better than these people. I've won money there (and at other casinos in the area) before. I'm still up money, even after this bad run.

On the other hand, I feel like maybe I should quit. I'm down to my last three buy-ins. If I lose those, I either have to quit or borrow money from my friend (who offered to send me money and give him a cut of my winnings).

F*ck, man. Goddamn.

Sounds like you were playing a little too high to begin with off a 2K BR. Some tough beats in there for sure but if you had been at .10/.25 stakes you don't get wrecked as badly. Id move down to NL5 or maybe NL10 w a 500 BR.

If you are a good player and just running bad you should be able to play lower stakes for a while and grind back up from 500.

Good luck, and always try to practice good BR management in the future.

Exercise some FKN Bn management OP

so many words, and so few river folds.

Some of those are your fault. You don't have to get it in pre with AK every time. Also when they start getting aggressive, stop putting in your whole stack and play some pot control.

Basically learn poker.

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I'm playing the minimum stakes at my local casino.

I started with about $100 and turned it into $2000 by hitting up the local casinos here. There are a lot of bad players. Online is tougher (the $0.01/$0.02 cash games on 888poker are tougher than my local casino games. I prefer to play live.

Yes, obviously a lot of those beats were my fault. Especially when I lost 600 bucks with JT on the T76Tx board. The dude obviously had a straight, but it was 5 AM and I was half asleep and I called like a f*cking idiot. Even if the dude didn't have the straight, he would still beat me with QT, KT, or AT. I doubt he would be shoving all-in for that much money with anything less than trips. On a paired board, he wouldn't be shoving with two pair or lower.

Other hands, though, I don't think I played that bad. the AK hand where the flop comes AKx, for example. I didn't get it all-in pre flop. After the flop, I bet and some dude raises me all-in. Obviously I'm gonna call. There were no possible straights or flushes on the board. Dude has f*cking AA.

Also, it's hard to fold a really good hand (trips or better) when you've been sitting at the table for 8 hours and haven't played a hand in over an hour because you've been getting trash hands.

If I haven't gotten a hand in an hour, and I look down at 44 or 55 and flop a set, I'm gonna want to get the money in. I'm not expecting someone to have a higher set or a flush or straight or whatever. If it happens once or twice, fine, that's poker. But for it to happen every f*cking time I flop a set is kind of ridiculous.

The casinos where I play are full of maniacs. It's impossible to do "pot control." When they go all-in, they usually have a hand, but it's not uncommon to see $100 raises with top pair, or even JJ on a Kxx board.

Also, I only got it all-in pre-flop with AK once. The other hand where I lost with AK, I got it all-in after the flop, and the flop was AKx. The dude had AA (trip aces). I don't think there's a whole lot I could do about that. Obviously I'm not folding AK on an AKx flop.

Probably should practice some bankroll management. Also getting it in with top trips doesn't seem that great In that particular situation imo. Sounds like you're being a little too loose post flop and calling to light. Real HH would help a lot because positions and stats are important.

Getting it in with 33 is just plain stupid as well. It's a -EV play as after the rake it's not even break even, even if you do have a small edge.

I didn't read the whole post because just from the skimming through it I could tell there was some work that needed to be done

Most are just variance, but some are mistakes that can be fixed. Like I said tho HH with actual positions and action by street is important to how things led up to the results.

I could have given better examples, so apologize for that. Like shoving with 33. You're in a coin flip situation with any two cards there. I imagine it was because you were on tilt. You gotta learn to control your emotions better and don't be so eager to get your stack in the middle.

Also, bankroll management is your friend. When you start losing buyins at a crazy rate like that, might want to move down in stakes and grind it back up.

Like I said, I'm already playing the lowest stakes at the casino. I even traveled 2 hours to a different casino because they have slightly lower stakes (buy-in for 100 BB is $120 instead of $160).

Yeah, the shove with 33 I was definitely on tilt. However, keep in mind that the guy was a maniac and was making HUGE pre-flop raises on almost every hand. I shoved hoping he would fold, and also knowing that if he called, I was still probably a slight favorite to win. He called me with f*cking A4. His call was even more ******ed than my shove.

Anyway, I'm off to the casino again with $250. If I lose that, I've got another $250 in the bank for tomorrow. If I lose that as well, I'm done with poker. Maybe I'll start playing micro-stakes online or whatever, but I'll be taking a break from live poker.

I feel like if I don't go on tilt, I should be able to win. All I can do is try and make the best decisions I can. If I call all-in with KK and the dude has AA, or if I have a full house and get busted out by a higher full house (or whatever), then so be it.

I'll update and say how it went.

What is HH?

Hand Herpes. It's the description of how the hand permanently affected you.

Just open fold all two pair or better. Problem solved. Thank me later

Ah, you were playing live. I don't like live play. Too slow for me which ends up in me making stupid decisions.

Wow, that Dude guy seems like a pretty good player!

I honestly don't know why there are still legimitate threads in this sub. Sympathy in a zero sum game doesn't exist. Would you feel sorry for a reg on a bad run who pays his rent using money from degens he takes advantage of? Lol ofc not. It's the nature of the game. That being said, sorry you lost op (but not really)

You aren't chosen


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FISH LOGIC LOL, hang in there variance might let you run up another 2k, eventually.

Update?

OP Busto

Lifes over for you

****ing dying here

yah its funny seeing how live poker fishes think they are good for winning 20 BI on a fish fested stake. Keep up going OP