Whoops ... cooler and beat fest.

10-J suited versus 9-9, flop 10-J-2, lose stack.
10h-Jh versus 7-10 off. Flop 10d-8h-6h. Lose pot.
A-K suited versus A-2 suited. Flop no win.
K-K versus 10-J suited: lose stack on river trip jacks.
6-6 versus 10-10. Flop 10-6-3-K. (I fold the hand.)
Ad-6d versus 4d-9d. Flop 5d-7d-3h. Shove fest, he makes pair of nines on river.
Then I make one of the worst folds of the year in PLO. Well 4th nut flush ... who knows? Thrown for a loop. Head spinning. Heavy 10-J suited theme there, it seems.

No winners in between to amount to anything. Three of those hands were consecutive deals. Bizarre train track phenomenon waiting for me yet again after vicious session. VIRTUALLY PROVEN NOW: reality is created by consciousness and is exactly the same thing that consciousness is doing in a dream.

Got home from another certifiably bizarre PLO session ... almost like they were running up ultra starting hands, again, and then zeroing them out.

Got home to the “Old Man and the Sea” movie next on my queue, recommended to me, oddly, after something I watched the other night. Of course I remembered from the story the great battle with the marlin by the old man, and the losing it to the sharks on the way back. It didn’t dawn on me at first about the epic, epic drought before the catch. His 84 days in a row with no catch – oddly exactly twice 42 Adams answer to everything -- was a Guinness Book type thing. I do wear a Guinness hat when I play. Hmm.

So anyway Santiago muses during the dramatics: “Luck comes in many forms. I’ll take any form.” I’ve thought of this angle deeply and frequently. As in, I’m sure there are other areas where I am very lucky, and even the losing can ITSELF be a form of good luck. Check. At the very end, Santiago muses again: “It was a great loss. But also a great gain.” Righteous point.

A little revisit of the deuce of spades card trick tonight. I'm catching a deuce every hand, and that's how the whole thing started a ways back. I'm in the 9-seat and showing the dealer a deuce every hand. Auto folding. I tell her the story about the deuce of spades standing straight up in the deuce heater, and I show her the picture. That hand I raise with AcQc ... flop A-9-2 ...2 on turn ... dude calling his stack off with pretty obvious weak ace. I say that's the deuce of spades for the river. Yup, deuce of spades. Dealer laughing her arse off. Chop pot.

Next hand I have pocket deuces and the deuce of spades is in the window. All this right as I told the deuce of spades story. I told a dude taking it in it's the weirdest stuff under the sun and is cluing me in to the nature of reality. He appropriately remained silent.

I think the last card of my poker career is the deuce of spades ... total brick. Me with trip jacks and straight flush draw needing help. I started this thread about the deuce of spades, then it stood straight up on the table on the way to me, then it was the swan song. Amen.

Interesting thread. You should post in poker blogs and goals!

What I'm looking at is so far beyond the pale that it precludes randomness, and, as such, is revelatory about the nature of the universe. Another session of it tonight ... 200 and some outs over the course of the session in which zero showed up. Again.

I showed a full wrap with open end straight flush draw to my neighbor, guaranteeing him it couldn't beat two deuce at the end. Correctamoondo. All wraps missed, my flush draws went 0-for-6 while my opponents went 8-for-8.

The game broke for an hour as a huge high hand hour was on. I played one serious hand in the hour: pocket aces. Up against the big blind of 4-8. Flop 6-5-2, rainbow. And of course, of course, of course ... the turn is a 7 and the river is an ace. Just look at how pure that is for a cooler. Perfect turn, perfect river for max loss.

So I go back to PLO where the flushes and wraps all ran out to helll. Then to Ac-2c-3s-4s I flop 4c-5c-As. Nut wheel, straight flush draw, nut flush draw, aces up, and what the heck, back door straight flush draw kicker. LOL. I'm under the gun and check-raise a $50 button bet to 200. Instacall. He has 4-5-10-10. Turn is a 4, we both fill up, mine bigger. River of course a 10.

This started on January 1, 2016 and has continued without interruption. 700-ish sessions. I lost over 50% of my one outer situations over 24 trials. "Show me some more card tricks" has become my beloved line to try to cope mentally with the reality of this streak.

Now sure enough, this run followed one of the great heaters including 10 wins in a row twice, 17-18, and 31 in a row, all separate streaks, in a year of 93 winning sessions, 8 losses. I'm not supposed to win at that rate. I'm a 65% win session over the years. I'm also a big believer in corrections to bubbles are severe in accordance with how big the bubble is, be it stock market, housing market, poker results, etc. But this is something way beyond that.

The point here in the analysis is not the losing, but the anomaly of it. I showed 10 hands to neighbors tonight, massive draws, guaranteeing that they wouldn't beat two deuces in the end. Right every time. This has been going on for 8 years. I made one mistake in adjudging this bizarre anomaly run as 35 times longer (700 sessions versus 20) than any I had ever experienced in 40 years of PLO. That was off because though the sessions really are a factor of 35 more, the amount of hands, which is how you judge it, is only about 15 times that previous death run. Still, virtually impossible randomly.

There's nothing random in this universe, but such is only a shortcut for predicting results with unknown factors, unknown that is, to us. They aren't actually unknown. The quantum count knows and delivers it agenda with intent. When I was beleaguring that deuce of spades and then it was dealt standing face up on the table to me (see picture a few posts above), I knew this thing was getting metaphysical. And it's beautiful, prescient, and wise.

Wow. We're so delusional that if we lose enough that we can't even realistically attribute it to variance, we now attribute it to metaphysics? Occam's razor... Which is more likely? Bad results because of metaphysical,mystical jargon, or because we're simply playing badly. I'd bet the latter, but yeah, blame baal, or Freya, or the fates, or whatever floats your boat.