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Originally Posted by JKingoff
So I just finished a 20 minute session on AP playing the 100 NL cash game. Yes, thats right, 20 minutes. 3 buyins and 3 coolers to the same guy. First hand I have 99, flop comes 3 9 T. He bets, I raise, he shoves, I call, he shows TT. Set versus set. Minutes later I have 56 in the bb. Flop comes 4 7 8 rainbow. Same betting sequence as before, he shows 56c and hits runner runner flush. Nice, flop the nuts and lose. Then comes the clincher. I have A4 in the bb, he makes standard raise. Flop comes 44A. He bets, I raise, he shoves, I snap call....he shows 99 and I watch in horror as a 9 falls on the turn. I fully understand variance and all that, but seriously, this is just sick. Bad play and donking off your stack is one thing, but to constantly run into coolers like this in such a short period of time has me thinking I am fighting an uphill battle.
Check my PTR from my last session. Aces, Kings then Queens on dry boards. I 3 bet pre flop on each hand and get flat called each time. No overs come, no draws, very, very dry boards. Each time Villian flops set with underpair and I manage to do a buy in each time.
Then I flop a set of 2s on a A 2 3 flop. You guessed it villian has 45. Bye bye buy in.
This is one of my sessions last night.. Same thing happens to everybody, it is called variance and is normal. There's no-one conspiring against you and nobody has rigged your account. You just have to learn to deal with the swings a bit better. If you really can't deal with a few coolers back to back occassionally you should stop playing poker for a while and read some poker books and theory to understand the game a bit better