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Originally Posted by WhenInDoubtShove
I’ve been doing this and moved to Texas in the last couple months. I actually a pretty low variance style of PLO but I’m in Texas. Can’t agree more but went from 1000-1500 buyins to 300-500, netted it up super hard and have toned down aggression.
I don’t go in wondering how much I’ll lose but I start each day tilted and in fear, do my ritual, suck it up and mentally get ready, and until it happens the second time I’m ok, it’s just getting silly at this point of how long it can go on.
I’ve never been this happy with my play or mental game honestly. I Meditate, do discipline, play short sessions 1-3x a day, it’s just getting to a point of I think anyone else would quit honestly.
I’m outplaying people, outmaneuvering, fading a lot and I just can’t win the big pots as a coin flip with dead money or as a 70%+ favorite for however longer it takes until it turns around.
It’s been a great period of time for growth, but a very brutal one at the same time
I meant it. I feel you. I played it for over 40 years, and for the first 35 nothing obscene happened unless you count the upside of it. The worst severe downturn was about 6 weeks long, 18 or so sessions, long sessions then of 8 hours plus. And nothing else even close to that. One streak of 8 straight. Then came a streak that I would swear defies randomness in that it lasted over 800 sessions, but very part time play so the mind altering time span of the death run was over 8 years. Obscenity. All wraps were bordering on 0%, all nut flush draws bordering on 0%, opponents same hands pushing 100%. I never was a run twice. One night I did as an experiment and lost 35-of-36.
That wasn't near enough for this streak. The 1-outer beats were running at around 60%, 19 out of 33 in one stretch, and as I was quoting that very stat one night it happened again. I had unsuited aces and hadn't raised, flop was A-2-2, and a lonely deuce took my stack. Again. On top of this, there was the super weird experience of, every once in a while here or there in a session, somebody would call out verbally the card they needed. This hit 100% out of some dozens of trials.
I started thinking what was the worst possible card to hit on the turn during all hands. Like black magic, it hit so regularly it was shocking when it didn't. It all seemed supernatural. That's when I realized more fully that the long run is way, way north of 100K-ish hands. Way more. Into the millions.
I did the same as you, maybe a mistake, in that I started lowering buy-ins, then again. Turned out not to be a mistake as it just marched on. You can get in veins of things in life.
All this followed a sun run year of epic proportions, sure enough. And maybe 5 years of something near sun run. It actually began to inform my views on metaphysics, as I was writing on the subject at the time. And a deck of cards, my poker playing brethren and sisters, IS a part of reality. It is not exempt, it is not actually random in its distribution ... but that is only a shortcut handicapping system of expectation with so many unknown factors.
Something knows those factors. An agenda is being delivered. That's where I ended up in regard to it all.
Back to your experience. I believe it hands down and can see utterly no reason not to. In fact, in retrospect, after my streak I remember hearing and seeing runs of other players that were described in such a way as to seem impossible. I get it, you are getting in great spots, outplaying people, maneuvering like a boss ... and the deck is utterly mocking you, your efforts, and the expectation of the results.
It's a thing. There's nothing more to be said other than, "Yup. It's a thing. It's in the cards. It's in the universe. It's a thing."
Last edited by FellaGaga-52; 06-09-2024 at 04:48 AM.