Today was, once again, extremely bad for volume. It was arguably worse than yesterday until later at night when it picked up a bit.
I think it picked up, at least. I can’t be sure that it was better than yesterday because today I finally added $60 lobbies when I didn’t have action. I only played 15% of my volume at $60s today, but I really would like to not have to play them again going forward.
The bad action combined with running bad made the day one of the least enjoyable days of poker in a long time. Running bad is always magnified when you have no games to play. There were so many one off games. No one was rematching, and it was just extremely frustrating.
Usually at the end of my sessions, I’ve decided to play my last $200 and then get off to eat some food. Lately, though, the $200 fish I’ve gotten has won a bunch in a row and continued to rematch presumably because he doesn’t lose.
In the past I’ve gotten extremely tilted by this. I’m hungry and tired at this point, and I get stuck at the computer playing a fish I can’t beat. If you read this blog regularly, I’m sure you’ll recall times when I’ve complained about losing 10+ in a row to someone at the end of the night.
When this happened yesterday, I quit the fish I was playing after 4 straight losses because I was extremely tired, hungry, and tilted. I was glad I quit after 4, but then I wished I would quit after 2 and decided to make an end-of-the-night stop loss of 2.
Today obviously it happened again: my last $200 was a fish that didn’t quit after winning. It just so happens, though, that a Full Tilt game fired because I forgot to unreg the lobbies there, so I got to two-table $200s. I lost 5 straight to the guy on PokerStars, and the guy on Full Tilt quit me after he won one.
So much for my stop loss, haha.
I decided to keep playing the guy on PokerStars because even after he won a bunch in a row, he didn’t quit after I won one back. In fact, he didn’t quit when he lost four back. After an hour, I finally won a few back and he quit me up just one. I’m pretty happy with this result and extremely glad I didn’t tilt my face off this time.
Once again, I really hope action gets better soon.
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