Jinx

Obviously after my last post I run really bad.

I dropped 8 buy-ins at $200 NL 6 max in one day over 6k hands. It was just one of those days where every time I flopped a set someone flopped a bigger one, or I'd get my money in with the best of it only to get runner runnered and lose the pot. It's one of my swingiest graphs for a long time, I actually started the sesson up 3 buy-ins, took a break then dropped 4 or 5 straight, then made a few back before dropping right back down.

It's taken the rest of the month to undo that session, but I finally broke through the zero barrier a couple of days ago. It certainly made me think a little more about swings and bankroll requirements. In a way I'm lucky I play at a level where the money doesn't effect me, I'm not sure how I would have felt if that was $1k NL or something. That session only really stood out for me because I rarely play that many hands in one go. I'm sure there have been other similar stretches, but they just occoured over a week or more so I didn't notice them as much.

As far as tournies go it's been mixed news. I have bubbled 3 final tables in the last week, which is really frustrating. Unfortunately the downside of playing aggressively when you get down to 5/6 handed before the final table is that you occasionally run into big hands. I did manage to take down a small live tournie for $1k though, which saw one of the craziest HU sessions I have ever played in.

We went from 9 to 5 reeeaallly slowly and then the blinds caught up with us and the last 3 dropped quickly. I got HU with aguy I know quite well, and we both decided that there wasn't enough money on the table and we should just play it out. Every time one of us got short an pushed we doubled, this went on for about 30 hands or so, which takes ages live, until I finally held and won with JT vrs AK.

So I guess I have had some luck.