:Pot Stuck

This week has been nothing but swings and roller coasters. Earlier, around Tuesday I believe, I lost about 10 buyins in a matter of four or so hours. Then in my last hour of playing I won about nine of them back. While all this was happening I was totally clueless to being up/down that amount of money so my play was not effected.

Yesterday I played a short session and did well, about +2 buyins in 1,000 hands.

Then today I started off my session running very well. I won +2 buyins in probably 1,000 hands. And then the fun stuff… I think I lost every single hand for about 2 hours straight, resulting in a 7 buyin drop.

So, in just 3 sessions (and about 6,000 hands) I had a -10 buyin drop, a +13 buyin upswing, and then -7 buyin downswing. Pretty crazy as I haven’t experienced a swing like that in a long while.

I had to quit early today because of the beats I was taking. I know I like to believe that running bad doesn’t hurt my play at all, but it does. If I am aware that I am running bad, like I was today, then I play poor poker and it just results in me losing more. Over the past year this is probably the biggest poker accomplishment I am most proud of: Realizing that the games will be there tomorrow and theres no need to “get back to even”.

Full Tilt Poker - No Limit Hold’em Cash Game - $3/$6 Blinds - 6 Players

SB: $619.00
BB: $1,147.50
UTG: $178.20
MP: $236.00
Hero (CO): $597.00
BTN: $567.00

Preflop: Hero is dealt K K (6 Players)
2 folds, Hero raises to $21.00, BTN raises to $72.00, SB folds, BB calls $66.00, Hero raises to $291.00, BTN folds, BB calls $219.00

Flop: ($657) Q 5 3 (2 Players)
BB bets $306.00, Hero calls all-in for $306.00

Turn: ($1269) 6 (2 Players - 1 All-In)

River: ($1269) 6 (2 Players - 1 All-In)

Pot Size: $1,269.00 ($3 Rake)

BB had 2 4 (a flush, Queen high) and WON (+$669.00)
Hero had K K (two pair, Kings and Sixes) and LOST (-$597.00)