string4
03-07-2005, 03:40 PM
Newbie here, just finished my first 1000 hands at PP .50/1, hope this isn't too stupid of a question but I gotta ask...
Being a beginner, I normally play at SLAA (23% or so - trying to tighten my VP$IP is my main focus right now). The last 3 sessions have been nightmarish, not in the play that occurred, but the cards I had to work with. In rewiewing my sessions w/ PT, in three 100+ hand sessions my VP$IP has been 8-11%, because of the amazingly bad cards I've had to work with (god what a whiner i look like here...).
In these last four consective sessions, the best hands i have had were pocket 5s, A7s, K 10o - making it very difficult to even enter the hand (following SSHE religiously at this point). Virtually all my play has been off forced blinds or less than best (but playable according to SSHE) hands. As Ive watched this happen the last three times my biggest challenge has been quitting playing before I go on total tilt and start playing $@#! hands...(have gone from +10 BB at 800 hands to -3 at approx 1100 hands)
My better sense tells me that it is just how the cards fell, that it will come around in the end (after 10K hands or so), to keep playing the way I have learned and am learning, that I have not necessarily angered my higher power...etc. Or - is there such a thing as people who consistently are dealt better or worse hands than others (like some kind of statistical oddity)?
Stupid topic probably...I had to ask...any feedback?
Being a beginner, I normally play at SLAA (23% or so - trying to tighten my VP$IP is my main focus right now). The last 3 sessions have been nightmarish, not in the play that occurred, but the cards I had to work with. In rewiewing my sessions w/ PT, in three 100+ hand sessions my VP$IP has been 8-11%, because of the amazingly bad cards I've had to work with (god what a whiner i look like here...).
In these last four consective sessions, the best hands i have had were pocket 5s, A7s, K 10o - making it very difficult to even enter the hand (following SSHE religiously at this point). Virtually all my play has been off forced blinds or less than best (but playable according to SSHE) hands. As Ive watched this happen the last three times my biggest challenge has been quitting playing before I go on total tilt and start playing $@#! hands...(have gone from +10 BB at 800 hands to -3 at approx 1100 hands)
My better sense tells me that it is just how the cards fell, that it will come around in the end (after 10K hands or so), to keep playing the way I have learned and am learning, that I have not necessarily angered my higher power...etc. Or - is there such a thing as people who consistently are dealt better or worse hands than others (like some kind of statistical oddity)?
Stupid topic probably...I had to ask...any feedback?