09-16-2005, 12:50 AM
A few hours ago someone blew 25K on Prima. That was me (I also lost 6K in the 25/50).
I normally multitable 10-20 ar Party. But because results had been kind of stale, I decided to take a shot at the big games. Single table only, shorthanded.
I started out pretty well. Won about 40K this week. I was lucky. Whenever I was stuck an amount I couldn't handle psychologically, I would pull a ridiculous all-in checkraise bluff to get even. This worked a few times on its own, and a few times I managed to catch one of my 14 to, errr, 3 outs. This move had gotten so powerful in my mind, that I started using it more often. The rest need not be told.
After that, I played my regular game for a little bit and dropped 3 buy ins. Result for the day: -35521.28
When I lost my first 10K I considered quitting. But I didn't. I reloaded and worked my way up to a 2K profit. I then slowly but surely proceeded to lose that.
Later, I decided that I was done, and I was gonna grind a marathon session of 10-20 until I had it back.
But I put 5K in the 50-100 game instead. At some point, I was only 8.5K behind. That's a loss that can easily be recovered playing 10-20, I remember thinking.
In the end, I lost all that, too, and managed to lose another 6K in a 25-50 game as well.
I then took a deep breath, decided that I was back to my normal game forever. I cashed out my remaining 20K or so from Prima.
I played my normal game for 2 hours, because I wanted to start right away with my quest for a more disciplined poker career. I lost 6K.
As of now I have multiple points in this night that I can look back to, where I had first lost a big amount of $$, won some back, and could have stopped and escaped. But I didn't, and I proceeded to lose even more. I thought losing 20K was bad. Now I'm 36 in the red.
Just wanted to share this and save it for posterity, in case I ever forget and need to be reminded.
I normally multitable 10-20 ar Party. But because results had been kind of stale, I decided to take a shot at the big games. Single table only, shorthanded.
I started out pretty well. Won about 40K this week. I was lucky. Whenever I was stuck an amount I couldn't handle psychologically, I would pull a ridiculous all-in checkraise bluff to get even. This worked a few times on its own, and a few times I managed to catch one of my 14 to, errr, 3 outs. This move had gotten so powerful in my mind, that I started using it more often. The rest need not be told.
After that, I played my regular game for a little bit and dropped 3 buy ins. Result for the day: -35521.28
When I lost my first 10K I considered quitting. But I didn't. I reloaded and worked my way up to a 2K profit. I then slowly but surely proceeded to lose that.
Later, I decided that I was done, and I was gonna grind a marathon session of 10-20 until I had it back.
But I put 5K in the 50-100 game instead. At some point, I was only 8.5K behind. That's a loss that can easily be recovered playing 10-20, I remember thinking.
In the end, I lost all that, too, and managed to lose another 6K in a 25-50 game as well.
I then took a deep breath, decided that I was back to my normal game forever. I cashed out my remaining 20K or so from Prima.
I played my normal game for 2 hours, because I wanted to start right away with my quest for a more disciplined poker career. I lost 6K.
As of now I have multiple points in this night that I can look back to, where I had first lost a big amount of $$, won some back, and could have stopped and escaped. But I didn't, and I proceeded to lose even more. I thought losing 20K was bad. Now I'm 36 in the red.
Just wanted to share this and save it for posterity, in case I ever forget and need to be reminded.