Here\'s how.
I'm by no means a great player, and I've been agonizing for the past month on whether I'm on a never-ending downswing or playing horribly. I'm down 250BB over 40K hands of 1/2. After reviewing sessions I always find some bad play, but the big difference is always the same--I win the small pots and lose the big ones.
Here's a sample table from last night. It was the best table I've ever seen, so I stayed. There were an average of five or six big fish, most of them on my right, all night. Their VP$IP ranged from 40 to 90. When one would bust out, or fill up on my chips and leave, another would take his place.
I lost 52BB in 269 hands. Unfortunately, this is not an aberration. I usually have one or two tables per session like this, and they all to frequently overwhelm the profitable tables for the day. It doesn't take many of these to make up a 200BB downswing.
If someone can tell me how expert play can somehow deliver me better starting hands, prevent miracle-card suckouts on the river, or occasionally make my flush in a big pot, I'd love to hear it.
Session stats, PokerStars 1/2 full ring:
Total hands 269
VP$IP 15.24
W$WSF 15.79
Amount won (104.00)
BB/100 (19.33)
WSD 21.05
W$SD 16.67
PFR 3.35
All of my winning hands, 10 out of 269:
AKs 11.25 won without showing
AQ 5.25 won without showing
AJ 3.25 pair of eights
AT 2.00 won without showing
AT 5.75 won without showing
A6s 4.25 sixes and nines
A5s 11.75 won without showing
K4 2.50 won without showing
JJ 8.00 won without showing
64o .50 won without showing
The big losing hands:
AJ -13.00 jacks and sixes, lost to flush on the river
A7s -12.00 pair of sevens, lost to three sixes on the river
QQ -11.00 queens and nines, lost to aces and nines
Q2s - 8.00 three queens, lost to runner-runner flush on the river
JT -12.00 jacks and tens, lost to straight on the river
TT -10.00 tens, lost to aces and jacks
T9 -12.50 tens, lost to kings on the river
All the other pocket pairs:
88 - 2.00 folded after flop, full house fives full of jacks
77 - 2.00 folded after flop of KK4
66 - 1.00 folded after flop, jacks and sevens
66 - 1.00 folded after flop, aces
66 - 1.00 folded after turn, aces and jacks
55 - 1.00 folded after flop, straight, nine to king
33 - 1.00 folded after flop of AT4
All the other suited connectors:
JTs - 1.00 folded after flop to raise, eights
87s folded preflop, aces and queens
65s folded preflop, nines and deuces
65s - 2.00 folded after flop, aces and queens
54s - .50 folded preflop, tens and eights
54s folded preflop
All the rest of the losses were blinds, being pushed out by pre-flop raises, limping and calling one back then missing the flop and folding to a flop raise. It adds up.
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