Biggest swings in one session?

[DesertCat]

So I'm up 45BB in my first four hours yesterday at Casino AZ 6/12, and I'm thinking, I'm clearly getting way good. I'm so much better than the other players at my table it's ridiculous. I start planning my eventual march through the mid and high limit games, since clearly it's all come together for me. I am a poker master.

Two hours later I leave the 6/12 table only up 7BB, and I feel like I've been repeatedly punched in the gut. By then, everyone at my table was better than me. I was so bad I even tried to bluff Lorainne, the 70 year old unbluffable calling station, while she held pocket aces.

It's the worse feeling I've ever had in a winning day. Anyone have any worse swings in a single session?

[Percula]

Yep sure have!

I have been playing O8 online lately and justing killing the game (+$1000 at $0.50/$1 level in two weeks). I played a little 6/12 a CA last week for about an hour before the nightly MTT and trippled up in about an hours time. So I was feeling pretty good about my O8 skills... what is that old saying "pride comes before a fall".

So the Fort has a hot 4/8 O8 game that has some killer action, monster pots. So I figure I have a good chance to scoop some massive pots. Nope last Saturday I dropped nearly 800 in less than 2 hours.

But I did leave up for the marathon session thanks to a hot 2-150 table and donking a 4/8 table.

[DesertCat]

Here's a story about Sam Grizzle that puts both ours to shame (by Todd Brunson).

"About 12 years ago I was playing in a 150-300 hold'em game. Early in the morning Sam Grizzle walks in and starts commenting on how good the game is. When asked why he's not playing he pulls out his bankroll ($2) and sarcastically asks how much the buy in is.
He leaves and after talking to Puggy Pearson comes back with $10,000 and starts to play. Now after about an hour Sam an Puggy get into an arguement ( about what I can't remember offhand ) and Puggy picks up his $10,000 and half of what Sam was winning, leaving Sam with about $400, far short of the required buy in. Fortunatlly for Sam, no one says anything and in about four hours Sam is winning around $40,000.
If this isn't amazing enough, Sam quits the game announcing how he's going to do us a big favor and go play the tournament, allowing us to keep what money we had left.( He also told us how smart he was and dumb we were of course ) You can guess what happened next; Sam the genius wins the tournament and another $120,000 to go with the $40,000 he won off us earlier that morning. Not bad for a guy who showed up at the casino with $2 in his pocket.
It's now 6 am and he's been in the commerce for exactly 24 hours, time to get some sleep. That would be if he were a normal human but Sam's far from that. Sam comes up to the top section where there's a tough 800-1600 razz game in progress. Sam stumbles over and bellies up to the table losing his whole $160,000 in a fairly short period of time.
Instead of becoming upset Sam simply told every one how dumb they were,shook his head and walked out of the casino with the exact same $2 he showed up with the day before. Just another day in the life of a Gambler"

[KidPokerX]

Haha you're right, it does put all of our stories to shame.

[Stellastarr]

wow

[mtdoak]

One of my first B+M sessions (loooong before I was any good), I sat down with 40 BB at a 5/10 table (told you I was stupid), ran it up to 700....and proceeded to lose every dime of it by playing too long and when I was tired.