Ever experience this? [Includes hand examples]

[Oluwafemi]

tonight, i just had my 2nd biggest drop in buy-ins, 11 [my previous was 12]. one thing i've noticed in the past 2 months playing SNGs is that i never seem to break out and explode. i get to a certain point, then i experience unreal bad luck. say i cash in 2 out of 4 with a 1st and 2nd playing my usual tight aggressive poker. i'll then go 0 for 6 playing the same game but lose to all types of weird crap like a bunch of river beats to the worse hand. then i might go 3 for 6 with the same game with a three 3rds, losing to the same types of crazy beats. it's been up, then down a bit, then down some more, then down some more, then up, then down, then down some more, then up, then up, then down again.

it's getting to a point where the cashes cannot sustain and make up for the ones i lose. it's like, you know you're a good enough player for the level you play at, but your advancement is stumped [as well as your bankroll] because you can't move foward because of the loses. let me give you an example. in my last 12 SNGs, i'm 7 for 12 with one 1st, one 2nd, and five 3rds. i caught a bunch of bad beats in that stretch [hence the 3rds] but was thankful i was'nt worse. but tonight, i go 0 for 11 [no cashes] with about three of them in 4th. the key are the hands.

1. A K vs A Q: TPTK gets crushed by Queens over Aces full
2. Q Q vs A A: against shortstack [had covered] but i was shortstacked after the hand.
3. go 0-3 all-in with 9 9 as shortstack.
4. J J vs 10 10 on the flop, lose to flush on the river.
5. A J vs A Q: major chip loss because of Kicker, out on next hand as shortstack with K J.
6. 4-handed: A 9 vs 9 6 on all-in on the flop- three of a kind 9s [Ace kicker], guy calls and catches 6 on river for 9s over 6s.
7. J 2 vs A K as shortstack all-in on the flop w/ Jacks. guys calls w/ A K [no flush or straight draw, no pair] and catches King on turn.

now, i'm not whining about the bad beats. i already took it out on the swivel chair [thank GOD not my monitor]. my issue was EVERYTIME i was in those situations, it felt as if it was [setup] to be that way. i don't mean setup like RIGGED, but when you lose the way i lose in the same situations so many times over and over, things run through your head like:

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i finally made it back from the shortstack [350] after having my Aces cracked by trip 9s on the river. AKs, great! got two callers, flop A 2 7, two of my suit on the flop, 1300 pot. i have 1150 and bet all-in and am called by 2 2 and bust with no help on river.

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"i haven't had a playable hand in i don't know how long and have seen my stack erode. now i got J J, hmmmm. ok, i guy raised in front of me, folded to me, i'll just call with position and play the flop. gut bets all-in on a flop of a low cards, i call, he has 10 10 with one heart [two the the flop]. two more hearts are dealt for the flush on ther river. [Olu wrinkles an "as usual" through his face]

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"ok, time to regroup. dealt A A, first hand of another table. bunch of limpers, i raise 85% of pot, one caller. flop comes two diamonds and an offsuit x card- i have position. caller bets very small amount in relation to pot and i reraise the pot and guy calls. another diamond falls on turn [here we go again]. end result, half my stack gone with A A to a King high flush on turn. [famous Olu "as usual" smirk]. oh well, at least i did'nt go all-in".

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ok, i'm the shortstack with about 850 but the blinds are still low at 10/20. i'm dealt 10 9o facing a mini-raise to 40, only one other caller and i'm in the BB. i call and the flop comes 8 7 6 with two spades. original raiser bets, original caller reraises! hmmmmmm. no need to play around Olu, you have the straight on the flop. of course i reraise but to my surprise, i find myself in a reraise war until we're all-in on the flop. LIFE IS SWEET!

[/ QUOTE ] original raiser [chipleader turns up A 7, other player 10 8, lovely. turn and river are spades, original raiser has Ace [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] and wins flush on river". [Olu scratches his head, rubs his goatee, and stares at the monitor] "guess it just had to happen that way and no other way".

now multiply this several times over and that's how a typical day of SNGs for me goes. i have'nt been able to sustain any good stretches the last 3 months precisely because of these scenarios. i hear people say, "you always forget about the times you got lucky on the river". then i think, one river catch for me for every 15 catches for everyone else. it does'nt add up and that one catch does'nt make up for what you lost against the 15 to you. anybody ever experience this? like for every good thing that happens, you get overwhelmed by 7 bad things and it makes it that much harder to bounce back.