Soooooo, overall, the last 2 months have been hard, REALLLLLLY hard. Every time I have thought I was coming out of the runbad, it comes back & bites me on the arse. I’m playing well, but I’m just sooooo card dead it is ridiculous. I made a note of all 113 hands i was dealt in a session on Monday. Only 16 of the hands were what i would describe as ‘playable’. Thats 14% of hands, and some of them I had to fold preflop as there were raises/3bets etc before action got to me. if i was lucky enough to win half of those 16 hands (which I didnt) I would have only won 7% of all the hands i was dealt that night!! Jeeeeesus!! When you are so card dead & only playing so few hands its hard to get value out of those hands cos people know you must have a pretty big hand.
When i’m involved in hands I just cannot seem to win a flip, my pairs are losing to overcards, my overcards aren’t hitting against pairs, my draws just aren’t getting there. The last 2 nights I have probably played a total of 10 hands combined, missed with 2 overs & a flush draw on 2diamond low board when it went all in on flop, missed with open-ender vs an UNDERPAIR (so my hole cards are good too if i pair up), and had my aces busted by pocket 6’s amongst other tilting hands!! Last night i flopped bottom set, turned a fullhouse but got rivered by quads. FMELE!!!!!! Last weekend i somehow managed to brick off with TWO open ended STRAIGHT FLUSH draws. GG!! Its just been mega frustrating. Somehow I have still managed to have profitable months whilst this has been happening. Enough moaning anyway, as this leads me into the purpose of this post......
I have snapped up the offer of some staking for live poker, basically I have agreed with this person that they bankroll me for December & we go 50/50 on profits at the end of the month. At this point we also then re-evaluate if we both want to continue with the deal. For the sake of my blog I am going to refer to my staker as “Fortuna” (Greek goddess of fortune), as I’m not sure they would want anyone knowing their identity. The deal is good for me in the following ways:-
1) I don’t have to risk my own money for a month, which gives my bank balance a month off from getting twitchy (ideal in Xmas month)
2) It will allow me to play a slightly more open/aggressive game
3) It gives me a confidence boost that someone is willing to invest in my poker ‘career’.
4) It will stop me having a “flutter” on roulette on my way out of the casino!!! (Roulette is the devils game, and it annoys me that I have the occasional dabble on it with my own money, but if I’m playing with someone else’s money then I know I won’t even touch it !!)
It is also a good deal for Fortuna, I’m clearly a winning player, proved in nearly a year’s worth of live cash play (and even when I’m running as bad as Stephen Hawking with a flat tyre), so they should make some money out of it. It isn’t something that either party can take on lightly, there has to be a huge degree of trust from both sides & in this case it helps massively that Fortuna is a poker player too so completely understands the swings that poker can have! I think it is fair to say we both have respect for each other’s games, despite our poker styles being a bit like chalk & cheese. I think if someone could find a middle ground of both of our games then that person would be a fantastic player!!!!!
In other news, I’m flying out to Basel on Wednesday for the United match out there. It is a pretty huge game for us now with the way the group has progressed so should be a good trip!! Me & Boldy (lad I’m going the match with) will be having a pint & a full English at about 6am in Manchester airport & the plan is to be in a pub in Basel for about midday local time! Can’t wait !!! Although apparently beer in Switzerland is painfully expensive!
I really need to write a blog on the plague of slowrolling thats sweeping live poker at the moment, so will try to have that on here by the end of the weekend.
Finally, I have a good feeling about poker this weekend.... despite the runbad I just think its gonna be a huge weekend for me.... gonna win at least 80% of my flips & all my draws are going to just “get there” !! Time to cash in some flip tokens.... Bink! Good luck to me, and good luck to Fortuna too!!
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