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ok ive heard of running bad but dont tell me sky that when ive been getting rivered or losing against lower hands all day.. im not just talking about 1 or 2 tourneys im talking 10 differnt tourneys evey cash table i play i get done when last week everything i done was right thats not running bad that seems like a setup .. can any1 relate. p.s i love sky poker and prefer it to any other site but dont tell me its possible to run that bad
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The computer does not & cannot "wish" something, it does not work like that. It has no emotions, feelings, & does not care a jot who wins or loses. Poker is an extraordinary, incredible, game, it does not need help from Dealers or software to spice it up.
Sometimes we just run really bad, other times we are hot. We can't go round inventing reasons for it, or blaming external factors - it just happens, it does not need help!
I hope your luck turns soon. It's all down to ability, & luck. If you have the game, you'll soon be fine again.
Nothing is more challenging to our character than a losing streak at poker. Stay strong during the bad runs, & you'll be fine.
Good luck.
Little story for you, & very topical.
I've been doing a little poker challenge, quite modest really, but quite important to me. At my age, self-esteem & confidence get a bit fragile, & flakey.
Anyway, I wanted to run £200 up to £1,000. I began playing cash, lost a third of the 'roll, so switched to PLO8 DYM's, which are THE lowest variance form of poker I've ever seen.
For 3 months, I kept at it, won £20 some days, £30 others, now & then lost a tenner, but the graph was inevitable, over 3 months, or 90 days, I kust kept adding to my 'roll in £10 & £20 increments.
Ten days ago, I was within a couple of quid of £1,000, wow. But I could not get over the line, I just kept losing a bit, winning a bit, losing, winning.
3 days ago, I was at £999.06! So close.
2 days ago, BOOM, I cracked it, won £37, & the 'Roll was now £1,037 or so. Chuffed to bits.
1 day ago.......I LOST £100. In one night. Just like that.
That is 50% of my starting 'roll, or 10% of my total 'roll. Gone, in one brutal session.
I am competent at PLO8. Not good, but competent, & I understand DYM dynamics very well. And PLO8 is low-low super-low variance.
And I lost £100 in one session, over 31 games, so more than £3 per game, with the average stake about £6. You can't do worse than that, nobody can, a blindfolded monkey could do better.
How do these things happen? I've no idea, but they just do.
Poker is an incredibly clever game, all because of the almost infinite varieties of results 52 playing cards can generate.
I would have bet anyone as much as they wanted that I could NEVER lose £100 in a session of 31 PLO8 DYM's with an average buy-in of £6. But I did.......
Don't think I did much wrong, either.
Keep your chin up bud, your luck - & mine - will change tonight. Probably.....
Agree, Melty.
I started playing on 'Stars as soon as that site started, & I absolutely OWNED the NLH SNG's there, & playing $50 & $100-ers, I ran up a $27,000 'roll in no time.
I lost the whole lot, even quicker.
Variance, luck, heaters, coolers, whatever, no player on earth is immune.
Best of luck on the tables
I've played for well over a decade now online and live. I have had hot streaks where I flop set after set, I have had cold streaks where I have lost with Aces all in pre a dozen times on the spin. Maths has its quirks and fancies. Dealing with that and the emotional strain it can put on you (both positive as well as the more obvious negative) is as important, if not more so, than developing a technically sound game. It's a game which ahs always been about the mental, that is why it has endured as a game for as long as it has, why it is more popular today than ever and why nearly everyone who gets a taste for it believes they can win at it.
It's one of the world's greatest mind contests on a variety of levels.
Good luck at the tables Sir
It's not that strange, imo, but it is a tad disingenous, as it was only 2 days since you last won a Tourney.
You made that Post @ 7.47PM on 20th July, & mention you used to do well in the £22 @ 23.15.
According to Sharkscope....
You won the 23.15 £22 NLH on 18th July.
You won the same Tournament on 15th July.
You won the same Tournament on 13th July.
So it had only been 2 days since you won a Tourney, & you had won that Tourney THREE times in the previous SIX nights. Variance being what it is, not winning an MTT in 2 days is not that strange, is it?
PS - Many Congrats, that is seriously impressive. Rich Orford has only won one Tournament in 8 years.