Getting killed

Of course, like always, I step up to a bigger game, run super cold, and take more beats in the past week than I did in the month previous. The reason I jumped up to some $10/$25 and even a little $25/$50 was because I had a couple horrible sessions at 5/10 and 10/20 and got impatient. Never a good idea.

Last night was brutal, then to top it off I lose a $6,000 pot in 10/25 all-in pre-flop with AA vs. 88. Just sick.

Anyway, this was NOT the way I wanted my play leading up to Vegas to go. On UB, PP, and Betfair combined, I've been down $12k in the past week or so. In reality, this isn't very many buy-ins at some of the stakes I was playing, so I guess it's not a huge downswing, but it sucks royally. Good thing late April and May went really well. But, it's really disappointing I'm down all the money I wanted to spend on tourneys in Las Vegas soon. I'll still play them, but hopefully I can make some or all of this downswing back before the trip on the 24th.

Oh yah, and I went to the Regent re-buy tourney again, pretty much only to try and final table for the 4th week in a row. But, didn't happen this time. Just quietly donked out somewhere around 45th. I had decent chips at the first break, but then basically had no opportunities to do anything before the next break, and just blinded into desperation mode. I probably won't be going to Regent as much unless I really, really feel like some live poker. I heard something about a $200 buy-in plus $100 re-buy tourney Regent is having on a Saturday afternoon coming up soon. Not sure about the details or if it's even true, but I'll go for sure if I can. Will probably only be 20-30 players I imagine though.

It's hard to say if I'm playing badly. I know I've made bad plays for sure, but I figure I'd be down a pretty decent amount no matter what. Good ol' variance. I just need to tighten it up a bit. Whenever you develop new strategies that work out the gates, it's easy to over-do it.

It's amazing how tough it is to step down after just a little taste of a bigger game. I wish one day I'd take a stab and just fly out of the gates for once. Never happens, maybe one day. Anyway, my confidence needs a couple winning sessions so I'm going to try and play some smart poker at 5/10 and a little 10/20 again. The 10/25 game on UB can be so crazy aggressive sometimes. On one table last night I went from $2500 to $8500, back down to $2000, then up to $11,500, then I lost that stupid $6k AA hand above, and finished the table at $7,500. That was unfortunately one of the only winning tables I had last night.

It's so hard to shake that "blah" feeling in the back of your mind when running bad. But, everything else in life is good. My boy is growing fast and talking up a storm now, he'll be 2 years old in October. I'm really excited about Vegas, but like I said, I really want to go there on a winning note.

I really miss the huge group of people from Barca, Player's, etc. Players, dealers, everyone. I guess it had become a big part of my social life at those live clubs. I see the odd person here and there at the casino, but not many, and it's not nearly the same. I miss good live poker already, but even more I miss a lot of friends I made over the past few years.