Bubbles, and bad luck....

I guess today was another rough day. Fortunately for me the roughness was subsided a bit by me winning one $13 6max game. However I managed to lose a $16 18 man, and 3 $6.50 18 man, and then I played a $6.50 45 man. All of these seem to play out in the same fucked up manner. I start off well get a decent chip stack then late in the game I push something like AK/AQ and sure enough they have AA/KK, but don't fret when they do have something like J9 they will make a straight. It is getting harder and harder for me to chock this up to variance. There has to be something to this. I just don't see it...

In the 45 man I was the chip leader until we were down to 9 ppl the sure enough some half wit was able to suck out on a medium stack to cover me by 100 chips. I get AQs and JAM and sure enough KK. Immediately I think... Well its not that bad... I could still hit an A and I do first card and trumpets in my head sound... K K cruel cruel world lol...

Anyways I know you don't want to hear me rant and rave about bad beats and I am trying not to. This is serving a purpose though. I tend to be on a cycle of in poker so to speak. I have a good run then a bad run. However I tend to let the bad run get to me and star playing bad poker. Anyways the last two days have been particularly brutal, and I am trying to prevent myself from making bad poker decisions, and if I cant prevent it at least I am documenting the complete cycle.

Also this is a perfect time for me to share the article that I always go to when I am down on my luck. It is by Mene Gene and if you want to read more of his stuff go here.

SO if you want to read a great article that look outside the box of variance. Check this out. Statistics and Luck.