bizarre cosmic industries

It's beeing a very bad month. I'm going bad in every possible way. Those who know about my preflop play, I'm playing a quite tight game, I raise less than other players, reraise less and go all-in way too less. But when we look at the hands I went all-in with, I'm losing money. people are pushing my 4-bets with 67s, 44, QK or every other stupid hand but I am still losing money with the hands I went all-in preflop even though I don't reraise with AK's or JJ's if I don't want to go all-in. The point is, I'm losing a real big amount by folding these aggro pre-flop reraises and when I show some strenght with premium hands, I'm losing with them...

The problem is not only with pre-flop all-ins. My overpairs held only %75 of the time (which means I lost a big pot with the rest) , my sets only held %85 of the time, my two pairs held only %77 of the time.

I suppose I'm having a big downswing since last month and when luck evens out during next months I'll be in a good shape. I'm happy I didn't loose anything this two months.

I'll share you the hands I lost since yesterday. (last 48 hours)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?4275575
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4275583
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4275585
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4275587
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4275590
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4275597
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4275604
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4275609 (I had a read on this one, but it didn't work)
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4275612 (would you bet the river here?)
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4275623 (yippee I got the nuts)
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4275637 (classic)
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4275647 (this one is a bit strange, I thought he would fold I was wrong)
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4275670
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4275694
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4275699 (at least I didn't loose this one)


the number of badbeats may seem a bit too much for untrained eyes, but you should know that the essential damage was done by the coinflips I lost and other pre flop set ups...

patience is the key

Life," said Marvin dolefully, "loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it"

It's been around 2 months that I'm running quite bad. I have been always proud about how stable my game was. So it still may be like that. I still haven't got any losing month since the April of 2008. But the last part of March I lost, I couldn't win anything (ended with 0) during April and I'm losing this month. So I should better name it a downswing.

When I'm losing what tilts me is not the amount I loose but the impossibility of playing another 100 k hands in a very short time. The longer that time is the more I become on tilt. This is because I have a huge confidence in my game and I know for sure that in the long term I will win . But as it has been during these past 2 months I've always had some other business to keep me away from playing 10 hours a day. Going out with girlfriend is standard 2 evenings in a week, visiting parents once a week, birthday of a friend, party at a friends' house, the visit of a friend living abroad, the farewell of a friend going abroad etc. etc..

What I need really is to sit down for 3-4 days and thinking only about poker, polishing some flaws in my game, studying opponents and win some bucks for god's sake...

This is giving me a lot of stress and the cure is simple but I can't do anything about it

I hope next time I'll write something in a better mood.