So it’s pretty rare that I go on tilt but today it was pretty unavoidable I think. Probably only lost 1.5 buyins or so due to direct tilt but omg I cannot remember the last time I’ve won an all in. Really poor luck inevitably leads to poor play for most players IMO. I guess I should be thankful that I am up how much I am this month, but I can’t help but think what could have been. I was really looking forward to playing 5/10 at the beginning of next month, but now I don’t think I’m going to make it seeing how I’m 10k short of the 50k I need in my roll.
I was thinking today about the different scenarios you can have when you play a session and it kind of made me realize why poker players are always complaining about how bad they run, unlucky they are, how unsatisfied with their results they are etc. The way I see it you can
Play well & run well
Play well & run bad
Play poorly & run well
Play poorly & run bad
Now obviously there are some in between states that you could add like “play okay & run okay” or whatever but for my purposes I’m just going to stick with these four. Now in my opinion to really have a good session and make a decent amount of money you are only going to do it when you both play and run well. In all of the other three scenarios you are going to be upset with yourself and either berate yourself for playing poorly or blame luck for running badly. The worst part is you aren’t even really going to realize that you are running particularly well you are just going to think you got what was coming to you because honestly when you get it in as like a 60% favorite you EXPECT to win when in reality you are only really going to win 3/5 times. Now when that session comes along that you win 4-5 60/40s and don’t get bad beat in any of them you are just going to say you got what was coming to you when in reality you were both playing well(by getting it in good) and running well(by actually winning more than you were supposed to equitywise). Without good play & run good I think you will either have a marginally winning or marginally losing session except for when the doomswitch comes on and you start running really bad which inevitably leads to poor play.
Not really sure if any of that made sense at all but here’s some monkey vids to cheer you up/unconfuse you hopefully.
http://videos.howstuffworks.com/reuters/3626-monkey-mind-control-video.htm