Its Getting Ugly

My Limit Challenge has taken a decided downturn as I have lost $40 dollars in the last 5 days. Today I had A/A two times in 3 hands and lost both of them to the same person. The first time they rivered a jack for a set and the second time they called my preflop raise with Jack/10 and got the jack on the flop and the ten on the turn to beat me w/ two pair. That is very, very hard to take as you expect to win with your aces and to get them cracked twice in three hands leaves you wondering what you did to piss off the poker Gods.

I am trying to be a tight/aggressive player and I am playing less than 20% of the flops so the majority of the time I am going in with the best hand but that is only worth so much as the best hand only counts once all of the cards are played. Yesterday I had King/King, Jack/Jack, and 10/10 broken. The Kings were done when an Ace came on the flop. The Jacks were done when the flop showed Queen/King/rag. Can’t remember how I lost with the tens, probably a flush. It seems like I am losing every race. When I am on a flush draw, it doesn’t come in and when my opponent is on a flush draw, BAM!!, they get their card on the river. Yesterday I played pocket deuces from the BB and was fortunate enough to get a deuce on the flop for a set. Ah, but not quite good enough as runner/runner spades garnered the flush for a luckbox and I was left holding the bag. And the bag was empty.

I’m not telling bad beat stories to garner sympathy but this blog is to help me think through what I am doing wrong, get some needed help from other players, and to get things like this out of my system so I don’t dwell on them and become a basket case.

Now I have to decide if I should drop down in limits for my challenge. I don’t have a problem with that other than it makes it hard for me to clear my Titan points. I think I am going to take tomorrow off from poker and play some golf and then get back at it on Saturday. Things have to turn around at some time. I just have to keep playing good cards and playing them correctly. If I do that I am giving myself the best chance to win. If the cards fall differently or other players stay in a hand they have no reason to be in and suck out on me, then……………..that’s poker. Not much you can do about that.