Post Christmas Depression

Well the January month end has been and gone and looking back Jan was a pretty disappointing month. It saw some big up swings and some big downswings. I somehow managed to get to the 20th Jan looking at a 5k loss for the month to date. This was (as always) due to 3 or 4 days of nasty beats and no action followed by a tilt day where the best part of 3K went south. It always amazes me how easy it is to blow a stack in minutes that may take weeks to rebuild.

I have ventured more onto £5/10 in Jan and when reviewing the tracker statistics to see where it all went wrong I was half expecting to see the majority of the losses coming from those tables. True, one or two bad sessions did stick out but there were more than enough good sessions to compensate. The true culprit was some shocking sessions on 2/5.

On one occasion I was overflushed 3 times in one session, each time it was marginal… 7 high into 9 high, J high into Q high and then to cap it off Q high into K high with the Ace out in the community. I also felt that I was getting hammered when I held big pairs more than usual, I lost count of number of times AA and KK got cracked once a flop was out.


Poker tracker confirmed this, the % win with AA was low 80s and only 75% when it saw a flop! I’d expect these figures to be around 90% and 85% respectively.

Kings faired worse; in Jan I picked them up 126 times and only won £880 with them!! I made more that that with every other pocket pair bar 22 and 33. Any month where your premiums are being hammered to this extent is going to be a struggle!

Fortunately, the tide turned in the last 10 days. Some solid poker meant that the loosing sessions were minimised and when the cards were going my way the profits for the days were well into 4 figures. The only cloud has been twice in two days where I have been sat on a 1K+ profit for the day and I managed to piss most of it away in one evening session! The 2nd of these occurred last night where I walked into some monsters to blow away earlier positives. It does not get much better than AsQs on Qh Ts 6s flop…..unless the other guy is nursing 66.

In the end I turned out to be a fairly neutral month, the best part of £2k rakeback helped keep things afloat and a modest profit made it a just about acceptable if not decent start to 2006.

Looking forward I need to stamp out the big swings. The current bank roll is not robust enough for prolonged sessions on £5/10 and needs to be bolstered further over the next quarter, the next target is to work it up to a £20k baseline. I may well dabble in some live events in Feb as well, there’s a Festival at the Broadway in Brum and I quite fancy some of the midweek events.


Cheers,

Jim