mathare
14th July 2008, 21:05
I'm playing blody awfully!
Since that MTT the other day (not that I think this is connected in any way) I have been playing lousy poker. :(
I've been playing the same STTs I normally play but my whole game is shot at present. I am seeing the same opportunities I normally see but playing them all wrong. I'm limping when I would normally raise and playing a little looser than I usually do. OK, I'm limping with weak hands in the early stages, let's be honest. That's not like me. My reading skills - which were never the best -are basically non-existant. I have Poker Office displaying stats on the HUD but they aren't helping. And I can feel my confidence draining slightly.
The worst of it is I know I am playing badly but I feel unable to correct some of my plays. It's like I am floating above myself playing poker and with each decision the player (me) makes I can feel outside my self criticising the play. And I have 20-20 hindsight too, kicking in as soon as I have hit the relevant button.
I am trying to play my way out of this bad spell, and to put things in context it's only a 5 tourney bad spell really but it feels a lot longer and a lot worse than it really is.
Perhaps it is partly bad luck, I dunno. I certainly don't want to blame bad luck for my recent results when I know I have been playing badly but it does seem that when I make my move, the same sort of moves I tend to make in all these tourneys at some stage or another and moves that usually work for me, I hit a much bigger hand and go bust.
While I was writing this I took myself from a short stack to chip leader and back down again to bust out on the bubble in 6th. Annoying!
Since that MTT the other day (not that I think this is connected in any way) I have been playing lousy poker. :(
I've been playing the same STTs I normally play but my whole game is shot at present. I am seeing the same opportunities I normally see but playing them all wrong. I'm limping when I would normally raise and playing a little looser than I usually do. OK, I'm limping with weak hands in the early stages, let's be honest. That's not like me. My reading skills - which were never the best -are basically non-existant. I have Poker Office displaying stats on the HUD but they aren't helping. And I can feel my confidence draining slightly.
The worst of it is I know I am playing badly but I feel unable to correct some of my plays. It's like I am floating above myself playing poker and with each decision the player (me) makes I can feel outside my self criticising the play. And I have 20-20 hindsight too, kicking in as soon as I have hit the relevant button.
I am trying to play my way out of this bad spell, and to put things in context it's only a 5 tourney bad spell really but it feels a lot longer and a lot worse than it really is.
Perhaps it is partly bad luck, I dunno. I certainly don't want to blame bad luck for my recent results when I know I have been playing badly but it does seem that when I make my move, the same sort of moves I tend to make in all these tourneys at some stage or another and moves that usually work for me, I hit a much bigger hand and go bust.
While I was writing this I took myself from a short stack to chip leader and back down again to bust out on the bubble in 6th. Annoying!