Showing posts with label too long at the fair. Show all posts
Showing posts with label too long at the fair. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Too long at the fair

Last night, I stayed too long at the fair. In other words, I played too long. The longer you play, the more likely you are to lose; that's a simple fact of poker life. No player is immune to this. In a touch of irony, my stack took a massive hit on the penultimate hand when I failed to recognize on the turn that although I'd made a straight, I had the low end of it and an opponent could very well have the high end. An opponent did, and I lost a whopping $34,200 on the hand; that left me with just $575. I went all in on the following hand with a ten queen offsuit, and hit the felt.

I need to put myself back on a poker diet for a while. My goal is to play no more than 35 hands a night for the immediate future. We'll see how I do.

I was so disgusted with my asinine play at the end of the session that I forgot to save the hand stats; the only stat I know for sure is that I played 94 hands.

delta: $-40,000
balance: $2,379,692