Makes you Throw Up in Your Mouth A Little

OK.. I'm stealing a phrase from our good buddy Scurvy; but I can't think of a better phrase better describes my weekend. Wow, what a ride...

Friday started off by coming home from dinner and the neighborhood guys are playing... Great!!! Mrs Wonka gives me her blessing and off I go... There were 7 of us and was probably the 2nd or 3rd one out.... no biggie.. Just $10 buyins... more social than anything.. I decide to leave after one and come home and finish watching the most recent Batman movie. For the most part the Mrs and I give it a thumbs up...

Since we are expecting Baby #2 in August, Mrs Wonka is still going through that sick and tired feeling so whe went to bed. My hats off to all women that have to go through all that during the first few months of pregnancy... Anyway, what am I going to do... Dah!!! Upstairs I go... and the trend of bad results continued.. Rivered Flushes were the demon of choice tonight... 92s.. T8s.... 43s... J3s.... are a few that hit me... The short story... I found myself stuck again.. This time $800.. Still the same things go through my head on whether I should quit or not for the night.... and I still feel OK to play... So on the night, I played 1,222 hands of poker and I ended up having a playing loss of $8.72 but add the $90 in bonus and we'll call it a positive night... but man... coulda, woulda, shoulda...

Saturday... I tell myself... no poker today... many, many things to do... yeah right... I find myself at the computer at 10:30 checking on things... Oh, maybe I'll play a few hands and see how it goes.... Bad Wonka... Bad Wonka... This was roller coaster night... be then end result was bad, very bad.....4 digits bad... I would be over $1,000 down and would get it back to around $500... even $400 one time... but it just wasn't meant to be... and this time after further review, I told myself that I had to quit.. because indeed I wasn't playing my best poker... I looked at the PT stats and nothing was too out of line there... I even won 50% of hands that went to showdown which is the lowest you want; but it certainly doesn't point to a 4 digit loss night...

Somebody in the comments was commenting on a prior comeback and also added to "watch out". Let me tell you... I hear you loud and clear... It is something that I need to work on... you know.. that telling yourself that you are better than you actually are... I can beat this table everyday including Sunday.... OK... but just not Saturday... It is amazing when you look at my daily totals and how Saturday sticks out like a sore thumb... overall negative..... way negative. One of these days I will listen to myself and not play on Saturday... But man... like many others... it is sooooo hard to quit a session when you are down.

This brings us to Sunday... talking about being afraid to play... You can't help but be a little tentative after a big losing day... The real downer was that I was probably going to lose my weekly winning streak.. I had won now for 12 straight weeks... I played 2 multis tonight including the PokerSourceOnline tourney... Bombed out of both of them just after the first break.

The other site was PokerWorld... I played a little after that on their micro tables.. Here is a great summation as to how my weekend went.... I have 88.... flop the set... Turned the Boat and lost to a rivered straight flush.... Man, what can you do... just grin and bear it. Only once (and this was on Saturday night, did I truly feel like throwing something... that is pretty much when I quit)

So, I just had a bad day... what do you do... Of course... Head to the 15/30 tables... (by the way, 5/10 was the game that really kicked my butt on Saturday... I was positive on 10/20 and was positive on 15/30 until the last 30 minutes or so where it went south real fast... Again the short story.. 425 hands for a playing profit of $771.. throw in $40 in bonus... and some losses on the multis and ring play on PW (not supported by Poker Tracker) and I end up the day $781. The really good news is that it put my week to date total at $34.63.. So the streak continues...

I definitely enjoyed getting back to the 10/20 and 15/30 games... this time around short handed.. but wow... those swings.. "Just makes you want to throw up in your Mouth a Little"... I'm sure that I will gladly return back to 3/6 land this coming week. This whole thing started when both Prima and Absolute didn't have any 3/6 SH games running when I signed on..

That should do it for today...

Peace!!!!