REALLY bad day

[Wyte22]

Soo I was UP 5K in one week, all 7 days shows profit of +350 to +1300. Soo I get up this morning and Committed the Cardinal sin of every poker player alive: Sat down at a Soft Heads up table with my entire stack.

Soo I was doing ok, down and up ALOT, at one point was down 3.5K but went right back up. Well I am sitting there Heads up ($25/50 NL) and something happened that put me on tilt for HOURS, even to the point where I now have decorated my house with holes in some of the walls.


Hero ($5220)
Villian ($7100)

Hero is Dealt (As Ad)

Hero Raises to $150. Villian Re-raises to $450. Hero Smooth calls to trap villian.

Flop: Ah Qs 2d

Hero Bets $300. Villian Moves all in. Hero Instantly calls. Hero gets up from computer to get a coke.

Turn: 9d

River: Qc

Pot size: $10438 (Rake: $2).

Villian wins with 4 of a kind Queens (holding Qh and Qd)
Hero Shows (As, Ad) and is on perm. tilt.


Soo yes, It cost be 5200 but I learned my lesson, No matter how much you have beat up on the guy in the past (took him for 3.4K in 5 days). No matter how good or bad he is. DO NOT SIT AT THE TABLE WITH YOUR WHOLE BR

Edit: My BR is now $4.14 lol Soo yes It was very costly lesson but I needed to learn it at some point. When rakeback hits, it will recover but I am down 1.8K in personal money *sigh*

[Verhoef]

pity dude,

you got very unlucky, but as you said, it is not smart to sit down with your whole BR. I used to do it too, but now i play with at most 5% of my bankroll and it is working out much better. Good luck with recovering.

[Vito_Nuccio]

Originally Posted by Verhoef pity dude, you got very unlucky, but as you said, it is not smart to sit down with your whole BR. I used to do it too, but now i play with at most 5% of my bankroll and it is working out much better. Good luck with recovering.

Tough hand to have with a set of aces, but outcomes like this occur evey second in the poker world. This is a very tough lesson on bankroll management, but it can be a good thing it happened now. The real danger would have been if you would have won for a while longer and built up some thoughts of invincibility. A tremendous loss (everything you own) hopefully was and can be avoided.

It may take some time to rebuild, but reinvest into your online roll, play well within your means (5% or even less per attempt) and move up the poker food chain one step at a time.

Bye,

[The FTP Prodigy]

Close to the same situation occured for me a few months back, i started my roll with 50.00 and worked my way up to over 3.4K and decided oooooo im just going to play HU with my whole stack, i picked up AA and this guy was betting outrageously everytime so i limped on the button he popped it up i smoothe called, flop came 33A. I jumped out of my skin, he potted instantly ofcourse since i had position n i didnt want him to go anywhere i smoother called, turn is a blank 8, he pots again so i min pot he just calls, river is a J. he shoves, i insta call and he shows pkt 3s, four flopping quads. Deff the sickest hand ive ever had, but i will never sit down with my entire bankroll again.

"we rarely learn from the good beats, But Always Learn From The Bad ONES!"

The FTP Prodigy

[rakmupagain]

Anyone that sits at table with their entire bankroll is foolish and deserves to lose this way if u ask me. It also sounds like u were already playin way above your bankroll and had a lucky upswing. You didnt mention what stakes you were playing before, because obviously u think u were playing within ur bankroll before but you were nowhere near. Even after the lucky swing and having 5k you shouldnt be playing more than 1/2 NL HU, even this risky for ur roll.