Casualties Of War

BR: 4622

First let me apologize for not posting for the last few days. OK to conform to the experiment's boundaries, I have now dropped down levels. I am playing 1-2 and 2-4 NL to recoup some losses. Had I followed proper BR management, I should have dropped to 5-10 at the $20,000 mark. I decided to gamble, and luck wasn't having it. Now I find myself even lower, and the recoup time will now be that much longer.

One good thing that comes from this is that I utterly destroy 1-2 and 2-4 NL games. The feeling and confidence winning gives a player can't be underestimated. I think a few weeks at these levels will once again strike home the fact that no matter how good a player is variance will always destroy his bankroll if he doesn't play within its means.

If I can, without "crying", let me summarize my last 3 weeks of HORRIBLE variance at the 10-20 NL level.

12 set over set situations.
Basically I either flopped an under set to a higher set or I flopped a set vs a higher pocket pair and that pocket pair hit a set on the turn or river.

5 flopped nut str8's.
I flopped the nut end str8 each time either vs a set or 2 pair situation, and each time I got burned by the river.

9 big pocket pairs got setted on.
Each time I held AA, KK, or QQ an opponent flopped a set on me.

4 flop top 2 pair vs a set.
Here I flopped top 2 pair, and the opponent flopped a set. For example, I hold AK and the flop comes A-K-4. The opponent has 4-4.


Now that's off my chest, I can focus on rebuilding my starting BR back up. It's not fun. Especially when I can just say fuck it, and just play higher because my total bankroll is much higher than what I started this experiment off at. The reason why I don't is I want to complete my goal within the boundaries I stated in my original post on P5's. Also if/when I do decide to only play cards, I CANNOT let what happened to me ever happen again. I can't let pride stand in the way of mathematics. If I don't have the correct BR, I can't play the level.

I will post daily on my happenings at the new levels.