I Guess I Suck At Poker

The good news about sucking at poker is, that pretty soon I won't have to worry about playing anymore, since I'll wind up busto.

Here's the month so far, less than a week in and I'm down a few hundred dollars...

Lifetime graph to watch the train wreck in action....

Actually, if I switch from BB to $, the lifetime graph gets even worse. (Dollar amounts blurred out for obvious reasons.)

Now I have to move down two levels in stakes. Before moving up I built up my roll so that I had double what I needed to move up. This was so I'd have a big cushion and never have to move back down. Guess that plan didn't work. The thing is, for the most part, I'm playing well, just getting destroyed by people getting lucky. Here's a perfect example from this afternoon...

Poker Stars No Limit Hold'em - 5 players
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

CO: 74.80
BTN: 76.40
SB: 100
BB: 50
Hero (UTG): 262.60

Pre Flop: (1.40) Hero is UTG with K K
Hero raises to 4, 1 fold, BTN raises to 76.40 all in, 2 folds, Hero calls 72.40

Flop: (154.20) K 8 T (2 players - 1 is all in)

Turn: (154.20) 4 (2 players - 1 is all in)

River: (154.20) Q (2 players - 1 is all in)

Final Pot: 154.20
BTN shows A J (a straight, Ten to Ace)
Hero shows K K (three of a kind, Kings)
BTN wins 146.60
(Rake: 7.60)

I also find that whenever I get pocket Aces people fold. (So far I've been dealt AA 42 times this month, and saw a flop 21 time, so 50%.) Of course a good chunk of the time if I do have AA and they call, they usually manage to hit a straight or a flush against me. Either after the money has gone in, or I wind up having to fold, since I know I'm beat. I just can not win. No matter what.

It'll probably take months to build back up to where I can move up again. That's if I don't go bust first. I played for a few hours at the level I'm going to move back down to and I wound up losing there too.