Running Bad
How on Earth do people deal with long term bad runs, for over 4 years I have run absolutely terrible with only a few very small wins, but luck is not my best friend. At the moment it is everything in life, I could deal with things if they were in groups of three as the fable says. But I seem to get my runs into double figures.
Going Back to the poker, I used to play (and have the bankroll for) £5/£10, before internet poker really kicked in. Early Ultimate Bet is where that money went …. approximately £50k (my divorce settlement), this was mainly because I had withdrawn from the world and was locking myself in my new rented appartment and was at peace with myself (in truth looking back, it was basically a depression). But it was a solution to my lack of interaction with the world and it was something (i thought) I was good at. I had been involved with poker for 15 years at the start of this and always held my own.
My Bankroll management isn’t that bad either, although sometimes I induldge in the luxury of playing live, which i prefer, but not part of my bankroll. I am actually down to playing 1c/2c on poker stars. I am not embarrased to say either. But it looks like even that may come to an end now. There are only so many times you can get quads beaten by quads, or lose a nut flush against a runner runner straight flush. I am not trying to tell you a bad beat, I just want to know what other people do in the same situation, everyone must run bad at some stage……..
I have taken breaks sometimes and riden the storm sometimes, nothing seems to work. Do I just admit to myself that I am not a good poker player (but i firmly believe I can hold my own, with just a smidge of luck) or is it that I must have squashed too many flies in my life and reaping the rewards now.
Do you believe in luck?
Can someone run as bad as me in life, without hitting any luck?
Oh for the record, I am alive, with no physical defects (apart from a growing stomach), food to eat and shelter…….I know I am luckier than hell of a lot of people, and am grateful for that. But everything i touch seems to just turn to stone and I am a bit sick of it to be fair.
My childhood was fantastic, my teenage years even better, travelled around the world in my twenties, but this fucking decade really does suck!!! Roll on 40……just hope i make it !
Dik, no matter what your always going to have mates and as some other people have found, there is always a solution or path to another way of life. At the end of the day, your a good bloke and you have it in you to change what you appear to calling Fate.
It will change and life will start running good for you.
Mate, I find punching the wife full in the face does it for me.
Stop moanin you ponce. In all seriousness though Rich, although I’m sure you are as lucky as you believe, there is simply nothing you can do to improve the situation by letting it get you down. If you’d have stepped back rather than let luck beat you down when you’d dropped 5k on UB, you may have saved the rest. All I can say is what I see. You’re a great fella who I feel lucky to have met. Although from the inside looking out, it may seem bleak, from the other side, you have a lot to offer. Stop worrying, stop seeing the negatives and don’t be afraid to ask your frinds for help. You have a lot of people who would do anything they can to help you out with whatever it is that troubles you, so look forward. Nothing you can do about the past now