What a Wild Week

The last few days have been pretty crazy. On Wednesday and Thursday I went through a cold streak that was about as bad as it could get. On Wednesday it got so bad that I went on tilt for the first time in a while. I recognized it immediately and decided I would play through it instead of just stopping. When you are first learning to deal with your emotions you should almost always just get up from the tables when you feel yourself losing control. As you get more experienced you should work on recognizing your tilt and play through it without it affecting your play. This is a lot harder than it sounds. Most people think they can play through tilt, but just end up making poor decisions. This is why I suggest most people stop playing immediately when the feel any tilt. This is much better than fooling yourself into playing when you’re not at your best.

That being said, if you are able to catch yourself tilting and not allow it to affect your play you will be able to find some new profitable situations you’d otherwise miss. When you go on tilt it’s usually because of a few big outdraws. If you’re getting your money in good and losing the game is probably pretty juicy. If you can continue to play well you’re in a very profitable situation. The other players might also think you’re tilting so if you ham it up a little bit you can use that image to your advantage.

Although my luck didn’t turn around that day I was able to get into a lot of good situations that just didn’t happen to work out. I was tempted to take a day off but decided to just put my head down and fight through the down streak. The rest of the week was much better and I was able to get a good chunk from the cold streak back. In 5284 hands I lost $1250. Hopefully I’ll go on a nice rush in the next few months so I can take a fat bankroll to the WSOP.

Bankroll: $16359
Hands played this week: 7594
Bonus cleared this week: 0
Hands played this month: 39408
Bonus/rakeback this month: $1300