Chasing Chris Ferguson

I’m sick.  Mental.  Ready to burn all the decks I have at my place just to get revenge for the beats the cards have been laying on me.  I  still think I know how to play but that’s slipping too…maybe I don’t.  I simply cannot win. 

Pick up A-A at a key point in a tournament and end up with two people all-in, they both have me covered, one has K-J off suit the other has Q-J of clubs.  Q-J makes quad queens.

I flop a set of Aces and get beat by a back door straight draw.

I flop a set of 9’s on a board that reads 9-8-7 and go all-in so a pair of Kings can catch a King and win.

Flop a set of deuces in a no raised pot and bet the flop and turn - get raised for the last of my chips on the turn when I really love my hand, and Aces catch an ace on the river.

Pick up K-J of clubs one off the button and the flop is Q-10-9 with one club.  One player bet $30 in front of me, I nudged it up to $200 and got two callers.  The turn is an 8 and one player goes all-in for 600, the other goes all in for around 700…obviously I called.  The river is a King so I can split the pot three ways with J-3 and J-5.

Love this game.  It just goes on and on and on and on.  I have no idea how I ever won any money to get out of free roll hell to begin with.

I have played some limited player FPP’s for different PokerStars events and the WSOP tournaments.  Tough to beat those as they pay one winner and everyone seems to think it’s a jam fest.  Since I can’t win with a set or Aces, what would I jam with?  And I’m not even throwing away a winner…ever…I’m just filling a seat at the table right now.

I know all those beats happen all the time.  Normally you get a winning session somewhere in between that at least gives you a little breathing room or makes you think you still know how to play the game but it just ain’t happening.   I have a black hole in my head right now about playing poker, so I quit.  I’ll be back when I can stand to take another beating…usually takes a day or two.

My BR is pathetically a little over $300.

And Ken, I did play 2 single table SnG’s.  I hate them.  I won one, went out in 8th place in the other.  For the $ invested, I don’t like the payout.  A few weeks ago I play 2 MTT SnG’s - they’re a jam fest and I’m not a big fan of them either.  You play them, you can ship a report on how well you do at the forum.

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