slumming

I blew my last 50K of play money last night.

In retrospect, it might have been a better plan to play five 10K tournaments instead of blowing the whole thing on one. It was a 27-seater and I finished a couple of spots out of the money, which left me with 190 chips in my play money bankroll. I rebought for the first time in weeks and settled down for some 300+20 action.

I can't play with these people.

I'm having a very hard time adjusting my game to tables full of people who will play any two cards down to the river thinking they will catch. You get enough of them in one hand and the odds start to favour that one of them will. You can't bluff anyone off anything unless you're willing to risk it all. I have no idea how I ever won a SnG at this level. It seems incredible that I did at all.

Is it possible I imagined it? No.

I've done this before, I can do it again.

This is exactly why Rob and I had so much trouble with Marius and Tim when we got together a couple of weeks ago. We're too used to playing people like ourselves. I'm dancing around the obvious here, which is that the fault does not lie with the fish, but with my inability to adjust. It's (relatively) easy to take advantage of a couple of loose players in a tight game. Now I feel like I'm dangling the hook out there with a big, juicy worm, and instead of one good bite I'm getting five and their combined weight snaps my line.

I will do it again.

I just need stronger line.