I have played my last hand of poker. It is time to find a new source of income.
One without extreme disappointment and longshot odds.
What is driving this?
In addition to me being generally tired of playing with bad players, drunks, and scumbags?
I have taken some brutal bad beats lately. Especially yesterday.
I lose to the worst players and they give the money away almost as fast as they win it.
And they win by sheer dumb luck.
Tournaments. Cash games. It is all the same. The only thing these players know is they have a better chance of winning on a 989-to-1 runner-runner longshot than they do at playing slots. So they play poker.
The sickening thing for me is I played a perfect game yesterday for 10 hours. Not a single mistake.
Every read was accurate.
Hell, I even laid down A-A on the flop when I felt another player flopped a set of 4s.
Yet, it was a losing session.
I had 7 runner-runner longshot bad beat hands in a row.
Seven.
No one takes extreme bad beats like that on seven consecutive hands.
One could argue variance and cluster.
I argue curse.
The only reasonable answer is this: I am the unluckiest person in poker.
If Gus Hansen can give up poker, then I can too.
Seat open.
