Rounders, Inc.

Wow.

I have not run this bad for this long.

After taking a few days off from the poker room, I returned tonite refreshed and relaxed.

Over the course of six hours, here are the hands I played and the short-story outcome:

1. 4-4: Nothing on flop; two pair had me beat.
2. Q-Q: Beaten by A-2 off on flop.
3. Q-Q: Beaten by K-9 off on flop.
4. 6-6: Beaten by flush on flop.
5. 9-9: Beaten by gut-shot straight on turn.
6. 4-4: Beaten by trip jacks on flop.
7. K-K: Beaten by A-2 off on flop.
8. 7-7: Beaten by trip Aces on flop.
9. Qc-Jc: Beaten by diamond flush on turn.
10. 7s-8s: Beaten by trip 9s on flop.
11. Q-Q: Beaten by a pair of Kings on river.
12. K-K: Beaten by set of 3s on river.

The sick part is all other hands, roughly 120 of them, that I folded pre-flop never hit.

At least my reads rang true for the few hands I was in. And I had it in good.

My wave of frozen cards continues. It is incredibly frustrating when one begins to run bad after running so good.

One of my rounder friends, “B”, is going through the same tundra as me right now.

I got unlucky on my first hand yesterday. Flopped a set against someone who could not fold Aces. She rivered the case ace for a better set.

Had pocket tens beaten by someone who flopped top two with A-Q.

Then, I started to play bad. Flopped bottom set and folded to a big bet that represented a bigger set. My read was wrong, and it was a bad fold.

On my last hand, I had trip 4s. Folded to a big bet that represented a straight. Turns out it was top pair only. Bad read and worse laydown.

They say that when you are going through hell to keep on going. I hope I am in the final stretch of the cold deck.