November summary

As mentioned in my last post, November started ok and then went downhill. The full results are shown below:

SUMMARY - November 2008

                                                            

         FTilt  PStars   Live  Total   Profit

                                          0

11/01     67    - 19      0      48      48

11/02      0       0      0       0      48

11/03    100    -  2      0      98     146

11/04   -158    - 12      0    -170    - 24 

11/05    229       0   - 60     169     145

11/06   -245       0      0    -245    -100

11/07   - 35    -  3      0    - 38    -138

11/08   - 23       0      0    - 23    -161

11/09   - 85       0      0    - 85    -246

11/10   - 33       0      0    - 33    -279

11/11      0       0      0       0    -279

11/12     16       0      0      16    -263

11/13    140       0      0     140    -123

11/14    138      15      0     153      30

11/15   - 77       0      0    - 77    - 47

11/16   -107    - 12      0    -119    -166

11/17   - 10    - 28      0    - 38    -204

11/18      0       0      0       0    -204

11/19   - 42       0      0    - 42    -246

11/20      0       0      0       0    -246

11/21   - 26       0      0    - 26    -272

11/22   - 68      29      0    - 39    -311

11/23     58    -  0      0      58    -253

11/24   - 95    - 57      0    -152    -405

11/25   - 22       0      0    - 22    -427

11/26   - 38       0      0    - 38    -461

11/27      0       0      0       0    -461

11/28      0       0      0       0    -461

11/29      1    -  0      0       1    -460

11/30      0    - 17      0    - 17    -477

The final loss for the month was $477. When will this downswing end? The obvious question is what am I doing about it. I am reviewing my hand histories, writing down how I am playing certain hands, moving to different buyins and different types of games, re-reading certain books and re-watching certain training site videos that seemed to help me before. 

So far I have not cracked the nut. I am going deep quite often and then losing near to or on the bubble. For example, some of my recent beats:

AQ v A8 (he hit the 8)

set v pair (he back-doored a straight)

AK v AA

AQ v AA

KK v JJ (he hit the J)

QQ v 33 (he hit the 3)

Jh9h v As7s (me short stacked on the bubble, money goes in post flop on flop of 2d, Js, 7c - he calls with pair of 7s and gets a backdoor flush 5s, Ks)

I decided to take some days off from playing poker - maybe a break will get me back to winning ways in December.