Running bad

I hate running bad. There were times tonight that I just sat for a few moments and stared at the screen in disbelief about the way a hand had played. I can safely say some of the worst players in the world play 5/10 limit on Party. These players are what make the tables so profitable and without them there wouldn't be guys like me, but the times when these players get very hot can be extremely frustrating. It really isn't a normal frustrated either, it's more like a personal attack on me frustrated. When you play 2,000 + hands a day you get to the point where you pretty much KNOW if you are going to win the pot before your opponent acts on the river. If you were beat they world raise, so when they just call you expect to get the pot, with some of these players, they just call when they should be raising and THAT is what really bugs me. I fully expect the pot to come my way and then BAM, they flip the 2nd nuts and rake the chips in. It's like they are slow rolling you on-line, or as close as they can possibly get to it. I can just picture these guys sitting on their couch ignoring their screaming kids and disfunctional family, playing a little 5/10 on Party, and thinking to themselves..... "Man I'm just not sure of Queens full is good here, he could have flopped Quad Deuces and have me beat, I better just call after a 6 or 7 second deliberation for dramatic effect."

Okay, I am done ranting, I was going to actually post a couple of the hands I had crush me tonight, but even if I did I am pretty sure some people wouldn't believe that they were real and I had changed the Hand History in some way. I played like 2k in hands today and thought I was down quite a bit, but ended up about $300 or so.

I did in fact lose money the other night, $500 to be exact. I ran bad and was really truthfully playing poorly. I made myself quit even though the tables were fairly soft because I was playing so bad.

Here are my numbers for September so far, not one day :)

Hands: 16,052
Won: $7,794
BB/100: 4.86

As you can tell my BB/100 has dropped significantly during this cold stretch, it's to be expected. I am trying not to focus on that number, or the profit and instead focus on the # of Hands played. If I just try to put in a lot of hands and play as perfectly as possible every session then the profit will take care of itself.