"Button hook on two, ready...BREAK!"
My little Nine Poker fishies took me on a wild ride last night. I won two nice pots early, and then went on a long dry spell. I made it to 120 hands played, and those were still the only two pots I'd won. Along the way I had AA cracked (but made a good laydown on the turn - always tough with AA) and lost a flopped set to a rivered gutshot.
My stack was down a bit, and I was getting irritable. It seems that I have been having these dry runs of cards lately, and always when the action is juicy! I was verging on tilt, but still able to make good decisions (how hard is the decision making when one is dealt crap over and over?), and understand that I didn't want to miss this opportunity - there were 3 big fish across the table from me (I was in seat 8, they were in 2, 3 and 5). They were all three playing nearly every hand to showdown, and if they weren't shifting their chips back and forth, one of them was busting a good player's hand. (Like my AA and set!) Anyway, its my experience that winning fish will stay at the table, so I was looking forward to getting a few hands where I could clean up.
It was not to be. I was still running about a 6% vp$ip when they checked off my table at about 10 minute intervals. Drat! Fortunately, Action Poker Network seems to have a high proportion of players who will sit at a $2/4 table with $20. I started catching cards and stacked a couple of those guys to get back to even. I also managed a QQQAA hand with pocket QQ, and got lots of action from "Mr. I Love A-rag". By 145 hands I had drug 4 more pots, was back to even, and tired of poker. Happy to be even after a session where I pulled only 6 pots in 145 hands.