At the low limits with the typical high rakes of most B&M cardrooms it is extremely difficult to bet the rake if you tip the dealers, waitresses etc. I was playing at harrahs in New Orleans and they were taking 1.00 every 10.00 plus another 1.00 at 20;00 for a jackpot. At that kind of robbery I just don't think it is possible for anyone to make a profit over the long run. In these games you also have to get in there and gamble it up with ALOT of speculative holdings as the pot is nearly always 7 or more handed, at least in the game I was in. I could beat this game but after tips my win wouldn't be worth my time. They also offered no comps whatsoever to their players which when paying this kind of rake you could at least offer your regular players a food comp but that was non existant there.

I cant win to save my life. In the past two days I have been in two Party tourneys that got cancelled. I was give $78 for one and $110 for the other. In both games I was second in chips when the games were stopped. I have been set over setted once again for a buy in. I had AK with a flop of AA2 ended up all in on the flop and lost to a rivered full house.

So, I decided to give some sngs a shot. I decided I was going to do a $50 and $100 sng. In the $50 I was dealt 22 in the SB with one MP limper and an LP limper. Flop comes AT2 and I get all of my money in the middle only to see that the late position limper had AA. Im out of the game in 15 hands. In the $100 game there was some maniac taking everyone out and the blinds were 25/50 and we were down to four. I get AKs in the BB and and call the SB all in bet who has Q7o. 7 hits on the river and I am toast on the bubble.

I am really starting to hate poker. I cant get out of this funk. It seems like every move I make gets countered and if I have a big hand and get my money in the middle I lose to a bigger hand.

I am going to give the cash games a break considering they have been poison for me for about a month now. I plan on playing 20 and 30 dollar sngs for the next week or so. If I am still losing money at that point I will take a break and do some reading and look for what the hell is wrong with my game. I think I will change my sig to I can't f***ing win.

More pee stories to come,

Stealth