I was thinking back to the "Good Ol' Days of Poker" - 17 months ago(!) when I had like 25 winning sessions in a row.  And I didn't know nearly as much about playing online poker as I do now.  So of course, I'm saying to myself, "wha happa?"  I think a small part of it was that the games got a little tougher.  Obviously, I was lucky then and not so lucky now (I hope).  But this current stretch I'm on is super puzzling.

I think this is the type of situation that has the potential to feed on itself - that is, bad run causes bad play which loses more money.  I'm definitely not tilting, but I think I may be trying a little too hard to be "creative."  Maybe.  I suppose this is the type of self-doubt which people going through bad runs usually go through. 

Just to see how badly I was getting outplayed, I decided to look in my "vs Players" tab in my HEM and see how I was doing against some of the regulars in the games.  To my surprise, I have been making more money than I thought off of some of the tougher players in the game, even tho I haven't been making any money overall.  Obviously, I have a small sample size and whether you're up on someone is just a function of how you did in a handful of big pots.  But the quality of names on my "friends" list is about the same as the quality of players on my "enemies" list.  Looking further down the list, people who I thought were pwning me are not actually owning me.  So that makes me feel a little better.  It would be alarming for my poker game if most people on my "friends" list were fish and most people on my "enemies" list were regulars.  So maybe I'm losing money to the unknowns?  I'll probably do a more statistical analysis when I have more hands. 

Anyway, I told myself I'm going to start making money again - consistently.  It all starts with a positive mental attitude.

WHAT'S FOR DINNER?

We have friends coming over soon for dinner, so trip report from yesterday tomorrow.  Today's dinner will be yesterday's tomorrow.