Full Blown Monkey Tilt!

Yep, that’s right it happened to me last night! Full blown monkey tilt!! The night started off o.k. for me though. I played 3 $5.20 DON’s and cashed all 3. Trying my new step method I moved up to a $10.40 DON and lost, but I was out in 6th. I was still feeling pretty good about it though so I did another $10.40 and cashed. I then jumped over to some heads-up SNG since I haven’t done very many lately. Lost the 1st one pretty quick. Seemed like everytime I made a pair he had same pair w/better kicker. The next one I ended up against a Russian. Guy kept jamming the pot on every hand and it was frustrating me. He was a -25%ROI loser though so I just had to be patient. I started folding preflop more and no bluffs at all. I finally got a hand and doubled up basically reversing our chips counts. About 2 hands later I finished him when I got another hand. He did get under my skin though and that was the beginning of my tilt. The next guy I am not sure what to call.. he was technically ahead overall, but looked like a loser to me. He had a huge $1000 cash in a MTT at the start of the year and then bled it all during the year in MTT & SNG. Then in October he had another $1000 cash in a MTT SNG and has been still bleeding it off quickly. So he’s ahead for the year, but not very much and if it hadn’t won those 2 tourney he would have lost well over $1,500 this year. Well this match took quite a while and we were still fairly close in chips when we hit the 25-50 blind level. I picked up A-Q in the BB and he raised so I pushed and he called w/ A-J. I am really happy until the Jack hits on the turn crippling me to 150 chips. I double up 3 times in a row to get close again and then we go back and forth until the blinds are at 50-100. Then I push with A-K and he calls with K-10 and gets his 10 for the win. Crapola and now I am pissed that he sucked out on me twice. The hell with heads-up…I want to go back to my DON’s. Unfortunately I should have just quit then and still been up for the night. I am 2 tabling and proceeded to go 0 for 5 in the $5.20 DON’s and with each loss my tilt grew. 1st tourney I ran my Q-Q into A-A, 2nd tourney made it to final 6 and never got a hand. I went out pushing garbage against garbage and his hit. 3rd tourney we are down to 7 and I have 1,300 chips. There are 2 short stacks well under 1,000. I get K-K and a short stack pushes, I push and then the guy behind me calls and has me covered. Shorty has A-Q and the guy behind me has 2-2!! I was feeling pretty good since even if shorty hits his ace my stack would stay about the same since I was well ahead of the guy behind me. Flop comes 4-5-6 and now I have a sick feeling..turn is a blank and the 3 hits on the river giving Mr 2-2 his straight. I am out in 6th! I am really burning now!! Well into tilt at this point and I can see the monkey around the corner. If…”IF” I was thinking clearly I would just have signed off then and called it a small loss…but nope…gotta push through this BS. I sign up for 2 more $5.20 DON’s. The first one is playing really tight and at the 25-50 level all 10 are still here and have between 1,200 & 1,900 chips. The second table is the opposite. Chips are flying everywhere and donks are galore here. The biggest one is on the heater of his life and can’t lose. He has personally taken out 3 people and has taken bites out of 2 more with the worst garbage I have seen in quite a while. We are down to 7 and blinds just went to 50-100. I have 1,600 chips and get As-10s under the gun and king donk is in the small blind. I would normally fold this in a heartbeat but in my tilting state I raise it to 300. All fold except king donk. Flop is Ks, Kd, Qs giving me both a gutshot straight and a royal flush draw. King Donk leads out with 400 chips and with all my outs I should have just pushed especially since I didn’t think he had anything. I only called though and the turn was a 2c. He raised enough to put me all in and I called thinking I was still probably still ahead anyway and if I wasn’t I had a ton of outs to get there. The cards were flipped over and I was really wrong..He was ahead and had quite the hand!! 4-2 offsuit is what he was holding..yep..4-2.. and he was leading with those 2’s. The river was a blank and I was out in 7th. I was stunned and at this point I moved over from tilt into the full blown monkey tilt. I was still in the other DON that was running tighter than a snare drum and all 10 were still there. Blinds were also at 50-100 and on my next hand I pushed w/ J-10 and was called by an equal stack with K-J and was out in 10th. To make things worse I had forgotten I had signed up earlier for a 200K satellite ($2.20) and a badugi tourney and the 200K window pops up and is starting.. I manage to unregister for the Badugi tourney, but it’s too late for the 200K satellite. Full Blown Monkey Tilt!!!! I am done..toast..if I don’t log off soon I am going to blow my whole roll!! 1st hand I get K-10 suited and push all in.. I get called by 8-3!!!! And he pairs his 3 to take me out. At this point I don’t care as I just want to log off which I do. Shoulda Coulda Woulda… I SHOULD have logged of when I was up $15 for the night but since I am not going to be able to play much the next 2 weekends I wanted to put in a longer session and I was running pretty good. I COULD have logged off when I was even for the night realizing I was tilting and I knew it! I WOULD have lost my whole bankroll if I stayed on any longer though!! LOL. Well I ended up losing 10% of my starting bankroll or 16% of my high point. Not a total disaster but I know better and should have stopped it much sooner. Time for a day or two off to cool down.

Dave

Starting BR: $205

Ending BR: $184





update today: I did some more DON's, heads-up & Limit Badugi and got my stack back to $200