So today I managed to run KK into 2-4, getting all-in preflop for 100bb and the guy flops the straight. Within the next five minutes I check in the BB with J10 of hearts, where I flop top pair with the flush draw. I end up getting it all-in by the river when I hit my flush, but happen to have run into a guy with 10-4 hitting a fullhouse. I would have backed down when the 4 paired on the turn, but there were no connected cards to go with it and I figured at best he had trips. Oh well. As that hand was going on I managed to get another guy all-in preflop for 50bb, where I had QQ and he had K5. Of course by the river he has kings full of fives.
I've just had a really brutal hour, worse than I've ever seen and sadly it's caused my BR to drop down to $480. I've dropped 8 buy-ins at NL25 since I started playing at Pacific, despite the horrible level of play. The worst is these last four all went with me playing better poker than I had been, and just having variance smack me upside the face. So is life though, and with less than 20 buy-ins at NL25 I'm going to have to drop down to NL10 for a little while, and I'm only going to move back up once my BR is up to $600, or in once I've made 12 NL10 buy-ins, leaving me with 24 at NL25.
Either then, or once I've cleared my bonus, which might happen first. I'm half-way there right now, and once it's cleared it'll add some much needed money to my stack and it'll also allow me to start playing on a site that has half-decent software.
